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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1966
Page
4
Birthday list for Carroll County seeks corrections and additions. Readers urged to report deceased relatives and birth dates to keep the paper’s notices up to date, with locations including Chadwick Lanark Milledgeville Chadwick Mount Carroll and Thomson among listed towns and many names and dates from September 16 to September 20.
Two people died in separate early Sunday crashes on Highway 64 in Carroll County. Gene V Speers 26 of Lanark died when his eastbound car left a curve near Mount Carroll and rolled over. His wife Mary Ann suffered injuries and was listed in good condition. Patrica L Oliver 24 of Clinton Ia died when her car hit pilings at the Milwaukee Railroad underpass east of Lanark after speeding and failing to negotiate the curve. Charles B Oliver 40, injured in the same crash, was reported in good condition.
A sequence of names and towns appears, listing residents from Thomson Lanark Milledgeville Polo Rock Falls Moline and nearby areas with dates September 21 and 22. The list includes Mrs Ben Wagner Mrs Frances Hemmer Capt Don Hansen and many others across Wis Is and Ore placeholders.
A dram shop lawsuit filed September 7 in Carroll County Circuit Court seeks 33687 in damages from Lula Anderson, Savanna tavern operator, over a Dec. 2 1965 one car crash near Savanna that killed 15 year old Janet Zeerup and injured 20 year old David Ruten. Plaintiffs Susan Ruten Amy Sueseth and Leo Ruten allege Anderson served alcohol to Ruten, who let Zeerup drive. The suit also requests a jury trial and court costs.
The County Treasurer Lu cy M. Ross reports a third tax distribution totaling 741850 bringing the year to 2652700 in total distributed to taxing units. Final settlement is planned for November. Delinquent real estate taxpayer lists and due amounts will be published next week with delinquents sent to printers by Friday Sept 16.
In Lanark a circuit court case accuses 19 year old Charles Murray and an unnamed juvenile of contributing to the delinquency of two teenage girls. The complaints, filed by the girls' parents, allege the pair abducted the girls and took them to Dubuque Iowa on September 9 where Dubuque police took them into custody.
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