Birthdays Listed for September Across Several Towns
A local birthday bulletin lists individuals with birth dates from September 12 to 23 across Freeport Thomson Lanark Milledgeville Chadwick Arg o and Byron. Notable names include Edward F. Smith R D Bennett Jo Eckman Velda Dingman Genevieve Carpenter William Linker Lois Eastabrooks Miledge ville and Darlene Shoemaker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Genevieve Carpenter
Argu
William C. Linker
Chadwick
Harold Barthel
Milledgeville
Lois Ann Eastabrooks
Miledgeville
Charles Kness
Public livestock sale at Sterling Sales Pavilion
Sterling Livestock auction every Thursday at the Sterling Sales Pavilion in Sterling Illinois with sale starting at 10 30 p m featuring horses cattle hogs and sheep. Harry Kipnis to hold a sale at Mt Carroll Friday September 17 at 1 30 a m featuring extra fine lot of Jersey cattle goats and sheep.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sterling Sales
Sterling, I
Harry Kipnis
Mt. Carroll
Carroll County softball woes and local notices
A collage of local recollections from Carroll County highlights a recent softball loss tied to fan chatter, along with scattered town happenings. The piece notes bystander chatter over Red Holmes’s game comment, parade drills by Legion groups, school enrollments, Moose lodge anniversary awards, and various community events and visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Legion
Main
Jocal Legion Band
Freeport Drum and Bugle Corps
van Bibber-Hansen
American Legion
T. Stuart Cleworth
Savanna Lodge
Loyal Order of Moose
Moose Hall
Lodge
Local Fay Christian apt fire ends in tragedy
Fire responders arrived too late to save Fay Christian apartment blaze. Mr Christian and his wife fought the flames with water after an oil stove flare up sparked paper. a tragic outcome noted alongside other town notes including a marshal’s siren and local employment changes. George Legel, formerly of Mount Carroll, died September 6 in Crystal Lake Pennsylvania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MT. Carroll
Fay Christian
Carlos Johnson
Marjory Tommans
Ruben Tommany
Chadwick
Frahm Cafe
Katherine Bleaksley
Harry Dutton
George Legel
Kegel
Crystal Lake
Fragmentary dialogue on love and marriage of a gay man
A fragmentary conversation reveals themes of same sex attraction, devotion, and social pressure. The speaker recalls a partner named Bill, describing shared nights, a dawn departure to work, and reluctance about another man’s access, ending with a hypothetical marriage.
Oulay on Riding High Horses and Superstition
The saying cautions against arrogance and superstition. It notes that those who boast or fear the unknown reveal ignorance and invite downfall. The piece reflects cautionary folk wisdom about pride and superstition.
Sharpe SAYS A Retro Review Of Past Tales And Mischief
A long, humorous reminiscence recalls past Review columns with wild anecdotes. The narrator recounts rivers, fires, animal mockups, ticket mishaps, a lemonade stand ruse, Hindu fortune tellers, fishing tales in a tree, a tiger tease, and local escapades at fairs and the town. Several named figures surface in risqué or comic vignettes, ending with a teaser for next week about a tiger story and a quip about liver and sausages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mokilyah
Bry
Billy Bertholl
Morrison
Hitt
Whiteside
Treasure Underground In Illinois
Illinois sits atop the world’s finest glass sand deposits boosting state interest in rapid glass industry growth. Increased uses for glass will expand quartz sand demand, strengthening Illinois as a central glass production region near markets and fuels. Also quoted are unrelated dialogue fragments about a professor and a Panther Girl.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tlineis
Illinois
Futhermore
Moly
Fragments Share Bizarre Jokes and Candid Social Snippets
A mixed selection of quirky quips and social vignettes runs through a late era column. Bits touch on marriage, love, and manners with playful irony, noting humor in relationships, fashion, sermons, and daily life in a rural setting.
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Thomson Review
Doc Saunders
the Village Echo
Thomson Broadax
H. G. Stagg
Harriett Smith
Kenneth Whitney
Thomson, Dhvio
Office of Publication
Thomson, Illinois
Carroll County
Willedgeville
Hansen's
Edward F. Smith
Freeport
R. D. Bennett
Thomson
Jo. T. Eckman
Lanark
Velda Dingman
Leslie Andt
Argo
Betty Lewis
Christy Geison
Darlene Shoemaker
Lois Martindale
M. J. Strokhoff
Bernice Cambman
Maude Hawkins
Ben Wagner
Bob Demaree
Mae Adolph
Adolph Doden
Harry Wenger
Chas. Hogg
Vada May Collinson
Savanna
Russell Klitz
Ardis Wenzel
Bessie Schreiner
Dorothy Ann Burns
Howard Goble
Joe Allison
Jeanne Swett
Joyce Lee Hicks
Will Adams
Byron
D. M. Gleason
Hawaii
Howard Potter
Delmar Heimbaugh
Ned Dellinger
George Potter
Delilah Lapp
Wilma Jean Miller
Elmer Weber
Harry Spealman
Red Holmes
Red
Ben Stadell
Riley Temple
Beatrice
Delmar Vonback
Robert Stone
Lee Center
George Stone
Wagner Brother
Route 40
Main Street
A. F
A. M
Owen Burns
Puterbaugh
Mayo Clinic
W. E. Bryson
Paul Turner
George Stones
Dixon
Zion Church
John YY
Oulay
Sharpe
Lupon
Scow
Phim
Jon
Tommy
Shep
Ben Stage
Jack
Fropherstown
Seaman Swett
Ziggy” Messinger
iCal Deezer
Pop
Cal Feezer
Treasure Underground
Hin
Kipuls
GaLlwn 2
Nebraska
Montana
MT. Carroll Sales CO
Mgr
Reay Fritz
Glen Teeter
Owen Miles
Tee
Fox
U. S
Moore-Cotrell, Inc
Wayland Road
North Cahueton
N.Y
Legal Publications
la. D
Savanna and
York
County of
Carroll
A. I
A. D
Roy TL Houghton
Lawrence A. Smith
Savanna, Ill
National Bank Building
Tel
Black
Lewis Motor CO
Lin
Wade
A& I
Groens
Enar
Paul Bakewell
Plantinion
S 1
Iron Hills
Tickson County
Matt
Matve
Zeke
John McDermott
Kansas
Alean Fe
Sve
Joe Gigalé
Husband
John L. Brear
Savanna, Ilinc
W. L. de
Sam
Ill
Attentio
Blackhawk
Ray B. Gelwicks
Kessler Clothin
MR. Farm
Clinton Rendering Co
Miltedgevilson, Lanark
Mt. Block 268
Imaly
Clinton
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