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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1947
Page
6
Thomson briefs that Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ashpole and daughter and Miss Beth Brown arrived Wednesday to visit until Sunday with his parents Mr. and Mrs. John Ashpole. Miss Brown is Mrs. Ashpole’s sister and has stayed with them this summer.
Clarence Bolhous will be a guest at a Republican Central Committee banquet in Rockford on Saturday evening this week. Mr and Mrs Charles Sack visited Wednesday with their daughter and Mr and Mrs Clarence Van Buskirk to celebrate the birthday of their granddaughter Joan Van Buskirk.
Agricultural economist KR Bartlett notes wartime price surges for milk butter and cheese. Milk prices doubled from 1914 to 1919 and fell to about 60 percent by 1922. Butter in 1919 topped 1914 levels and slid to about two thirds by 1921. 1946 prices for Wisconsin Twins cheese and butter ran near three times 1939 levels.
George Mattie, employed at S. O. D., is in Savanna city hospital after a fall from his step ladder at work Wednesday. Doctors initially feared a fractured skull but have determined no fracture and expect his return home in a few days.
Homecoming for Sandridge school alumni planned at the school on Sunday September 28 with a program by current students and a noon picnic. Invites have been mailed to all known alumni and a large crowd is expected. Messages list visits by Mrs. Bill Graves and Chuck of Clinton and by Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Bolhous and Marilyn of Fulton, plus Edson and Emil Holland and others. An odd local aside mentions a Sabula man with quirky preferences. Classified note: 1939 four door Pontiac for sale, contact Ralph Hole singer at 444 Thomson.
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