Supervisors Proceedings Reported for 1939 County Activities
The Finance Committee presents per diem and mileage for Supervisors services with a detailed list by committee and member. Payments, mileage, and days are itemized, including County Highway and Bridges, Public Buildings, and County Farm committees. A $100 donation to Farmers' Institute is approved, and a Rest Room for women jurors is referred to Public Buildings. The session adjourns to October 10, 1939.
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Grand Jury
Circuit Court
Carroll County
Fritz
Warner
Board of Supervisors
Straw
Miller
Heinze
Kingery
Supt. of Schools
Mest
Finance Committee
Sheridan
Public Buildings Committee
Myers
Oyster
Fisher
Oakton Road Bridge Committee
Crom
Salem Bridge Committee
County Farm Committee
County Highway Committee
Lower
Shaver
W. RB
Watson
Ray R. Westfall
Ward Frits
Adam Heinze
Farmers’ Institute
Bower
R. C. Carson
W. R. Watson
Sheriff's Committee
First Printing Press 1639 Honored by Commemorative Stamp
The Department of Special Commemorative Postage Stamps honors the Stephen Daye press and the 1639 printing of The Freeman's Oath as the first book in America, highlighting printing's role in American growth, education, and democracy. The piece notes stamp editions, industry impact, and historic lineage from Cambridge to Vermont and beyond.
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Department of
Into
America
Graphic Arts
Graphic l Arts
Stephen Daye
Jose Glover
England
Boston
Holyoke Street
Cambridge
Mexico
Samuel Green
New London
Conn
Norwich
Dresden
Hanover
New Hampshire
Westminister
Vermont
Vermont Gazette
Green Mountain Post Boy
George Hough
Alden Spooner
Windsor
Vermont Journal
Universal Advertiser
Vermont Historical Society
Stephen Caye
Benjamin Franklin
North America
Stephen Dave
Ward Dresbach to Lead Chicago Bookfellow Symposium
Mr and Mrs Glenn Ward Dresbach will attend the American Legion convention in Chicago this week Dresbach has been chosen by the Bookfellows Chicago to lead a creative writing symposium at the Hilltop library on Sunday Oct 1 He will be guest of honor at Bookfellow Lodge 4917 Blackstone Ave Chicago and deliver a poetry program at the Cliff Dwellers Club dinner Saturday Also noted Lanark Cattle Co received a new cattle shipment and local yards are full G E Bicklehaupt of Clinton bought the Engelking estate east of Mt Carroll at public auction for 55 75 an acre Henry Engelking a bidder Louis Miller and family now occupy the farm with Miller son-in-law to the Schoen family
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Glenn Ward Dresbach
American Legion
Chicago
Order of Bookfellows
Hilltop
Mich
International Organization of Writers
Dresbach
George Steele Seymour
Bookfellow Lodge
Blackstone Ave
Cliff Dwellers ‘Club
Lanark Cattle Company
G. E. Bicklehaupt
Clinton
Engelking
Mt. Carroll
Henry Engelking
Louis Miller
Mr. Miller
John Schoen
Health measures cited by Illinois Medical Society committee
The Educational Committee of the Illinois State Medical Society approves statements on scarlet fever inoculation measles control via convalescent or whole blood after exposure and the effectiveness of vaccination against whooping cough. It urges proper protection and basic health rules, good food, sleep, and outdoor play to strengthen a child's resistance.
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Illinois State Medical Society
Polo Milledgeville road sparks county clash over efficiency
Milledgeville and Carroll county residents oppose the Polo Milledgeville road project citing costly right of way through prime farmland. Taxpayers argue to maintain the existing route, noting it serves a mail route and passes eleven farms, a church, cemetery and a school. Corn husking contest plans in Carroll County are announced with committee members named. Milledgeville Briars Carl Daehler and family visits noted along with Homecoming attendance at Hickory Grove church.
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Milledgeville News
POLO
Milledgeville Road
Milledgeville
Court
Ilinois
Ogle County
Carroll County
M. P. Roske
Mt. Carrol
B.A. Fa
Cecil Laughlin
Hickory Grove
Plenty Tubby Prefers Generous Ginger Ale
In a light exchange, Tubby asks for a glassful of ginger ale and Chubby offers a sizeable portion. The banter highlights casual appetite and playful tones between the pair.
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Chubby
Parkhill School Daily Report Highlights Activities
Floyd linel Delores Ann Hill Harlan Spangler and Carol Spangler each filed one book report this year Tema Erling and Harlan Spangler were absent one day due to illness opening exercises weekly include letter holders for boys and spool knitting for girls A spelling bee used a phonograph scoring system eighth grade Geography test on China and primary grades helped decorate a bulletin board with flower pot borders Scrapbook making is a Friday morning activity aimed at collecting pictures of interest.
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Parkhill
Floyd Linel
Delores Ann Hill
Harlan Spangler
Carol Spangler
Tema Erling
China
Young Brown Measures Yard Plate With Grit
Exact Young Brown lands a shipyard job and, after a 20 minute return, reports the plate size as the length of his two foot rule plus two thumbs, showing stubborn grit in a single, humorous measurement tale.
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Brown
Brick and Hand in Sud Ay Ay at The Hoge
A fragmented line from an OCR page shows a brusque phrase about a brick and hand with the words sud ay ay and bap the Hoge. The readable text provides no clear event or identifiable people or organizations for a fuller summary.
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Mrs. AL
Mrs. B
Mrs. A
U. S
Sinclair Gasoline
Sinclair
Lewis Motor Co
Lanark News
Thomson of
Minos Uae
Reese
Northwestern
Illinois
P. W. McAndrews
D.C
Clinton, Iowa
Thomson Rendering Works
Thomson
Thomson, Ill
G. H. Thompson
Fulton
Walter Electric Shop
Tri-City
Johnny
Beare
Purina
M. C. Crouse
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