D.W. Zullinger of Lanark, who has been sick for several weeks, died SUnday afternoon about three o'clock at the home of his daughter Mrs. Lloyd WOlf. He has been a constant sufferer for most of the time during his illness.
Miss Emily Snively is spending her spring vacation here with her parents, Miss Snively is a teacher at the Y. W. C. A. in St. Louis, Mo.
Misses Elizabeth Harmon and Beatrice Burkhart are home from Monmouth college for a week's vacation.
John Tallman remains in a serious condition at his home here. Mr. Tallman suffered several light strokes and at the age of 90 his condition is considered quite serious. Harry Tallman of Augusta, Mont., has been called here on account of the serious illness of his father, John Tallman.
Miss Beatrice Ellen Rahn is doing office work at the W.. T. Rawleigh manufacturing co. in Freeport.
Daniel Baumgartner of Stutgart, Ark., is visitng relatives here.
An article in the Rockford Daily Republic a few days ago said that shuffle boards are to be installed in several of the parks in that city. Although Lanark does not have any parks, it has a wide-awake citizen. W. H. Puterbaugh, who spent the winter in the South, and who has made arrangements to put one in at his residence. Everything has been completed but the cement slab, which will be 52 feet long and six feet wide. A diagram is drawn at each end and the players use a cue to shoot the wooden disks the length of the courts. Mr. Puterbaugh says it is the most interesting game of the day, and may be enjoyed by both women and men. The slab will be installed as soon as weather permits.
The results of the city election held her yesterday were as follows, mayor, Guy Wolf; clerk R. D. Bray; treasurer, S. R. Brenneman; alderman, first ward, Edward Peters; second ward, Charles Lampbert; third ward, E. E. Johnson; police magistrate, Glen Wise. The names of Roe Snivley and Lloyd Sunbaum were written in for the office of mayor. There were no other contests on the ticket. The election was very quiet. (From Margaret Mangers)
Mrs. Effie Emmert, a former Lanark lady, was here as a guest of Mrs. Roy Butterbaugh over the weekend.
Clare Reynolds, aged 19 years, was arrested Wednesday on the charge of the theft of a Ford car from the Ford garage at Lanark, Ill., on June 21 or 22 of last year. The evidence was secured through the state highway officers headed by Hal Roberts of Dixon. Wednesday Sergeant Oliver “Buck” Kempster, and Officers Roberts, Kenneth Church, and Frank Tyne of Dixon motored to the home of Reynolds which is between Milledgeville and Chadwick and about a mile east of route 40 paving. Reynolds was picked up and was taken to Mount Carroll. He admitted the theft of the car and was bound over to the action of the grand jury. Reynolds was released under bonds which were furnished by his father, Howard Reynolds. The state officers are making a thorough checkup of the robbery and expect further developments. Mason Hacker of the bandit gang is said to have been an accomplice of Reynolds in the theft of the car.
Born, a son to Mr. and Mrs. Carl Merchant of Lanark at the Deaconess hospital in Freeport, Monday night.
The office rooms of the old First National bank at Lanark have been redecorated and will be occupied by the Carroll Service Co., after the first of February.
Harve Mathis, who has been employed at the Farmers Co-operative elevator, has resigned his position and taken a traveling job. His place there will be taken by Frank Kimmell.
Mrs. Fannie Robinson, who has lived in Chicago since the death of her husband, will return to Lanark and make her home at the Lanark Guest house.
The Earl Burkholder family will move to the Will Miller farm. The farm now occupied by Burkholder will be tenanted by Kenneth Kaut.
Mrs. Maurice Horner and daughter are moving to their new home on West Pearl street the first of February. Treeman Clevedence will move to the Herner home.
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Lower are moving to the Clyde Lower farm west of Lanark.
Mrs. Harry Engles returned home Monday after a visit to her husband at the Hines hospital. Mr. Engles is very much improved in health and will be able to be home soon.
The Lanark fire dept. was called to the home of Mrs. George Snyder Monday when the chimney burned out and caused over heated air pipes. There was no damage.
Mrs. Geo. Hammond submitted to a major operation at the Deaconess hospital Monday and is in a very critical condition.
Al Furhmann of the Furhmann Canning company is in Chicago attending the canners' convention. Myron Krause, Howard Furhmann, Clint Rowland and Clarence Twiton left Wednesday to attend the convention.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Moore are visiting in Lanark this week. Mr. Moore was the former proprietor of the Food Shop here.
Mr. and Mrs. Al Warfel entertained the Claud Wild family at a goose dinner Tuesday evening. Mr. Wild is the owner of a large fruit orchard in Washington and is here on an extended visit.
Kenneth Buss and family are moving to the George Wales home on the north side of the track
Mr. & Mrs. George Isherwood and Mrs. Lillian Risley of Rockford and Mr. & Mrs. Guy Puterbaugh of Polo were Sunday guests at the home of Mrs. Emma Puterbaugh.
Sunday guests at the William Puterbaugh home were Mr. & Mrs. Harlen Puterbaugh and three children of Sterling, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Robinson of Morrison and Miss Irene Eby of Peoria.
The annual reunion of the Sword-Boyd family which was to have been held Sunday in Mt. Carroll has been postponed indefinitely because of the death of Mrs. George Puterbaugh of Lanark.
Carroll County students attending Northwestern University this summer from Carroll County include; Grace Kezia Wright, Mt. Carroll; Mary Bearton, Savanna; Alice Bell and Betty Puterbaugh, Milledgeville and Wanda Hower, Lanark.
Mr. & Mrs. Linden Speers are moving into the Wolford property on East Carroll Street from the Frank Puterbaugh property.
Edwin Puterbaugh son of Mr. & Mrs Brice Puterbaugh has accepted a scholarship at Ashland College at Ashland Ohio. He attended Eureka college last year.
Mrs. David Courts who was kicked by a cow Sept. 4 remains confined to her bed.
Howard Stoner had the tip of his little finger on his right hand cut off when he was pushing his automoble.
Rex Puterbaugh returned Sunday to the Iowa State College at Ames IA where he is a student after a visit with his parents Mr. & Mrs. W.H. Puterbaugh.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Puterbaugh, newlyweds, were honored at a dinner Sunday at the home of his brother Wm. Puterbaugh.
Al Fuhreman purchased the Puterbaugh property on East Locust street for $1,025.
Raymond Zier has purchased the Puterbaugh property on East Locust street, recently purchased by A. H. Fuhremann.
Dr. & Mrs. R.L. Hoskiins are moving in the William Puterbaugh apartment.
The Raymond Zier family has moved to the Puterbaugh property on East Locust street which they purchased. The Harry Deets family moved to the house vacated by Ziers which they purchased and the Paul Fulrath family to the Kloepping property vacated by the Deets family.
Clyde Butterbaugh marketed a drove of Steers from his farm near Lanark in the Tuesday trade at the Chicago Stock Yards last week. There were 46 head of 1055 pound averages and sold at $10.44 cwt.
Announcement is made of the marriage of Mrs. Bertha Anderson and Harry Deets, both of Lanark. The ceremony was performed Wednesday, June 30, at the home of the bride by the Rev. E. D. Burnworth.
The Dan Kness family is moving to Clinton, Ia., where Mr. Kness has employment.
Jack Dollinger, John K. Morris, Claude Cook and Rex Rahn have returned from a hunting trip to Cairo, Ill.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Cheeseman are planning to move from the Cheeseman farm near Shannon to Lanark this winter or early spring.
Mrs. Russell Rahn is teaching in the Cloverdale school in the absence of the teacher, who is ill.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Paul of Lanark were guests Sunday of their son-in-law and daughter Mr. and Mrs. Earl Avey (Mt. Morris).
Sunday dinner guests in the Elmer Cline home (Franklin Grove) were Mr. and Mrs. Ed Snyder of Lanark, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Davis and Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Grimes and daughter of Dixon. Afternoon callers were Mr. and Mrs. Lester Grimes of Rochelle.
Mrs. Etta Coffman and Mrs. Orpha Fearer will entertain at Thanksgiving Dinner;
Mr. and Mrs. Collin Puterbaugh, Mr.and Mrs. Otis Newcomer and daughter Mona of Lanark, and Mr and Mrs
Floyd Coffman of Polo
A marriage license was issued in the office of County
Clerk Sterling Schrock (Lee Co) this morning to Kenneth A. Buckwalter,
Lanark and Cora G. Seydel, Okabena, Minn.
Rev. and Mrs. E.G. Knapp of Lanark were Sunday evening guests of Attorney and Mrs. F.W. Burchell. Rev. Knapp was formerly pastor of the local Methodist Church (Oregon, Ogle Co IL).
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Anderson, the Elmer Gauls and Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Flickinger of Lanark are vacationing with relatives in California.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Miller entertained with dinner Sunday at their country home the following:
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Fry and son of Lanark, Mrs. Minnie Corbell, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Butterbaugh and daughters of Polo, Mr. John Bennett White of Nashville TN. and Mrs. Wilma Foster and son of Franklin Grove. The out of town guests were aunts and uncles of Mrs. Foster.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Lenhart attended a twenty-fifth anniversary part of Mrs. Lenhart's graduating class of the Lanark High School. A dinner was enjoyed Sunday noon at Jule's Farm near Rock Falls. There were nine members of the class present.
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Beck of Lanark were callers Sunday in the home of Mrs. Agnes Beck, Polo.
Mr. and Mrs. Leland Blocher and children Dolly and Larry and Mrs. Cordelia of Tipp City Ohio, attended a family gathering at Lanark Ill, at the home of Mr.and Mrs. Clyde Broadwater on Christmas Day.
Mrs. Robert Groves of Lanark visited Thursday with her mother Mrs. Tom Odom in Polo.
Mr. and Mrs. Glen Zier and Miss Evelyn Beightol of Lanark were Sunday guests in the Harry Shick home Northwest of Polo.
Mrs. A.V. Shank (of Polo) spent Friday in Lanark with her daughter Mrs. Marvin Andrews and family.
Mr.and Mrs. Robert Schoen of Lanark are the parents of a son born October 15. Mrs. Schoen is the former Nina Boomgarden of this place (Foreston).
Albert Beightol and sister Sarah were Sunday guests in the home of their brother-in-law and sister Mr. and Mrs. Glen Zier of Lanark.
Word has reached here of the birth of a son to Mr. and Mrs. Donald Waddelow, Donald William at LaVerne, Calif. The mother is the former Charlotte Atherton of Lanark.
Mr. and Mrs. Phipps and Ned & Pat Pine of Lee spent Sunday at the Joe Winters
home in Lanark
Mrs. Betty Glenn (of Oregon) spent last weekend in Lanark with her brothers.
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Ploeger of Lanark sepnt Monday at the home of her sister Mrs. Mattie Aurand (Oregon IL).
Mr. and Mrs. J.A. Phipps and son Ned and Pat Pine spent the weekend in Lanark with the Joe Winter family.
Mrs. Betty Glen is spending the week in Lanark at the home of her brothers.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Beightol (Polo IL ) and family entertained Mr. and Mrs.Glen Zier of Lanark, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Engeland family of Milledgeville, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Beightol, daughter Evelyn and son Albert at dinner Sunday in honor of their son John who was observing his sixth birthday.
Jury Grants Award - A petit jury Tuesday in circuit court here awarded William H. Puterbaugh of Lanark $1,500 for a two and one-half acre tract of land which will become part of the site of a new Lanark high school building.
Mrs. Myra Witmer and grandaughter, Eloise Witmer were Sunday afternoon caller in the Elmer Zuck home in Lanark.
Mrs. Anna Byers (of Polo) entertained Mrs. Anna Davis of Stockton and Mrs. Joy Sword of Lanark at dinner on Saturday.
Mrs. Edith Webster accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Everett Hardesty, Milledgeville, to Lanark Sunday and were dinner guests at the Harry Deets home.
Elaine Hawbecker of Lanark spent the last several days with her grandparents Mr. & Mrs. Aaron Hawbecker in Polo.
The Rev. Merle Hawbecker will preside at the 2 o'clock session (at the 96th annual conference of the Northern Illinois and Wisconsin district of the Church of the Brethren being held in Polo August 31st through September 3rd.
Mrs. Leo Ebert, Leo Jr. and Mrs. Rex Rahn, Lanark, have returned from a two week visit in CA.
(North Manchester Ind) - Byron Hawbecker a sophomore at Manchester College and the son of Rev. & Mrs. Merle Hawbecker of Lanark, has been given a certificate of full membership in Kappa Mu Epsilon national honorary mathematics society following the completion of a research paper, announced Prof. John Dotterer, head of the Department of Mathematics.
The Manchester Chapter of this society was the first of its kind in Indiana established for under graduate students.
A 1953 graduate of Lanark high school, Hawbecker is majoring in chemistry. He is currently active in the varsity band, Al Kimia, (chemistry club) and Chi Psi (math club).
Paul diffenderfer was in Chicago with cattle the first of the week.
Clifford Dingman and Denver Traum were here from Milledgeville on Friday.
F.L. Gigous, former Lanark business man and of late years living at the Johnson Nursing Home, is a medical patient in a Freeport Hospital.
Carl Merkel and Austin Roche of Mount carroll were callers here on friday forenoon.
Mrs. J.L. Hartwick and her sisters were shoppers in Oregon on Thursday and enjoyed an evening meal at Maxson Manor honoring the birthday of one of the ladies.
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Mouring have moved to the Harry Shiley Est. property on west Carroll St.
Rebecca Lynne is the name given to the little daughter born to Mr. and Mrs. William Shearer at the Freeport Memorial Hospital.
Clarence Dambman and son were on the Chicago market with several loads of cattle the first of the week.
Ed Queckboerner, a former Lanark area resident is a patient at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Madison, Wis.
Edward Schneider of Milledgeville was a Lanark caller on Saturday.
George Jones returned Sunday from Sterling Community General Hospital, where he had recent surgery.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Zentner spent a few days in Hickman Neb. with the Wes Shepard family the first of the week.
Mrs. William Wenzler and family of Milwaukee, Wis., are here for a visit with the former's mother, Mrs. Alma Rahn over the weekend.
Paul Diffenderfer was in Mt. Carroll on Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Baum of Lena are the parents of a son born on Friday at Freeport Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Myrtle Baum of Lanark is the paternal great grandmother.
The Stanley Warfel family of the state of Indiana are visiting the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Warfel here during the weekend.
Mr. and Mrs. Byron Hawbecker and daughter Denise, of Ada, spent Thanksgiving with the former's parents Rev. and Mrs. Merle Hawbecker. They will visit Mrs. Hawbecker's parents at Carthage during part of the vacation period.
Mrs. Myrtle Baum of Freeport and Mrs. Lettie Diehl & Mrs. Albertine Schriner, both of Lanark, were Sunday guests in the home of Mrs. Etta Fritz
Miss Nancy Olson of Lanark wasa the guest of honor at a bridal shower held recently at the William J. Costello Jr., home north of Elizabeth. Hostesses were Mrs. Kenneth Hostman of Elgin and mary Ann Costello fo Elizabeth. Twenty guests were served refreshments. Miss Olson is the bride-elect of Kirk Hostman of Elizabeth they are planning an Aug. 5 wedding.
A post nuptial shower was given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Helms of Mt. Carroll in honor of Fern Rasmussen Vinson, who became the bride of Bruce Vinson of Morton Grove on June 19 (1976) at Lanark Trinity Lutheran Church. Mrs. Virginia Helms, Becky and Tina Rasmussen, were hostesses for the shower given Sunday afternoon June 27. The Helms home was beautifully decorateed with two mobiles of cranes made of Origami Streamers adorned the doorways and waterlilies and cranes decorated the lace-covered table. A minature bride and groom centerpiece and candles also added to the decor. Bridal games were played and Fern then opened her gifts. Refresments of cake, nuts, mints, punch and coffee were served. Guest attended from Morton Grove, Neponset, Mt. Carroll and Lanark.
The Rev. and James Medendorp and sons, Tim and Joel of Lanark returned from a two week vacation after visiting Niagara Falls, NY and touring Washington DC. In Madison NJ the Rev. Medendorp attended the General Synod of Reformed Churches in America, at the Fairleigh-Dickinson University. They also had the opportunity to attend a play on the history of the Reformed Church in America. The Reformed Church dates back to the 1600's and is the oldest continuing denomination in the United States.
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(Around 1929-1930) Contributed by Amy Anderson
Sterling Gazette 19 Apr 1933
Thomson Review 7 July 1932
Unknown Paper 29 January 1931
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Sterling Daily Gazette January 26, 1938
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Freeport Journal Standard 26 April, 1938
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Freeport Journal Standard March 18, 1939
Petit Jurors will report Monday at 10 a.m. in cicuit court here when the case of Lucille A.Burnette vs. E.F. Lawhorn, both of Lanark, complaint at law, is scheduled to be tried. The plantiff alleges in the complaint that the defendant on March 10, 1935, promised to marry her within a reasonable time. The complaint further sets out that since that date the defendant married another woman, which marriage occurred in the fall of 1938. Damages of $10,000 are asked by the plaintiff.
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Thomson Review 23 November 1939
Daily Gazette 06 July 1943 - From Larry Reynolds
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