Dixon Evening Telegraph 03 June 1944
Mr. and Mrs Lawrence Sunday and son John of Sterling and Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Chambers of Como were Memorial Day visitors in Franklin Grove (Lee County).

Dixon Evening Telegraph 19 July 1944
Mrs. Elizabeth Sunday (Franklin Grove) enjoyed a weekend visit in the homes of her son Lawrence and family of Sterling and Mr. and Mrs. H.C. Chambers of Como. On Sunday afternoon they all attended the concert presented at Lawrence Park, Sterling, by the Union schools band, composed of pupils from the Central and Lincoln grade schools of Sterling under the direction of Mrs. C. Cloyd Myers, wife of their former director who is now in the service of his country. Mrs. Sunday's grandson John Sunday was one of two from the first year group who received special recognition. He is one of the trombone players.

Dixon Evening Telegraph 05 August 1944
Mrs. Anna Portner of Rock Falls and Mrs. Leonard Dean and daughter Helen of Como, were Tuesday callers at the home of Emil Jacobs in Harmon.

Dixon Evening Telegraph 09 March 1945
Guests in the Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Portner home Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Dean of Como, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Portner of Rock Falls, the John Schafer family of Franklin Grove and Mr. and Mrs. Emil Jacobs and daughters.

Dixon Evening Telegraph 01 October 1945
Keith Hubbard 17 of Como in Whiteside County was being held in the Lee County jail today while an investigation was under way covering the automobile tire thefts in Dixon which have been reported since August 5th. At noon today the sheriff's office reported that Hubbard had admitted having taken not less than 17 tires from cars in Dixon since the early part of August, many of the thefts not having been reported. In many cases he stole them from the trunks, dismounted the tires and threw the wheels in ditches along the road between Dixon and Sterling while in some cases the wheels were thrown into the Elkhorn creek. Hubbard was taken into custody by the Whiteside County sheriffs office Sunday when it was reported that he was dealing in "hot" tires.

Dixon Evening Telegraph 07 December 1945
A Keeshin truck driven by Dale Cohenour of Como was incapacitated in a minor traffic accident near the east city limits (Dixon IL) on Rt. 2 at 12:30 this morning when a car driven by Fred Trachsel, 216 9th st. struck the rear of the truck-trailer. Cohenour, Trachsel, and four companions in his car escaped injury. State policeman Russell Gentry investigated the incident.

Daily Gazette 11 September 1946 - from Larry Reynolds
The aged Como scrap book loaned this column by Mrs. Lawrence Shontz of Como contains an interesting clipping regarding the Old Settlers’ reunion held in 1800 at which Hiram Parker of Garden Plain stated that he and C. C. Knight of Fulton celebrated the county’s first Fourth of July celebration in 1840 at Fulton by firing an anvil and eating roast pig together. Mr. Knight, who was present, confirmed the statement. The clipping also gives the names of the old settlers present and the date of their coming to Whiteside county as follows: C. S. Knapp, Garden Plain, 1854.