2 - LACON HOME JOURNAL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2020

GREAT 2-DAY VALENTINE’S WEEKEND

ESTATE AUCTIONThe LIVE Auction to be held at the Tumbleson Auction Center, 1635 North Main Street, Princeton, IL, Located

100 miles West of Chicago, Il just off INT 80, Exit 56, South on Rt. 26. on:

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15 &SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2020

TIME: 10:00 A.M. (Preview: 8:00 A.M.) Each Day

PREVIEW OF BOTH DAYS:FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14TH TIME: 4:00-6:00 P.M.View FULL Listing, Photos, and Absentee On-Line Bidding on web-

site: www.tumblesonauction.com or Bid Live thru Proxibid

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15thCOLLECTION OF TOYS: Several Tin Wind Up Toys; Child’s Sewing Machines; Wood Buggy w/ 2 Horses; Mattel Winchester Toy Rifle; Arcade Horse Drawn McCormick Deering Wagon; Iron Banks; Cap Gun; Nylint, Model & Tonka Toys; Several Lionel Train Locomotives, Cars & Transformer; Tin Spinning Top Toys; Marx In-cluding Tin Western Store Front; Mystery Alpine Express; Hafner Train Set; Children’s Games-Many with Boxes; Hop-a-long Cassidy Shooting Gallery; Marbles; Fisher Price NOTE: Many Toys yet to be unpacked!COLLECTION OF FIREARMS & GUN RELATED: Approx. 30 Firearms Including Kimber 45 Hand Gun, Winchester Model 70 Featherweight 264 Mag & Various Long Guns; Ammo & Gun Related Items4 LG. ANIMAL HEAD MOUNTS & FRAMED PIC-TURES: Including Moose, Caribou & Deer; Framed Pictures In-cluding Case IH Adv. Train PrintCOLLECTION OF VARIOUS WOOD DECOYS & CALLS Including PerdewCOLLECTION OF KNIVES & LIGHTERS: Hunting, Pocket & Some Adv. & Push Button Knives; Zippo & Various Light-ersLG. COLLECTION OF BEER STEINS (MOST NIB), BEER SIGNS & RELATEDCOLLECTION OF COINS: Morgan & Peace Silver Dol-lars; Liberty, Franklin & Kennedy Halves; Wheat Pennies; Buffalo Nickels; Silver Dimes; Silver Quarters; Comm. Statehood Quarters; Currency Including Silver Certificates; Various Coin Sets; Foreign Paper Money

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16thAntique & Modern Furniture, Fine Collection of Many Lg-Hard to Find & Decorated Art Pottery Pieces, Lg. Collection of Nice Qual-ity Glassware, Several Vintage Various Size Oriental Carpets, Quilts, Framed Pictures Lg. Collection of Jewelry, Pocket Watches, Lg. Col-lection of Nice Longaberger Baskets-Wrought Iron & Pottery

ABSENTEE BIDDING, PHONE BIDDING & PROXIBIDAVAILABLE FOR BOTH AUCTIONS!!!

PLEASE NOTE: This is a Very Large Quality Auction!PLEASE JOIN US for the LIVE AUCTION!!!!!!

TT TUMBLESON AUCTION COMPANY,PRINCETON, IL

E-mail: ttauction@yahoo.com or Phone 815-872-1852Auctioneers: TOM & MARY TUMBLESON & TIFFANY FOESTerms: 10% Buyer’s Premium/Cash or Check/CC Accepted

with 5% Fee

204 South Washington StreetLacon, Illinois 61540

PHONE (309) 246-2865Offices at Lacon & Toluca, IL

Office Hours: 8:30 A.M. - 4:30 P.M.William Sondag...............PublisherMary Sheets ............ Graphic ArtistMary Mooberry ...........BookkeeperTerri Taylor ..Toluca CorrespondentMJ Langner............Reporter/Sales

SUBSCRIPTION RATESMarshall County

Print ................................ $26/YearPrint & Online ................. $36/Year

In IllinoisPrint ................................ $29/YearOnline ............................. $26/YearPrint & Online ................. $39/Year

Out-Of-State Print ................................ $36/YearOnline ............................. $26/YearPrint & Online ................. $46/YearEntered as Second Class matter in the

Post Office, Lacon, IL 61540

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The Midland Timberwolves came back from their 9-day layoff and gave Peoria Christian pretty much all they could handle in an entertaining game at home on Fri-day as the Crusaders prevailed by the final score of 76-65. Midland led a couple times in the early going, the last being at 8-7 when the Crusaders went on a 19-0 run to go up 26-8. Midland battled back to cut it to a 35-21 deficit at the half and 54-41heading into the final quarter. The T-Wolves trimmed the lead to 56-49 with just over 6 minutes to go in the game but that was as close as they would come. Trailing 70-62 with just over 2 minutes to go, Midland’s David Rosa’s 3-pointer to make it a 5 point game was off the mark and the Crusaders took the 11-point win. Will Meliska had a good game for the T-Wolves as he tallied 26 points. Ryan Riddell and David Rosa added 17 and 13 points re-spectively.

Midland will be back in action on Tuesday when they travel to play Cornerstone Christian Academy in Bloomington. They will have their hands full on Thursday when they travel to Roanokek-Benson, the top ranked 1A school in the state. The game, originally scheduled for January 17 but was postponed due to the weather. Midland will stay on the road on Friday, February 14 when they travel to Depue. The will be back home next Tuesday to host Leland in the regular season home finale. They close out the regular season on Friday, February 21 at L-P Washburn.

PEORIA CHRISTIAN 76, MIDLAND 65FG FT PTS

Brady Hattan ............................0 0-0 0Brad Weber ...............................1 0-2 2Will Meliska .............................10 5-6 26Brandon Collins .......................1 0-0 2Ryan Bella ..................................1 0-1 2Billy Poignant ...........................1 0-0 3Ryan Riddell ..............................8 0-0 17David Rosa ................................4 2-2 13TOTALS .............................. 26 (6) 6-11 76PEO. CHRISTIAN (20-6) 22 13 19 22 - 76MIDLAND (9-15) 8 13 20 24 - 65

Peoria Christian Prevails In76-65 Win Over Midland

This little guy really needs a forever home. He has been in the pound for quite a while now so has become shy and depressed but once he is given some attention and love just loves to run and play! He really deserves that special some-one/family to call his own. Please come to see him! Call 309-246-2755 (Marshall county vet) or 309-857-5157 to set up a time to visit him.

Ready For Adoption

Mark your calendars for Aug 8th, 2020. The 10th Annual Henry Summer Festival will take place in Central Park in Henry IL. Do you want to listen to music? Do you want to shop? Do you want to eat some fantastic food? Or do you want to take part in this years Summer Festival by having a booth. Either situation I hope to see lots of people in the park on the Second Saturday in August.

The logos for the shirts are al-ready coming together so if you’re interested in advertising your busi-ness logo on the back of the 2020 Summer Festival shirts, please contact me as soon as possible to reserve your space. To share your business by having a booth or to advertise your logo for a reason-able price contact Dawn at 309-238-2792 text or call. Or via email at d.epley@mediacombb.net and remember to mark your calendars for August 8th, 2020, so you don't forget about this great event.

Mark Your Calendars For The 10th Annual Henry Summer Festival On August 8th, 2020

by JERRY NOWICKI , Capitol News Illinois A pair of gun rights advocacy groups are suing the Illinois State Police, its director and the chief of the Illinois State Police Firearms Services Bureau for “not acting in a timely manner on Firearm Owner Identification card and concealed carry applications.” The Illinois State Rifle Associa-tion and the Second Amendment Foundation filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court alleging violations of Second Amendment rights. “The citizens of Illinois have been delayed getting their FOID cards for months,” ISRA Executive Director Richard Pearson said in a news release. “We have tried to work with the State Police on this matter, but nothing is happening.” The gun rights groups said the lawsuit was filed on behalf of Il-linois residents Ryan A. Thomas and Goran Lazic in the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Divi-sion federal court. They have been waiting for their FOID cards and licenses for three years. The lawsuit contends the State Police, “has swept or transferred funds totaling more than ($29.5 million) from the State Police Fire-arms Services Fund, the State Po-lice Operations Assistance Fund, and the State Police Services Fund away from these funds and into other accounts.” According to the complaint, the money should have been used for the administration of the FOID card act, background checks for firearm-related services, and con-cealed carry licensing. “Instead, the more than ($29.5 million) has been subject to inter-fund transfers which are ostensibly to be repaid but which have not been, or swept into other accounts without an obligation to reimburse the funds at all,” according to the lawsuit. “The sweeping of funds has de-

Gun Rights Advocates Sue StatePolice For Alleged FOIA Delays

nied qualified Illinois citizens their rights and the ability to defend themselves and their families,” SAF founder and Executive Vice Presi-dent Alan Gottlieb said in the re-lease. “Because of this practice, ISP processing of FOID and concealed carry applications has slowed to a crawl, allowing paperwork to lan-guish.” ISP spokesperson Beth Hunds-dorfer, however, said in a statement the ISP does “not have the author-ity to ‘sweep’ funds.” “Under the current fiscal year, funds have not been swept, allow-ing the Firearms Services Bureau to start filling 17 analyst vacancies, procure technology to offer bet-ter customer service and to begin building a new Appeals Bureau,” she said. She added that 90 percent of FOID applications were on average processed in fewer than 30 days and it took an average of 65 days to renew a FOID card in 2019.

Although the name is Saint Val-entine's Day, most people refer to the day as Valentine's Day, or even the Feast of Saint Valentine. It was originally a day to celebrate Saint Valentinus, who performed wed-dings for soldiers who were not allowed to marry. He was impris-oned for this, as well as for min-istering to Christians. This was in the 3rd Century A.D.

Saint Valentinus wrote a letter to the daughter of his jailer before he was executed. His letter was signed ‘From your Valentine’. He was buried on February 14th. Val-entine’s Day was not associated with romantic love until the mid-dle ages. By the 1700s in England it began to resemble the Valen-tine’s Day we know today. At this time lovers began to express their love with gifts of flowers, candy and cards, which were called ‘val-entines’.

On February 14th, Remember Saint Valentine