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Ashton and Dixon News and Social Notes
Tennis events and band concerts blend with a long list of visitors and gatherings. Isaac Trask of Dixon visited Ashton, and many families in Dixon Rochelle and Batavia spent weekends with relatives and attended camps and meetings. Local residents travel to Freeport Prophetstown Oregon Chicago and Des Moines for visits, services, and camp meetings at Oakdale and Fort Atkinson.
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Isaac Trask
Dixon
Ashton
C. Belles
Christ Kurth
Rochelle
John Absher
Charles F. Heidenthal
Pearl Billmire
Franklin Grove
Harry Pierce
Chicago
Frank Bohart
Frank
Matilda Pfetzing
Oregon
M. M. Evens
Marie
O. C. Baker
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
C. F. Bode
Vernie Burnham
Rochelle Thurday
Conrad Smith
Viola
Isaac Hilliard
S. T. Zeller
S. T. Zeller, Jr
Genoa
M. N. Glenn
Maude Glenn
Lucy Hart
Blanche Williams
Boone
Williams
Friend O. Smith
Ethel
Orville
W. B. McCrea
Wesley
Belvidere
Marengo
Adam Eisenberg
Freeport
Oakdale
Nannie Pollock
Grace
Batavia
H. E. Pfoutz
Celesta Kersten
Nelta Mall
Glenn Rosecrans
Roland Gore
Ft. Atkinson
Wisconsin
Rock River
Nyall
Smith’s
Gusta Jones
Elgin
Minnie Bode
Charles Bode
Martha Bode
Fred Wagner
Sterling
Laila Quick
Harry
Fred Graham
Prophetstown
Florence Hunt
Oak Park
Hartman M. Kersten
J. D. Missman
Edith of Dixon
Lillian Vogel
Ethel Terry
Elizabeth Lewis
Emma Billmire
Cora John
Des Moines
Newton
West Liberty
Bill” Pucket
J. A. Kersten
Orno
J. G. Eller
Oakdale Park
Steele
Concordia
Kansas
Hattie Reed
Bladen
Nebraska
Charles Hohenstein
Carl
E. Wendt
Dorothea
Hertha
William Gonnerman
Edward Reed
Lafayette Grove
Queen Esther Circle
Ular
F. O. Me