This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Local notices and personal items from Rochelle area
A long page of small notices records farm sales and poultry for sale, visits by residents to Rochelle and nearby towns, familiar names like Mrs. J F Raymer, George Kretz, and Miss Lena Bode, plus Thanksgiving family visits, labor and building updates, and a church Ladies Aid dinner with 175 attending and about 60 dollars raised. The section closes with a teacher prize note praising the farmer's wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leo Hurd
Rochelle
Maurice Hurd
Dixon
Mary Hurd
Muriel Fee
Chicago
George Eisenberg
C. E. Lee
Bradley Strain
George Schrieber
Ruth
Frank
Hazel
Byron
Hogan
Rankin
John J. Cleary
Raymond
Mildred Bemis
Orpha Bemis
Beloit
Wisconsin
Hilda McIntosh
Northwestern University
Hyanston
Reeta Farver
Batavia
J. B. Warver
Alva Wells
Roadhouse
O. A. Fackler
Brunsvold
Hobart and Howell
Roscoe
Beloit College
Luella Danekas
Elgin
George Danekas
Luella
Cecil Petchow
Faye
Helen
Edgar
Charles
Harry
Igan Construction Company
West Chicago
Bert Reed
Killion Avenue
Washington Grove