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Local notes from Ashton Illinois and Rochelle area
Readable entries list frequent visits and calls by residents to Dixon Rochelle Franklin Grove and nearby towns. Mentions include islanders like Miss Loala Quick, Miss Vera Knapp, Mrs J B Farrer, private Edw Vender, and Dwight Hartzell with wartime service on USS Wyoming. Several business ads and holiday activity noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delco
Charles Hunter
Gazette Book
Loala Quick
Dixon
Fred Beach
E. J. Walker
A. J. Orner
Alta
Amanda Gleim
Isaac Trask
T. J. Holahan
Ashton
J. B. Farrer
Rochelle
W. H. Venerich
Maurice Cluts
Franklin Grove
Joseph Sanders
Vera Knapp
August Kersten
Goldie
Charles Tuck
M. D. Hathaway
John G. Reitz
Krese
Smith’s
Albert ‘Gline
Seadenie
Franklin Grove Cn
George R. Charters
Dan Iter Mary
Chicago
Evelyn McCréa
William Aschenbrener
Caroline
William Lesslie
Harold Lesslie
Arlene
William E. Trein
Stanwool
E. ©. Griffith
William Gonnerman
Grant
Nellie Griffith
Rockford
H. T. Brown
William Knapp
William Wiegle
George Gonnerman
Roberta
Burdella Albertson
Rochellé
Edgar Shippee
Wesley H. Yenerich
Grayce Walter
Vera Thome
George Hutchison
Clarence Ogle
Fred Harck
G. W. Messer
Alfred Brown
T. B. Nettleton
Yorkville
J. M. Bergeson
Ladies Aid Society
The
Presbyterian Church
Charles O. Yenerich
Iowa
Magazine Club
Bessie Andrus
W. B. McCrea
Clarence Sanders
Idaho
Sanders
Clarence Hanneman
Brunswick
Nebraska
Andrew Kaeckere
Hannemann
Camp Taylor
Kentucky
Harrison Wagner
Wesley Attig
Europe
Dwight Hartzell
U. S
Wyoming
Germany
North Sea
Simms
Wilson
Brest
France
Dwight
Ashton Folk