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Many Holiday Guests Visit Ashton Area Homes
A long list of visitors and residents enjoying holidays across Ashton Franklin Grove Rochelle Monmouth and Dixon includes William Sandrock Mary Hurd Justus Hewert Delbert Bigford and others. Several families hosted relatives from nearby towns and states during Christmas and New Year celebrations.
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Henry Gonnerman
Franklin Grove
Toulouse Gander
R. G. Johnson
William Albrecht
Itaska
H. L. Basford
W. F. Klingebiéi
Chicago
J. B. Farrer
Nachusa
Mary Hurd
William Meister
Rochelle
John Empen
Clinton
Iowa
C. W. Bowers
Cris Zies
Paul
Justus H. Hewert
Samuel T. Zeller
Genoa
Forrest Paddock
University of Wisconsin
Pearl Billmire
Frank
Sterling
Andrew Scharpf
Scharpf
Celesta Kersten
Lillian Kuhlman
Daugh Myrtle
Lacon
C. R. Denison
Cordelia Cadwell
Frances
George Hann
E.B. Arnould
Harry Coe
Gateslyn
George
A. Blank
IR. Charters & Son
Weishaar
Henry Steph
Delbert Bigford
Monmouth
Charles Pieppert
Henry Pieppert
John Bert
Rock Falls
Jacob Pfeiffer
Willi Vogeler
Carl Greve
Charles Greve
Clinton Nickey
Glen Ellyn
E. J. Randall
Hollis Philips
Cedar Rapids
Philips
Ister
John J. Thome
James A. Foard