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Decoration Day brings visitors and events across towns
Local residents and visitors travel between Dixon Rochelle Franklin Grove Sublette and DeKalb for Decoration Day events. Calls include Miss Elma Faber Mrs. Hazel Emmert and many from Chicago Kenosha and Wisconsin. Memorial day visits, family occasions, and local business notes pepper the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jarvis
R. M. Moore
Dixon
W. T. Jenkins
Rockford
Hattie Bowers
Rochelle
Roland M. Moore
George B. Stephan
Chicago
W. E. Kern
Camp Point
Schrole
Hugh Brown
E. C. Griffith
Elma Faber
Franklin Grove
Henry Gonnerman
Hazel Emmert
DeKalb
Minnie Williams
Hazel Emmett
Frank Perin
Theodore McCade
Adam Krug
Borhelle
W. EB. Kern
Roscoe
Loraine Fall
Sublette
Herbert Ly. Parker
Amboy
Illinois
Frank Hisenberg
Geo
Ho Jet
John Absher
Stew ‘Ard
Edith Fell
Mise
Billian Haenitsch
Orion Evens
Elgin
Mahlon M. Evens
Reeta Farver
Columbus
Ohio
J. B. Farver
Marjorie Griffin
Freeport
O. W. Griffith
George Eisenberg
Ada Heibenthal
William Heidenthal
G. W. Messer
Amanda
Dixo
Fred Harek
Florence Brandfellner
Edna Clarke
Ren F. Brandfellner
William Sandrock
Henry Kernten
Oklahoma
Mexico
Minnie Geyer
Marion
Mae
Floy Bates
Belle Bates
Carl Lindeberg
Wheaton