McCollum Family News and Local Transfers
Northeast Linn reports Geo B McCollum ill with grippe. A baby boy born to Mr and Mrs Noah Head on February 15 weighing ten and a half pounds. D H McCollum improving. Ben Cattey traveled near Cora in Sullivan county. Edgar Crist bought the old James B Smith farm for forty five dollars per acre from Thos Crist. Will Turner purchased Geo B McCollum farm for forty five dollars. Elwood Foss injured digging a well when fingers were caught and two broken.
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Noah Head
D. H. McCollum
Ben Cattey
Sullivan County
Cora
Edgar Crist
Jas. B. Smith
Thos. Crist
Will Turner
Geo. B. McCollum
Chas. Smith
Edwards bribery arrest and Illinois senate deadlock noted
Uncle Reuben reports Edwards arrested in West Virginia bribery case and Rev Smith accusing payoffs to Edwards. Illinois Senate deadlock over Cullom Lorimer successor with J Ham Lewis and Sherman contest. Comments on country schools by Prof Stiles and local social notes about residents and car show attendance.
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Edwards
Senator Watson
West Virginia
Thomas J. Smith
W. Va
J. Waz
Springfield
Ill
Landin
Cullom
Lorimer
J. Ham Lewis
Chicago
Agin Lawrence Y. Sherman
J. Ham
Sherman
Lewis
U. S. Senate
Illinois
Washington
Chas. Wardell Stiles
United States Public Health Service
John D. Rockefeller
U. S. Grant
Abraham Lincoln
Jay Gould
Prof. Stiles
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Browning, Missouri
Joseph Nickell
Browning, Mo
Northeast
Linn
Elwood Foss
Reuben
U. S
Ben Jones
Ada Cochran
Kirksville
Milan
Bernice Bolling
Frances Fields
Lillian Whaley
Pearle Barker
Prof. Barker
James Crist
Winigan
Crist
Timothy
John Gable
Ross Burk
Ben Peterson
Kansas City
Earl Gable
SL. Gibson
R.C. Bailey
G. Peters
Blaine Fleming
Guy Adams
Mgr
Pacific Coast
Oregon
Idaho
California
Utah
Arizona
Montana
Wyoming
Canadian Northwest
Burlington
Hue
L. T.wykoff
C. B
Nainsock
Hamburg
J. J. Smith