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Local Social Notes Highlight Town Movements and Visits
A busy week of visits and travel across Chariton area. Residents such as Mrs J E Butler in Batavia and Miss Eunice Bates in Lucas shared weekends at home. many journeys to Derby, Des Moines, Ottumwa, Cedar Rapids, and Chicago accompany illness, family gatherings, and business. Demonstrations on new concrete culverts planned in Russell and Lucas.
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J.E. Butler
Batavia
Iowa
Eunice Bates
Lucas
Walter Dewey
Creston
Frank Garland
Derby
Lawrence Avitt
Homer Coughlin
Ottumwa
Chris Kaiser
Frank Funk
Leroy
Bert Murray
Herman Cassidy
Garnett
Kansas
W. W. Rickey
Beatrice Huddleston
Rome
Mesdames
G. L. Ryan
W. D. Datcher
Verne Clark
Chariton
Russell
Henry Engebretsen
Edenia Kridelbaugh
J. F. Thomas
Osceola
Hunter
Emily Farley
Elizabeth Johnson
Isaac Bowen
Texas
Anna Lundgren
Chariton Dry Goods
Ellen Smith
Melrose
G. A. Israel
Chicago
Harry Williby
S. L. Holman
Will Culbertson
May
Clarinda
Charles
Bert Cole
S. B. Imel
W.L. Edson
Corydon
N. J. Dunn
Lida Wren
Edith Douglas
O. D. Helt
Humeston
A. E. Russell
Lewis Curtis
Burlington
E. O. Wilson
Glenwood
Eloise
J. D. Moore
G. B. Tabor
W. H. Smyth
Decatur City
New Virginia
Truro
Valley Junction
Des Moines
Thomas’ Roberts
Columbia
Edward
Elmer Carson
Belinda
English Township
Onawea
William Roberts
Charles Threlkeld
Hutchinson
A. Threlkeld
Lincoln Township
Wayne Foster
Whitebreast
Rochester
Minnesota