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Dixon Life Notes Echo Local Affairs and Arbor Day
In Dixon a postal mishap leaves a missing mail bag from a freight line while local society notes mark weddings and deaths. Reports praise Arbor Day activities with school groups planting trees and tributes to John A. Logan, plus discussions of building associations and political candidacy in the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Woods
Post Office Department
Dixon
East Grove
Mississippi
Northern Illinois Teachers’ Association
Sterling
Pfice
Sterling Gazette
West
New York
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
Chicago
Associations of
Dixon Loan and Building Association
James S. Cochran
Freeport
Cochran
Dixon Post G. A. R
Grand Army Post
Court House Park
John A. Logan
Lee County
J. M. Rathrauff
J. H. Thompson
South Side
Irving Society
Henry Dixon
Zella Frisby
Downs
North Side
Cclsss
Mina Swartwout
Dana Johnson
Hattie Russell
Lizzie O'Connor
J. O’brien
Jefferson
Messrs
Briggs
Billings
Thompson