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Prairie Chickens and Prohibition Echo in Dixon News
A Dixon column notes prairie chickens for sale in Creston and a $300 price to shoot a dozen plus. Senator Sheets pushes a constitutional prohibition proposal. The paper covers a stock-train accident in Franklin Grove that cost a man a foot, marriage licenses in Lee County, and Rockford plans a Gilmore jubilee concert. It also reports on Dixon’s housing shortage, the Condensed Milk factory well flow, a fatal nervous collapse of Hilliard Perry, and a Lee County Farmers Institute program led by W. B. Page and S. Wilcox. The piece ends urging temperance reform via the Good Templars and local ministers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paine
Franklin Grove
C. A. ‘Penny
Montura
Iowa
Tenny
A. N. Poyneer
Hilliard H. Perry
Mr. Perry
Rockingham
Vermont
Pamelia Southworth
Hitty Ann
George A Nash
Sarah Jane
D. B. Ayres
George H. Perry
Sedgewick
Kansas
Falls of St. Anthony
Minnesota
Mary E. Robinson
Roxberry
Dixon
Eusebe McKenney
J. F. Howard
Baptist Church
J. M. Ruthrauff
Bethea
W. B. Page
S. Wilcox
Elgin
Palmyra Glee Club
James H. Thompson
Emma O’brien
Moritz Rosenthal
E. C. Smith
Glee Club
Frank E. Stevens
Huron
Dakota
L. B. Neighbour
Lee County
L. W. Mitchell
Woosung
Woosung, and ‘‘Permanent Roads” By Hon. 8S. G. Paddock
Princeton
H. C. Mead
McHenry
J. N. Periam
Chicago
Fanny McCartney Mallory
Sterling
O’brien
Leida Eastwood
Palmyra
Institute
S. N. Fellows
Manchester
Quartette
J. Stanley Grimes
Presbyterian Church
Grimes
American Association For the Advancement of Science
C. A. Banker
M. E
Deacon A
Deacon B
Mr. Bunker
Order of Good Templars
Dixon Lodge No