Dixon Sun 1888 Reports Local Woes and Water Fight
A Dixon Illinois issue covers John Fee’s tragic injury in Freeport with amputation, local politics including township elections, kindergarten efforts, a Dickens sociable at the high school, and a heated Water Company debate over artesian wells and city supply terms with the Dixon Water Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Side
Mr. Macawber
Larry Gamp
Mr. Pickwick
Squeers
Miss Moucher
Little Nell
Citizens’ Association
Dixon
Rockford Business Men’s Association
Sun
Fish Bros. Wagon Company
Racine
Topeka
Kan
Board of Trade
Dixon Water Company
Donnelly
Water Company
Telegraph
the Telegraph
Gresham
Galesburg
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THE
Dixon Sun
Dixon, Illinois
John Fee
Amboy
Freeport
Wm. J. Mix
Oregon
Polo
Witmyer-Albright
Barbara
Dixon Post
Opera House
L. B. Crocker
Illinois
Captain Crocker
O. F. Havill
Chicago
Wilbanks
Edward O'Connor
Havill
Brautigam
O'Connor
Dixon Kating Rink
Washington
Judd
Orville Hamilton
Wm. Pankhurst
Galena Street
Mr. Hamilton
Woodbury
Vermont
California
G. J. Anderson
13Th
Illinois Infantry
S. G. Patrick
Indian Territory
St. Lukes
Whiteside County
Grinnell
Morrison
Criminal Court
Cook County
Whiteside
Oglesby
Eustace
Freeport Democrat
Emma White
Lanark
White
Waite
Chicago Herald
Ella King
Dixon College
King’s Station
Rochelle
Erycipelas
Dixon, Ills
Mus. King
Ella J. King
A.J. LiLry
Circuit Court
Lee County
Andrew A. Richardson
Alto
William J. Edwards
Lyman C. Randall
Ashton
George A. Lyman
Bradford
William Holdren
Brooklyn
Albert M. Carpenter
China
James M. Santee
I. B. Countryman
Thomas Murphy
East Grove
William Franks
Hamilton
John J. McKevitt
Harmon
Silas L. Thayer
Lee Centre
Benjamin F. Brooks
Marion
Valentine Becker
May
John Shank
Nachusa
John Stitzel
Nelson
John McGrath
Palmyra
Daniel C. Miller
Reynolds
Frederick Shippert
South Dixon
George Malach
Sen
Louis Stephen, Jr
William Pine
John L. Porter
J. D. McKell
Alden Fell
John Healy
H. M. Coe
Nicholas Fetzer
Joseph Hall
James Buckley
David W. Bachman
Oscar V. Emmert
P. H. Landis
Cornelius Vroom
C. E. Morgan
N. P. Humphry
Sublette
Lewis P. Boyd
Willow Creek
Benton Rosette
Wyoming
John Gallaher
Duer C. Badger
John Giles
Charles Carnahan
Josiah Hullah
Chris Gross
J. W. Franklin
Thomas Fitzpatrick
John Canahan
James Davin
Wallace Bass
Geo. W. Smith
Frank Hallemier
Joseph D. Crawford
Hugh Duffy
Henry McDermott
James Haley, Jr
Charles A. Fuller
Charles King
E. H. Richard
Ezra Buer
C. H. Rutt
F. F. Closterman
Henry E. Miller
Willard Wilson
Henry Kapser
L. S. Conde
Rockford
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Cesar
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