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Local notes with visits, events and ads from Elgin area
A pithy column details visitors and social calls including Miss Ida Schori and Miss Kathout’s moonlight picnic, Mrs F. W. Hughes’s return from Chadwick, and several Elgin residents’ movements. It notes I. C. O. F. officers, Harvest Festival attendance, and various local business updates, shop news, and mine operations in nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Jennings Bryan
Christian ‘Church
Pf Fayette
F. W. Hughes
Wim. Bedell
Flat Rock
Mich
Buckten
Mushlenthaler Bros
First National Mining Co
Carthage
Marshall Field
Chicago
United States
Wm. Waldorf Astor
Annie Weightman Walker
John Jacob Astor
Ida Schori
Cathout
Hunsberger Place
Clermont
Stoehr’s