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Local residents share news and visits across wards
Correspondence lists names of trustees and officials for wards one through three, plus a village clerk treasurer marshal and assessor. The piece records a string of social calls, visits, stage travel, farm work, illnesses, Easter activities, a birth, a wedding, and local business trips with numerous individuals mentioned by first and last names and places such as Hazelton Bismarck Livona Temvik Harwood and Linton. Continuous community notes describe neighborly movements from Friday to Easter Sunday and beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philip Ludwig
Margaret Gilman
Mamie Clark
Sherman Suverly
S. Wes
Chandler
Geo. Suverly
G. Suverly
Wes
Hazelton
Geo. Corbin
S. M. Nogle
Joe Gilman
Ed. Surber
Ludwig
Gilman’s
Jas, Burbage
P. P. Gendreau
Spokane
Washington
Gendreau
Wm. Baker
al Kleese
F. J. Appert
Welden Burbage
John
Hubert Baker
Joe Mills
Old Mills Place
Jas. Burbage
Tillie Gunderson
Bismarck
Fred Cabbage
Becky Graybeal
Oscar Larvick
Myron Baker
John Zirnhelt
Linton
Hilidjard- Beastrom
E. R. Purinton
Zunkel
Baby
Carl Larvick
Elchin
Susie
Chas. Goehring
Goehring