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Personal notes from Salem area residents weekly
Busy Community notices recount visits and travels of Mr. and Mrs. A A Banta, H A Mitchell, Rev H A Mosser, Merril Banta and many others. Illnesses, hospitalities, piano purchase, and short trips to Ottumwa Burlington Galesburg Monmouth are listed along with lost beads and relatives visiting over the weekend.
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A. A. Banta
Salem
O. A. Banta
H. A. Mitchell
Eunice Lee
C. T. Reynolds
North Court Street
Whitney
Lincoln School
H. A. Mosser
Washington
Presbyterian Church
Jesse Berry
Mt. Pleasant
H. C. Cooper
Brighton
Lester Elmore
Pleasant Plain
Baldwin Piano
H. P. McLaughlin Co
A. I. Bell
Ottumwa
Josephine Oliver
George Oliver
West Hempstead Street
R. E. Lepper
Lucile Lepper
Floris
Joseph Shelton
Galesburg
Ill
Merril Banta
Chicago
Chester Fordyce
Gladys Bailey
Florence James
Mary Melchior
Burlington
Nora
Etta Warner
Charles Bowermaster
Nora McKee
Pearl Tucker
Monmouth
Gilbert
Hilda Freding
Elizabeth Freding
Gilbert Bates
Fern Young
Charlies Stewart
Harry Kennedy
Birmingham
George Q. Loesch
Milligan
Miller
Raymond Holgate
Lillian Baker
Harold Zeigler
Myrtle Huftstedler
Er. N. Gevock
Ollie Graber
George M. Ball
J. K. Rieste
Lucile Wisecarver
O. E. Kirby
Jack
P. J. Easton
H. J. Woods
Agnes Gevock
East Pleasant Plain
Lucy Epperson
Moore
C. Ferrel
Perlee
Gurley Bush
Robert Gumm
Beckwith
Guy Loehr and
Dysart
John H. Loehr
Leo Melinsky
Hattie Montfort