Local Notes on Farming Festivals and City Happenings
Farmers expect to cut rye before July 4 with corn ahead of last year. A Temperance Hall festival tonight asks 15 cents admission. Various local visits, sales, and church events fill the week including a First Baptist dedication and a large post office foundation update.
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Temperance Hall
First Baptist Church and Society
J. M. Bailey
A. IL Wise
E. J. Winger
Thomas French
A. W. Ford
Robert C. Schofield
D, H. Stearns
Surgical success and railroad notes in Freeport
Surgical relief achieved by Dr Caldwell assisted by Dr Stocking for a patient from Apple River. Prominent figures discuss the Narrow Gauge railway project Dodgeville to Freeport and a visit by Messrs Whitman and Strong. Prof C C Snyder elected president of East Fawtaw Teachers Institute. Freeport seeks to retain him. Kendall Komedy announces Col Sellers at Wilcoxon Opera House July 8 with full company and season details. Tickets at Sanborns.
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Caldwell
Stocking
Apple River
Europe
Wm. Cox
Winslow
Joel Whitman
Orville Strong
Dodgeville
Wisconsin
Freeport
Iron Horse
C. C. Snyder
Teachers’ Institute and Classical Seminary
East Faw Taw
DeKalb County
Kendall Komedy
West
Sanborn's
Freeport, Pecatonica Valley and State Line Railroad
Jas, Turnbull
W. O. Wright
D. A. Knowlton
O. G. Lathrop
Messrs
L. L. Munn
Wm. Shippee
Jas. Turnbull
Orangeville School Monthly Report June 1879
Orangeville data shows total attendance 1535 across 60 17-22 days with 78 pupils enrolled for month ending June 12 1879. Names listed as not absent include Carrie Bradshaw Fannie Balser Geo Balser Walter Balser Elna Balser Elya Balser Johnny Musser Herbie Musser Ella Bobb Laura Rimin Geo Rugmaan Hannah Shockley Ida Herb Willie Deal Ollie Thomas Annie Leuker Ida Potts Aggie Young Frank P Fisher Prin Annie M Moore Ass't.
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Orangeville
Eniror
Carrie Bradshaw
Fannie Balser
Geo, Balser
Walter Balser
Elna Balser
Elya Balser
Johnny Musser
Herbie Musser
Ella Bobb
Laura Rimin
Geo
Rugma
Normal Institute at Lena Declares Full Term
A four week Normal Institute will begin July 14 at Lena with instructors L F M Easterday Miss Lottie Richmond E O Vaile E R Shepard and Geo E Knepper and lecturers A A Griffith N C Dougherty and others. The Narrow Gauge line progress and Freeport council officers are noted along with a shooting club score and a Georgia law offering 5000 for William Lloyd Garrison.
Piersol Wins in Lena Walking Match
Frank Piersol of this city defeated Theo Dollemeyer of Lena in a 25 dollar aside walking contest at Lena Opera House. Piersol finished 25 miles in four hours 36 minutes amid a crowd, with Dollemeyer dropping out on the 17th lap due to heart pain. The gate reached 35 dollars. Piersol praised as an amateur. Also, obituary notices: Daniel Mack of Florence dies at 81 after a long illness born in 1797 in Londonderry New Hampshire. He served in the Clackhawk War and later moved to Florence Illinois. The Illinois Principals Association to meet in Peoria July 1-2.
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Frank Mealiff
Piersol
Dollemeyer
Pierson
Lena
Pitcherville
Frank
Florence
Daniel Mack
Londonderry
N. H
Illinois
Clackston’s Grove
Cook County
Will County
Clackhawk
Sarah Gatliff
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A. F. Parker and Family
Allentown
T. D. Wilcoxon
City
TE. Hinckley
Our City
D.C. Stover
Louis Heitrich
Eagle Drug Store
Galena Street
Chicago
Appellate Court
First Baptist Church
Dridge Street
L.ee Farwell
Colorado Springs
Denver
Rock Island
E. F. Brock
Corporal Williams
Ovate
Levi Denton
McConnell’s Grove
Grundy County
Iowa
the Buzzard
MacPotter
Falstaff
Am Falstaff
Yellow Creek M. FE
Moore
Cyrus Kryder
W. Oa. Dinwiddie
Champaign
Tingla
Galena
T. M. Mee Neill
Jion
H. C. Burchard
Eastherville
Galesburg
Jacksonville
Alton
Centralia
Western Union Railroad Company
Milwaukee
Warren
Platteville
Cole
L. K. Scofield
Silver World
Lake City
Hinsdale County
Colorado
E.M. Russell
Miss Russell
Aurora
Northrup
Anderson
The
Chicago University
Allan-a-Dale
Judge Purint
Adam Norton
C.D. Knowlton
F. A. Read, Jr
Mary E
Wm. R. Walton
S. H. McEathron
P. Butterfield
A. Butterfield
Margart Gilburn
E. A. Benton
Sam’l Diemer
Polly Carter
Mathew Bisley
Wm. E Bowker
Zachariah Stover
Abraham Weaver
K.K
Council of Deliberation
State of Illinois
John Carson Smith
Ilinois
Edwin Gollier Warner
Ill
Henry Cyrus Huttchison
James A. Grimes
Judge Hyde
Antiochus
Georgia
Wm. Lloyd Garrison
Hall
Walton
Bidwell
Burrell
Staver
U Mills
oOtion
Burchard Smith Kidon
O Walton
O— Burrell
Mills
Burchard di
Ilinois Principals’ Association
Peoria
Stevens
Trunks
Valis
WM. C. Wright
Staver & Snyder
Sh Staver & Snyder
P. O. Box
Port
Til
Veiller
Jayne i
McHenry’s
Son Street
D. Store
Hansatt Grocery
LeMars
Plymouth
1W Road Land Co
Near West
Storm Lake West
Mars
E. H. Foy
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