Federal Roads Stir Interest Across Taylor County
Interest runs high as Taylor County seeks federal aid for road building. Boards from nearby counties cooperate to designate two cross county routes linking Adams, Ringgold, Page, and Missouri lines. A meeting near New Market settled Taylor County alignment to New Market with final routing to be decided at Bedford next Tuesday.
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Board of Supervisors
Taylor County
County Board of Supervisors
State Highway Commission
Page
Ringgold
Adams County
Missouri Line
Waubonsie
Corning-Bedford
Waubonsie Trail
Ringgold County
Bedford
Taylor
New Market
Newmarket
Taylor Co. Board
Fire destroys old Savings Bank building in Conway
A Tuesday midnight blaze leveled the old Savings Bank building in Conway and burned the adjacent west building, previously used as a produce and cream station. The bank had moved to a new site on the street, and both structures and their contents were totally destroyed while the remaining nearby buildings were saved with effort.
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Savings Bank
Conway
Golden Wedding Celebrates Phillips Family Fifty Years
Mr and Mrs L F Phillips mark their golden anniversary on Tuesday July 8 with a large family gathering. Ten children and many grandchildren attended at their Gravity Iowa home where they now reside after moving from earlier farms. The couple's story includes Civil War service and decades of farm life amid a long line of relatives and neighbors.
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L. F. Phillips
Phillips
Gravity
Etta
Jennie
R. W. Coan
Des Moines
Frank
Elda
Bartlesville
Oklahoma
Edd E
Okmulgee
Waith
Wiate
Nellie
Ray Walker
Iowa
Fred
Lara
J. D. Hill
Kansas City
Missouri
N. L. Grubb
McCook
Nebraska
Ellis
Mrs. Grubb
Lucinda Faucett
Davenport
Mitchelville
Lucinda Josephine Faucett
Polk County
Thomas L. Fallett
Orange County
Indiana
Illinois
Galesburg
Philips
Ved
Gree
Long married life celebrated with a Des Moines reunion
A wedding anniversary recounts the 50 year union of Daniel and Marilla Phillips. Born in Ohio and Indiana respectively, they met after the Civil War, settled in Mitchelville Iowa, raised a large family, and later celebrated in Des Moines with friends and kin. Phillips, now deaf from service, remains a noted reader and author of a war memoir.
Grandmother Grimes Heads for Kansas City Summer Visit
Grandmother Grimes and Mrs. Alice Carrington of San Francisco depart this morning for Kansas City and other Kansas points to stay with relatives for the summer.
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Grandma Grimes
J.N. Banks
Alice Carrington
San Francisco
California
Kansas City
Kansas
Local visitors journey to Kansas City and St Joseph
John Greeley arrived Saturday to visit relatives. Claud Oswalt and family traveled to Kansas City Missouri Saturday and plan further visits in Leavenworth before returning. Nerine McFarland Claude Nelson Pauline Livingston Grace Brookman Lona McFarland Bill Brookman and wife drove to St Joe Missouri Sunday and returned the same day reporting a pleasant time.
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Claud Oswalt
Kansas City
Missouri
Leavenworth
Kansas
Nerine McFarland
Claude Nelson
Pauline Livingston
Grace Brookman
Lona McFarland
Bill Brookman
St Joe
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Ederal
Phillips Family
Madrid
Pope
Corinth
Mississippi
Halleck
Vicksburg
Grant
Nashville
Thomas
Kent Wallace
Clarinda Chautauqua
Mischa Elman
Chautauqua
Thavin
Grand Opera Co
Cage
Frien
L. F. Philips
Daniel
Marilla
Meggs County
Ohio
Jackson
Story Cortys
Michigan Navy
Big A. High
Kirby & Emanuel
John Greeley
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