Active Life of Major Ross Recalls Civil War Service
William Ross known as spill, age about seventy nine, died at his Shenandoah home last week. A Putnam and LaSalle County native, he enlisted in 1862 in Co B 104th Illinois and rose from private to major, then served as U S marshal in Indian Territory Arkansas and Texas. He was noted as fearless and dutiful, with three brothers also serving. two died in service. He leaves a wife, a nephew, and many friends. News items follow on local farming, sales, crops, and community notices including roads, crops, and moving to Gook Nebraska, with brief local anecdotes about residents, elections, and a few accidents.
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William
Spill
Ross
Shenandoah
Putnam
LaSalle
Illinois
Tonica
United States
Indian
Territory
Arkansas
Texas
Page County
John
G. J
Sioux City
John Miller
Bluf Road
Denny
Hurley
Lawrence Mann
Hi Brown
Mann
Democratic Campaign Fund
Newt
Sidney
Hamburg
Nebraska City
Col
Cyrus Knott
Prather and
Robb
School notes and announcements at the DBR campus
The DBR school board met Friday evening to discuss routine business. Chapel exercises and sacred music occur daily with high school music in first period on Monday Wednesday and Friday. An orchestra is planned. The Alpha and Theta literary societies organized with officers. Gypsies were seen begging in Hamburg, with reports of a money bag and calls for licensing or removal of performers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Biackbard
Wanamaker
Tabor
Shenandosh
Alpha Literary Society
Karl Fisher
Roy Hoggett
Revecca Alberson
Army
John Holmes
Byran Bill
Theta Literary Society
Paul Rees
Frank Clayton
Myrtle Lloyd
Ralph Stoner
Christy McCormick
Hamburg
Memories of
Galilee
Della Sykes
H. C. Coolbaugh
Lord Is
Light
Misa Brower
Quartz
Prt
Red Oak
Iowa Falls
Blizzard Drives Migrants South In Warm Climate Plan
A Dakota blizzard last Sunday pushed migratory land seekers to relocate for the coming months. They will be found in a warmer climate as they leave for winter quarters.
Church Notes and Revival Services Across Town
Church notices recount morning and evening services with sermon topics, choir specials, and revival meetings. Reports from associations praise moral progress, while local clergy note October conventions and upcoming conferences alongside weather returns and frost damage to crops.
McBride Anniversary Celebrated With Fifty Guests
Mr and Mrs Frank McBride hosted over fifty guests for their twenty fifth wedding anniversary at their home near the elevator last Friday night September 25. The event featured games music and readings from seven to ten with pink and white decor and a car festooned with carnations. Hosts received silverware gifts and guests wore souvenir cards showing 18H3 1908.
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Frank McBride
Patti McBride
Nora Zack
Vera McBride
Rebecca Alberson
Dora Peters
Lyle Alberson
John Alberson
Gus Wagner
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Hamby
RG. Campbell
Inck
Welch
Garst
Ed Roberts
Gook, Neb
Ernest Hinze
Mr. Gilm
W. M. Miller
Argyle Street
A. A. Maun
Ben Ruby
Harrison
James van Eaton Cane Wa
South Dakota
Black Hills
T. T. Brown
W. W. s.Anspach
Presbyterian Church
Baptist Church
Allie Finnell
A.k.williams
Pastor
Methodist Church
A. Hydinger
A. B. Adams
E. Church South
Cox Chapel
George Todd
Church of Christ the Young Men's
S.C. E
McCormick
Great International Christian Missionary Convention of the Churches of Christ
New Orleans
Chas Aitken
Church of Christ At
Bartlett
Ladies Aid
Christ
E. V. Mccormick
D. A. Allen
M. E
Grand Army of the Republic
Clarinda
Alien
D—I
Nishna
James Prior
Flo Sulivan
Chicago
J. M. Smith
Wilber, Neb
Beatrice
The
Farmers National Bank
Iowa
Eresowi
Reo
Stender Hotes
U S
State of
Framont
C. D. Butterfield
C.D
Segr
F.S. Minion
Notat
G. Franklin
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