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Illinois Money and People In Early Spring News
Illinois notes report a 35 year old coal mine in Tazewell county with extensive veins, a law dispute in Douglas county over school salary payments, and the recovery of Fred Emery found in Streator after a mysterious disappearance. Obituaries list William Anderson of Lawn Ridge and Joel Skelton of Rutland, while New building projects and a May 12 Champaign meeting of the State Sunday School Association are noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois State Sunday School Association
Champaign
Rutland
William Anderson
Lawn Ridge
Roe
Charles Spellman
Spring Bay
Spellman
Salem
Hawley
Tazewell County
Woodford
Henry Behrens
Wm. Schweitzer
Mattoon
Illinois
WN. J. Stringer
Chicago
Eureka
Altgeld
Asylum For
Peoria
Joel Skelton
Samuel W. Skelton
Marshall County
Bennington Township
Hennepin
Bert Coleman
Walter Boyle
Eugene Simpson
Fred Cunningham
Rex
John Scoon
Santa Fe
Scoon
Chillicothe Enquirer
Robert Turnbull
Prairie Township
George Walker
Mackinaw Township
Mackinaw
Supreme Court
Ottawa
Ethe
Meadowcroft Brothers
Aurora News
Mamie Bunch
Douglas County
Vail
Circuit Court
Board of Supervisors
Teaa
Miss Bunch
Judge Vail
Dick Haney
Uncle Dick
United States
Great Britain
Napoleon Bonaparte
Russia
Canton—Register
Jim
Fred Emery