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Sparland notes and community happenings in a period glance
A local Sparland column details visits by Mrs A L McLaughlin and others to Peoria and Lacon, family news, and moves. It notes a new son for Mr and Mrs C C McLaughlin, a severe storm injuring a horse, public notices of residents in surrounding towns, a Brimfield to Lacon move for Jarman, and a large Sunday night robbery at several Sparland shops with losses estimated at 350 to 400 dollars and no clues.
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Locklear
Happy Hollow
71St Regiment Band of
New York
Middle West
A. L. McLaughlin
Peoria
Mabelle
Elsie Gehr
Lacon
E. B. Royce
C. D. Marshall
William Aitchison
Ellen Riddell
Chillicothe
Orrin Frisbey
M. C. Marshall
Edward Shafer
Mabelle Marshall
C. C. McLaughlin
Siebold
O. M. McLaughlin
Sparland
International Harvester Company
George Simpson
Texas
Vernon Ketchum
Hazel
Henry
F. H. Gehr
Zetta Gehr
Elsie
Anna Evans
Vivian
Alice
Friedt Marshall
Inlaw
BE. A. Kline
Mr. Kline
G. E. Moore
Kewanee
Ellsworth Powers
D. R. Taylor
Della
A. Kline
Church Street
B. McCann
Kline
Taylors
Leslie Waugh
Chicago
Waugh
Aberdeen
Wash
Mr. Waugh
Halsey Monier
Walnut Grove
Porter Wood
Frances and
Jane Rae
Ethel Frisbey
Vivian Evans
Nellie Aitchison
Velma
Elva Campbell
Eva Christman
Wilson Jarman
Brimfield
Jarman
Lacon School
Brimfield Board
Roy Moore
Melba
Beth
Jack
M. E. Parsonage
Orville Martin
Minnie Tanquary
Nellie Tanquary
Ruth Green
Velma Campbell
Estelle Manock
Letha Kimball
Florence Webber
Kate Beck
Rachel Carver
Gladys Carver
Ollie Rickey
Helen Rickey
Alma Webber
Alice Evans
Fern Frank
Ruth McLaughlin
Harold Monier
Eilene Scholz
Louis Royce
J. Aitchison & Sons
Gehr
Aitchison