Local Peoria and area residents noted in midweek social update
Peoria shoppers Mrs. Charles Malham and Mrs. L A. Broaddus were seen in town on Wednesday. Mrs. George Pearce and Mrs. Wa Morrell spent Thursday in the country at Mrs. Harry Nott’s home. Roy Whetzel and George Clemens were Peoria callers Thursday. Olive Stoner and Lulu Ferguson, recently visiting Bartley Nebraska, returned Wednesday. Several residents attended La Salle races Thursday and others traveled to Chicago and Peters burg for events. Mrs. G W Norton entertained 16 ladies for a musical in honor of Miss Carolyn Fairbanks of Boston. The third rank of Highland lodge conferred a K P rank at Toluca Tuesday.
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Otto Peterson
S. M. Kohler
la Salle
Mabelle Ricketts
Normal
Orae
Sannecago
Grace
Lora Ylinkham
Blackstone
Samuel Potter
Magnolia
Conrad Koch
Delia Kohler
Petersburg
Old Salem
Wenona notes and weddings amid scattered local life
The Wenona news column lists Rev McCain and family on a three week vacation at Lake Geneva Wisconsin. Miss Margaret Jamison and Albert Nelson wed at the Gust Falk home and plan a Niagara Falls honeymoon before housekeeping in Mrs Van Sant’s cottage. Community updates include local visits, threshing results, and accidents with sympathy extended to the Kranz family after a gas stove explosion.
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McCain
Presbyterian Church
Lake’ Geneva
Wis
Ralph Wells
Thomas “Gants
W.V. Howe
Margaret Jamison
Albert Nelson
Gust. Falk
Niagara Falls
J. M.van Sant
Methodist Church
Edward Axline
Heflin
Elmer Axline
Chester
Lou Kemp
Della Wells
Ward Coe
Ancona
Charles Mhealander
Oscar Davis
Sara Fawcett
Henry
Venona
Mary McCarty
David Wilson
Marion Butcher
Long Point
Robert Butcher
McEachern
Anna Burgess
Oslfas Wah
Robert Burgess
England
Apply at Republic Front Rooms Above The Repubic
Fragmentary ad reads like a classified notice inviting applications for vacancies at an establishment titled Front Rooms. It mentions positioning and a contact method, but the readable text is incomplete and lacks full details.
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Repub
Whitefield Center Community Notes and Local Visits
Mrs. Carver and Mrs Culver plan a short visit after accompanying Mrs Culver home. Charles Bourdette Zenas Graves Lawrence and Elmer Hunt attended races in Peoria. Fremount College Nebraska sent a card via Vinton Huffman about Aug 12 to 18 commencement for pharmacy music and commercial institute. Verna has a special part. M C A 80 members Y W A 150. Mrs Albert Hufnagel visited her parents. Epworth League social drew about 15 in proceeds. Zenas Graves served as switchboard operator during Roy Newman’s vacation. Mrs Charles Griffin remains bedridden from rheumatism ten weeks. Funeral attendance from here for Mr Salisbury at Saratoga. Church services Sunday school at 2730 and church at 3:00.
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Whitefield Center
Carver
Culver
Charles Bourdette
Zenas Graves
Lawrence
Elmer Hunt
Peoria
Fremont College
Nebraska
Vinton Huffman
School of Pharmacy
Conservatory of Music and Commercial Institute
Vinton
Verna
M. C. A. Society
Friends of
Vinton and
Albert Hufnagel
Baker
Epworth League
Roy Newman
Charles Griffin
Salisbury
Saratoga
Government men grateful send thanks for vacations bill
Representative Joseph V. Graff received official thanks from Peoria revenue gaugers and storekeepers for securing the gauger vacation bill at the last session. The Bradley Graff bill provides fifteen days vacation with pay for gaugers and storekeepers, similar to postoffice employees, with delegates named to a national convention in Cincinnati. The Peoria association plans to pay expenses for the inspector Shepard and officials of the board of registration for stallions if needed in neighboring counties.
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J. W. Graff
Joseph V. Graff
Peoria ” Revenue Gaugers
Internal Revenue
Congress
Wiliam “Burkhalter
Steele
Hetdrat
Cincinnati
Stephen’ Pinkney
Bruninga
Peoria ‘Association
McDonough
Secral
Local notes from Hutchins Downey area gathering
Community diary items recount visiting relatives from Princeville Peoria and Iowa, funeral notices for Grandpa Salisbury, sick list updates, League social attendance and camping at Walnut Grove. Local farm, thresher sale, and schooling notes intermingle with visits from residents and outsiders.
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Wenona
Hopewell
Bertha Hultgren
C. F. Anderson
P. W. Held
Varna
Allan Hultgren
John Bergstrom
Selma Fiesburg
Frank Peterson
Helmer Anderson
P. O. Brolme
Peter Benson
Nels Hultgren
C. O. Flesberg
Charles Carlson
August Larson
Jacobson
Chicago
W. H.wallace
John Lund
Willndstrom
Gust Gustafson
Axel Holmstrom
Lacon
South Hopewell Threshing Co
Adolph Hult
Baby
Ed Kranz
North Hopewell
Foley
A. J. Ironmonger
Mitchell
Sarifor
Thal
Iforcey
Hart Schaff
Ner & Marx
Whitefield
Wm. Hufnagel
Simon Cupp
Princeville
Mr. Vandervoort
Little Warren
Vandervoort
Mrs. Bentley
Amree Longman
Walt Bentley
South Dakota
Bosworth
Merton
Swift
Walnut Grove
Harold Stout
Leon” Fosdick
Julian Herr
Sears-Roebuck
Marian Alford
Cissna Park
the Grove
Martha
Rebecca M MacAllister
Lafayette
Elizabeth Fountain
Fannie Young
Putnam
Northup
Wilson
Sparland
Mamie Parker
Iowa
J.J. Ellard
M. “Williams
Ate Wheeler
Lloyd
Ura
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H.R. Loomis
He Soper
Bert Sparling
Amily
Canton
Lawson
Edward
Princeton
Anderson
J. H. Stipp
Wms Drake
Rakery
Downey
Sheffield
Mirai
Margaret Bracken
Henry Times
Caleb Condit
0. P. Scarrell
Elsie
J. T. Kelso
Kewanee
General News
McKinley
Ilinois
M. S. Link
Granite City
Wiliam Lorimer
United States Senate
Cannon
Neel
Alabama
O’neal
O'Neal
Fran, Baker
Alton
John.a. Davis
Waterloo
Sam Une
Bis Arter
Sterling
Hexter
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Persia
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