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Lacon notes, deaths, and local folly in January 1909
Scott Osborne Jr. hunts a fox near Starbuck mine but escapes. Obituary for Robert G. Thompson recounts farm life, marriage to Alice Day, and burial in Lacon. Local notices report residents ill, travel to Oklahoma, a family destitution near town, and neighborly aid. Various social items include weddings planned at Varna Swedish Lutheran church and a farm fire at Dr Verney’s tenant house. Foley’s remedies praised by locals for kidney and cough troubles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scott Osborne, Jr
Starbuck Mine
Scott
Joe Johnston
Saratoga
James Johnston
Springfield
Frank Specht
Fred Bestold
West
Emma Donaldson
Hopewell
Lacon
J. W. Stevenson
Tuscola
Merton Hassenfly
Peoria
Oklahoma
Robert G. Thompson
Robert Thompson
Hopewell Township
James and
Mary Thompson
Marshall County
Alice Day
Mr. Thompson
Ben
Eva
Hinsdale
Nellia
Florence
Joseph Ehringer
James
Douglas
John
Samuel
Mary Fisher
Vance
Mr. Vance
George H. Trimble
Chicago
Trimble
Harry Campbell
Maria Gage
Hllen Hoagland
Grandma Hoagland
Sparland
Dorothy Koch
G. B. Harper
Progressive Euchie
Agnes Black
Washburn
Dr. Lafferty
Elmwood
Perry Sisters
Wm. Morrow
Mike Schrond
John Lesch
Nellie Remsey
Koch Home
Tillie
Lydia Rudolph
Venona
Tom Robbins
Ina Bell
B. L. Harper
Baby Mildred
Walter Schumacher
Lola Barnes
A. H. Schumacher
Will Fenske
Wenona
Charles Matlin
Louis Speck
Grandma
Louis DeVault
Verney
Emma Mai Foster
Alma Foster
Streator
Charles Foster
Walter Owen