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Local notes and notices from La Prairie and Ottawa region
The column reports pension increases for several individuals including Major J fl Widmer of Ottawa and Thomas J Hoge of Venona. It notes business reopenings, a patent grant, public sales, a large number of prisoner releases, church and school events, and multiple obituaries and local happenings in La Salle county towns such as La Prairie Ottawa and Colona with references to rail, telegraph work, and agricultural sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas J. Hoge
Venona
Mra
Blatt Bell
la Prairie
Jennole
Lewis Robinson
Galva
Bradford
J. J. Moreland
Marseilles
la Salle
St Patrick’s
E. C. Wayman
Ransom
Ottawa
Chicago
James Hunt
Western Union Telegraph
Colona
Rock Taland
Chillicothe Bulletin
E. D. Bangs
Galesburg
Amherst College
Mark Bangs
Guy Fifer
Samuel S. Page
Peoria
Eight Judicial Circuit
Sawyer Boys
Hopewell
Pooria
W. D. Ham
Hennepin
Miss Woful
Billey Wilkes
M. E. Newburn
Same Place
Parnell
Messrs
Axtive
Specht
Englend
KR. B. Fort
Clara Fort
Rose Connolly
France
Elyira Trim
G. W. Trim
Marshall House
Lawn Ridge
Washington
J. H. Seaton
Dan Colligan
Camp Grove
Philip Thomas
la Salle County
Joseph J. Calder
A.C. Price
Lacon
L. C. McMurtie
Eyana
Bill Farr
Bill
Bellea of
Sbe
Terry
Spring Valley Coal Company
Thos Terry
Chas C. Devlin
Iowa
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad
Supreme Court
Illinois
Frank Gilbert
John W. Bailey
Princeton
Oscar FP. Avery
Pontiac
John W. Fisher
Jacob Wheeler
Ed Smith
N.H. Moss
Putnam County Circuit Court
Judge Green
McCormick
Louis Meyers
Gibbons
Fiinders
Byers
Joan G. Armatrong
Beemus
Illinois Valley
Spencer Ellaworth Sr
Baye
Ottawa Republican
Ellen M Generae