Magnolia Area News Highlights and Mary Kleinsorg Funeral
Magnolia reports include visitors Clifford Haws and Miss Frye, dinners hosted by Mrs Lola French, J S Phillips resuming duties, and Mrs Clara Roberts returning to Chicago. A Ladies’ Aid social and hard times event are planned with a vintage luncheon and costumes. The Mary Kleinsorg funeral in Hennepin honors a cultured, charitable woman with a large regional turnout.
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Clifford Haws
Henry
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Oxbow
Jennie Johnson
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Ervin Dean
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Emma
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Tonica Bankers Must Plead Within Five Days
Four Tonica Exchange Bank indicted bankers John E Hartenbower George D Hiltabrand W J Ebner and Ben KF Hiltabrand must plead within five days per Judge Eldredge ruling at the March term. State's Attorney Wiley moved for action and Lee O Neil Browne will lead the prosecution if needed.
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Lee O'Neil Browne
Varna Social Roundup Sees Visits and Parties
Varna residents host visitors from Wenona Lacon Magnolia and Henry. Miss Lundholm undergoes appendicitis surgery in Streator and recovers. Families attend St Patrick’s party and community events with games and meals. deaths and illnesses noted among locals.
Fire devastates Wenona furniture store and rail crash kill
Miners on night shift discover a basement fire at M. J. Early furniture store causing $2500 in losses with $1400 insured. Bond library suffers 50 percent damage. A Wenona man, Louis Newall, dies after being struck by an Illinois Central train. An unidentified man dies in a nearby incident as a Dar. The blaze erupts around 4 o clock Tuesday, part of a severe wave of damage in Wenona's business district.
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X.ing
John Duden
Minnesota
Eddie Weers
Milnonk
Lacon
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Fire and civic notes sweep through town in brief
Fire department saved the library building after a small blaze with heavy heat damaging adjacent structures. A mass meeting at the Commercial club discussed ornamental Main Street lighting from the Alton depot to the M E parish. funding options were debated with a city council referral. Other items note local attendances, visits, and social events.
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Early
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M E. Parsonage
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Local Church Notes Highlight Sunday Talks and Departures
Addie McShane and friends enjoyed visits with Rev Lackland and Magnolia resident Miss Margaret Lackland as Ira Kreger is named a class teacher. Hope Sunday school shows strong young men. Rev A B Rowson preached two fine sermons last Sunday. Mr and Mrs E Beutke attended their grandfather Beutke’s funeral. Venona’s T H Taggart noted as a respected businessman. Mr and Mrs C H Merritt and daughter Louise returned from Florida and settled in Varna, visiting A E Phillips and Mort Stillwell during their stay.
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Magnolia
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Sinenk
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Henry
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Joliet
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R W Spencer
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M B Whitney
F Thierry
Willis Justice
D C Wright
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Liye Allen
Carrie Lenz
Ab Lenz
Addie McShane
A. E. Phillips
Mort Stillwell
Village women form patrol and bind German prisoners
Grand Duke Nicholas is reported to have been especially gratified by a spectacle of village women who organized themselves into a volunteer patrol. They conducted a group of German prisoners whom they had captured and bound, asserting that women can do rough work if they are put to it.
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