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Sparland Notes Highlight Local Social and Church News
Sparland society pages cover weddings, visits, and household news. Itemized snippets include Miss Anna Monier visiting Sparland, Edythe Wetzell’s weekend with relatives, and trips to Peoria and Henry. Local clubs host meetings, bake sale, and a spellbinding M and M gathering with new members and a Roosevelt paper.
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F. H. Gehr
Colwell
Anna Monier
Peoria
Sparland
Edward Shafer
Edythe Wetzell
R. H. Monier
Canada
Union
Harold Root
George Frank
Fred Bliss
W. H. Day
Cox
Wesley
Jennie Watkins
Lawrence Wynes
Richard
Moline
Viola Colwell
Area
Iowa
Angie Baughman
Robert J. Riddell
Mary C. Riddell
Frank Poignent
Frank Jr
Spring Bay
Rebecca Sparr
Marie
O’leary
Methodist
Nellie Aitchison
Anna Evans
Zetta Gehr
Mabelle Gehr
Edith Riebslager
Washburn
Miss Robinson
Walter Burnett
Will Madison
George Simpson
J. O. Peintner
C. D. Marshall
Henry
Sarah Leech
Mary Deck
A. 8. Wickoff
Ethel Cummings Crawford
Della Taylor
Crawford
George Cummings
Sarah Marland
Fern Frank
Lee Campbell
George Cox
Hedding College
William Day
Kewanee
Ladies’ Aid Society
John VanAntwerp
VanAntwerp
Dorothy van Antwerp
Ruth McLaughlin
Myron Lester
Lacon
Fern
Robert Cummings
Mattoon
Odd Fellows
Elsie Claypool
M. EE
Bethel Sunday School
the Faithful Church
Sparland Union
William H. Day
Frances Rae
Roosevelt
Ethel Frisbey