Varna Hotel Fire Claims Local Victims In 1919 Tragedy
Varna center of casualties as Ong Hotel burns at 3 a m. Frida Maight and Franke Johnson perish in the blaze. Inquest, funeral at Luther League hall, and burial in local cemetery follow. Community notes record visitors, anniversaries, and local births amid a wide obituary and social column.
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Ong
Varna
Frida
Franke Johnson
Luther League Hall
Lofgren
Chicago
Chillicothe
Dorinda Ong
Pop
Sugar Grove Box Supper Draws Crowd In Muddy Roads
Leland Hunt recovers from illness as Sugar Grove hosts a box social with good attendance. Teachers and pupils received a neat pay total around 38. A boy sprained an arm earlier in the week. Olive Smith visits the Dally home. Mr and Mrs Marvin Harrison invite the Community club to meet Thursday evening November 20.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leland Hunt
Sugar Grove
Pattern
Olive Smith
Dally
William Daniels
Fred Bly’s
Charlotte Smith
Marvin Harrison
Community Roundup of Local Visits and Events
ABB and Pater Grasser family visited Mrs Barbara Kuhne on Sunday. The 77 GB Kings plan cattle trading in Chicago this week. Grasser and Lizzie Helgoth visited McNabb School on Tuesday afternoon. Joe Wagner husked corn for Paul Helgoth. Mr Jensen of McNabb died of blood poisoning on Monday. Dance and oyster supper at Wolf's Hall Thursday night. Pred Greathouse family visited Everett Greathouse. Bon Hoyle shipped a carload of laming to Chicago on Monday. Painters begin work at the Catholic church Mt Palatine this week. Me and Bes Fred Euhne attended HaSelle shop on Tuesday afternoon.
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Burdette
Mary
Shirley Griffith
Streator
Messrs
Scott
Fritsched
Blair
Meek
Granville
J. N. Wilson
Milford
Ind
Glenn Carruthers
Gilbert Ball
Toluca
Karena Spalding
Princeton
J. M. Bumgarner
O P. Mills
Heyfield
Minn
Magnolia Grange
C. C. Mills
A T Mills
Decatur
Beatrice Massie
Max Whitney
Pollard
Wenona
Friends’ Meeting House
Chicago
WCTU
Wilbur Sutherland
Parent-Teacher Association
C B Flitcraft
Eldon
Thomas Jenkins
James Smith
A J. Flitcraft
Oak Park
New Township
Swaney
Roanoke
Pater Grasser
Barbara Kuhne
Weely
Wolf’s Hall
Everett Greathouse
Hoyle
Mt.Palatine
Fred Euhne
HaSelle
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A G. Clemens
Washington
F. N. Lord
Ed R Maleham
Peoria
Waldo Heid
Foster Heid
Lacon
Ballman
Miller
Hoffert
Fitschens
Washburn
Mr. Lesch
William Koch Sr
H. EB. Broaddus
Willard Broaddus
Linsford Broaddus
Kansas
Irving Broaddus
Henry
Ed Childs
Tonica
Wasmer
Custer
Viv Stoner
N P Peterson
Peterson
Oskarsam
Sweden
Carlstadt
United States
Oxbow
William Roberts
Henry de Long
Charles
Groton
S. D
Ida
Louis Palm
John N
William
Amiel
John Carlson
Lacon Road
Albert
Otto
Oelwein
Frank
League Hall
William ‘Koch
William ‘Kool
Hanover
Germany
America
la Salle County
Streor
Maryhall
Main
uUntil
Koch
Mary Held
SF. Fouys
Church of God
M. EB
Evers
Sus
Emma Hoffert
Conrad Koch
Lorin
Johnson
Quaker Lane
Whitefield Corners
Miss Evans
Louis Wable
Coggshall
Nettie Jarman
Merton Swift
Florence Watkins
Ivan
Francis Fosdick
Lone Tree School
William Calif
Minnesota
Lucy Clark
Bertha
Montana
Billings
Miami
Arizona
Butt Rock
Cromwell and
Ted Mattern
Craggshail
Roberta Hoffman
Ivan Fosdick
Clifford Baker
Thorn
Rock Island
Ben G Hoyle
Peg Pa — Putnam
Rhoda Kildow
Sheffield
J H Stipp
William Wheeler
Rey W JS Carpenter
Urania Wheeler
Sparl
Mr Rose
W J Carpenter
Mrs. Carpenter
Rev. Carpenter
A. L. Kildow
J. T
Ethel Kildow
Ellard
Ladies’ Aid Society
Senachwine School
Marjorie Sparling
Kewanee
Arthur Keegan
Ivan Anderson
Cates
isy Sys _ Theo
Rose
Hennepin
Lyndia-Pierson
Harney
Colburn
Wilbert Swanson
jay-at-Mr Henkine
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Grove, Illia
WILL
Roan
Ball
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