Sparland News Highlights Patriotism and Local Life
Sparland and Steuben township boast a strong county victory by L. N. Osborne and William Riddell. Wedding reports include Harvey Hill to Fred Harvey in Chillicothe and Cleone Belsley to Cecil Hunt at Lacon. War end celebrations trigger parades, bonfires, and school marching bands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sparland
Santa Fe
Chillicothe
Hunt Belsley
John Belsley
Lacon
Cleone
Cecil Hunt
Steuben
Thompson
M. E. Church
O. G. Hunt
Sparland High School
Bradley Training School
Peoria
Bradley
Marseilles
Domerey Favert
Peter Guivanati
William O'Leary
Favett
Guivanati
Milford
William Wilson
Spring Valley
Myre Shefflett
Madison, S. D
Otis Campton
Alabama
South Whitefield Notes and Local News in LaPrairie
Local column from South Whitefield reports on labor at the James Smith farm in LaPrairie with Charles Jacobs and Alex Wunder aiding a new corn crib, visits from Wilbur Hastings and family, and community happenings including illness, schooling, a social at Boyd's Grove church, and war news celebrating peace. Court notices, real estate transfers, and estate matters are briefly listed, along with Major Meigs securing a Keokuk dry dock barges contract.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Jacobs
Alex Wunder
James Smith
LaPrairie
Wilbur Hastings
Leslie Waughop
Ed Baugh
Mr. Bickerman
Earl Wherry
Henry
Ed Kline
Jack Reese
Mr. Johnson
Mrs. Apfel
I. W. Waughop
W. Sale
Opal
George
C. My Sellers
Virginia
United War
Sellers
Lacon
Sparland
Samuel Kominiski
Oglesby
Mary Crukonich
Rutland
Fred Harvey
Chillicothe
Bessie Hill
Henry Cemetery Association
Hills
Henry Cemetery
George W. Snell
Cotton
Harry Snell
Steuben
Hans A. Otto
William D. Smith
E. G. Balley
Santa Fe
Toluca
Edward D. Kenward
Tracey M. Hancock
Long's
Lucy Dean
Edward D
Kenward
Clark Downey
Ida I. Murphy
Charles Reuben Colwell
Mary F. Dever
Wm. M. Dever
Mary D. McDonough
Wm. E. Anderson
James A. Harrison
Meigs
Keokuk
Boyd's Grove
Whitefield
Lucian Fosdick
Father Brown
Thelma Loewenstein
Rock Island
Henry Hufnagle
Frank Ziegler
J. Burton
Oren Johnson
Irl
Tom Oleson
Whitefield News Briefs From Peoria Celebrations and Local Notices
Whitefield residents report Peoria celebration success after a draft procession was halted and cheered. A post office shortage investigation at Sparland concerns Miss Eula Hoskins with a likely replacement. Church services and social events fill the week, and a Cham berlain's Cough Remedy ad cautions parents about croup.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sparland
Eula Hoskins
Local Soldiers Listed on Marshall County Board Names Added
William Tinkham adds ten names to the Marshall County service board list at the courthouse square. New entrants include Fred Zack Magnolia Arthur Sharick Lacon Walter A Schwanke Varna William Joseph Huck Lacon James Burt Hopper Henry Clifford S Manock Sparland Vernon Oral Wright Wenona Joe Allen Doyle Lacon Joe Wheeler Wescott Lacon. Lane proposes vast irrigation and land clearance schemes to house returning soldiers and boost US production while noting shipbuilding revival and the Savannah voyage of 1819. W. Chapman, 73, walking coast to coast, claims a wealthy backer and two dollars daily for expenses, having traveled Illinois routes. O A Jones, Brown County apple king, harvested eight thousand bushels from fifteen acres for the orchard sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Tinkham
Marshall County Service Board
Court House Square
Fred Zack
Magnolia
Arthur Sharick
Lacon
Walter A. Schwanke
Varna
William Joseph Huck
James Burt Hopper
Henry
Clifford S. Manock
Sparland
Vernon Oral Wright
Wenona
Joe Allen Doyle
Joe Wheeler Wescott
Lacon -Ag Fan Pa
Secretary of the Interior
Lane
Congress
United States
America
New York
Savannah
Atlantic
William Scarborough
Liverpool
St. Petersburg
W. Chapman
Havana
Wilmington Green
Orichard
Also Mentioned on This Page
L. R. Phillips
Charles Greenlee
J, Watercott F
Y. Yanochowski
Lawrence Peterman
P. Turner
G. Hoyle
Sparland Department
Bessie Read
Barrville
L. N. Osborne
F. H. Gehr
C. D. Marshall
John. Marland
Johnson City
Marland
Betty Nighsonger
William Hoadley
Lou Nighsonger
Robert Riddell
Cecil Parsons
Nellie Thomas
Emma McLaughlin
Louise Russell
Mary Fabershoski
Chicago
Fletcher DeClark
Christie
Wyoming
Baughman
Bowlin
Phoebe Emler
Elva Campbell
Velma Campbell
Nellie Aitchison
Elizabeth Marland
Louise Osborne
Frances O'Dell
Dorothy Gallup
Walter Smith
Harold Root
Wilfred Webber
Steuben Township
William Riddell
Court House
E. T. Harrieson
Bethany
B. BE. Royce
Emery
Shoop
William Hill
Blanche Marie Lopeman
France
South Whitefield
Milo
Allen Moffitt
Frank Billings
Mildred Carrico
Carl Reed
Boyd's Grove Church
Frank Lidgard
William Bentley
Alvah Piper
Roy Stone
Chamberlain
Whitefield Corners
Steven Snyder
Urbana
Bradford
Fred Wheeler
Fa Po
Croup
Zal
Northern Illinois
Allen B. Smith
Illinois
Miles S. Fox
Princeton, III
Henry, Jr
Tampa
Matthew Steele
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