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Local notes cover Peoria travel and family visits
Residents and visitors from Sparland to Peoria and Henry are listed over a series of social notes. Names include Lyle Duncan Frank Head Clarence Fleming Vivian Evans Harrieson Gapen Sparr Pace Cummings Osborne Olson and others with multiple towns mentioned such as Chillicothe Ottawa Des Moines Clinton and Rock Falls.
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Frank Head
M. C. Marshall's
Fred Blackwell
Peoria
Clarence Fleming
Chillicothe
Vivian Evans
Bradley
E. T. Harrieson
Henry
Thomas Nighsanger
Charles Gapen
Ottawa
C. D. Marshall
Glenn Gingrey
Zetta Gehr
Frank Johnson
Ira B. Ransom
Princeton
Robert Cummings
Elsie Claypor
William Frank
Mies
A. Trumpeter
Fred Bliss
Babe
J. H. Riddell
Esther Fay
Denver
Colo
William O'Leary
J. C. Duncan
Mary A. Marshall
Asa Nighsanger
Charles Sellers
Virginia
Henry Olson
Rebecca Sparr
Union
The
Baptist Church
T. E. Gapen
Marjorie Blackmon
Harry Blackmon
Gapen
Paul
T.S. Lochren
Rock Falls
Wyo
William Marland
New York City
J. O. Peintner
George Simpson
Fern Frank
Lacon
Myron Lester
T. van Antwerp
Roy Newell
William Aitchison
Miss Grace
St. Louis
Halsey Monier
Deacon Dunlap
Riverside
Cal
Waugh Brothers
Aberdeen
Wash
Elmer Olson
Magnus Olson
Rufus Barton
Charles Collins
Louis Webster
de Pue
F. H. Gehr
Robert Riddell
John Pelz
Harry Jr
Duane Siebald
E. B. Royce
Ben Russell
Harry Siebold
Minnie Madsen
Frank
Chicago
Nellie Thomas
Ella McLaughlin Jenkins
Des Moines
Relief McLaughlen
Verna May Harvey
Elmer J. McLaughlen
Ethel Watkins
Watkins
Frappe
Township High School
Florence Kanive
Burson School
Margaret Farraher
Pleasant Grove
Golda Ladd
Yankee Street
Urania Wheeler
Center
Mabel
Varna
William Phelps
Irvin Capperrine
Knoxville
George Poff
Morse
Broadmoor
Harry Lee
Mary Sharer
Neponset
A. W. Shriver
Henry Churchill
John Charlton
L. E. Clifton