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Magnolia area notes and events spread across town
Community column from Magnolia on October 23, 1919, lists visits from residents and relatives, illnesses including influenza, dances and gatherings at McNabb, school trips, a homecoming for soldiers, church activities, and local business visits. Also mentions the Country Women's Club meetings and various social happenings in nearby towns such as Lostant, Washburn, Granville, and Toluca.
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R. A. Ward
Peoria
George Hauger
Gertrude Ramsey
EF. M. Dagner
Lostant
McNabb
Marvin Kincaid
John Alcorn
Cedar
Fred Glover
Laura Barber
T. H. Rolley
Louisa Freeman
Bessie Rolley
Helen Ray
Farmers’ Institute
Toluca
John Miller
Clark Blankenship
R A Ward
Marie D. Hillabrand
Chicago
Carl Phillips
Streator
G. A Buzzard
Henry Hospital
P A. Hiatt
Louisville
W H Water
Brady
A. Morphew
W. H. Weathers
Magnolia
Charles Hultgren
August Aronson
Ethel
Granville
Fred Schumaker
Fred Thomas
Ottawa
Vivan
Soldier Boys
Hoffman
Orchestra
Edgerton
la Rose
Miss Walters
Kewanee
William Matern
Henry Matern
Paul Helgoth
Fred Kuhn
Charles Baker
Peter Grasser
William Wolf
Utica
Loesch
George Halstead
Nels Halstead
OxBow
William Siebert
Missouri
Carrie Ziegler
Fred Greathouse
Whitefield
Morton Brooks
Kankakee
Ciltford Steer
Elow Steer