Political notes and railroad changes stir regional chatter
The piece reports on election day preparations and party nominations in Marshall County led by Rev G W Milner, plus a name-change hint for the Atchison Topeka Santa Fe line to Chicago Kansas Western. It notes a milk delivery pioneer Richard Garretson in Henry, a Dakota excursion offer by the Chicago Milwaukee & St Paul, and Prof C S Edwards taking York Neb public schools post with his family moving.
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Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad
Chicago, Kansas & Western
Kansas City
Chicago
Henry
Richard Garretson
Duquoin
Arkansas
W. P. Williams
Edwards
York
Neb
York Public Schools
Marshall County
Simpson
Third Annual Grange Fair at Clear Creek NL
The Third Annual Grange Fair will be held at Grange Hall and grounds in Clear Creek Putnam County on September 29 and 30, 1886. Exhibits include horses cattle fowls grains vegetables fruits canned goods dairy products flowers plants fancy work curiosities and relics. Entry books close 10 o clock Thursday with no admission fee. Lunch proceeds aid fair expenses. A B Wison Sec Magnolia Ill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grange Hall
Clear Creek
Putnam Co
A. B. Wison
Magnolia
Ill
Harvest Notes From Nebraska and Grange Encampment Report
A letter from Mrs Samuel Maxwell in Creston Platte County Neb reports harvest yields 40 to 50 bushels per acre, good corn, rains replenishing wells, and Creston as a developing trading point near the N P railroad. It notes local towns, water access, and plans for a new railway. The Grange Encampment at Undercliff Lake Senachwine draws hundreds with speakers on drainage and organization, plus social events and a Peoria county singing group. Deputy Superintendent Parker urges improvements in rural schools, citing dictionaries, graduates, maps, writing, and supplementary reading as essential.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Maxwell
Creston, Platte Co
Neb
Newton
Columbus
Madison
Humphrey
N. P
R. R
Creston
Leigh
Nebraska
Lehigh
the Grove
Humphreys
Platte County
8. Maxwell
Lake Senachwine
A. E B. Giller
Greene County
Thos. Keady
Peoria County
Geo. Ball
Macoupin County
E. Harland
North la Salle County
C. Wilson
Putnam County
J. M. Chambers
Chicago
Hopson
Billingsly
Indiana
Granger
L. D. Whiting
Senachwine Grange
Putnam
J. H Vanarsdale
S. Hopson
Baya Ho
G. W. Parker
Venona Gazette
Parker
Roberts Township
Bennington
Evans
Hopewell
Belle Plain
Steuben
Whitefield
la Prairie
Saratoga
Fartt
Lacon
Richland
Breid
Saratoga Man Recovering From Severe Relapse
J. A. Coulter of Saratoga township, once severely ill, has recovered enough to be about again. Friends glad to learn his health should continue to improve toward lasting restoration.
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F. P. Hopgood
Oxford
N.C
J. A. Coulter
Saratoga Township
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Sparland
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Sad
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Willalan
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V. Becker
NTE
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K Ul Ling
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Western Union Telegraph Company
Council Bluffs
Elias Herr
G. W. Milner
Milner
Illinois
Jeriah Bonham
Peoria
E. W. Blaisdell
Rockford
Abraham Lincoln
Bonham
Lincoln
Illinois Gazette
Blaisdell
Dakota
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Milwaukee
Wis
St. Jacobs
Bry fLuller
Underclf
A& Man
Minh
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Philip Smith
Ken McNeal
W. 100 Street
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