Harvest Home at Lostant Seeks Wide Premium Awards
The Lostant M E church will host a Harvest Home on Sept 24 with extensive premiums for grain garden produce fruits canned goods bread cake dairy fancy work flowers plants art work drawing and writing. Special premiums come from local businesses with many contests including a potato peeling and a ladies nail driving contest. Officers Alfred T Bell president T J Will secretary Jay A Whitney treasurer. executive committee members and judge Mrs Hattie Davison of Rutland among others.
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Lostant
Lostant M. E. Church
Alfred T. Bell
T. J. Will
Jay A. Whitney
Gapen
Geon F. Bell
A& ‘Boyle
Niss Laura. Patterson
George P. Eberly
Rev. W. D. Dvans
Hattié Davison
Rutland
Sorrowful Belgian Refugees Move Paris Visitors
Mrs. Herman H. Harjes, wife of a Paris banker, touring relief work in Paris, reports shocking scenes at the North station and among Belgian refugees. She recalls boys separated from mothers, bayonet threats, and the helpless, starved look of children, expressing deep sorrow at the cruelties witnessed.
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Belgium
Herman H. Harjes
Paris
le Arc
Obituary for Mrs Sarah McCaleb of Lostant and Hart
Mrs Sarah McCalebs born in Ohio March 27 1829 came to Illinois in 1832. She married G B McCaleb in 1849 and had 11 children, nine surviving. In Hart Michigan for last months she died Sept 6 1914 in her daughter Grables arms. She was a charter WCTU member and Baptist, with 24 grandchildren. Funeral in Hart and Lostant with WCTU and church honors.
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Sarah-McCalebs
Sarah “McCaleb
Ohio
Illinoiisy
Wilbur Mann
Andy
Shabbona
G. B. McCaleb
Albert
Charlotte Grable
Ella Vance
H. A
Chicago
Philip S
Galveston
Texas
Kate Magruder
Kankakee
J. C
Lake Fork
Ill
H. Lyle
Denver
Col
G. B
Hart, Mich
Mrs. Grable
Guration
Sus
W. D Evans
MBE
Lostant
AdVil
al L Bart
Oxbow
R. W. Phillips
Bloomington
Tonica
Wenona
A. W Merritt
M Reynolds
F & Williamson
C. W Curtis
G. C. Spring
Cannon Ball Trail Gains Popularity Across Midwest Route
The Cannon Ball Trail now marks from utasy to Chicago described as top cross state highway in the Midwest. Readers praise its condition and driveability this summer. Marking teams led by Harvey G. Riggs, Thomas Bally, Cine A. Webster, Dr Heflin, Clarence and Elmer Williams covered sections from Quincy to Galeabrg, Galeaburg to Aurora, and Aurora to Chicago. Signs and markers were set with cement posts and paint, with caution signs installed along hazardous spots.
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Chicago
Middle West
Jeurncy Herald
Quincy
Galeabrg
Galesburg
Crorn
Aurora
Harvey G. Riggs
Thomas M- Bally
Othe Quincy End
Cine
A. Webster- of
Clarence
Elmer Williams
Talesburg
Gosta
Ernest Himes
Seclione
Princeton
Milo township first school house built 1847 in Bureau County
The article recalls Milo township Bureau County Illinois first school building. built from Military Tract funds, completed summer 1847, oak frame from stump quarter timber. George Clark and James Pettegrew were builders, with Clark family from Maine and Pettegrew from Vermont. School served as religious center and election site. later torn down for a modern school, with memories of old events and notable students.
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Lewell
Ilinois
Mississippi
Milo Township
Bureau County
George Clark
James Pettegrew
Manchester
Ind
Clarks
Maine
Pettegrews
Vermont
Stephen
Boyd’s Grove
George
Luther
Jonathan N. Pettegrew
Boyd
Benj Lombard
Anthony Pardue
Williams J Boys
Oliver Perry Hay
Smithsonian Institute
Washington, D. C
United States
Knights of the Golden Circle
Union League
Milo
Lang Syne
Old Time Neighbor Traditions Echo Through Midwest Towns
The piece reflects on the enduring role of neighbors in midwestern towns, noting how acts of borrowing flour, hosting birthday or wedding anniversary suppers, and comforting the ill sustain community bonds. It contrasts the ideal of a steadfast neighbor with changing times, invoking tradition and Christian virtue in everyday acts of care.
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The
Chicago Tribune
St. Paul
Haya
Jisti Havestontral
Nazarene
Chicago
Ioneres
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Princess Theater
H. G. Gauuen Bus
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Peoria Musical College
Peoria
Illinois
College of Music
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School of Expression
Modern Language Department
Addresi
N. Madicos
Avon
Fayette St. Peoria
Hllinois
the Republican
Rahary
Ross
Ross Post
Bree
Fae
Hunter
Henry
Central Ilinois
Silanizg
Espn
Gady Wabinsk
Spaak
Hurt Arts
Stein
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