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Parrishs Visit to Vandalia and Local Happenings
A survey of Lamar news lists A N Parrish and wife planning a holiday visit to Vandalia Missouri to meet his mother. Other notes include printing plans for Carrizo Miner, road-view committee adjournment to 1900, tax sale activity, immigration association results, a bishop ordination, Lamar lodge installations, a Judge Billingslea wedding, school program for holidays, a total lunar eclipse report, beet sugar prospecting, album ads, melon growers meeting, and the Dobbins Brothers Uncle Tom's Cabin tour with a large street parade.