Dolson notes from Silas Murphy era and local happenings
Silas Murphy reports show 8&8 new autos and Plentiful spring calf buyers. Community events include an ice cream supper at U B church and road work after conditions improved. Dolson Chapel to reorganize Sunday school. long list of local repairs, mail routes, and family reunions with 100 plus attendees. The Hutchings family reunion at Wm F Clapp home drew over 100, with many relatives from Indiana to Illinois attending. A fatal kidney illness ends D C Closson’s life, and a Dolson man sustains injuries in a car crash with a broken collarbone and bruises.
Westfield social notes list visits and local events
Miss Juanita Prewett visited St Louis with Mrs W L Biggs of Muskogee Oklahoma. Veronra visits relatives. Warren Robinson went to Oklahoma for oil field work. Fred Gallagher of Sabina Ohio guest of Miss Harriet Tobey. Briscoe siblings to Patterson Springs for chautauqua. Broomcorn cutting underway in northern broomcorn country. Roxanna Goble leaves for Elgin to teach. her brother Prof W L Goble is city schools superintendent. Harry Phifer dies at 34. County commissioner surveys highway south of Snyder Creek. Mrs Clara Welsh and sons return to Oklahoma after visiting Elizabeth Jeffers. Martha Collier of near Bloomington visits, as do Walter Brown and Fenton Forsythe from Walnut Prairie with Elizabeth Collier. Virgil Wallace and Elizabeth Collier plus Walnut Prairie crowd tour West Union. Alice Welsh and children of Dudley Missouri visit Wm Collier family and Robison relatives.
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Kathryn
Melissa
Briscoe
Patterson Springs
Roxanna Goble
Elgin
W. L.goble
Harry Phifer
Iis
Snyder
Snyder Creek
Clara Welsh and
Oklahoma
Elizabeth Jeffers
Martha Collier
Bloomington
Walter Brown
Fenton Forsythe
Walnut Prairie
Elizabeth Collier
Virgil Wallace
West Union
Alice Welsh
Dudley
Wm. Collier
Robinson
Local Insurance Ads Hint At Low Rates From Wirks
An ad fragment promotes term and city property fire insurance from Wirks or Cole & Cole Marshall with terms from Clark Cochonour and wife and W I. HI left Gronday for a trip to the Paenie coast. Chick Pavis of Tacoma visits Harry Morrow and Sher burne Mit at B.A. Morrow's home.
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Cole & Cole, Marshall, Til
The
Banner Times
Clark Cochonour
Gronday
Paenie Coast
Chick Pavis
Tacoma, Wast
Bire
Harry Morrow
Sherburne Mit
B.A. Morrow
Local Notes From Towns And Families
John Beabout bought a silo. Henton Linn and wife were visitors. Grandpa Beabout is frail and nearly blind. Miles townsman died after a yearlong illness. Vandalia has about 75 men at work on steel. Mr Dots of Glennvalley is visiting Sutton brothers. Miss Jane Tuttle of West York visiting relatives. Young folks enjoyed a pound party at Charles Snyder’s. Don and Emil Romine called to Murphysboro with state militia on riot duty. About eighty friends and relatives dropped by Join Husted’s home for 35th wedding anniversary with baskets.
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Vandalia
Omr Dots
Glennvalley Ind
Sutton Brothers
Jane Tuttle
West York
Charles Snyder Don
Emil Romine
Murphysboro
Join Husted
Wife
Local News Roundup of Families and Social Events
Mr and Mrs James Wallace welcomed a nine pound son. Charley Hutchens and family joined relatives near Grandview. John Byerly and Ridge Farm relatives visited their parent. Allen Pinnell served Auburn by illness of Mrs. Pinnell. Ethel Washburn and Trixie Cunningham to Indiana canning factory work. Freedom church hosts ice cream social this Saturday for church funds. Alva Liggett hosted neighbors for ice cream. Sunshine lifts spirits as local life moves on. J M Hollenbeck repairs his scales. Local youths attended West Union church. Mrs Leonard Smith and baby William Randall head to Ozalla South Dakota. Mrs William Collier visits brother Martin Kildow and sister Bert Wait in Robinson. J P Collins wife and daughter of Weidam UL visit J La Collier parents.
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U. B
Dolson Chapel
Verge Gallatin
Martinsville
Green Moss
Hurley Johnson
Lincoln
Mr Moore
Polson Chapel
Arksville
Zelday
Lavpool
Marshall
Filson
Lucy Lowry
Ray Gallatin
Martinville
George Daugherty
Paris
Charles Hawkins
California
Eph
Charles
Hutchings
Wmff Clapp
Grove
Sperry Leffler
Indianapolis
Belvie Lacy
Mitchell
Ind
Elmer Hutchings
Olney
W. H. Metcalf
Jesse Osborn
Brocton
Frank Lee
Newman
Clarence Hughes
Chris Hughes
Ray Simpson
Ora Cunningham
Louista Fox
W F Clapp
Enos Perisho
Kansas
Frank Kemp
Wm Burnsides
Saml. Bennett
Carl Davis
Chas Screech
J D Dunn
A J Ballew
Grandview
Mary Applegate Redman
Joe Fitzgarrald
Parker
Silas Murphy
Grace Higgins
Ruth
Stephen Applegate
Clarksville
Sylvan Richey
Roy Findley
W. P Fitzjarrald
Nat Fitzjarrald
Shilo
Roy Bandy
Dudley
W B Hutchings
J I. Hurst
Green Mose
Owen Hendrix
Mildred Clapp
Dolson
Joseph Fox
John FE Hurst
Sperry Claypool
John Heath
Chas Turner
Jesse Meloy
Chfford Turner
Chas. Fitzgarrald
Will Combs
Geo Hutchings
Glenn Clapp
James Wallace
Charley Hutchens
John Byerly
Ridge Farm
Allen Pinnell
Auburn
Sarah Jane Pinnell
Ethel Washburn
Trixie Cunningham
Indiana
Freedom Church
Alva Liggett
J. M. Hollenbeck
West Union
Leonard Smith
William Randall
Ozalala
South Dakota
William Collier
Martin Kildow
Birs
Bert Wait
Robinson
J.P. Collins
Weidan
Bann
J. la Coilier
Local social notes and fair preparations fill the week
The column records visits and travels of Melrose residents including J E Cooper J Trump and Prof J E Brewer. It notes a long dry spell since Aug 21, cold mornings near frost, upcoming Clark County Fair Sept 7 8 9 10 11 and 13 16 17. Also reports Mona Fasig shower and Mona and Leroy Hainley wed in Columbus with new home.
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J E Cooper
John Trump
Melrose
J E Brewer
Peoria
Local Notes Include Visits and Farewell Sermon
Mabe Bonesteel of West York visited her parents here Sunday. Master Barr Weir of Indiana spent weeks with his aunt Mrs. I. Fowler. Lizzie McCord of Paris returned home Monday after visiting friends. William Armstrong began canning tomatoes last week, and Rev. Mr. Timmins preached his farewell sermon. The ice cream supper Saturday evening was a success, clearing funds.
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Mabe] Bonesteel
West York
Barr Weir
Indiana
I. Fowler
Lizzie McCord
Paris
Wm. Armstrong
Mr. Timmins
Alice
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Glascow
Mont
Ed Ruedy
Daniel Lee
D C Closson
Ting
Raymond Bancroft
Westfield
Juanita Prewett
St Louis
W.L. Biggs
Muskogee Ok Veronra
Warren Robinson
Fred Gallagher
Sabina, O
Harriet Tobey
SAS
ASEY
Homer
John Beabout
Henton Linn
He E
Beabout
Miles Towns
Guy Brown
Sorento
Springfield
Ethel Brown
Mr. Lowry
Chas McNary
Terre Haute
Chas Hawkins
Arthur Boyer
Thelma Horrell
Phoebe Snavely
Clark County
S. S
Dudley Ashmore
Casey
Mona Fasig
Mona
Bart Kelley
Ohio
Our City
Chapin
Fasig
Daniel Kelley
Alphus Moore
Moore
Elza Fasig
Columbus
Leroy Hainley
Hainley
International Correspondence School
York
Spittler
Odd Fellows
Dr. Sawyer
John Lu
Whiteside West Main ST
Marshall, Ill
Queensware
Groceries and Queensware
Bicycle Supplies
Wallace Baird
Spokane
Wash
J. Cook
D. Jor
Cook
A. OB
Weedrus
Tropics
the Herald
Black & Hutchinson
Smith
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