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Newton area social and reunion notices span three days
Lyman M Baker and wife travel to Princeton Illinois for the 93rd Illinois reunion while the 18th Town Regiment holds its own gathering at Russell. Officers of the Newton Social Union are elected and a marriage is announced for James Pound and Emma Stover. Local events include church entertainments, a new pastor, millinery notes, pension updates, and a small construction project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyman M. Baker
Princeton
Ill
Old Eighteenth Town Regiment
Russell
Conrad Kincebach
Co. D
Ira McNair
A. H. Howard
Andy
Cincinnati
Ohio
J.T. Kennedy
Tom
Co. 1
10Th
Iowa
Hayden Reynolds
A. M. Church
Jas. T. Pound
Continental Clothing House
Emma Stover
David S. Stover
James Kirkwood
Methodist Protestant Church
Newton
Millersburg
Kirkwood
Gilson
Marshalltown
Grinnell
Samuel Dickey
U. S
T. W. Lewis
Amy Goff
Mrs. Fay
Will Cross
Morris Cating
Galesburg
T. R. Phillips
Jas. Bowyer
Dixon
Charlie Downs
J. E. Bailey
Valeria
Des Moines
Fay
C. D. Terpstra
Killdaf
Forrest Miller