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BETHLEHEM‘q rain In this tfclnltff jf«*iThere wm finite i pod mmj from thin lt;*nm naufiitj wlm *W*ndwl the Stanford rattnfn-n last g'stttfdajF. Til# ^blflKiwM l-'M km I, i*i«cS nil flJItd one end to the oilier. them teinjs 4! t'lilL’hfiis, M raJceifc, Sfl nk* and nilmr eatables urn numerous fco natation. Th*r* were ®r- iswsonsserved at «ne *ta tiding, and tli*r* JK't room for all to eat at orwIIme- T1 mb pnwr«m In the afiimmMi was as Mlnvr harm. A m ericas bnral II {story, read by C. fc. Elliott; tablona, Irene Clark, liacwsne ford, Mrs. Vm. Stanford; Soto,Essie II nrd: rceciiatlnri by titiarBss liar land; Initnmenhl music, Miss Lin-Ill BIHcitfc HaeJtatlun, Mulnv Bid i’rwi talk. ,1, M. Tanner; fifuiK. t* Witii you Till W* Meet A pi n. T1 fccme wi m came T rum a 1 Is* tamei wen W. A. Stanford, if St.Lri.uifi; Bow man Stanford and wire, rifMttmnk, III-; Llajti Stanford, wife and damcbUM, of near IWstfur, Mr and Miil CoLia, of Northern IHLnois*.Reel-Stan-Mi*siteriA Lay let has gnua north to worfc.Rev. 1L S, R«te«. whs Isas done agreat work in fcbl* ■*• tlon, was r*-turned fur the fourth consult ve5«tar»n Lhe Jlirtnony dieuiltThrashing Is a bool half d i» in this Msctlun Many of the farmer* are railing the If mum -se*d. Tlit price received In most caiMts is aboutone dollar |wf busbl!-tlias. ^tufard and family twk] dlfiner Ia*l Sunday with {ah mother, iMUle Hrainarcj La ij©pditi| fowdays with her *Esttr near Hoylwtonr Ai usuil, practically all uf our (leu* pfle ire plinalif to attend tan-ami Elm RItii Cbwder whh-ii is |o kje held ;it tlie same place where it Ims a I ways been cend wt ert. n es t 9atn rdsy.The Stanford nun Ion ulieerved by a great concourse or people gtfcli*iflng In !TnnJ# Lew h SLinford'sgrove last Saturday, where the entire uywso -pent in renewing aciiuaintsncei., dlpo*|TT£ of n boLiiitifui iiInner ofwhich more than two hundred pr-touklt; and lU'teidii^ t« an iieellent ppi.ujfranirrtfl consist! ritf of stings by apIcEsd'dtmriiSi a suln ngr lv»Le fiord,and rseltrttl'ms Uy ImogBriA Stanford.Irene Clark. Ch-is. Garland aridothers. Several visitors from a dfs-tnhk'e w#rtii prsssut. The twat thinghi oiif e^tiriialliij-n «n i lie programmewas nn tmlJgnL LitshrtcaE a It etch nf the pioneers of ('lay ('minty, and par* th-ularlf tJiB first settlers Stnnfordtownilp, which woji prepared under tha dirwUffQ of Mr, i 11 Kiilott,wlutt is an autiiMflty ca locJ Ij iilorj. Every buy and if If I In this reritennhilye^tf of the -.IuLh should he iaugiit something of the Iru-al hiitnry uf i.ihcusiril.y and b'wn^hlp. And we hfipgthat this third 9tanfon! rcuiii'*u willhe but the Lunin if r#f wh.it will lie-Cntoi the ArfeatSSt atm tin I affitr Eli this part of Clay County.
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Flora Southern Illinois Record

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Thu, Aug 30, 1917

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