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Local Social News Highlights Thanksgiving and Travel
Local residents share Thanksgiving visits with relatives in Centralia and nearby towns. A. L. Vallow travels from Clinton to escort the Southern California University football team to South Bend for a Notre Dame game. Family news covers extended visits, hospital births, and community events including a Girl Scouts fundraiser and local hotel restaurant sales.
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Oliver Brita
James Thomas
Carl ._Hines
Alma
Carson
Chandler
Walter
Wilbur
Ike Belcher
Edna
Walter Diveley
Seymour
Milburn Carter
Centralia
A. L. Vallow
Clinton
New Orleans
Illinois Central Railroad
Southern California University
South Bend
Indiana
Notre Dame
Frank Stein
Shattue
Frank Heinzman
Oliver Britt
Raymond Britt
Lee Britt
O. Brit
Austin Good
Lawrence Perrine
Edwin Arnold
W. ¥. Fields
Maud Ellis
Anna Puch
Madiline Porter
Dietrich
George Birch
Toledo
L. V. Lovell
Potoka
Rev Lawrence
Fort Wayne
Bob Gideon
Forsythe
Missouri
Hettie Trueblood
Vandalia
Davis Jennings
John Jennings
Dean Martin
Roy Jones
Clinton Holland
Salem
St. Mary’s Hospital
Willard McIntyre
Dixon
Cruse
Robert Jennings
Jon Porter
Casey
Mary Helen Jennings
Laura Wortman
Boulder
Buri Wortman
Darlene
Harriett Dukes
Gordon Wooters
Oscar Friend
Decatur
Oscar Hill
Levi Hill
Alice Murfin