Peaches and Apricots Fail in Sleet Hit Spring Bloom
Pittsfield May 25 A Prolific apple bloom suggests a huge crop if one in ten blossoms matures but peaches and apricots are a total loss due to sleet. Strawberry prospects look strong with twenty acres of commercial berries expected to yield at least 12 000 gallons for local consumption. Other fruits like cherries plums pears and grapes will be scarce amid reports of various local happenings and staff changes.
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Pittsfield
Brooklyn Notes and Nearby Social Items News
Brooklyn Illinois records show Rev Nash and family moving to Colchester eight miles away and finds in town include visitors from Rushville and Pittsfield. A baby born to Mr and Mrs Reed died of whooping cough with measles quarantines and a roof fire at Homer Blackburn’s home quickly put out by Mrs Whitson.
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Mary Dutton
Rockport
Flora Carter
Minnie Chamberlain
Eldara
Will Strubinger
Pittsheld
Frank Pennington
Lucille
Moore
Pennington
Alpine
Oaks
Chicago
Harry Briggs
Kansas City
Pittsfield
Pittsfield House
Koepping
East Side
George C. Locke
Kinderhook
Florence Road
Weaver and Son
Clayton
Frank Carroll
Griggsville
Strauss and Brother
Tom Harris
W. W. Buchanan
Dr. Lacy
Fred W. Kiser
Newbury Farm
Chas Bradburn
Erbie Woods
Brooklyn
III
Nash
Colchester
Arthur Lantz
Rushville
George Hillyer
Thomas Hillyer
George Black
Augusta
John Stark
Stark
Grace Birdsall
Swan Creek
Rover
Mary Young
Camden
Lantz
Hattie Hayes
Della Morgan
Homer
Bert Lantz
Joe Reed
Kasiske
Doddsville
Anna Warrington
Ed M. King
Homer Blackburn
Frank Blackburn
Whitson
Yancey
Bépla
Venter
William Kendrick
Lewis County
LaBelle
Kendrick
Fannie Rosseau
William
Gran
Joseph
Charley
Arch Bradshaw
J. C. Kell
J. W. Hlowerton
Masons
Jin LaBelle
Fine Program for Memorial Day in Griggsville
Memorial Day observances planned with Decoration Day services at M E church at two and at Bathel at nine thirty led by Asa McAllister and a Griggsville band. Memorial Sabbath address by Rev. Miller at Baptist church follows. Funeral reports note deaths of Alice Butler and Mrs Jones, with services and survivors listed. Edwin McAllister attends soldiers reunion. other local social notes and a birth and housing moves are recorded.
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Griggsville
M. E
Bathel
Asa McAllister
Miller
Wm. Lightle
Bethel
Carl Woods
Floyd Plummer
Bertha Butterfield
George Thrasher
Valley City
Charles Goldmar
Ella Shinn
Rhoda Dimmitt
Carrie Mirfield
Alice Butler
Eli Butler
Alice
Our High School
Margaret Waters
Naples
Jones
L. D. Scott
West End
Edwin McAllister
Decatur
George
Mt. Pulaski
Ramond Ross
Ray Phillips
Esther
LaBelle and Augusta Social Roundup Report
Nellie Bond Pearl Dacon visit LaBelle for shopping and calls. School events at Knox City and LaBelle feature the senior play A Midsummer Night's Dream and the LaBelle commencement with diplomas and scholarships. Local travels include visits to Monticello Knox City and Chicago with a mix of funerals church events and town business.
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Union
Maude Wheeling
Independence
Gladys Sowers
Budd
Nellie Sykes
Brick
Ralph Gard
Prairie
Pearl Carlton
Liberty
Katherine Lynch
Center
W. T. Shinn
Summer Hill
Virgil Dunham
Gladys Winter
Edith Burland
Bethel
Carrie Glasgow
Philadelphia
Bertha Dennis
Gardner
Marie Dennis
Summitt
Stone
Hull
Pittsfield
J. C. Wandy
Cape Girardeau
Congregational Church
Sle
Barry
Old Town
Henrietta Brooking
Kirksville
J. T. Coder
P. P. Pullman
Maywood
Melvin Richmond
Kansas City
J. G. Richmond
Nancy Anderson
Edna Roberts
William Hall
Louwilla
Port
Robert Horton
Steffenville
LaBelle
M. M. Powell
Illinois
Smith Fuller
W. M. Callaway
Edina
Rogers and Hickman
Wright Building
John Ellis
Leora McCutchan
Beula Venter
Herbert Hunziker
Knox City
Knox City High School
Harry Naylor
LaBelle High School
Auditorum
J. B. Montague
Meadows Green
Paul Ross
Kathleen Simpson
Zurphy Bondurant
Barney Thompson
Florence Gosner
Lester de Demiar
W. W. Simpson
F. J. Young
von Baker
Zvslphy Bondurant
Grace Carman
Virgil Cooter
Elvin Day
Florence
Breckenridge Notes Oil Interest and Local Life
Breckenridge reports on West Point Oil Development trials with directors elected and by-laws drafted as drilling may begin on Jack McCune’s farm. Farm fields hold water delaying work while locals note weather forecasts predicting a wet season and several residents update on health, travel, painting, and local trade.
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Breckenridge
West Point Oil Development Company
West Point
Jack McCune
L. Y. Brown
P. H. Newell
Mr. Brown
Henry Klingler
Dave Klingler
John Brunnen
Warsaw
Robert Lowary
John Howard
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Pike County
W. R. Wills
Sand Mound
New Canton
Floyd Whalen
Whalen
Luella Reeves
Exter
Carmen Atwood
Cold Water
Ruby Johnston
White
Mary Metzgar
Aberdeen
Ruby Potter
Owl's Nest
Verna Main
Honey Creek
Ruby Winter
Nona Clark
Highland
Nellie Nicholson
Smith
Nadine Sapp
Stony Point
John Harlow
Blue Grass
Maggie McGary
Bird's Slough
Eva N. Gray
Elm Grove
Gladys Daniels
J. S. Brooks
Middle Flint
H. C. McCarrell
Margaret Toner
Ira Crisp
Fairview
Hazel Fitzgerald
Scott
aDia
Chase
Iarger
Thos
A. Brown
Paul Workings
James Workings
Francis Garwood
Mabel
Plymouth
Garwood
Sam Talbot
Mattie Golden
Kewanee
S. W. Swanson
Amy
Bay View
Mich
M. E. Church
Frank Watts
James Pierson
Augusta Township
June Baker
Alma Bottorff
Macomb
State Normal
Lulu Cain
Quincy
Sherman Wilcox
Dorothy
Camp Point
Augusta High School
H. D. Hoover
Carthage College
Christian Church
J. H. Wright
James A. Doane
Robi. McAfee
Clarence Pitney
Herman Shoup
Gem City Business College
Wm. Shoup
Mailith
Peera
Chicago Sunday Tribune
Gloria
Rupert Hughes
Everglades
Florida
Palm Beach
Riverside Drive
New York
Chicago Tribune
F. Ziegfeld, Jr
Pity Coromance
Henry Kolker
Mr. & Mye
George Kleine
Billie Burke
Anager
Seidler
Matinee
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