Former Spring Valley Businessman Dies in Wisconsin
Robert Duncan Buchan son of Francis Gairns and Flora Gilchrist Buchan born in Scotland and raised in Bureau County Illinois built a clothing business in Spring Valley before retiring to a farm near Tomah Wisconsin. He died November 15 1923 after liver cancer and lung involvement. He is survived by his wife one brother a sister and several relatives. Funeral services were held at the family home with Masonic rites. A separate notice reports J W Bane a 33 year old Dana farmer instantly killed when he was thrown into a husking machine during a runaway team incident early Wednesday morning. He left a widow and three children.
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Robert Duncan Buchan
Francis Gairns
Flora Gilchrist Buchan
Scotland
Bureau County
Illinois
Robert
Buda
Spring Valley
Mr. Buchan
Tomah
Wisconsin
Minnie Huff
Guy T. Norton
de Kalb
Buchan
J. G. Smith
Congregational Church
Geo. Willett
Methodist Church
Masonic Fraternity
Bossard
Warren
Naylor
Seymer
J. W. Bane
Dana
Bane
Peruvian to Open Davenport Store
Charles B. Hoenscheid, proprietor of the Shoe Mart in Peru, will open a new exclusive Ground Gripper shop in Davenport at 303 Ripley Street in the Kahi building around December 1, closing Peru interests. The item mentions Macaws and unusually small cows as added curios.
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Charles B. Hoenscheid
Shoe Mart
Peru
Davenport
Mr. Hoenscheid
Ripley Street
Miss Price Weds Rev W A Simms in La Salle Church
Miss Sarah Cooper Price became the bride of Rev W A Simms at St Pauls Episcopal Church La Salle with Rev J E Foster officiating. Family members and local figures attended including pianist Hugh Price and matron of honor Mrs A M Faul. A wedding breakfast followed at the Kaskaskia hotel.
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Sarah Cooper Price
W. A. Simms
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
la Salle
J. E. Foster
Gary
Indiana
Hugh Price
Mendelssohn’s
A. M. Faul
M. J. van Zandt
Kenosha
Wisconsin
J. Me Cormack
Dr. R. Reddy
Kewanee
Truman Faull
Charles Pice
Kaskaskia
Esther Hackman
Ruth Shere
Miss Price
LaSalle
Township High School
Simms
Maywood
Red Cross Roll Call Urges One Dollar Gift
The Red Cross conducts a roll call urging a one dollar contribution from individuals. The committee avoids calling it a drive and presents the Red Cross as a permanent serving agency available every day of the year.
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Red Cross
The
Good citizen urged to donate to relief fund
A plea emphasizes the need to alleviate distress and feed the starving through quiet, unostentatious aid that knows no national boundaries. It praises donors as good citizens and urges sending in a dollar to the committee.
Christmas Seals drive urged by Bureau County schools
In a few days Christmas Seals will be mailed from this office. Teachers urged to promote the sale with 70 percent of proceeds returning to the school to fund health materials. Additional stamps available any time. Reading Circle books should be purchased soon as remaining copies will be sent back shortly. On December 7, Miss Vera Jackson of District 49 and Mr. Stanley Hamilton of District 48 will ...
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Vera Jackson
Stanley Hamilton
Pleasant Ridge School conducts joint program and box social
A mothers meeting was held in Seatonville on November 23 with about twenty attending. Miss Willis the county nurse spoke on dietetics and sanitation. Blanche Du Vall from the State Department of Health toured the county and schools. Kitterman School improvements include painting floors new mats and sash curtains, with a box social planned for Friday.
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Pleasant Ridge
Seatonville
Blanche du Vall
State Department of Health
Kitterman School
Hall's Catarrh Remedy Sold by Cheney Company
Claims Hall's Catarrh Remedy helps treat catarrh through internal medicine and local ointment. Sold by F. J. Cheney & Co. and other dealers.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
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Wm. McCall
J. B. Buchan
J. D. Brady
Miss Bird Buchan
P. N. Mason
H. A. Meyers
Dana Farmer
South America
South Sea Islands
Rev
Bureau County School Notes
Fagle Pencil CO
New York USA
BUICK
Rivera Theatre
Peru, Illinois
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