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Local notices and social updates from Spring Valley
Readable items list residents traveling to Chicago and Davenport, encounters with relatives, and local events. Names include Alma Norton, Kate Slowey, Cecil Cosgrove, Peter Clinton, Miltenberger, Rafter, Habib, Ferare, O'Connor, Hicks, Ferris, Sears, Davis, Faletti, Reinhart, Nelson, Hollerich, Vincent, Hercer, Nelson, Wallick, O'Connor, Berendt, Solon, Hall Township, and many others alongside travel to Chicago, wartime service, job changes, court notices, and social gatherings at LaSalle Theatre and Hicks Park. A notable legal note mentions an injunction halting the Oglesby Coal mine pending a cement company suit. A planned ice cream social by Boy Scouts and an emancipation celebration are announced.
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Katherine Rafter
Kate Slowey
Starved Rock
Cecil Cosgrove
LaSalle
Peter Clinton
Bureau
Dr. Miltenberger
Chicago
James Rafter
Princeton
Mike Habib
John Ferare
Canton
Irving Munson
Wimb
Anton Faletti
Braidwood
Anna
Edith Reinhart
Clara Nelson
Bessie Huneke
Chas. Reilly
Springfield
James Clinton
John Vallejo
Louis Bonneci
Ft. Terry
New York
Boy Scouts of
Spring Valley
Congregational Church
Cement
Marquette Company
J. R. Bent