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Beatrice Chautauqua Attendance and Local Events
About 10 000 attended memories of the past at the Beatrice chautauqua Sunday. Rev F Mills and family and J E Kerr and family visited Fairbury Tuesday. Mrs Ad Smothers of Council Bluffs Iowa attended the funeral of her sister Mrs Geo Owens. An order to establish a complete county rural free delivery in Jefferson county starts Sept 15 with 21 routes. Lawrence Nelson on the sick list. Agent A T Watson sold 100 tickets to chautauqua goers. 16 from Ellis bought tickets. Hot weather boosts corn. Four steam threshing outfits near Diller. A new merry go round with a pipe organ arrived for the Diller picnic. Angel Ethel Putterbaugh of Ellis died Wednesday morning from stomach trouble. Lost or found ads urged in this paper.