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Newspaper

The Spectator

Location

Joliet, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Jan 13, 1938

Page

5

Plainfield Socials Open House and Club Gatherings

Plainfield residents share visits and health news as Mary Pierce returns home from a tonsil operation. Open houses mark Alyce Fisher’s 76th birthday with friends in Chicago and Plainfield, plus weekend visits from relatives and neighbors. Local clubs plan meetings and activities at Owens Hall McElroys and Spangler Grange, while church and charitable groups hold luncheons, bridge games, and plan Self-Denial Week activities.

Mary Pierce Willam Altman Chicago Albert Wagner E. W. Ward James Herbert Pletcher Platteville Elmer Fouser Gon Tommy Avery Lambert George Niver Aurora Viola Gaylord Plainfield Lions Club Owens Hall McElroys Albert Wright Seward Na-au-say Spangler Grange Maurice Staninger O. P. Dixon Cecil Lockwood Milton Mo Karl Sharp Herman Bartz Alfred R. Utt Congregational Churches State Board of Congregational Women Theological Seminary Chicago University Fred Fiddyment Bert Tuttle Caton Farm 500 Robert Sharp Russell Rhodes Worthy Brockway Orville Johnson L. P. Schell Missionary Society of the Evangelical Church Maurice Yer Ick Leonard Dorsett Ira Boor Mecca Boor K. J. Bauerle Stanley Harris

State Receives 11 Lincoln Letters to Henry E Dummer

Governor Henry Horner announced a gift to the Illinois Historical Library of 11 original Abraham Lincoln letters to his friend and law teacher Henry E Dummer. The letters, a valuable addition, show Lincoln, six years before his presidency, praising Dummer as a "clever man and an excellent lawyer."

Illinois Historical Library Abraham Lincoln Henry E. Dummer Henry Horner Lincoln Dummer

Around the Town Bits and Personal News

Local notes report social gossip and small-town affairs. Mary Shaughnessy and Ed Welch are the subject of rumors, while George Buchar faces attention from several widows and a European admirer. Miss Mary Pavletich departs for a month long trip including New York Bermuda and Miami Beach.

George Buchar Ottawa St. Casanova James Kaveney Grant Clark Earl Lucky Mary Pavletich Center St New York Bermuda Miami Beach Clara Novak Mary

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