Grange Hall at Ideal and the Prairie Union Lyceum Society
The old Grange Hall at Ideal, built in 1864 on land tied to the first Ideal schoolhouse, served as a community gathering place hosting dances, meetings, and farm cooperative activity through the Grange and later the Prairie Union Lyceum Society. Notable figures include Rufus Fields and Clive Sutherberry, with debates on politics and economy and the Hall eventually sold to a dwelling after years of use.
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Ideal
Grangers
National Grange
Grange At
Grange
Rufus Fields
Clive Sutherberry
Prote Uion Tlyceum Society
Thas
Prairie Union Lyceum
F P Kenyon
Argo-Fa
Prairie
The
Prairie Union Society
Mollie Kenyon
Anna Gill
Nat Hamedew
Miles Newell
Orra Marshall
Hotchkiss
Thomas Rawlins
Will Jerry Wilt
Cyrus Alexander
Ry Field
Garden Plain Church youth event draws crowd in rain
The young peoples class at the local church staged an entertainment Friday evening despite rain and bad roads. A crowd attended and twenty five dollars was realized. Mrs Will George hosted the ladies and society at her home last Friday. Teachers plan to attend the Institute at Rock Falls Thursday and Friday. Mrs S E Sweet will host the missionary society Friday afternoon. Miss Nettie Knappe will visit her brother Rolin Sheridan and nephew Clarence in Chicago soon.
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Young Peoples
Will George
Ladies and Society
Rock Falls
S E Sweet
Missionary Society
Nettie Knappe
Rolin Sheridan
Clarence
Chicago
Wrigley Defends Advertising On Fast Moving Train
William Wrigley Jr was a passenger on a Southern train when a fellow traveler suggested cutting advertising for a year. Wrigley replied that advertising is the engine of business, indispensable to keeping the train and the company moving at high speed.
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Wrigleys
Deas
William Wrigley
Southern
Wrigley
Contentment in Wealth Quote Echoes True plenitude
A brief maxim notes that true wealth lies in contentment rather than surplus. It reflects on riches as sufficient when need is met, avoiding desire for more. The saying attributed to Chrysostom emphasizes inner wealth over external abundance.
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Seph Dykstra
Argo FA
Argo Pa
United Milk Corporation
J E Foltz
Thomas Stage
White Oak Bluff
Sheridan Place
Wink Holman
Edwin F. Lawrence
E. Warren Hinshaw
E. W. Hinshaw
Lea Potter
Mount Carroll
Carroll County
Illinois
John R. Connell
E. W. Henshaw
Orpington
Ernest Whitney
Kyle Rawlins
Harold Melendy
Thomson
Village Board of Trustees
WELCH
Concord
Welch Nursery
Shenandoah
Gowis
Atherton
Theie Carlson Sale Ab
Argo
Tacday
Garden Plain
Short
J. and P
J. & P. Shoe Shoppe
DeLange
Clinton
Iowa
Valley Atore
Henry Kane
Fulton Roll
G. L. Dace
ED Mest, Ac
Congoleum
Brockill
Minos
Stuedmann
Foo
W. A
Stuedemann
Expert Foot Fitters
Lyons, Iowa
Corn Belt
Ilinois
Praiie Farmer
Thorson State Bank
A. C. Williamson
Mary A.sagner F. E. Melugin
Drs, Melugin
Sagner
C. McMahon
Vincent Bell
McMahon & Bell
Allison Block
Felton ML
W.H. Foster
M.D
Wilson Bldg
Julius Stoecks
Howes
Fulton
Reimers
K. B. Castanrm Real Estate Inc
A. E Suxsie
J. R. Bather CO
Laws Bell
Tri-City
John L. Brearton
Savanna Attorney AT Law
Oseph A. Hi . Popkins
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