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Newspaper
Unionville Republican
Location
Unionville, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1913
Page
3
Local notes list visits by Jay Freeborn and Harold Jones at Howland, Christmas travel, and many relatives visiting from Kilwaville Kirwaville Farmington and Quincy. Residents attend funerals, sales, and social calls while Rexall Cold tablets and Tegard Lotion advertise locally. Emerson Probasco funeral prompts family travels as community columns record errands and marriages.
Two lots sold for two properties in the west part of town. One six room house and one four room house located on the parcels. Richard Freeborn appears as the contact or seller in the deed records.
John Johnston formerly of Mendota is elected president of the Mendota Coal and Coke Co to succeed the late F H Ketcham who died in Seattle. T P Ketcham becomes secretary. Directors include B H Johnston PB Smi h Los Angeles F H Ketcham Jr of Seattle and others. Capital stock is $500000 and the firm holds the largest coal property in Lewis county.
A visiting dean from Blackburn University in Carlinville and a local Presbyterian pastor named Rev W McClusky share a strikingly similar name and likeness. Though not related, they are close friends from Anna Illinois and once worked together in ministerial circles. A mistaken letter sent Rev F W McClusky to take a pastorate in St Louis before the error was found.
The account describes Rev. E W McClusky and Rev. F W McClusky meeting in Anna during Christman celebrations at the Bohemian Memorial Center where both ministers, seen as twins, shared a platform and joined in the opening prayer, highlighting familiar ties and mutual esteem.
A Christmas night dance at the Armory drew over fifty couples in a festively decorated hall with flags and bunting. The event, praised as the best of the season, featured a larger orchestra, lively dancing, and a late lunch or bed call as guests, including some out of town visitors, left tired yet happy.
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