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West Chester notes mix of weather politics and church life
Miss Dorothy Slaughters of Wayland visits grandfather in West Chester. Local letters praise a sermon by the Reverend Gray and reflect on changing times, prices, and roads. An election night chicken supper looms as Elizabeth Shoemaker marries Dr. Eugene Owen in Alexandria Virginia.
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West Chester
Dorothy Slaughters
Wayland
H. Davis
Gray
Iowa
Keota
Daryl
Oberlin
Alex Miller
Col. Brookhart
Gene Smith
Wirfield
Ernest Wagner
Elizabeth Caroline Shoemaker
Eugene Davis Owen
Alexandria
Virginia
Owen
Here
Washington Hig School
Penn College
Oskaloosa
Earlham College
Earlham
Indiana
Cornell College
Mt. Vernon
Greensboro
North Carolina
Shoemaker
Hamilton
Wilson Coffey
Chicago
Coffey
J. L. Coffey
Aliee Goodspeed
Louis Smith