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County Correspondence From Upper Alton Notes Local Visits
Ideas and observations from Upper Alton list visits to St. Louis for medicine and hospital stays, travel by residents to Beardstown and Madison, church events, a funeral sermon in Staunton, birthdays and baptisms, and a river excursion planned for June 16. A town infant burial at Oakwood cemetery and a hand fracture from a horse incident are also noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chas. Monvel
St. Louis
Mollie Abbott
J. A. Large
Miss Hessie
Shipman
Yost
Baptist Church
Payne
Staunton
A. L. Carter
Medora
Wm. D. Cooper
John Loehr
Beardstown
Loehr
Grindling
David Williamson
Oakwook
Mary Murphy
Colorado
Georgia Ray
Alton
Silbian Warnach
Madison
Presbyterian Sunday School
Rock Spring Park
Shurtleff Academy
Upper Alton High School
William Digman
Hattie Richardson
G. M. Dempsey
Lindenwood College
St. Charles
St. Jacob Turnverin
Vandalia Line
Edwardsville
Val Liebler
BE. C, Willi
Chris Schoeck
L. Karges
H. Grimm
Jacob Leder
L. W. Hill
F. G. Jonah
R. Pike
L. W. Adler
L. A. Spies
J. Stevenson
C. M. Nuld
E. Cohn
Saline
National
R. W. B. Band
Turners Park