Local news items

[Newspapers.com files this image as the issue of 24 Dec 1896, p. 11, but the page is from the issue of Thursday 2 Jan 1896: a wedding on it took place "yesterday afternoon, Jan. 1, 1896", horse buyers are billed "for next Friday Jan. 3rd", and the G. A. R. election was held "Dec. 28, 1895". The page is torn; the masthead fragment at its head ("Dec. 26th, 18[..]") is probably from the sheet beneath. The item is in the local column.]

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L. Heg[n]auer, one of Bates county's most promising sons, who is completing his education at the State University in Columbia, was circulating among numerous Appleton City friends Monday and Tuesday and honored the JOURNAL with a social call. Leonard is one of the JOURNAL'S regular readers and well wishers.

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