We had bought our ticket for the home talent Chautauqua, but learned just before the opening, of the death of two valued friends, Charles Rathjen, at 10am, and Mrs. William Miller, about noon. We went home again.—Granddad Woods

~~~courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on files at the Public Library, Blair, Nebraska~~~

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