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Looking Back: May 23, 2012

125 YEARS AGO

May 28, 1887
All persons who can and will furnish flowers for decorating the dead soldiers’ graves next Monday can bring or send them to the GAR hall early Monday morning. The flowers furnished in the past have not always been in keeping with the excellence of the services.

The Ellwood manufacturing company now employs from 30 to 40 men and is evidently prospering.

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