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Monday February 4, 2036

In Memoriam

Born this day in history:

1826 Benjamin Lapp

1838 Letha E. (Myers) Fenton

1845 Martha Ann (Scott) Smith
1853 Julius T. Babcock

1855 George Faulkes

1858 Sallie (Vanarsdol) Burrell

1863 Mary E. (Hobbs) Brown

1868 Julia Helen (Wills) Cameron

1891 Edna (Earhart) Coon

1898 Howard O. Peterman

1905 Baby Boy Dawson

1911 Bessie (Klein) Darnall

1911 James S. Hicks
1917 Donald Speck

1928 Wanda Elizabeth (Dixon) Baker

Died this day in history:

1900 Harold Pollard

1929 Malvina (Plante) Gaudreault

1930 Ruth L. (Giddings) Coon

1933 E. R. Chitty

1933 Esther Olive (Welch) Miller

1938 Herman Dyer

1952 Mariah J. (Baker) (Kirtley) Surber

1953 Ida B. (McCabe) Dawson

1955 Floyd F. Coon

1958 Chris Henry Hesse

1958 Matilda Seth
1959 Bert J. Brown

1961 George W. Pattillo

1994 Paul Trosper

2000 Marguerite F. (Davis) Messersmith

’22
2006 Donella (Heath) Tiede

2025 Leland Warner

’47

News from this week in Farnam history:

2/4
  – Hold Husking Bee (1943)
  – Stebbins Brothers (1915)
  – To Serve No. Platte Canteen (1943)
2/5
  – Bonds For New High School (1925)
  – Carnival a Success (1948)
  – Infantile Paralysis Drive (1942)
  – March of Dimes Carnival (1953)
2/6
  – 127th Field Artillery Trails (1919)
  – Infantile Paralysis Drive (1947)
  – Infantile Paralysis Report (1941)
  – Mrs. Guerin Fatally Burned (1947)
2/7
  – Old Landmark to be Removed (1929)
  – Publisher's Block, 1929 (1929)
  – Route to Gothenburg (1929)
  – T. B. Carnival A Success (1946)
2/8
  – Farnam Echo Ceases Publication (1940)
  – Polio Fund Carnival (1951)
2/9
  – Polio Carnival Results (1950)

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