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Margaret Downing has been a reporter for Rock Valley Publishing for the past 30 years, writing a history column for The Herald for about 15 years, She says it was mostly selected from the work of Rockton Herald editor Edson Irving Carr (1831-1902), whose witty writing style has been an example for Rockton-Roscoe News as well.
school in the blacksmith shop
livestock show, fairies, elves, flowers, and the most perfect baby
Decoration Day, the Spider Web Social, revolutionists in Russia, safecrackers in Roscoe
grazing ordinances in Roscoe, Crazy Horse, land rush
temperance and phrenology
kissing the groom, Victor Hugo, this country is just full of climate.
rights of intolerance in education, free land in Kansas