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Newspaper Article and Photo:

"Sugar Grove Boy Honored at College"

Ben McCannon, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. B.G. McCannon, a graduate of Sugar Grove high school,, has been initiated by the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity at Iowa State college at…

The building at 214 South Main Street was know as Coopers Hall. It included the Cooper & Needham Blacksmithing shop (also known as Knudson Hall & Blacksmith Shop) downstairs along with a basketball court and stage up stairs. The court was so narrow…

Sign mounted on flag pole reads:

U.S. SERVICE LIST
SUGAR GROVE TOWNSHIP

(Names are not fully discernible from photograph.)

George Alexander
Lyle Bolster
August B (?)
Neal Calkins
Rodney Calkins
Forrest Clever
Edwin Dugan
Frances…

Plaque commemorating the Serviceman of Korean War and Vietnam War from Sugar Grove Township,. Presented by Sugar Grove American Legion Post 1271. The plaque is displayed inside Sugar Grove Community Building.

ENGRAVING READS:

Men of Sugar…

Handwritten Note:

How do you like our new car?

Dugan and Frantz Families: Franklin Dugan and Groff Frantz. October 19, 1994.

Label: Lyle Bolster, Manufacturer Representative, Architectural Products, 3N 188 W. Mary Lane, St. Charles, Illinois 60174

Imprinting on backside:

S.B. Taylor, Photographer, West Aurora, Illinois, 43 River Street

Postcard Postmarked July 5, 1916

Return address: 254 Bew Ave., Aurora, Illinois
To address: Mr. Clarence Bolster, Sugar Grove, Illinois

I guess you know who this picture is of. Too bad we can't see you better but that's the way you wanted…