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History of New Rockford: Sept. 14, 2020

July 4, 1903, was chilly. There were New Rockford people at the Chautauqua Grove (J. Adam Bede was the orator; Mr. and Mrs. E.B. Thomson and family were there; they returned home the next day; Mr. and Mrs. J.E. Hyde and Miss Eddys Cole were there; they returned on July 6; Mr. and Mrs. H.J. Mitchell and family, Mr. and Mrs. H.W. Clark, Miss Harriet Jefferson, Donald Niven, Lloyd Whiteman, and A....