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The Sylvester Family of Plainview, Minnesota*

Nellie Sylvester's bicycle race

September 11, 1897 - April 30, 1898


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Power of Memory - Nellie Sylvester, Grace Waterman, Vade Marshall, etc.
Mephistopheles - Frank Sylvester. Admission 25 and 35 cents.
Miss Nellie Sylvester is visiting friends at Pipestone this week. Mrs. Sylvester and daughter Miss Electa have gone to Ogden, Iowa for a short visit.
September 11, 1897- Library social at Hall Wednesday night. (75 present. In game Miss Sylvester guessed 29, earning 2nd place.)
September 25, 1897- Frank Sylvester left Saturday for Milaca where he spent a few days with friends.
October 2, 1897- Several from the Methodist Society intend spending Sunday at Winona in attendance of their annual conference. Among those mentioned as likely to go are Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Sylvester, T. G. Bolton and daughter Miss Mary, Dr. T. F. Cooke, and Miss King.
October 16, 1897- The Epworth League will hold a business and social meeting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Sylvester Friday evening. All members are requested to be present.
December 18, 1897- G. F. Sylvester has moved his family into the Stoltz house on Mechanic Street.
December 25, 1897- Miss Nellie Sylvester, teacher in Wabasha Schools, is home for the holidays.

1898

January 1, 1898- Mr. Dyer of Slayton is visiting in town this week.
January 15, 1898- Miss Nellie Sylvester of the Wabasha Schools spent several days visiting our class room last week (School News)
January 22, 1898- The Township treasurer, C. D. Burchard, paid over to the village treasurer E. L. Sylvester, Tuesday the stated amount of the bond surplus which rightly belongs to the village. It amounts to $727.31.
February 12, 1898- Old Settlers (Vocal duet- Miss Sylvester & Chas. Cornwell. Reception committee- Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Sylvester. E. L. Sylvester elected treasurer.)
February 26, 1898- The Epworth League Reading Circle will meet with Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Sylvester Tuesday night.
March 19, 1898- Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Sylvester entertained at tea Monday night. The evening was spent at social games.
March 26, 1898- Mrs. G. F. Sylvester visited at the [ed., Twin] Cities this week.
April 2, 1898- At the Epworth League Convention at Winona beginning today, Miss Mary Bolton will read a paper on "Juvenile Work", Mrs. E. L. Sylvester on "What we may expect and accept in social work in the League" and Mrs. I. A. Grove, "The Triumph of the Year."
April 9, 1898- Ladies Cemetery Association- Mrs. E. Sylvester elected treasurer.
Miss Nellie Sylvester of the Wabasha schools is spending her spring vacation at home.
April 23, 1898- Miss Electa Sylvester will take charge of the music in an elocution and musical entertainment at Elgin this Friday night.
April 30, 1898- Miss Nellie Sylvester rode up from Wabasha on her wheel (NOTE- bicycle) Friday night.

They Raced
Tuesday evening was warm on Main Street. A couple of bicycle races were organized on short notice. The first was the ladies free for al and the entries were Mrs. Achenbach, Miss Martha Waste, and Miss Lydia Bliefus. Mrs. Archenback won, although the other ladies contend that the honors would have been theirs had they not


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* SOURCE: Manzow, Ron (compiler), "The Sylvester Family of Plainview, Minnesota - a collection of information taken from the Plainview News, other newspapers, letters, and diaries beginning in 1884": Plainview Area History Center, 40 4th St. S.W., Plainview, MN 55964. Compiled in 2001.

NOTE: from Ron Manzow, December 2001: "Feel free to reproduce the pages for anyone who wants a copy. It was compiled to be shared... All I ask is that they consider sending a check to the [Plainview Area] History Center to help us out. That should be enough."


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