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The Sylvester Family of Plainview, Minnesota*

Park Sylvester marries Ethel Nunamaker

July 13, 1923 - December 28, 1923


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this Friday afternoon at 4 o’clock…
(Oronoco Bank is closed: shortage discovered.)
August 23, 1923- Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Sylvester left Wednesday on an auto trip to Northern Minnesota.
Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Sylvester returned last Saturday night from an extended auto trip to Northern Michigan and Wisconsin. They report everything suffering from the dry weather.
Miss Marion Sylvester left Sunday for the Cities to spend a few days and will join her parents on their auto trip through the northern part of the state.
August 24, 1923- Message from Edwin L. Sylvester Jr. states that he sailed the first of last week for the United States and expects to arrive home about the 30th of this month.
September 7, 1923- Miss Katherine Sylvester, who has been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Sylvester, returned to her work in Chicago Tuesday.
Edwin Sylvester, who has spent the summer in France, returned home Sunday. With a University chum he worked his way over and back. On their return trip they pinned Minneapolis and St. Paul signs on their back and started out to hike. Passing motorists gave them lifts and they rode nearly all the way.
September 21, 1923- Miss Marion Sylvester left for Evanston, Ill. Tuesday afternoon to resume her studies at Northwestern University.
September 28, 1923- Edwin Sylvester Jr. returned to the State University last Saturday where he is a senior.
Mrs. Edwin L. Sylvester left for Rochester Thursday to attend a district meeting of the American Legion Auxiliary.
October 19, 1923- M. J. Manchester and G. F. Sylvester left by car Wednesday morning for Milwaukee, Wisconsin where the former will attend to business matters and the latter will visit his daughters, Katherine and Marion at Chicago and Evanston.
November 9, 1923- Mrs. Ethel Nunamaker and Mr. Park Sylvester were united in marriage at Rochester last Wednesday morning. The couple were unattended and after the ceremony they left for Red Wing where they visited relatives until Friday when they returned to this city where they will make their home in the R. W. Chapman residence on West Broadway. Their many friends wish them happiness.
November 16, 1923- Mrs. G. F. Sylvester entertained a party of ladies at a bridge party Tuesday evening.
November 23, 1923- Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Sylvester and grandchildren Hettie and John Holmes drove to Minneapolis last Friday afternoon where they visited their daughter, Mrs. Meta Holmes and their son, Edwin. They also attended the football game Saturday between Minnesota and Iowa and said that it was one of the most thrilling games they have ever seen.
December 14, 1923- Mrs. E. L. Sylvester, Plainview Club Woman, was yesterday elected one of the vice presidents of the Republican Volunteer League of Minnesota, a new Republican organization formed with the object of "saving" the G.O.P. in this state…
The Ladies Union will meet with Mrs. P. D. Sylvester Wednesday afternoon December 19. A good attendance is desired as there will be special business.
December 28, 1923- Miss Marion Sylvester who attends Northwestern University at Evanston, Ill. returned home Friday to spend the holiday vacation.
Edwin Sylvester, Chas. Slocumb, Alfred Burchardt, and Herbert Schwantz, students at Minnesota University, returned home Friday for the holiday vacation.


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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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