Four County News Community Briefs Review in Week
In Accompanying notes from Four County News, local residents report travels deaths and visits across towns such as Aplington Ackley and Wellsburg. Mrs Craigs family mourn a Livermore-related passing. Ruth Todd returns from Ackley. various residents purchase and sell farm goods, visit relatives, and attend church events. Significant items include an apron sale bazaar November 2 at City Hall and Earnest Hook's marriage to Minnie Roella.
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Earnest Hook
Miss Minnie Roella W
Ackley School Expands Football Interest and Fall Activities
A community meeting at Ackley highlighted interest in adding a football coach and more practice to strengthen the school team. The event showcased school spirit, with a large turnout, a lively freshman stunt, and the snake dance through Main Street. Updates cover kindergarten attendance, grade activities, Riley day records, Columbus study work, seed corn week, and a seed gathering project involving local officials and extension agents.
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Ackley Toys
Evenog
Uasaon
Will Hatch
Main Street
Waterloo
Agricultural Extension Department
Brandenburgs Welcome Waterloo Guests Last Saturday
Mr and Mrs A Patterson and family of Waterloo visited town last Saturday bringing news of their new baby girl born at standard weight.
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Brandenburg
A. Patterson
Waterloo
Local Notes From Wellsburg and Nearby Areas
Wellsburg notes report Anne Peters Wellsburg visit to Watertown. Various family travels and visits include Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Keal's newborn baby girl, Mrs. Miner Haack and her Fern baby, and John Gladstone’s Cedar Rapids call. Ray Nichols buys moving picture show. Ed Cowell joins Tradan elevator. C. Tjaden to Fairmont for rheumatism treatment. Local oblique ads promote Hall's Catarrh Cure with a warranty offer.
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Wellsburg
Anne Peters
Watertown
S. D
B. C. Kealman
Miner Haack
Fern
Hare
John Gladstone
Cedar Rapids
Henry Eekhoff
Steamboat Rock
Swansen
Waterloo
Henry Monner
Cedar Falls
Lawrence Hummel
Harm Rust
Sibley
B.C. Koolman
Ed Cowell
Melrose Township
Tradan
C. Tjaden
Fairmont
Minnesota
Kesley Residents Visit Friends and Family Across Town
Kesley and area residents mingled in town and nearby communities this weekend. Mrs Pete Limburg and children visited Avatinville. Mrs Jon Fecht and Mrs Hen Hindere were in Dumont. E A Langston and wife stayed with relatives near Coster. John K Green was ill with kidney trouble for several days. Kesley teachers attended an institute at Allison. Will Perry and wife with daughter of Mason City visited relatives. Pete Smoot moved his household goods to Minnesota. Mel Logan and family from near Eleanor visited Mrs Joe Considine. Born Saturday night to Ed
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Pete Limburg
Avatinville
Jon Fecht
Hen Hinderé
Dumont
E. A. Langston
Coster
John K. Green
Kesley
Allison
Will Perry
Mason City
Pete Smoot
Minnesota
Mel Logan
Eleanor
Joe Considine
Like One Big Family Continues At School For Boys
Continuation notes boys moved from confinement to a school where they learn useful work. They stay until age twenty one, with release possible in fourteen months for good behavior. A separate ad mentions a party near Ackley unable to pay for a piano and offering it for cash or monthly payments by B C Baaca.
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Ackley
B.C. Baaca
Grundy Center notes report local business moves and community events
Grundy Center community items include Philip Liebsohn Butler buying a Cedar Rapids general store, high school students seeking odd jobs for gym equipment, J Elliott’s Revisions blacksmith shop burned and to be rebuilt, J W Pepperman as county treasurer candidate, Meester brothers selling cattle to Dyke dealers, Floyd Palmer returning from Jacksonville to Grundy Center, Hunter & Thompson sale with cattle prices, Grundy County Board of Supervisors forming a land purchase committee for County Home, Prof Kromminga preaching at the Grundy Center Theological College chapel, Pfaltzgraff car theft and Chicago recovery, T W Purcell leaving for St Paul and North Dakota with F D Babcock, Hampton high school football win over Eagle Grove and Waverly, new Franklin County State Bank foundation underway, and Dr Weber eye and ear specialist visit in Ackley.
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Meester Brothers
Pleasant Valley
Floyd Palmer
Jacksonville
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Chancellor
M. Niebuis
Geo. Tjaden
Mary Kannegeiter
F. Hippen
Mra
R. Nelbrugge
Lennor
John Riekens
Nancy Lindaman
H. Ackerman
Macy
Mia
F.C. Griggle
Max Rohner
Charlie Bond
Prenting Nooland
Oscar Hoffman
Quincy
Trinoty
Misa Ella Chaplin
Ellsworth Hospital
F. C. Griggs
Myrna
Wendell
Alden
Fred Bartling and
Taun
Wm. Bartling Sr
Petrie
Frank Bartling
D. Kunkle
Wayne
Will Stubbings
Bernice
Owasa
T. M. Hickman
Eva Slater
Sophia Kopple
Robert Wilbrant
William Gilling
Earl Adams
Beulah Shugar
Mesdamen Duepke
Slater
Glaze
Hall
J. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Ohio
Hardin
Kromminga
Theological College
Grundy Center
Lassle Plalvagrat
Pfaltzgraf
Chicago
Martin
Shepherd
Pfaltzgraff
Franklin
T. W. Purcell
The
Chronicle
St. Paul
Points
North Dakota
F. D. Babcock
Ida Grove
Hampton
Eagle Grove
Hampton High School
Waverly
Waverly Grounds
Franklin County State Bank
Ita
Hampton's
H. C. ‘Thomas
Bank
Dr. Weber
Hotel Ackley
Marie Rappold
Metropolitan Opera
Edison
New York Tribune
Destinn
Matzenauer
Case
Rappold
Heinrich
Urlus
Middleton
Goritz
Zenatello
Chalmers
Boston Opera Company
Spalding
America
Carl Flesch
Iadison
Iowa
Rexall
F. G. Holland
Mhia
Pal
Ackley Coal Co
West Main Street
Will Kothenbental
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