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Christmas Cantata and Social News From Ames
The Real Santa Claus cantata will be performed at Christian church on Christmas Eve with Leota McKee leaving for Kansas for holidays and Miss Edna Kyle headed to Des Moines for Christmas vacation. Local society notes cover visitors, moves, shop dealings, and school art exhibit highlights ending with a memorial for Lizzie Beeson Sisson and a fur boa lost near the Christian church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Claus
Christian Church
Ames
Edna Kyle
Des Moines
MecNaughton
Eagle Grove
Mable Moses
N. Moses
George Eastwood
Rogers
A. P. Griffith
Clark Street
Ames Prohibition Alliance
Alva Osborne
Maurice
J. M. Usborne
Marengo Illinois
Western Union
L. H. Moore
Dad
Fond du Lac
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Central Railroad
Leota McKee
Kansas
Fannie White
Waverley
Waterloo
Julius Tilden
Iowa City
Tilden
Elect Lady
The
Fred Hammer
Chicago
J. Elliott
A. M. Shea
Jones School
Episcopal Church
Congregational
Kennedy
Nevada
W. P. George
Kelley
Margaret Gilbert
Gilbert Station
Dr. Dyer
Stephen Loughran
Fred Eighmy
Scotland
M. B. Sisson
A. J
Kellogg Street
Allen Judd
Congregational Church
Lizzie M. Beeson
Hyland County
Ohio
Howard
Nathan Little