Iowa News Highlights From Colfax Epworth Park Gatherings
The Iowa Woman's Board of Missions discusses reaching younger church members at a Colfax convention with about 600 delegates. Other items note Camp Underwood at Clear Lake, a new Macedonia electric plant, postmaster appointments, and a $120,000 fire at Sioux City's Terminal elevator.
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Iowa Woman's Board of Missions
Epworth Park
Colfax
Henry W. Tuttle
Grinnell
Iowa
Congregational Sunday School Society
Euclid B. Rogers
Iowa Epworth League Assembly
Edward Brush
Josephine H. Dominick
Patriarch Militant Army of Iowa
Ang
Oakwood
Bayside Parks
Clear Lake
John C. Underwood
J. C. Miller
Keokuk
Justice
Amnola Park
Lake Okoboji
Women’s Missionary Society of the
Protestant Churches of
Macedonia
Senate
Towa
William H. McLain
Conrad
William Co
Gambell
Sigourney
John T. Wlanigan
Monticello
J. H. Baughey
Nora Springs
C. A. Sample
Oakland
H. A. Nash
Perry
J. Brady Pyatt
Tipton
Sioux City
Associated Press
Alfred Wessels
Bryant
Iowa & Illinois Railway Company
Davenport
Almeda Martin
Princeton
Thirty-second Iowa Infantry
Court House
Boone
Johnson Electric Smelting Company
New York
Mississippi River Power Company
Ring Recovered After Twenty-Five Years For Ida Grove Couple
Mrs C A L Jensen rejoices as her wedding ring lost twenty five years ago is found by a tenant’s young daughter in the old yard. Also reported were a stabbing near New Sharon, drownings at Carter Lake, a cattle quarantine case in MecGregor, a Hamilton county reunion in Webster City, a Cedar Falls dormitory foundation, and local property sales including 80 acre transfers near Arthur and Holstein.
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C. A. L. Jensen
Ida Grove
Thomas Gosnell
New Sharon
Freeman Jackson
MecGregor
State of Iowa
Charles J. Wolfe
Wolfe
Grand Jury
Old Soldiers
Hamilton County
Webster City
Professor Delker
Greene
Harry Haverly
William Sprackies
Carter Lake
Sprackies
Charlies H. J. Mitchell
Storm Lake Pilot-Tribune
Cedar Falls
Methodist Episcopal Church of
Iowa City
Jessie M. Sterling
H. P. Stryker
Arthur
Joe Pennecamp
Richard Neimeyer
Tom Johnson
Holstein
Edward Harvey
Collins
Thomas Bloomfield
Iowa Adopts Four Amendments and Statewide Reforms On Rail Tax Suffrage
Iowa details four proposed amendments for next general assembly action, including 1916 election date alignment, exclusive state taxation of certain property, initiative and referendum for laws and constitutional changes, and universal voting rights for citizens over 21. Also notes on prison industry, film censorship push, convict labor moves, clay for brick at Woodward site, insurance premiums in 1918, and railroads bracing for a bumper harvest.
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Des Moines
Allen
General Assembly
Iowa
Thirty-fifth
Board of Control
Anamosa
American Cooperage Company
Woodward
Knoxville
Parents Find Lost Girl in Council Bluffs Adair Girl Returns Home
Tears filled a Creche room as Mr and Mrs J H Rynerson of Adair found their daughter cared for by the Associated Charities after being taken from an Omaha hotel. The girl said she wished to return home and had not been in any man’s company since leaving Adair. Her disappearance remains unexplained but she indicated she learned enough about the city alone. Mr Rynerson stayed a few days. he and the police continue to investigate possible shielding of someone by the galley party, with federal prison potential for the offenders.
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Anamosa
Ames
Iowa State College
Board of Control
John F. Gerahty
McGregor
Jersey
Cornelia M. Fiske
Newton
Victoria Sanitarium
Colfax
Reformatory
Newton City
Osceola
Henry Loiler
Council Bluffs
Creche
J. H. Rynerson
Adair
Associated Charities
Omaha
Mr. Rynerson
Washington frets as Zapata fears loom in Mexico
Officials in Washington worry over Zapatista activity near Mexico City as Carranza emissaries seek to consolidate operations. Carranza and Carbajal aim for a unified administration, while U S mediators push for a quick settlement and a stable government before further clashes.
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Washington, D. C
Carbajal
Zapatista
Mexico City
Vera Cruz
Zapata
State Department
Carranza
Constitutionalist
General Carranza
General Huerta
Huerta
Tax Case Involves Treaty Heirs Sue Over Danish Beneficiaries
Heirs of Lars Hansen died in Shelby county leaving 49812 estate. They paid 5502.74 collateral inheritance tax under protest. beneficiaries reside in Denmark and may seek a refund if the U S Supreme Court overrules the Iowa Supreme Court on treaty construction. Iowa law charges 5 percent for Iowa residents and 20 percent for foreign beneficiaries. Denmark challenges the law. Iowa courts upheld it this year. Denmark officials plan to take the case to the U S Supreme Court.
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Des Moines
Lars Hansen
Shelby County
Denmark
United States Supreme Court
Iowa Supreme Court
Iowa
United States Supreme Coure
Postmasters Appointed in Iowa Counties
Des Moines reports postmasters appointed to fill vacancies in several counties including Cherokee Melcher Marion Forest Olds Washington Shelby and Shelby counties with changes to fill resignations and deaths. Chauncey Fulton Melcher Conroy Carper and Hansen named as successors to prior appointees.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Cleghorn
Cherokee County
Chauncey
Fulton
E. A. Allen
Melcher
Marion County
Forest T. Conroy
Clinton A. Hollingsworth
Olds
Henry County
Arthur E. Carper
Fred J. Kenney
Richmond
Washington County
Leo Welte
Joseph Koh
Tennant
Shelby County
Frank I. Hansen
Will Davis
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Iowa Highway Commission
State Insurance Department
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State Game Warden
J E. C. Hillshaw
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Capitol
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Ivins
Great Northern Railway
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