No Flag Like Our Own Red White and Blue
Local notes include a patriotic poem about the flag and community tidbits from Audubon and Cass county Iowa. Reports cite visits, sales of livestock, church services, and a marriage license issued in Audubon with Rev. Charles C. Lang officiating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry H. Graham
Antta
Emma RR. Hoover
Exira
Claude Bills
Audubon
John Horning
Graham
Miss Hoover
Charles C. Lang
Jerry Hoover
Txira
Audubon Republican
Christian Church Sunday Services And Drake Professors Speak
The Christian Church offers Bible School at 10 A M with preaching at 11 A M and 7 30 P M. Christian Endeavor begins at 6 30 P M. on Sundays. The pulpit is being supplied at present by professors from Drake University whose high standing in religious and educational circles promises worthwhile talks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bible School
Christian Endeavor
Drakeniversity
Fragmented snippets reveal sharp jabs at warfare and divorce
The passage attacks German influence in Russia and jokes about war versus domestic strife. It notes a Des Moines woman winning a divorce after twenty two children, implying the husband’s reluctance to desert amid hardship and expense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Debate Over Army Y M C A Salaries Sparked by Soldier Claims
The article notes divisions in army circles over the Y M C A’s work for soldiers and urges an authorized probe into alleged leaks from paying high salaries to idle chair-warmers who do not perform duties.
War affects Christian Home Orphanage in Council Bluffs
The Christian Home Orphanage in Council Bluffs Iowa faces a six thousand dollar debt for living supplies due to wartime fund demands. It shelters over two hundred fifty homeless children with five hundred cared for annually and a waiting list, seeking Thanksgiving donations to sustain winter needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian Home
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Christian Ome
Brayton residents host Sunday guests and Texas trip planned
Lester Bowen and family of Brayton and Mrs Rodney Martin of Extra entertained Fran Bowen and wife. Mrs C E Harry and her mother Mrs Wegner left for Galveston Texas for a two week visit with southern points to follow. The doctor’s mother from Adair is caring for Baby Harry during the absence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. J. Schlotfeldt
Baby Joye
Walnut
Robert, Scott and Wife
Lester Bowen
Brayton
Rodney. Martin
Extra
Fran, Bowen
C. E. Harry
Closing Out Sale Near Wiota and Local Notes
A closing out public sale of live stock and implements will be held by C C Bell, 3 4 mile west of Wiota, on December 1 with Barber and Clark as auctioneers. The issue notes local events from Anita including street cleaning, census counts, Army Y M C A fundraising, crop yields, and a destructive fire in Ignacio Colorado affecting Jesse Stauffer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. C. Bell
Wiota
Barber & Clark
Ignacio
Colorado
Jesse Stauffer
Anita Boy
Bert Stauffer
Stauffer
Also Mentioned on This Page
J. C. Voorhees
Oklahoma
F. J. McCord
F. B. Leffingwell
Hampshire
W.E. Clark
Jas. J. Robinsonson
Ernest
Yale
Clarence Robinson
Chicago
Highland Church
H. P. Grinyer
Mike Metz
W. F. Edwards
State of
Lincoln
George Fry
Kansas
Lizzie Scott
Defiance
John M. Grace
Emery E. Grace
City
Sam Howlett
Max Gardner
Edw. Gardner
California
Benton Township
Claude Ruggles
Ira Ruggles
Great Lakes
Ilinois
Naval Station
Anita
Cass County
Great Lakes Training Station
Claude
Howard Millhoslin
Howard Bell
J. Bell
United States
Ralph Forshay
J. D. Peterson
Iva Chester
G. W. Fordyce
Christian Church
Majestic
L.r.galiher Co
VOGUE
Russia
WAR Effects Orphanage
America
Farmers’ Supply Comp
Y. Anita, Clardy & Sheley, Proprietors
Gurley” Clark
South Anita
Armstrong
B. D. Forshay
Ed. L. Newton
Thurday
Edw. R. Gardner
Army
Y. M. C. A. Fund
Post Ofice
Franklin Township
Army v. M. C. A
Chas. Sherrett
F. W. Beebe
Ole Ostrus
R. D. Vernon
A. C. Goehanour
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