Iowa News Roundup From Lenox To Mason City
State notes report Lenox Presbyterian meeting with Rev. William Mirchie. Perry water plant fix costs of 60000 and new machinery. Des Moines Lutheran synod Oct sessions. Osceola and Tama deaths. local crimes include assaults and manslaughter trials. Iowa events cover fairs, bonds, school building, electricity, and public works.
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United Presbyterian Synod of Town
Lenox
William Mirchie
Red Oak
McClanahan
Chicago
William Murchieburg
Committee On Evangelism
Iowa Tailors
Jefferson County
Grand Chapter
The
Order of the Eastern Star
Council Bluffs
Order
Iowa
Perry
Washington Township
Centerville
William Hesse
Albia
John Carson
Lovilla
Reese Griffin
Hesse
Tama
Davenport
Kelley
Mason City
Louis Prescott
Clear Lake
Wilson Prail
Cass County
Prail
Mercy L. Starr
Tabor
O. C. Starr
Herman Schierholtz
Allama
Fairfield
Sioux City
Leeds
Amos J. Cole
A. E. Prager
Ben Yeager
Latta
Logan
Waterloo
Des Moines Board to Start Individual School Gardens
Des Moines public schools will create separate gardens at Rice Douglas and Jefferson to involve pupils in trade work. Boys in manual training will design and allocate plots, tending flowers or vegetables while a new semi incorrigible program will segregate unruly youths under a specialist in a dedicated room at Garfield School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Rice, Douglas and Jefferson
Jefferson
Garfield
Z. C. Thornburg
Eldora
Thornburg
North Central Counties Form New Education Association
The executive committee of the North Central County Schools association, uniting Black Hawk Butler Bremer Cerro Gordo Floyd and Franklin counties in Iowa, outlines its first annual convention set for October 17 and 18 in Cedar Falls. The program features lectures and talks by college and city educators led by President H. H. Seerley and Vice President C. P. Cosgrove.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Black Hawk, Butler, Bremer
Cerro Gordo
Floyd
Franklin Counties
Iowa
Cedar Falls
North Central County Schools Association
Black Hawk
Butler
Bremer
Franklin
Teachers’ College
H. H. Seerley
W. A. Jessup
Iowa City
C. P. Cosgrove
A. E. Kepford
Des Moines
J. H. Beveridge
Council Bluffs
J. A. Woodruff
A CC. Fuller, Jr
Macy Campbell
G. S. Dick
E. C
Former Senator Junkin Dies at 59 in Red Oak
Red Oak Iowa former State Senator Joseph M Junkin died suddenly at 3 pm Saturday from a stroke. He was 59, born in Fairfield in 1854, and lived in Red Oak since 1873. A 1879 Iowa State University law graduate, he served in the Twenty-sixth through Twenty-ninth general assemblies and was active on the judiciary committee. He partnered in Red Oak with Horace K E Deemer, now Iowa Supreme Court justice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Oak
Joseph M. Junkin
Junkin
Iowa
Montgomery County
Fairfield
Law
State University of
Horace KE. Deemer
Iowa Supreme Court
Pella Pushes Electric Link to Howell on Wabash
Knoxville area gains a boost as Pella Marion county seeks a $20,000 fund to build an electric line to Howell three and a half miles away. Engineer Blank of Waterloo leads the project with a business committee handling fundraising. Completion would pave way for Knoxville connections and a larger Waterloo Chariton and Southern railway block.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knoxville
Pella
Marion County
Howell
Wabash
Blank
Waterloo
Waterloo, Chariton and Southern” Railway
Profit On Iowa Farm
Marshalltown area details a land sale where Thomas Thirlby bought 275 acres at 127.50 per acre four years ago. He then sold 95 acres at 145 per acre. The remaining 180 acres sold to D. B. Wyatt of Polk County for 31 500 total equals 175 per acre with a reported profit of 11 750.
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Iowa
Wall Lake
Mason City
State Association
Dows
Methodists
H. O. Pratt
Toledo
Jesse Cole
Pratt
Congress
Western Implement and Motor Company
Davenport
Smith McPherson
Manson Bussmen
Schleswig
Manning
Manilla
Denison
James L. Gibson
Tony Bartillo
Frank Rucci
Centerville
Riverside Drive
Keokuk
D. A. Collier
Carl Fisher
Kenneth Dimond
Newton
Jasper County
California
Hinshaw
Clear Lake
Sabula
Okoboji
Spirit Lakes
State University of Iowa
Waterloo
Marshalltown
Thomas Thirlby
Alfalfa Growers Pleased in Lyon County
Lyon county alfalfa farmers report three cuttings this year with an average of six tons per acre. Prominent growers include McMillan and Sons John Dahliff Henry Peterson J M Perry D E F Merrill and J J Reutter, all within miles of Rock Rapids with ten to fifty acres each and planning to expand next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rock Rapids
Lyon County
McMillan and Sons
John Dahliff
Henry Peterson
J. M. Perry
D. E. F. Merrill
J. J. Reutter
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Hawkeye
School Board
Old Iowa Newspaper
Simon Casady
State Historical Department
Burlington Daily Telegraph
Harlan
Burlington
Mississippi
New York
Treasury
General Fund
Goose Lake
Executive Council
W. S. Allen
State House
W. C. Brown
Jamison
Brown
Austin
Secretary of State
Argue Lake
Greene County
Clarke
John McCarthy
Frank Heller
F. W. Willoughby
Board of Parole
North Central County Schools
Ses
Interurban
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