Alumni Banquet Ticket Sale and House Moving Ad
Notice urges alumni and guests to buy tickets for the Wednesday June 2 banquet at Fred Alexandars by Tuesday night or Wednesday dawn. Mentions the COMMIT THE HOUSE MOVING project with a large Western Iowa outfit and a ten year veteran operator. Includes other ads for Aston & Co and Hillister's Rocky Mountain Tea. Also requests readers inform the city directory office of relocations since canvass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Alexandars
Iowa
Aston
Yphones
Aston & CO
Humor and Philosophy by Duncan M Smith
A humor and verse collage featuring light poems and quips on love, aging, and women. It blends playful banter about courting, Shakespeare authorship jokes, and social foibles with short jokes and advertisements for remedies and merchandise.
Wiota News Notes Local Visits and Events
Mrs David Bownie visited Anita on Friday while Mr Pettie of Avoca spent Sunday in Wiota. Des Moines visitor Leland Stultz came over to see friends. Engle Spry shelled corn for Pred Engle of Turkey Valley last Friday. Many locals visited Atlantic, Stuart, or Des Moines for business or family. The I O O F won a ball game at Maine. Wiota band concert and memorial services at the cemetery drew crowds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wiota News
David Bownie
Anita
Pettie
Avoca
Wiota
Ross Bell
Little Son
Leland Stultz
Des Moines
Engle & Spry
Engle
Turkey Valley
Harl Dean
Baby
Dicker
Atlantic
Fogle
Anna Marshall
Dan Spry
Sarah
Our City
Walter McMahan
Betlah Nordman
Ruby Herbert
Frank Beebe
Stuart
Mises Katherine
Evelyn Moore
Maine
James Summerville
Berea
Jean Hyatt
Will Price
Clearfield
Harry
Professor Enenbach
Denison
F. W. Beebe
Earlham
Epworth League
Fred Powell
Georgie
Bohling
Sherret
Ernest Brooks
Ted Bell
Ames
Local Notices From Wiota Northerner Highlights
A digest of social items and community news: Ted George leaves for St Anthony Indiana to work in a drug store. Local families host dinners and share travels. Miss Gertrude Jordan and Miss Linnie Jordan plan western moves. Emma Sherrett visits from Avoca before returning to Traer. School closes for a three month vacation with commencement at the M. E. church. A lightning strike near Benton Center caused telephone lines to cross and burn. Mrs. Marsh Lowe hosts her son’s eighth birthday party. Professor Enenbach receives sixty guests and a library table as a gift during a surprise gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ted George
St. Anthony
Mike Metz
Martin McMahan
James Robinson
Joe Robinson
Gertrude
Linnie Jordan
West
Wiota
Emma Sherrett
Avoca
Charles
Traer
M. E
John Rogier
Benton Center
Weather Crop Bulletin June 1 1908 Des Moines Indiana
Weather bulletin reports week ending June 1 1908 in Des Moines Indiana with above normal temperatures frequent showers and excessive rainfall causing crop losses from washouts and floods. Much corn to replant and replanting already equaling two weeks ago. Early fields weedier though recent warm days allowed cultivating on high drained land. Small grains grass clover and potatoes show strong growth with good overall condition except yellowing on low land. Also notes Chamberlains Salve for nursing mother’s distress with care. Sold by Atlantic Drug Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Commencement and Wedding Gifts at Eggers Broad
A brief social note from Eggers Broad highlights gifts presented for a commencement event and a wedding. Local residents, including notable couples, are mentioned as recipients of tokens from family and friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eggers Broad
Also Mentioned on This Page
California
Hollister’s
Atlantic Drug Co Bd
Conrad Shoe Store
Brown Grocery Company
By Duncan M. Smith
Mr. de Guff
Maud
May
Shakespeare
Hollister
Atlantic Drug Co
Hegers Bros
Peter Denzinger
32Nd St
College Point
Pennidrug CO
Philadelphia
Atlantic Drug Company
Musson Bros
Ee Ee Wee
Morris Wholesale House
Cincinnati
Coles
R. EB McCaustland
G. H. Messenger
Jefferson Tadat
Needles Place
C. W. Needles
BE. E. Willard
W. A. Haweses
Dendigt
Oransky
Roy Hedges
A. M. Petite
Chestnut Street
Hawkes
I Hawkes
Fupon
Bey
P. F. O'Connell Co
Jewelers
F. J. Rhody
Russia
The
Nebe Shoe Co
London
Paris
J.A. Gough
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