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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1925
Page
2
Mrs. M. Moore informs customers that Tam is relocating to 669 Cedar Street and can take orders now but will suspend sewing until September 14. A new phone number begins September 1, ending with 329-5.
Wood and Savery of Allan, Iowa announce readiness to place farm loans at a rate of percent. Prospective borrowers are invited to call and inspect terms and conditions.
In Paris Pele Mele reports a playful exchange between a father and son about education costs. The son claims minimal study, while the father expresses surprise at the expense, prompting a humorous debate on study effort and value.
Robert W. Thompson argues that the Bible lesson on Paul and the Philippian jailer exposes root causes of crime. He links cruelty to profit, propaganda, and prejudice, urging removal of bigotry and the adoption of a true Christian spirit for social reform.
Henry Wallace, son of the former vice president, told the state farmers at a Wallace’s Farmer gathering in Taylorsville Ul that farm prices show temporary boosts due to wartime distortions. He warned that corn, hogs, and wheat prices must fall as the 1927 crop comes in, predicting hogs near eight dollars and wheat around ten dollars.
World War veterans acted as pallbearers for a well known local woman at her funeral held this afternoon in the MoRL church. The Rev M A Gable officiated with music by J A Hancox and Frank K Johnson, organist Gladys Olson. Pallbearers included Bert Carey Paul Fackter RW Cork Cloyd Jones Frank Rosseau and Carl Granville. In Rochester New York four of a party of five in a rowboat drowned off Sunset Point Lake Ontario after a capsized craft. Walter Melisn of Brooklyn survived by swimming ashore.
A Danish Lutheran service agenda lists G. O. Hensel pastor and Mrs. Lund schooled at WhPl. Women’s Union meets at St Paul’s Danish Lutheran church Sunday at 11 am with Sunday school at 10 am. Also notes Camp Fire meeting with Miss Helen Frohardt on Olive Street August 19 and plans for the next gathering with Caroline Jones on Chestnut Street. Zions Lutheran holds Sunday service and Bible class at 10 am followed by a church picnic at Pete Henningsen’s farm near Sunnyside Whiteway. United Presbyterian to host Rev M. Milford from Viola Kan for morning service next Lord’s Day with youth meetings and missionary conference echoes.
An early morning blaze in the local train yards northwest of the Rock Island passenger depot destroyed a freight car and badly damaged its lumber cargo purchased for snow fence construction along the tracks. The car doors were open and investigators consider vagrant involvement likely.
Emma H Shaw files foreclosure suit in Cass County Iowa seeking payment of 600 plus interest on a 1924 note held by FP Bontrager. The petition claims a mortgage on West Half Southwest Quarter Section 1 Township 76 North Range 34 West and targets the defendants Frank M Bontrager Roy M Scott and spouses with no personal judgments requested. Default if no defense by Sept 29, 1925. Dated Aug 28, 1926.
Funeral services were held in Red Oak for Fletcher Henry Bogess 91 who died Tuesday night at his daughters’ Des Moines home. A Virginia family background includes a father who died at UK and uncles linked to George Washington. Born in Fairmont West Virginia 1884, he moved to Illinois at 15, married Elizabeth Hraner in 1857, lived in Monmouth and Red Oak, and worked farming and contracting. Father of C. M. Bogge now in Lincoln Nebraska.
Official notice from the Board of Railroad Commissioners of Iowa to Cass County residents. Ben Klipp and RE Tangeman of Omaha have filed for a Certificate of Convenience and Necessity to operate as a motor carrier of freight across towns including Cornell Bluffs Weston Underwood Minden Avoca Walnut Maine and Atlantic in Pottawattamie and Cass counties. A hearing is fixed for Tuesday September 15 1925 at 1 30 p m at the Pottawattamie county auditor's office Council Bluffs Iowa.
President Coolidge and Mrs Coolidge visited Plymouth Massachusetts as part of a tour aboard the Mayflower. The executive and his wife toured the burial grounds and other historic sites, including the rock where the Tingrim landed and the grave of Daniel Webster. J Chirence W Burton hosted a luncheon in Cohasset, after which the presidential yacht would transfer to Swampscott for a rotary run to the summer White House.
Cass county teachers are called to gather at the court room next Saturday September 5 to plan the coming year's work. Judge T C Whitmore will speak and Miss Bess Johnson will offer art guidance. Supplies and Cass County fair exhibits will be shown. County superintendent Elizabeth C Morse urges all teachers to attend.
SIOUX CITY Iowa August 28 Two men and two women were jailed in connection with the murder of Charles Fuller at an Omaha resort on August 11 Names given include Harry Burchett A Jones Julia McFadden and Myrtle Jones Police said two women were with Richard Olson and Lincoln Sturdivant during the crime Olson and Sturdivant were captured August 14 by a shotgun squad Searches for Bertha King and Lilliam Rafferty two women companions have continued since.
An incomplete notice advertises a continuing sale on lumber sizes 2x4 and 2x6. The readable fragments urge customers to buy quickly while a favorable setting remains.
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