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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1920
Page
5
Atlantic area personals and city briefs recite visits, illnesses, operations, and minor local doings. Dr. Becker and wife visit Anita, Mrs. Hammer recovering, a baby operated on, Des Moines and Harlan trips noted, ballots and council meetings on the horizon, and George Kirk returns from Long Beach with life updates.
Clarence Porterfield son of John Porterfield former deputy collector of internal revenue for this district was an ensign on the submarine destroyer Monitor which held the record for destroying more German submarine craft than any other boat in the American navy He has entered practice at Hamburg Iowa in partnership with his father The latter spent last night in Atlantic at the home of Mr and Mrs Sred W Porterfield The men are cousins.
Audt Smith and Butler schedule a public sale featuring the Ras Lang and Gather Collier herds or lots of Poland China stock. Transaction details include sale date and venue to be announced. Potential buyers are urged to attend for terms and catalog access.
In Richland township a dispute over school consolidation split residents. A majority favoring consolidation faced organized opposition with a petition to include the contested area. The county board of education held an election, 92 votes supported the proposal and none opposed, while opponents urged a poll boycott. Christmas cards advertised from Fred Alexander's with engraved-style quality.
In New York’s Fifth Avenue crowds lined the street as Mrs. Terence MacSwiney, widow of Cork’s Lord Mayor, arrived by car at St Patrick’s Cathedral amid mounted police and hushed cheers. She entered the church with a wistful look, smiling at wellwishers behind a wall of guards.
The G A R Ladies plan a December 6 social at Mrs Alice Lunds 409 Elm Street The Woman's Country Club meets December 8 with Mrs Charles Eichhorn hosting The O O P Club gathers December at Mrs C P Meredith with a paper by Mrs Boorman St Cecilian Club continues Mary Turner Talteys work with officers and musical readings Invitations issued for the marriage of Gladys Kirk to H Oluf Henningsen on Christmas Day at 8 pm at the Kirk Home 801 Hagel Street in the presence of about 100 guests
DES Moines reports the upcoming 39th general assembly will lean heavily on farmers. Of 108 house members, 45 are farmers with several bankers and lawyers also represented. the senate has 13 farmers, 16 lawyers, 4 bankers, and a banker-lawyer pair. Party balance favors Republicans in both chambers.
Dee Roy Cline of Nevada and Jamea Hamilton of Des Moines pleaded guilty to killing wealthy farmer Andrew Jorgensen. They were sentenced to life imprisonment.
Thieves stole ivory tusks from walruses at the University of Iowa museum in Mammal Hall. The male’s tusk was broken near the base, the female’s tusk torn loose, and the smaller walrus lost its tusk. Mounted by Prof. Homer Dill, the specimens were collected by Admiral Robert Peary on his north expeditions ten years ago.
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