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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1924
Page
4
Avoca residents and local business men are forming plans to celebrate Independence Day in Avoca on June 11. Details will be announced once plans are finalized.
Ten or more girls from Wiota vicinity enroll for a summer extension course in Atlantic. Oltu Hartkopf and family of Atlantic spent Sunday in Wiota. Elmer Keller and wife attended the Kimball funeral services in Atlantic. John McMahon confined at home after a fall. Rev Father OConnor of St Josephs parish plans graduation at Morey Hospital. Mrs Kate Blake critically ill. Ernie Shnitz and Otis Roe visited Anita. Mrs Carl Anthony of Baltimore visiting her mother, Mrs Fred West. Mr and Mrs Paul Stoddard of Chicago visiting relatives. Sames Robinson and family of Atlantic visited friends. News-Telegraph notes local happenings in brief.
Judge George Z. Lynch wife and son Ralph left in their Cadillac for a months long trip to the western coast. They plan to visit relatives and friends in Pacific coast states during the absence and will be away several weeks.
June 11 news from Anita notes Mrs Chas E Faulkner's illness showing slight improvement. S F Cooper visits Monroe Iowa to see son and old neighbors. Sylvia Booth visits Anita. Kathryn Galiher visits Omaha. Faulkner and others described. Noah's flood mention. Miss Faulkner from State University Iowa City home for summer. Mrs Wayne Bullock in Rochester Minnesota with brother W O Aldrich. June 5 musical farce in Valley Junction Light School auditorium featuring Miss Anita East and LeVerne Bontrager. Baby boy born to Supt and Mrs C W Garlock. Mayfred and Bernice Stone visit Atlantic. Amita Hast and LeVerne Bontrager perform for Dean Holmes Cowper at Drake University last Friday.
Griswold Ja June 11 Special to News Telegraph J R Donahoo outgoing postmaster and John Dicus Coolidge appointee were feted last evening at a local cafe by carriers and clerks of the local office.
June 11 report notes another Ku Klux Klan attempt to capture Griswold with the state organizer and an orator planned to speak in the park. Griswold has long been a focal point for Klan activity and crackdowns have followed prior efforts.
A band of gypsies arrived in Grisol d this morning and were escorted to the city limits by local authorities who refused them permission to stay.
In Audubon county the American Legion posts prepare a Sunday picnic at Beer's Grove in Greely township. About 800 Legion members and their families are expected to attend with a program highlighted by sporting events.
A fragment from the French Alps describes an aerial cable ride linking a golf event to a skiing party. The line mentions Chiments and the surrounding range, noting a crowd traveling from a game to a skiing outing in the morning.
DW Bickford a well known banker of Greenfield died suddenly at his home early Sunday morning of neuritis. He attended the Shrine conclave at Kansas City last week as a member of Za Go Zig temple Des Moines and was a thirty third degree Scottish Rite Mason. Funeral services were held at Greenfield yesterday with several Masons from Des Moines in attendance.
A June 11 News Telegraph report states Earl Sivage's home near Berea was struck by lightning during torrential rain last Saturday. Plastering in two rooms shattered and two residents were slightly hurt by falling debris.
The first band concert of the season is set for this evening in Adair. Carl Carson of Atlantic leads a group drawn from Atlantic Anita Adair and Casey. The special News Telegraph report notes the performance as the season opener.
Funeral services were held at Second Congregational church in Avoca Iowa for Fred Bliech 72 retired farmer who died Sunday from apoplexy. Rev Essig officiated at 2:00 pm with interment in Avoca cemetery. Survived by wife and three daughters.
The Le Fou play Lost in Egypt, planned for Tuesday in Exira, is postponed to a later night due to illness in the cast. Miss Pauline Bensley returns home from York Nebr where she attended school. Mr and Mrs J B Anderson and family drive to Des Moines for a few days, while Marjorie Manson and Gorett Milley visit locally. Local floodwater recedes as a dredge moves to straighten Davis Creek for Bolin River work.
Grain and Livestock updates show Wheat prices for No 1 hard at $1.10, No 2 hard $1.09, Corn variations across white and yellow grades, oats around 49-51¢, and mixed grades. South Omaha and Chicago Livestock receipts with hogs, cattle, and sheep prices and ranges, including top values for steers and cows, and overall market softness on hogs and mixed cattle activity.
Grain Wheat 88¢ new corn 65¢ barley 5¢ oats Aber rye 7¢ produce butterfat B8e eggs 8¢ hens 18¢ spring chickens 0¢ old roosters hogs 6.00 0.68 cattle stockers and feeders 5.50 6.60 fat cattle 7.00 10.00
Brayton Ta June 11 all highways lead to Brayton tomorrow as hundreds gather for Booster day activities. The program features speaking and a band concert followed by sporting events. The Anita town baseball team will face Jacks All-Nation of Atlantic in the afternoon.
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