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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1919
Page
2
One month five fifty by carrier, six months. One year three dollars by carrier. One year four dollars by mail in the United States. One year five dollars twenty cents to Canada and foreign countries.
The editorial warns that unless Germany signs soon the war may resume and allied forces advance. It notes Elks Flag Day events and lauds the B P O E for their service. It condemns bogus stock schemes and pokes fun at readers who distrust newspapers while stressing the paper is a business selling space and subscriptions. It condemns illegal gambling and drunkenness in poker games and predicts future legal action.
Reverend Ulysses S. Smith of Muscatine has been chosen as president of Iowa Wesleyan University. A six year board of trustees member, born 1869, he attended Bloomfield High School, the Southern State academy, and Wesleyan University, and has served Methodist charges in Batavia West Burlington Eddyville What Cheer and Washington before his Muscatine assignment six years ago.
Two people were injured when a plane crashed near Manly 12 miles north of Mason City Iowa. Joey Johann a former Canadian aviator and Mies Martha Vanek were trapped in a nose dive from about 700 feet. Johann suffered a broken leg while Vanek sustained a broken nose and the crash caused her death.
Associated Press reports Kansas officials issued a broad set of warnings against undesirables during the wheat harvest. They promise strict enforcement of vagabond and anti agitation laws to curb conspirators thieves and con men, with special concern about possible I W W influence and agitation in rural areas and oil fields.
City Council ordered Chestnut from Third to Seventh and Poplar from Fifth to Seventh and Walnut from Third to Fifth closed July 4 to keep streets free for the celebration crowd. Atlantic band to be employed for the event at a cost of 100.
Transfer notices list B G Harria and wife to Chester E Burkhalter for blocks 6 7 and 141 Dickerson add Lewis 33500. D C Mosier and wife to Howard Williams for block 6 4 18 7 b 50 Atlantic 33500. George S Kirk to Roscoe Essington for lot 4 b 37 Atlantic 6000. W H Antrim to N D Nielsen for west 50 ft of lot 6 b 185 Atlantic 4000. Telegraph notice about missed delivery.
A called meeting of Chapter A F. P. B. O. will convene Thursday at seven thirty PM at the home of Mrs. Allender.
Notice to all interested that on June 11 1919 the District Court of Casa County Iowa appointed Jacob E Lang and Zeno B Lang as executors of the estate of Jacob Lang deceased and they have qualified. All debts to the estate should be paid and claims presented within the legal period to the court. Dated June 12 1919. Swan Clovis Swan attorneys for executors.
Associated Press reports a landmark hotel since 1748, the Washington House, will be demolished to make way for a modern hotel office building and theatre. The site holds Washington era relics and a tablet noting he wrote the Brandywine battle report here on September 11 1777.
On the night of the Brandywine battle Mary Gorman dressed wounds of Ette in a local account. The fragment mentions Easy Way Haylosders and P Meredith in connection with the period.
In Linn County 26 of 48 precincts voted yes in the good roads election, tallying 4,076 favorable ballots. Cedar Rapids approved 5,149 yes with 369 no, while Marion showed a yes majority of 20. Ames noted defeat of the surfaced roads plan by about 800 votes at a special election yesterday.
Dr H K Williams operates at the Hin Fulton Building located near Fifth and Chestnut streets. The note provides clinic placement details with no further context or dates.
President Wilson plans a nationwide tour to push ratification of the League covenant. The move follows a message to the Senate that he will not disclose the peace treaty text in advance, despite opposition from league supporters.
Eleven hundred feet of new cement sidewalk is ordered by the City Council at a special meeting. The walk will be regulation width, with the bid of B. O. Lovett for resurfacing in the city park accepted at 388 dollars. Work will start at once.
Paris June 17 The United Press reports President Wilson is expected to depart Paris for the United States around June 24 or 25 and plans to be back at his desk in Washington by July 4 or 5.
Mrs. Rosa M. Cox and Herbert E. Cox were married last evening at 8 at the groom’s mother's home. Justice J. S. Preasnall performed the ceremony with only immediate relatives present. The couple will reside in Atlanta. Marriage licenses issued to Herbert E. Cox and Rosa M. Cox, both city residents.
Associated Press report from Kansas City notes a Kansas City concern shipped 200 feet of steel bridges to Dalagoa Bay South Africa. Four cars transported the shipment, with bridges fabricated in a small space on the steamship.
Mrs Henry Houck is seriously ill at her daughter’s home in Minneapolis after a recent surgical examination and treatment. Martin is recovering well from an operation at the Methodist hospital in Des Moines.
Montezuma Iowa June 17 Hugh Mellrath longtime farm pioneer died at his Grinnell home at age 80 after a long cancer illness He began on rented farms near Davenport later worked as a farm hand and amassed over 1000 acres across Marshall Jasper and Poweshiek counties valued at up to 800 dollars an acre.
Howard Marshall sold the farm northeast of Exira to John H Rendleian for 200 per acre. The 210 acre property changes hands as Bert Bartlett reports. H Petersen and John Anderson traveled to Audubon to file final citizenship papers.
Montreal June 17 40 000 Canadian railway shopmen of division No 4 Railway Shopmen of America face a Wednesday morning strike after an unsuccessful wage and hours negotiation attempt. An eleventh hour offer from the Canadian railway war board is cited as the sole chance to avert walkout.
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