Iowa Close-Up in Number of Posts
Associated Press reports Iowa runs Michigan and New York in post number of American Legion posts. Des Moines says the three states are about even, per a congratulatory telegraph from national headquarters.
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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1919
Page
3
Associated Press reports Iowa runs Michigan and New York in post number of American Legion posts. Des Moines says the three states are about even, per a congratulatory telegraph from national headquarters.
Wood and Savery of Atlantic Iowa announce farm loans at five percent interest. Call for terms and details on financing options offered to local farmers seeking practical funding through a regional lender with established service in Atlantic.
In Mexico City President Carranza bans bullfights and turns the arena of Teatro El Paso into a venue for grand opera, dance and concerts. A famed bull named El Bonito charged horses and men, then a spectator picador Miguel Ballo offered sugar from the box, and the bull calmly licked it.
Base ball on the East Side Diamond at Griswold Iowa features Griswold against Ernie Holmes of Omaha on Sunday June 22 at 3 p m government time. Griswold boys debut in new uniforms and are described as dandies. Holmes team touted as a top amateur club from Omaha. Music by the Griswold band. Admission 35 cents including tax.
Father G G Rice pastor and dean of the Congregational church in Iowa will be 100 in September. At a special service at Tabor College in Council Bluffs Iowa he was conferred the degree of doctor of divinity. Rice has lived most of his life in Iowa and is a pioneer churchman.
Des Moines reports say small red ants invade bread boxes and pantries while larger black ants populate front lawns with anthills. House wives seek remedies, recalling old fashioned precautions to combat the pests.
Co operation of Cass county Red Cross chapters is sought to promote the Fort Des Moines Post circulation. The Fort Des Moines Post, started by invalid soldiers in the hospital, aims to boost morale of wounded men from the state. Subscriptions, $1 for six months, go to Lieut R H Finger, Business Manager, Fort Des Moines Post, Fort Des Moines, Iowa.
Des Moines June 20 Associated Brest reports the War Department says rapid demobilization is underway at several centers but Camp Dodge is not among the fast readers in discharge, with costs to government at thirteen dollars per discharge cited.
Maj. L A. Correll alleges Washington fast tracked some soldiers through discharge. The charge claims several men were processed so quickly their records were not completed.
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