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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1929
Page
2
Atlantic area notes through phone items and social visits. Families gather in Walnut and surrounding towns, with relatives from Hastings, Cheyenne, Indianola, Omaha, and Lincoln visiting, traveling, or staying for extended periods. Local residents attend events, business trips cited, and summer plans noted.
Fragmentary OCR text indicates an account listing costs and actions involving rats, a mire ox, and references to pence, fox, and kill actions. The legible items hint at expenditure tracking, with unclear context and names partially readable.
Community gossip from Grant reports Porter moving next week to Morton Mills to head a general merchandise store. Several residents including Frank Bowden of Anita, Miss Elizabeth Tarn visiting relatives from Omaha, and families like Sprague, Breeling, and Dockett share Sunday visits. Also noted are travel to Griswold, Fontanelle, and Little Sioux, with various relatives visiting Grant residents and attending funerals.
Mrs Fred Brummer and partner welcome a new son as the family announces the birth. details are limited due to fragmented OCR text but indicate a birth notice and parental acknowledgment in the local paper.
In Audubon June 214 special a defendant named Jenkins held on embezzlement charges was released after a settlement and dismissal. Hayes county council blasts district manager of Moorman Stock Remedies, alleges Jenkins took cash and property valued at 400 dollars. Jenkins had been arrested on a prior theft charge and was acquitted. The hearing occurred before Justice Arthur Harving.
The piece notes Fred Kane manager of Phalen is well known in Griswold and Taune. Archie Aimons and Tel Amots attend a boxing show in Atlantic with Amons triggering a reunion for the seemingly unbeatable Doe Cooper of Elliott after Cooper’s high swinging blows. Kane is linked as husband of former Griswold girl Miss Cora McGinnis, sister of Mrs. Hattie Rule.
June 21 council members reviewed tentative hospital plans for thravity. George H Spooner and Tom God nurses discussed the design. A draft cost estimate ranged from $20660 to $20500 with sketches to be returned next week for further changes.
Marne Iowa report notes Mr and Mrs Jess Brown hosting relatives from the north on Sunday at the home of Mr and Mrs Otto Kuhr and son. Martha Sell is visiting her mother. Several residents traveled to Omaha for Ross Roberts funeral, a long-time area resident.
Massena reports Mrs. Clair Odey of Des Moines visited Tuesday with her sister and parents Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Crow and friends. The trip aimed at points in Colorado where they plan to stay with relatives, in connection with the death of her brother William Holste.
Wiota Iowa June 21 special report lists Bert Porter and daughter Mildred of Garrison North Dakota as guests at Mr and Mrs W S Foster along with Mrs Eva Jennings returning home. Gladys Wissler travels to Atlantic to join Rebekah delegates for Cass and Audubon counties convention in Lewisport on the last Thursday of October 1929.
Adair Iowa June 21 details a flurry of visitors and departures. Siblings and relatives from Sioux Falls and Omaha arrived to visit Mrs. Horning and Mrs. Bratten families. Local residents Mr. and Mrs. Sutherland and children toured Grant and the Maxe clinic trip in Rochester. Several travelers head to Des Moines Dayton and the Ozark mountains, while H. Huff and Wark families prepare summer trips and a Rev. Fr Sheehy vacation.
An early morning wreck near Hy. Biesemyer left Harietta Garrett, 20, in serious condition and possibly not expected to live after the car skidded, struck a telephone pole, and rolled three times. A second girl and a youth were treated at home, while another person was jailed for investigation.
The playground equipment for the city park is being installed. A large local crowd held a picnic dinner Thursday at the park and assisted in putting the grounds in shape.
Ford Motor Company airplane division announces production of tri motor all metal air transports raised to four planes weekly. Through the year output averaged three weekly, with new facilities enabling gradual increase. Officials say fully ramped by September to meet current orders.
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