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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1927
Page
7
An 84 year old auction foreman At Coin for Birty yobra Andery was found dead on the Wabash tract today while coworkers searched for him after he failed to return with his tools. Local authorities investigated the mysterious death.
Miss Mable Rasmussen and Harold L. Hansen, both of Brayton, wed yesterday at the Presbyterian manse with Rev. William Mack officiating. Miss Flora J. Rendleman and Mark F. Kline attended. Rasmussen, a graduate nurse, has practiced in Des Moines and Brayton. Hansen, a hardware and implement dealer, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Christian Hansen. After a ten day honeymoon, the couple will reside in Brayton.
Betty Jane Wilken daughter of Mr and Mrs Herman Wilken 200 East Third street had her tongue removed today at the Atlantic hospital. Una Binkley near the city discharged after tonsil removal yesterday. B G Fick 1607 Birch street improving after major operation at the Jones hospital. Mrs James Moon Lewis undergoing major operation today at the Jones hospital. Mrs Harold Bell Omaha had tonsils removed at the Jones hospital. Miss Tillie Hansen and Miss Faye Moore discharged today from the Jones hospital.
Private funeral rites were held at 509 East Sixth Street this afternoon at 2 o clock for Mrs Louisa Maria Lawson Cass pioneer and mother of Mrs Swarts who died late Tuesday afternoon. Services were conducted by a member of the clergy.
The Rev. E. A. Moor of Atlantic Methodist Opal Church is noted in the obituary. Pallbearers listed include Fred Gill, B. L. Butler, C. L. Crouch, J. Woodall, W. F. Prather, and J. M. Webber. The service was at Atlantic cemetery with a maplelgy at the site.
Avoca Iowa plans a Southwestern Iowa corn state band to travel to Deadwood South Dakota for the Days of 76 frontier celebration in August. The group will lead the parade reviewed by President Coolidge, with Joe DAndrea of Oakland directing. Fifteen musicians are confirmed, with more expected as recruitment continues, and a recruitment event is planned in Atlantic tonight for musicians from Atlantic Anita and Adair bands.
In Council Bluffs on June 23, a former Atlantic man named Johnston may escort sniper Frank Carter from the death cell to the electric chair at Lincoln’s state penitentiary at sunrise tomorrow. Carter, convicted of murders in Omaha in 1928, awaits execution after a failed habeas corpus bid. Johnston, wounded in the Kansas City chase, provided a crucial description leading to Carter’s arrest.
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