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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1929
Page
2
Many residents and guests travel through Brayton and Atlantic area during a busy week. Des Moines visitors, Audubon transactors, and relatives from Mason City and Kansas City are noted. Several families, including Knutsen, Larson, and Freeman circles, spend time with local kin, with trips to Omaha and his home region.
Rural mail carrier Sie Fieteher takes a vacation trip with family to Neosho Missouri. Gravity relatives and local residents, including Miss Katherine Cruise and Miss Veronica Ansty, are mentioned. Several visitors from California to Des Moines and Newton area are noted along with local family visits. Readers are invited to place notices for the town newspaper.
Anita, Tenn., June 28 Special reports Amelia Bullivan a well known Indy and singer residing nearby will travel to Champaign Illinois for two months beginning August 1 as guest of Mr and Mrs J J Cecil. Local items note visits and social calls with numerous old friends and relatives including George W Boutright, J R Stuir, and others in Anita area during summer stay.
Recent events in Elk Horn include old friends reconnecting after decades, visits from relatives traveling through from Washington and Wisconsin, and church activities. Notable notes mention installations at Bethania Church, travel to Des Moines and Council Bluffs, and visits with local families across the region.
Walter V. Roth of Audubon Iowa has worked in the same office from September 1880 to July 1 1929 totaling 49 years and 10 months. He started as office and errand boy, rose to bookkeeper and manager, witnessed grain price swings and coal price shifts, and plans to decide after July 1 whether to stay in Audubon or take new jobs in Iowa or Nebraska or start his own business.
Kimballton Idaho June 28 The Jungen swimming pool will host a special Fourth of July observance with an afternoon water sports program and an evening dance The pool owner Thorval Johnson and son Erting Johnson have taken over management this season a new dance hall has been built and the grounds landscaped into an attractive park area
Peter Rubel 84 prominent farmer died in Audubon Iowa after a year of ill health and bedfast illness. He was born in Bavaria and emigrated to New York February 1866 before settling in Illinois and Iowa. He leaves a large family including Mrs Eddie Watersman and Mrs Beugh in Atlantic and Audubon plus many grandchildren. Funeral Sunday at church with burial in Mop Grove cemetery.
A Curtiss Robin monoplane piloted by Vern L. Carsteris refueled in Atlantic during a state air tour en route to Clayinds. Other aboard were O L Hopson and McNic, with a 170 horsepower Curtiss Challenger engine. The plane then resumed its route after a brief stop in town.
A county elay tour drew 125 4-H calf club members and families with 48 calves inspected. Frank Reed of Ames praised calf quality and care. Highlights included a picnic and a blue ribbon bowling game at Bynes No 2 schoolhouse despite threatening woods.
At a county farm bureau meeting the picnic committee decided to hold the big gathering at Sunnyside Park in the latter part of July. The exact date awaits word from Charles B. Toa, president of the Town Farm Bureau, who is expected to speak. Subcommittees were assigned and plans are moving forward for the event.
Theo Rev and Mee William Mack and sui Robby were callers yesterday afternoon at the dent Marek se father Stuart McMullen at the home of his daughter Mrs Jacek McGovel ern. Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at 2 oclock at the Methodist church in Stuert, where he had been a donor for many years. Mr McMullen was well known in Atlantic, where he spent considerable time at the Mack home.
James Croghan, son of Mr and Mrs C B Croghan, is recovering from a severely injured foot after a 410 gauge shotgun discharged while he hunted rats in his uncle Phil Croghan's barn near Griswold. He accidentally pulled the trigger as the gun went off.
A garbled OCR snippet hints at astronomy and radiation measurement terms. Names and details are unclear, but references to astronomers, spider webs, and moss suggest a miscellaneous science note. The fragmentary source lacks coherent events or identifiable subjects for a fuller report.
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