Local Happenings Highlight Community News and Visits
George Parrott and family hosted visitors from Slayton Minnesota and Cherokee while many residents traveled to Sioux City Des Moines and Storm Lake for hospital, family, and work matters. A DeMolay convention in Des Moines and a World’s Fair trip to Chicago are noted with several doctors, nurses, and local workers referenced.
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Phyllis Port
Chicago
Frank Taylor
Jewell
Iowa
B. L. Troup
Henry Butler
Jack Thomson
Camp Dodge
Des Moines
Fred Ohim
Carl Ohim
Fon-du-Lac
Wisconsin
Frank
Fred Jordan
George Parrott
Dean
Bertha Faulkender
Pierce Parrott
Slayton
Minnesota
L. E. Christensen
John
Carl
Herbert Peterson
A. Perry
Frank Faber
Arnold
le Mars
L. C. Johnson
Alta Hospital
E. C. Lighter
W. G. Whitney
Junior Fraser
Sioux City
Glenn Parker
Cherokee
Glenn
T. B. Parker
Bertha Demarest
Orville
Harold Demarest
Cushing
Mary Demarest
A. W. Garberson
L. D. Garberson
Sibley
J. H. Garber
Miles City
Montana
F. G. Scott
George Baker
Frank Jordan
Curtis Wieland
Storm Lake
Joan June
Ethel Holmes
Edwin Trigg
Sutherland
Tom Jackson
Claire Reeve
D. P. Mahoney
Margaret Montgomery
Galva
Verne Culver
Rev. Welch
East Side Beach
R. B. Harrison
The
Peoples Telephone Co
Alva Hill
W. H. Bischel
W. H. Welch
Ruth
Dele
Lohrville
Hartley
Ella Johnson
Lawrence Davis
Peterson
M. E. Aid Society
Mesdames M. Parrott
Chas. Waddell
Jay Parrott
State University
Iowa City
Muscatine
Chris Felton
Felton
John Lenz
Independence
Marjorie Gillis
Norfolk
Nebraska
Henry Stutz Sr
Zerada Silvernail
Henry Stutz Jr
Wm. Betcher
Aurelia
Harry Swensen
Bennie Wieland
Kenneth Bischel
Des Moines Register
Des Moines Tribune
Gardner Cowles
Bennie
Kenneth
Iowa Vote Set on Repeal of Eighteenth Amendment
Iowa voters go to the polls Tuesday to decide repeal of the eighteenth amendment. The special election asks whether Iowa will repeal the federal prohibition, with ballots showing two columns for and against repeal and voters marking a cross to cast their choice.
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Iowa
United States
Only Pretrained Men Eligible to C M T Camps
Omaha June 13 General Johnson Hagood announced that due to economy no Basic or first year candidates will be trained in Citizens' Military Training Camps this year. Only those with prior C M T Camp training may attend and camp quotas are reduced because of funding cuts. The Sentinel is authorized agent for Sioux City papers.
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Omaha
Nebr
Johnson Hagood
Seventh Corps
Storm Lake Youth Dies in Chicago Plane Crash
Edward G. Schaller, 20, of Storm Lake, was among nine killed when a Century of Progress amphibian plane crashed near Chicago. A squall likely damaged a wing, the craft fell 600 feet and burned on impact. Schaller, a Culver graduate and Chicago University junior, was a longtime Storm Lake resident and notable local youth.
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Storm Lake
Chicago
Storm Lake Register
Edward G. Schaller
George J. Schaller
Associated Press
Culver Military Academy
Culver
Chicago University
Pitcher Farm Bureau Meeting Draws Large Local Turnout
Pitcher Farm Bureau gathered about 150 people at the Earl Bruce farm home for an evening of entertainment. The program featured recitations, songs, a playlet Captain Kid and What He Did, a sanitation in the home talk, solo and duet performances, 4 H girls singing, and a community sing alongside speeches by Rev. Minor and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pitcher Farm Bureau
Earl Bruce
Bobby Dawson
DeLores Peterson
Mr. Liming
Captain Kid
Mary Fraser
Evelyn Blanch
Fern Parrott
Fern Beeghley
Florence Will
Society Notes From P. L. E. F. Club and Rebekah Circle
Mrs. A A Davis hosted the P. L. E. F. club afternoon with social time and needlework followed by lunch assisted by Mrs. LeRoy Goettsch Mrs. W Westphal Jr and Mrs C E Ammons The Rebekah Circle gathered at Mrs Albert Fierk home for social needlework and a lunch with several guests present.
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A. A. Davis
P. L. E. F. Club
LeRoy Goettsch
W. Westphal Jr
C. E. Ammons
Rebekah
Albert Fierk
Community notes from East Afton and Elk area
East Afton and Elk area residents visit relatives and attend events. Delores Otto stayed with her grandmother in Aurelia. Kittenball games drew crowds in Aurelia against Elk and Guarantee Oil Co. multiple local visitors and family gatherings noted including Orris Erickson leaving for Corning for work.
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Howard Haight
Carrington
Cherokee
Delores Otto
Guether
Aurelia
Elk
Guarantee Oil Co
Lloyd Sauter
Earl Sauter
Storm Lake
M. Hines
Albert Waldo
Ethel Wetherell
Floyd Sexton
Erna Hollenbeck
Fred Kolpin
Kenneth Meyer
Sioux Falls
Ammon Sexton
Alva Ammons
Peterson
Frank Sexton
Harlan Sexton
Meriden
W. M. Booth
Orris Erickson
Corning
Iowa
Madalynne Booth
Clayton Mitchell
Lee Hayes
Sons
Alta
Ed Erickson
Mt Olive community notes and gatherings in mid June
Local residents report a week of church events, plays and pot lucks with the Ladies Aid groups at Mt. Olive and Quimby. Families from Cherokee and nearby towns join in dinners, visits, and Children’s Day programs. A light frost and 102 degree readings are noted amid summer heat.
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Frank Radle
Darrell Ennis
Lost Island Lake
A. Blomberg
Helen
Leonard Anderson
Dickie
R. G. Adams
Virgil
Edgar Johnson
Ladies Aid of
Quimby
My Mothers Old Home
Mt. Olive
Elenor
David Simmons
Cherokee
C. A. Simmons
Homer Anderson
Pete Peterson
Good Hope Ladies Aid
Peterson
Earl Crippen
Hans Anderson
Sioux Valley Baptist Association
Carl Johnson
Carl Peterson
Olaf Ogren
Homer
Donald
John Ekholm
Alta
James Stewart
Lincoln Hahn
Berger Samuelson
Swedish Lutheran Aid
Diamond Center
Ethel Peterson
Holstein
Center School
E. Johnson
Stock Exchanges Old and The Idea of a Broker
The article notes stock exchanges and brokers are long standing concepts with roots in history, referencing Nelson and an English act of parliament from 1285 as early mentions of the term broker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stock Exchange
Nelson
England
Primitive "Car Juine" A 1799 rail idea trial runs
A fragment notes a proposed English railway line in 1799. Anyone with a cart whose wheels fit could place it on the rails and have it pulled by a horse after paying tolls.
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Call Simonsen
Simonsen
Carl R. Larson
C. E. Wilcox
IF. G. Scott
Lola Newmann
Galva Rendering Works
Home Grocery Dry Goods Department
W. Moulton
Mrs. Wesley Nelson
Lawton
F. W. Kaskey
George
Fred
C. H. Kaskey
George Kaskey
George Lichteman
Lockin
E. E. Girton
Lambert Jefsers
Ruthle
Gretchen Thomson
J. C. Nelson
Repeal Council
C.M. T
the Sentinel
Lois Dieterich
East Afton and Elk
Paris Green
London
F. E. Pratt
Alwa
Drugs 3 In Charge
MT. Olive News
Briardale
Robinhood
Mystic
Larson’s Store
General Merchandise
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