Dearth of teachers in Iowa leaves schools short
In Fort Dope Iowa December 10 County Superintendent Brown struggles to staff 115 rural schools with only two ready teachers in two weeks. A statewide survey shows widespread shortages across Cherokee Ida Grove Boone Calhoun Pocahontas Greene Hamilton Polk Osceola Hes Holt counties. Wages appear adequate but remoteness from rail stations and discipline concerns hinder staffing. Benton county also reports teacher famine.
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Fort Dope
Brown
Cherokee County
Ida Grove
Boone County
Calhoun County
Pocahontas County
Greene County
Hamilton County
Polk County
Benton County
Supt
Lowe
Obituary for John Cameron Smith of Urbana Iowa
John Cameron Smith born in Ohio on October 28 1915 lived near Urbana Iowa after moving to Benton county in 1855 and died November 14 1905 aged 57 years He married Nancy Manly and had six children two sons and four daughters He was a neighbor and trusted friend and the funeral was held at the Church of Christ in Urbana with interment in Davis cemetery Also mentions Kennedy’s Laxative Honey and Tar in an advertising note.
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John Cameron Smith
Ohio
Benton County
Iowa
Urbana
Nancy Manly
Smith
Church of Christ At
Davis Cemetery
Oklahoma farmers praise weather and markets in 1905 letter
Oklahoma City December 4 1905 farmers rejoice over wet warm weather good for wheat and fall plowing corn at 33 cents per bushel with prices slipping to 30 31 cents. Neighbors visit Old Mexico buy land praise soil and future railroads interurban 80 miles to Sulphur Springs Katy line through Indian Territory and Texas. Livestock public sales strong as farmers retire rent farms cash. Thanksgiving turkey 12 cents per lb butter 25 30 cents eggs 30 cents per dozen cotton about 15 cents.
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Oklahoma City
Old Mexico
Sulphur Springs
Indian Territory
Texas
Students and Teachers Rates Depart for North East South West
Arrangements by the Rock Island to ticket students and teachers of educational institutions at fare and one third rate. For full information call nearest ticket agent or write Jnc G Farmer Division Passenger Agent Cedar Rapids Iowa.
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Rock Island
Jnc. G. Farmer
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Christmas Week Socials Bring Holiday Cantatas and Dances
Churches schedule festive events for children as lodges, colleges, and schools announce socials. The M E choir led by Miss Woodhull performs a cantata tonight at the M E church. West school plans an entertainment tomorrow to fund a new piano. Sunday and Monday programs feature cantatas by Presbyterian and Methodist groups.
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College For the Blind
Tilford Academy
West School
M. E. Choir
Miss Woodhull
M.E
Christian and Baptist Sunday School
Presbyterian Choir
Miss Brubaker
Presbyterian
Methodist
Card of Thanks from McHeffy family for Blanch
Mr and Mrs Robert McHeffy extend gratitude to neighbors and friends for the marked attention and kindness shown during the illness and death of their only child Blanch.
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Robert McHeffy
Blanch
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Kennedy
Oklahoma
Entertainment BY
Vinton
Wacehs School
Anna Elsner
Blanche Harper
Edna Selvert
Pe Fiide
Donald Sells
Imogene Smock
Jennie Kinney
Walter Williams
Mary Lynch
Jaebe Belle Wilson
Very Loveland Chorus
Cig
Part
Sevesess
the Great Doughnut Corporation
Longhead
Charley Brooks
Sec’y
Company
Shortstop Willard Clinton
Miss Dash Ethel Brody
Birdie Plackem
Myrtle Ridenour
Reuben Slowboy Fauntleroy Pierce
New Girl
Mary Thompson
Larry Redtop
Hazel Hall
Mercantile
Lulu Freshwater Elizabeth Achnuff
Entertainments
M.E. Church
Vinton, Iowa
J. A. Bills & Son
KE. of P
Rebeckah
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