Shelby items highlight visits and travels in 1934
Miss Mildred Gooch visits grandparents in Shelby. Traice Christian's son ill with throat trouble. Mrs. J. M. Logan spends Sunday with sister Mrs. Frank Bauer. Nile Rauer, Leon Smith and Bill Bailey visit Chicago. Kenneth Riddle’s family returns to Missouri. Dorothy Wilson and Mildred visit Aunt Mayde Wilson. Charlie Smith, John Buswell and Paul Smith go to Iowa for corn. Mrs. Jonnie Burkholder and daughter Marjorie visit C. M. Smith. A school party at Otho Almond's is reported fine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mildred Gooch
Shelby
Traice Christian
J. M. Logan
Frank Bauer
Nile Rauer
Leon Smith
Bill Bailey
Chicago
Kenneth Riddle
Good Old
Missouri
Dorothy Wilson
Mildred
Mayde Wilson
Charlie Smith
John Buswell
Paul Smith
Iowa
Jonnie Burkholder
Marjorie
C. M. Smith
Otho Almond’s
Community Notes From Around Purdin
Sunday church services at the Christian Church with Rev Brumbeck were reported. Several visitors and relatives came through town including James Huston and his wife from St Louis for a funeral, and Mis Ab Johnson’s niece. Local residents hosted guests and relatives over the weekend in Brookfield, Tren ton, and nearby farms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rev. Brumbeck
Christian Church
James Huston
St. Louis
Ab Johnson
B. Axcom
Newtown
F. A. Johnson
Eva Monroe
Brookfield
Urback
Trenton
Robert Ross
Willard Bulliam
Carl Bevins
Shafter Items Reflect Rain Warmth and Local Happenings
The notes report frequent rain and warm spell for the season. Mrs Mildred Pierce of New Mexico visits Jackson township relatives. Hazel Cooper returns to teaching after her mother's death. Thelma McGhee visits near Purdin. The Hammocks move to a rebuilt store. Turkey week brings local activity and a wagonload of turkeys from Joe Edmondson of Wheeling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mildred Pierce
New Mexico
Grover Cooper
Jackson Township
Hazel Cooper
Herman Cooper
Bud Gilmer
Price Gilmer
Thelma McGhee
Purdin
Andy Bundies
R. E. Smith
George Hess
John Longwell
Elmer Hammock’s
Joe Edmondson
Wheeling Gakkees
Brookfield oil man visits area this week
A Brookfield oil and gas man from Kansas City spent the first of the week in the Brookfield area attending to business. Local residents and relatives noted social visits with the Smith, Arnold, Baker and Hutchinson families. Mrs Hoover’s quip about dishwashing is cited as light local humor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
aaWae
Brookfield
Moline
Kansas City
Herbert Hoover
Earl Smith
Betty Lou
R. E. Smith
Harold Campbell
L. W. Arnold
Joe
W. L. Baker
Lee Filis Hedges
Carrie Bowyer
Carle Hutchinson
Halsville Rain Delays As Social Ties Run Wide
Rain strikes Halsville as roads worsen. Local families share meals and visits across the community with numerous gatherings and proxy errands around Bartow Gooch Holser Lawrence Sayers and Warren households.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. J. Bartow
Ray Gooch
Victor Gooch
Oral Gooch
T. S. Bartow
W. Gooch
Otis Lawrence
Burl Warren
Teddy Holser
Q. M. Gooch
Otis Lawriece
Benny Rhodes
W. E. Sayers, Jr
W. E. Sayers
Cecil Browning
Linneus
Winigan Creek Social Notes Highlight Local Visits
Mr and Mrs John Rauer and extended families visited Roy Rauer near Heart last Sunday. Earl Helms works for Uncle Roy Helms near Milan. Violet Coram stayed with Bernice Pearler. Claude McCollum visited Earl McCollum’s family. Mrs Earl McCollum is very poorly. Gilbert Coram worked for No-
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Rauer
Carlos
Rauer
Orville Thudium
Vern
Roy Rauer
Heart
Earl Helms
Roy Helms
Milan
Violet Coram
Bernice Pearler
Claude McCollum
Earl McCollum
Gilbert Coram
Local Social Notes and Family Visits Mentioned
Miss Ruby Westfall marries Marion Quigley on November 7. Philip Bailey and family visit John Bauer and his wife yesterday. Carl Helms visits grandparents near New Cambria. Homer Ward sick but improving. Charley Jones stays with him. Harry Buswell family and others visit Nolan Cassity and Charley Pearler’s family. Helms attend J. S. King's birthday dinner on November 11 for Mrs. King’s 74th birthday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lan Cassity
Ruby Westfall
Marion Quigley
Philip Bailey
John Bauer
Carl Helms
J. S. King
New Cambria
Homer Ward
Charley Jones
Harry Buswell
Charley Pearler
Fernice
Nolan Cassity
Charley Helms
J. S. King’s
Notable Wake of Odd News From Across the Globe
A mosaic of brief items includes Mrs. Jane Elvash’s arrest in Glasgod for swindling suitors, Miss Rashael Codwen accused of stealing to fund a funeral, and thieves sought for an 88 year old tombstone theft near Earlville. Other notes report suicides, burglaries, mine collapses, a Welsh mine disaster with no injuries, and local quirks from England to Ireland and the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Salle County
Ill
Earlville
Trustee’s Sale in Linn County Missouri on Nov 30 1934
William K Devore and others pledged property in Linn County Missouri by trust deed to secure a note. With default on payment, Arthur D Campbell as trustee will sell at public vendue at the Linn Linneus courthouse front door on Friday November 30 1934 between 9 am and 6 pm to satisfy the debt interest and costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William K. Devore
Alice Devore
Browning
Linn County
State of Missouri
Charles B. Purdin
Josephine Purdin
Cora
Sullivan County
Missouri
Recorder’s
County of
Linn
One Thousandth Baby Cap Knitted by Salt Lake City Pastor
The Rev. Hunter Lewis of Salt Lake City has completed his one thousandth baby cap after learning to knit during the war. J. C. Lee of Dawson Georgia survived two days of tractor accidents with no serious injuries. Isaac Forbes of Leroy Newfoundland reveals nine of his ten children weigh over 200 pounds each. Herman Moore and Eva L Parks of Roscoe Ohio wed in a mostly sign language ceremony conducted by Justice Milton Craft. Mr and Mrs Joseph Mack of Cleveland win $3,675 damages in a case for spooning in their car. Florence De Villier traveled from South Africa to Philadelphia to have a paper clip removed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hunter Lewis
Salt Lake City
Herman Moore
Eva L. Parks
Roscoe
Ohio
Justice of the Peace
Milton J. Craft
Joseph Mack
Cleveland
The
Common Pleas Court
Chicago Negro DePriest’s 1898 Congress Election Sparks Outcry
When Oscar DePriest, a Chicago Negro, was elected to Congress in 1898, considerable indignation was expressed in various circles and discussions erupted over the historic political achievement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oscar DePriest
Chicago
Congress
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Haleville
Winigan Creek
Hoosac
United States
Admiral Byrd
South Pole
Wilton Lackaye
John Brown
Jane Elvash
Glasgod
Rashael Codwen
Duluth
Minn
Peter Loore
Hollywood
Cal
Joseph Anguill
Los Angeles
Ruby ‘Thornton
Royal Oak, Mich
William Gamble
Lindsay
Canada
Slaney
Wales
Rose Franston
James Bridgewater
Ladford
Eng
Bridgewater
Miss Rose Mallory
Leeds
Bat
Fred Kolber
Jeanette Respedee
Brussels
Gardner
David Green
New York
Princess Riseborough
F. D. More
Glencoe
Elaine Russell
Gulfport, Mis
of the American Legion
Miami, Fla
de Priest
Arthur W. Mitchell
Winston County
Alabama
Damascus
Massachusetts
J. C. Lee
Dawson, Ga
Isaac Forbes
Leroy, NL
Florence de Villier
South Africa
Philadelphia
Trenton Community Sale
Gale, Baxter & Robertson
Trenton, Missouri
Thompson
Hamill
Schumaker
the Farmers Store
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