Gazette Farm Editor Explores Cotton Farming In South Carolina
Gazette editor Ray Anderson visits William C Wolfe Jr’s Orangeburg area to study cotton on Jacob Fairley’s 1,500 acre Calhoun County plantation. He observes sharecropping, mule expanding labor, crude equipment, and crop timing influence by a wet spring, with cotton valued around 100 dollars per bale and yields about one bale per acre.
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Ray Anderson
Gazette
Rangeburg
S.C
Calhoun County
South Carolina
William C Wolfe, Jr
Orangeburg
Jacob Fairley
St Matthews
Fairley
Mrs Fairley
Marion news items highlight local clubs and events
The Marion News Gazette lists vacation Bible schools at the Marion and Baptist churches starting Monday at 9 am for two weeks with a 25 cent enrollment. Red Cross sewing, Kensington season finale, a 1923 high school class picnic, a marriage in Grenada, smoke at a residence, and a Camp Dodge medical note accompany a busy community schedule.
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the Baptist Church
Marion High School
Thomas Park
Memorial Day Rites to Be Highlighted in Marion
Dr. Eric Clithero of Coe College will speak at Marion Memorial Day services in the Marion Methodist church at 11 00 am. A W Salisbury to direct the combined choir of Marion churches. At 10 30 am Marion posts and veterans groups will meet at the city park monument for brief services and families are asked to attend the procession to the church.
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Marion
Emerson
Methodist Church
Eric Clithero
Coe College
Marion Methodist Church
A. W. Salisbury
American Legion
Robert Mitchell
Marion notices and ads mix in community events
Local items report fortieth wedding anniversary celebrations at north Marion homes. Announcements include graduations, hospital returns, club meetings, and summer class enrollments. Employment ads seek a saleslady and helper with in person applications, plus barber shop prices and a driver license needed for work.
Wartime rackets prey on families of service members
Officials urge vigilance against scams targeting relatives of soldiers. Rackets include inside information on deaths, false furloughs, inheritance schemes, and missing person letters. Red Cross and federal agencies advise reporting suspicious calls and mail to authorities to protect families and prevent profiteering during wartime.
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Red Cross
Sigmund
New York
Better Business Bureau
Final Anniversary Fete For Oelwein Publisher
OELWEIN Iowa residents celebrate Henry V Hoyer’s 56th year in publishing with a party for about 50 with family. Hoyer, now 80, recently sold his majority in the Daily Register to Lew Warren and W S Rupe. He began in 1887 with a hand press, grew Fayette County’s only daily, and held public service roles including railroad commissioner.
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Waltcr H
Daily Register
Lew Warren
W. S. Rupe
Ames Daily Tribune
Register
Hoyer
Iowa
Oelwein
Will S. Beels
Fayette County
Delhi
Swinburn
Manchester Press
Ackley
Delwein
The
Newport
Germany
Hardin County
Iowa Falls
John Hammill
Ocl
Delaware Court Opens Monday for May Term
Fourteen new district court cases are filed for the May term to begin Monday with Judge Ralph W. Hasner of Waterloo presiding. A $5,000 damage suit by Joseph W. Friedman versus Henry Hessing stems from an alleged June 29 contract to buy Hessing’s North Fork farm for 19 400 with partial payments and a refusal to complete. Another case sees Manchester Cemetery Company foreclose on a mortgage totaling 2 083.33 against Mrs. Clara Rieck and others of North Manchester.
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Manchester
Delaware District Court
Ralph W. Hasner
Waterloo
Joseph W. Friedman
Henry Hessing
Friedman
Hessing
North Fork Township
Dyersville State Bank
Manchester Cemetery Company
Clara Rieck
North Manchester
Cedar Rapids Sailor Helps Lead Navy Orchestra
Theron W. Driscoll a Belle Plaine native now in Cedar Rapids performed with the quartermaster battalion dance orchestra in a South Pacific program marking the battalion’s first anniversary. He authored a skit that was a highlight of the show.
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South Pacific
Theron W. Driscoll
Belle Plaine
J. L. Driscoll
Fifteenth Street
Cedar Rapids
Quartermaster Battalion
Driscoll
Graduates of 1893 Meet at Upper Iowa
Six of the 13 living members of the Upper Town University class of 1893 gathered on the Fayette campus for a reunion last week. Attendees included W. F. Baker Decorah Elbert H. Estey West Union Mr and Mrs Charles J Martin Laverne Minn Henry W Dickman Waterloo and Rev Herbert L Case Mankato Minn. Originally 19 members composed the class.
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Fayette
Upper Town University
W. F. Baker
Decorah
Elbert H. Estey
West Union
Charles J. Martin
la~ Verne
Minn
Henry W. Dickman
Waterloo
Herbert L. Case
Mankato
Columbus Soldier Killed in Action
Mr and Mrs John M Williams of Columbus Junction are notified by the war department that their son William Robert 23 has been killed in action in the South Pacific He volunteered with the Fighting Tigers in China and later served with U S forces seeing action near Guadalcanal The Williams family has three other sons in military service.
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Cedar Rapids
War Department
Columbus Junction
John M. Williams
William Robert
South Pacific
Williams
Fighting Tigers
China
U. S
Guadalcanal
Mt Pleasant Flyer Awarded Air Medal in Pacific Raids
HONOLULU UP reports Seventh Air Force officers and men received Air Medals in a joint navy army ceremony. Most awards honor brave bombing raids on Nauru and Tarawa. Included is Lt. Robert A. Myers of Mt. Pleasant with an Air Medal and Oak Leaf cluster.
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Honolulu
Seventh Air Force
Nauru
Tarawa
Licut
Robert A. Myers
Mt. Pleasant
Iowa Wisconsin pact sought on truck license plates
Iowa Public Safety Commissioner Karl Fisch er said talks with Wisconsin aim to create a motor vehicle reciprocity agreement. The deal would exempt Iowa commercial vehicles from buying Wisconsin license plates when traveling into the state.
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Des Moines
Karl Fischer
Walker-Verts-Lester Estling marriage in San Antonio
Ruth J. Verts daughter of the Rev and Mrs L W Verts of New Hampton and Corp Lester Estling son of Mr and Mrs Victor Estling of Walker were married in San Antonio Texas on May 1 by a Baptist minister. Estling is stationed at Fort Sam Houston.
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Walker
Ruth J. Verts
L. W. Verts
New Hampton
Corp
Lester Estling
Victor Estling
San Antonio
Texas
Corp. Estling
Fort Sam Houston
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Musical Literary Club
Gilbert Voorhies
Mrs. L. C. Dow
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Howard
Patricia
Evelyn Howe
Grenada
Miss
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Vernon Blietz
Camp McCain
Brett H. Shanklin
Seventh Avenue
Billie Vahl
Mae Vahl
Camp Dodge
Victory Junior
John L. Gritzner
Glenn Miller
Camp Claiborne
C. C. Miller
Mrs. A. A. Schenken
Eileen
Chicago
Mr. Schenken
Cary Club
Albert E. Bragg
Harry Snell
Lee R. Fitzgerald
A. A. Hardin
Rosemary Taylor
Bath
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Grove City
Rebekah Lodge
King's Daughters
M. A. Gurney
John LeVin
E. L. Clitheroe
Storm’s
Ray Starry
Irvin S. Scott
Vernon Stevens
Camp Callan
Calif
Marion Barbers
Emmet Tow
Cedar Falls
Arline Tow
Iowa State Teachers College
Ted Parsons
Third Avenue
George Bristol
Judith Katherine
Eighth Street
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Public Library
Owen
Vocal Music Department
Marion Public Schools
Rose Wilcox
Lincoln
Marion W.C.T.U
Minnie
Metta Whitcomb
Gordon Grocery
Royal J. Montgomery
Grinnell
Congregational Christian Conference of
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Prairie Chapel Garden Club
Clyde Scott
North Marion
Howard Sanders
Coleen
Fourth Street
Montezuma
Mr. Saunders
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church
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