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Newspaper
Creston Daily Advertiser
Location
Creston, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1922
Page
8
A Mardi Gras dance tonight features the Merry Makers Orchestra with a free bus from the Depot Corner to the Pavilion and return. Admission is $1.10. Local residents and visitors noted include J. L. Thomas Humeston and P. P. Evans Bedford among others visiting Creston and area businesses.
A flood of business visitors and callers were noted in Creston today and yesterday. Names include Art Hood of Murray O T Meyers of Afton H F Dorsey of Greenfield Rex and Russell Nemeyer Ernest Butts of Orient and many others visiting Des Moines Creston Clarinda and Des Moines again for meetings errands and shopping.
Muskogee Oklahoma June 7 report notes Sunday school attendance rose after R M O Hair Y M C A boys secretary formed a Sunday School Athletic Association. Two basketball leagues formed with attendance up 60 percent. baseball leagues followed. plans for track field swimming and football. Also a Wakikuyu belief that death is catching and a dead person is untouchable.
Several rental notices list furnished light housekeeping rooms at 6.50 weekly, an eight room modern house, three rooms with bath and gas, and a modern apartment at 316 West Montgomery. Other listings include houses at 612 West Mills and a seven room modern house with furnace heat city water and paved street, all with contact names and phone numbers.
Local residents note new homes to be built in Preston this year. Photos are visible in Hickeys window. Several residents travel to Des Moines and Shenandoah for business visits and family visits, including Mrs. Carl Rodell and sister Mrs. Jennings, Miss Glenna Walters returning from Simpson College, and families heading to San Bernardino California for relatives.
Free bus shuttles to and from Park Pavilion on Wednesday for a big carnival dance. Admission is $1.10.
Furniture repairing and upholstering by Chris Jessen with phone 976. Gutter and spouting by Creston Cornice Works at 109 and 111 North Elm Street, phone 204. Spirella Corsets home calls by Mrs. Kirk Hawk at 606 West Mills Street, phone 14 percent.
C E Woods of Omaha called on local trade and Patt Cassady of Omaha arrived for a visit with friends. L W Bartlett of Osceola is expected to reach Creston for a short visit. W L Leavitt of Council Bluffs is in town and R A Murray of Des Moines University arrived to play second base for Creston.
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