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Newspaper
Creston Daily Advertiser
Location
Creston, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1925
Page
6
Wanted ad seeks wall paper cleaning services with 20 years experience. Includes phone contact. Also lost item notice reports a suitcase with a girl's clothing along a primary road, owner’s name inside, express collect to H E Dow at 324 South Linn Street, Wa City Iowa.
Edwin Keith son of Dr and Mrs W K Keith 808 West Montgomery arrives from Iowa City state university will spend summer with parents. Marshal Camp student at Iowa State University arrives in Creston Saturday to stay at John Deitrick home and with his father D W Camp at Arispe. Also Wareham Beauty Shop building project and Crest on Plumbing and Heating Co 109 111 North Elm phone 204.
Degnan Reynolds arrived home Saturday from Drake University in Des Moines. He will spend the summer with his parents, Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Reynolds, at 506 West Montgomery Street.
Local ad promotes steer meat at six dollars and thirty cents with a forty five cent price label. The snippet resembles a small grocery circular listing item prices and fresh meats.
A batch of rental notices lists furnished down air sleeping room with telephone, modern furnished housekeeping rooms, three modern rooms and garage, good seven room house for two families on South Pine Street, four room strictly modern apartment on ground floor, and Davenport building apartments on North Maple Street with contact numbers for Carl Davenport Advertiser office.
A misc listing invites properties for sale or exchange through J A Stearns located at 111 North Maple Street. For abstracts and loans, Fidelity Abstract and Loan Company is available with J V Richardson serving as president.
Telephone notice warns of widespread line trouble from a very severe storm. Creston Mutual Telephone reports repairs will take several days as crews work to restore service after the storm impact.
An ad promotes Windstorm Insurance from W. N. Patt under the heading Insurance That In sures. It lists Dr. R. A. Swanson as chiropractor with office near Hester's Shoe Store at 107 North Maple Street and provides a phone number for both office and residence.
Creston Iron and Metal Co lists wool bags for sale and urges dairy operators to have milk cows tested this month as required by city ordinance. The notice mentions Creston and a local phone contact 852.
Des Moines, June 8. Clarence Harris nine? years old was killed and his mother Mrs H H Harris seriously injured when run down by an auto driven by F F Law late last night. Law is charged with manslaughter.
Governor and Mrs Hammill left Des Moines for the Twin Cities to join the Norse centennial celebration. They will be in the receiving line at a Coolidge reception hosted by Governor Christianson in Minnesota. The governor then heads to Mason City for a Grand Army encampment address Tuesday evening.
Geneva June 8. The international arms conference outlawed bacteria in warfare. An amendment, placed with prison gas on the forbidden list, was supported by the American delegation and offered by Poland to include bacteria in the protocol.
Fans will witness a first time movie experience at the Hollywood Movie Ball in McKinley Park next Wednesday night. A prize waltz fox trot and beauty and sheik contests will select 24 couples whose dances may be filmed for a return showing. Pete's Peerless Players provide music as crowds swell and cosmetics sales rise in anticipation of entrants.
Sanford Johns of Corning visited friends here Sunday. Mildred Stirk returned home Sunday evening after a stay in Clarinda. Mrs. C. amant arrived home Saturday night after ten days in Des Moines. N. F. Seeley of Burlington came to Creston Sunday evening for several days of business. Dr J J Hess Francis Moran Dick Baker and Raymond Colgan attended the Knights of Columbus initiation in Corning Sunday.
There at Holland on June 8 the town rejected a proposal to fund the 1928 Amsterdam Olympic games. The vote was 48 against and 36 for the grant of 1,000,000 florins amid clerical opposition and debate over paganism and imperial prestige. Storm damage and weather notes follow from Des Moines and Creston areas.
Creston area reports extensive wind damage with rafters and barns ruined. Fifteen long distance lines were down, cars lost tops, and nearby communities recorded numerous farm buildings and hen houses wrecked while locals filed damage claims.
Mrs. Eliza Carl hosted a Sunday birthday gathering at 403 West Monroe for her children Maxine and Eugene born on different dates in May. Eight friends joined in contests and games before refreshments ended the afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Fessler hosted Sunday evening for Miss Eileen Reardon, a June bride, with guests from Creston enjoying card games.
K H Clem of 503 West Spencer street was honored on his 68th birthday with a picnic at Dexfield park near Dexter. Family from Creston Des Moines Kearney Neb and Kent attended. A public dance at McKinley park pavilion drew about 150 couples with dancing from 9 to 12.
Miss Ollie Griffin and Glen Waltz were married at the Presbyterian parsonage by Rev. William L. Cain. The couple, well known in the community, will reside at 1308 Hewitt Street.
Reports describe gradual land subsidence in San Francisco as a vast fill settles, with the Union Ferry Building sinking about 14 inches since 1898 and Market Street raised by inches to cope. Skyscrapers rise atop thousands of piles near the bay as a granite seawall holds back the sea.
Short items recount residents returning home visiting relatives and attending events. Local people traveled to Corning Murray Omaha Council Bluffs and Seattle for family business visits and ceremonies.
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