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Newspaper
Creston Daily Advertiser
Location
Creston, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1922
Page
6
Activities unfold across the region with plowing at Demond's Chapel and a busy Pleasant Township Farm Bureau meeting featuring ice cream sales and a clear profit. Local families visit Thayer and Creston, while Mrs. Breckenridge plans a visit and Mrs. Haley recovers after the death of a newborn.
Four Falk sisters of Essex Iowa arrived with a two car shipment of steers they fed themselves. They aim to learn the cattle market and improve future purchases, noting their gain of about a pound and a half daily.
Charles Hickok of the Creston Council United Commercial Travelers has been elected Grand Page of the Iowa United Commercial Travelers by the state lodge convention in Oskaloosa Iowa on June 10 Delegation arrives on No 9 tonight The election is praised as a credit to Hickoks competence by locals
Iowa State College will award degrees and diplomas to 598 graduates for the year, about 20 percent more than any previous year. The agricultural division leads with 113 candidates, engineering 112, home economics 85, and other fields sum to the total. The commencement program begins with senior day and alumni events, with Henry C. Wallace delivering the commencement speech.
The article notes Shenandoah was defeated 6 to 1 here Sunday by the other team. It also lists unrelated local notices including travel, surgery, weddings, and visits among residents.
C B Elliott promotes Ford cars with monthly payment options. The notice lists Creston gutter and spouting works at 109 and 111 North Elm Street and urges readers to see the revived Creston team Sunday.
A description notes many new lingerie items use pongee fabric with trims that include colorful bands and floral designs. Often the garments feature only hem stitching for finishing accents.
A Paris runway shows a new neckline with an exaggerated bateau effect. It sits off the shoulders on both sides and drops about an inch or two in front, signaling a bold silhouette update.
At last night’s Creston Board of Education meeting Miss Mabel Guthrie county nurse was elected supervisor of hygiene in the lower grades and attendance officer. The post was created in response to a long felt need backed by a petition from leading local patrons. Guthrie will begin her duties at the start of the new school year in September.
Jim Bruce of the Vallery Baker Jackson Bruce Commission Co of St. Joseph Missouri visited Kansas City and vicinity to solicit business. He succeeded W C Jordan who sold his stake. Jordan remains with the Sanders Egan Co in Kansas City. Bruce met cattlemen and viewed cattle in feeding and plans to return to Creston periodically.
The season features extensive use of black gloves among well dressed women with black gowns trending. The trend reduces the appeal of lighter kid gloves as an additional cost factor for keeping up appearances.
Lenox shoppers seek bargains with sweaters priced at ten or fifteen dollars and many locals visit the city. Several residents travel for commencements and reunions, with visits to Grinnell Shenandoah Omaha and Denver. Railroad engineer Walter Beeler will work from Creston and vacation plans take Mr and Mrs Ponton through Nebraska and Colorado.
Local notes show Nave McCord and St Joe City champions set to meet Cres ton in baseball Sunday. Additional items list visits and business from Council Bluffs to Lenox, Grinnell, Des Moines and Corning with residents including J Boyce, C O Kirk, J E Vorrath, Frank Flummer, William Wright, O B Emerson, Ben Coen, Mildred Allen, Wilbur Gidley, Kellogg, Rush Allen, W A McKee, Bessie Pettit and Homer Pettit across Iowa towns Chariton Lenox Des Moines Belton Crinnell Grinnell.
Howard Brown of this city, after an operation at Mercy Hospital in St. Joseph Missouri, returned home Friday evening and is nearly recovered. Miss Lorretta Cusack left for Iowa City to attend Summer School at the University and will teach Modern History in the coming year.
Classified items seek private housework, buy Ford Ster body, first mortgage at 8 percent with city security, wallpaper cleaning, tire sales positions, farm for sale inquiries, state representative and sales manager roles, door to door merchandise orders, salesmen with car, hosiery sales, wholesale staple trade, livestock knowledge needed, and mineral feeds sales with strong earnings examples. Numerous firms including Universal Tire Co Chicago, International Knitting Mills Norris Town, Conn Product Co Waterloo IA, Creston Speciality Co Milwaukee, and McCarty referenced.
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