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Newspaper
Creston Daily Advertiser
Location
Creston, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1922
Page
5
Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Burt and family and Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Tissue and family from this city motored to Elliott Iowa on Sunday morning and spent the day with Dr. and Mrs. L. E. Stiles, who are remembered as former residents of this city.
John Sash, Robert Hannelly and the Misses Culver motored to Mt. Ayr Sunday. Mr. Hannelly visited his brother, Dr. Hannelly, who has been very ill but is now slowly recovering. Dr. Lela Sash returned with them for a few days visit at her home here.
Emery Rowland, 22, of Creston, owner of an Osceola oil station, risked his life to prevent a large explosion. While unloading a tank car, a spark from a motor caused flames. Rowland shut off the motor, reactivated it, then reentered the burning building to cut power and escape with serious burns to face neck and hands.
Yesterday's Washington dispatches note patent grants to Iowans. Arthur Arent of Des Moines received protection for treating wood. Knut Bratteig of Marshalltown got a hay rack patent. James F. Cooper of Hannibal Mo. received a collapsible automobile bed. Co L Knowles of Kingsley received a tire chain fastener patent.
Des Moines papers boast of strawberries five inches in circumference. Gus Schrader from Creston reportedly grows berries measuring six inches around. Schrader, a longtime First Ward resident at 402 North Cherry Street since 1874, came from Quincy Illinois.
R. E. Wolbert of this city will be among fourteen Iowans at the three weeks outing and business congress of the Cleveland Discount Company in Lake Placid New York. The group left their home towns Sunday for the east.
The residence of C. E. Ours on the Cromwel road nears completion and will be ready for occupancy soon. Emerson and Swartz handle the finishing work on what is described as one of the finest rural homes.
Three marriage licenses were issued recently to couples from Corning Carbon and Centerville. Leroy L. O Riley 27 to Sarah Bates 19 of Corning Irving J. Barr 22 to Grace Honeck 20 of Carbon S B McCormick 27 to Mary E Elgin 19 of Centerville.
Engineer Arthur Franklin has a fine new modern home under construction on Buckeye street. The foundation has now been completed and construction will proceed at once under contract with Emerson Swarts.
Fred Brown alias Gus Grimes and Ernest Busch, captured after a Wyoming dash, spoke from the state penitentiary about his flight from Omaha to Sidney and Boxelder. He admitted tying two women, denied Seifken murder ties, and boasted of outwitting officers while awaiting transfer to Nebraska. Dr. Kell said he was recovering well.
The President’s greeting will appear in the June 30 issue of the Iowa Magazine section distributed with the newspaper. The first issue also features Harold MacGrath's serial The Man with Three Names and a short story by Pernice Brown, plus various Iowa themed departments.
Miss Alice M. Miller married Raymond A. Dudley at 8:90 Sunday morning at the Creston Methodist parsonage in Creston. Rev. J W Goodsell officiated with witnesses Mrs Woods and Mr A H Woods. The bride is the Millers daughter from a farm northeast Creston. Dudley, a Creston native with wartime service in France, now works for Creston Auto Co. They plan to reside in Creston.
A girl in New York wore a black satin gown slashed with green crepe, layered over a silver under tunic. She complemented the look with a jade bracelet above the elbow and jade earrings, seen on a roof garden scene.
Mr and Mrs E M Joseph now of Danville Illinois arrive in Creston to visit old friends staying with Mr and Mrs Paul McGuffin and Mr and Mrs Ray Wilson They will travel to Lincoln Nebraska before returning home Mr Joseph has been assigned to the Danville district as National Bank Examiner.
Mrs. Sarah Bates and Mr. Leroy L O'Riley of Corning wed in Creston Saturday at 2:00 PM. Rev. J. W Goodsell officiated in the parsonage with Miss Helen O'Riley and Mr. M. D. Niemier present. The groom farms south of Corning and they will reside near there.
Professor Houghton, who has conducted a dancing school at the Iowana Hotel in Creston for months, will teach dancing in Corning this summer. Creston residents regret his departure but expect his return in the fall.
A fact note states cucumbers are about 90 percent water. It also notes there are 2000 Japanese merchant vessels.
John R. Vanderflught a farmer near Kellerton Ringgold county Iowa has filed a bankruptcy petition listing assets as none liabilities of 3014.60 and 731.00 exempt A bill of complaint has been filed by Lincoln Joint Stock Land Bank of Lincoln Nebraska against William M Patterson Fannie Patterson Russell State Bank and Citizens State Bank for a note and mortgages totaling 6299.70.
The World's Purity League plans moral and physical uplift for delinquents with new Minneapolis headquarters. Dr. W D Lawrence says clubs will be formed nationwide and abroad, with teachers trained to run them and a medical clinic for rehabilitative care in Minneapolis.
Dr Lawrence urges staff to normalize punishment survivors and rehabilitate minds. He argues for reading recommendations across subjects to help inmates adapt, improve behavior, and integrate socially. The statement emphasizes humane, educational approaches in prison settings.
The word moribund means in a dying state or near death. Derived from Latin moribi it describes something on the verge of extinction such as old party organizations seen as moribund amid a new political alignment.
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