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Newspaper
Creston Daily Advertiser
Location
Creston, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1925
Page
6
Classified snippets include sales of rasp berries and phone contact, multiple rent offers for modern apartments and houses with locations in Dayton area, plus requests for help at Creston cafe and various job/writing inquiries. Notices also list typewriter rental, used car purchases, and employment offers from Rawleigh Co.
Brief notice notes J. V. Richardson as president of Fidelity Abstract and Loan Company in a miscellaneous abstract section. The fragment signals a business listing without further details on services or location.
Fern Lininger offers piano lessons from Drake Conservatory of Music with appointment scheduling via phone contact 703 percent.
Local storefront advertises fresh meats and a wide grocery selection with price comparisons on brands and quality. It notes cash paid for eggs, free delivery, and phone orders from 113 E Montgomer y Street, promising varied items from sugar to flour and canned goods.
We thank friends and relatives for kindness during our recent bereavement and for beautiful floral offerings. J. A. Pelton and daughters Chas Deterring and daughters.
A single ad shows Marigold Serenaders performing at McKinley Park on Saturday June 27 with admission set at 50 cents.
Dr. R. A. Swanson operates a chiropractic office above Hester's Shoe Store at 107 North Maple Street. Office phone is 5663 and residence number is 937.
Preston Plumbing and Heating Co located at 109 111 North Elm provides plumbing and heating services with phone line 204 and offers repairs installations and maintenance for homes and businesses.
Watch repair work invited by Creston Iron and Metal Co and Roper Brothers appears alongside social notes from Creston Corning Shenandoah and Red Oak. Visitors include A Schafroth Brower Miss Maxwell and families while Harry Rex recovers from eye infection. A trip to Chicago furniture markets followed by travel to Pennsylvania and Ohio is planned for Mr. Coen and Mr. McGregor and companions.
James Manion of St Louis, defending transMississippi champion, loses in the first round at Omaha Field Club to Don Anderson of St Louis in 19 holes. Other results include Swick over Beckencamp, Weatherby over Murray, Scott over Reed, and Slattery over Howard. In Iowa, Clark Tilden and William Vernon vie for Central Iowa Golf Association honors. Nelson elected association president.
Mrs. William Wallace of Greenfield attended an afternoon party at Miss Margarethe Wilson's home. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Phebus of Los Angeles visited in Creston with his brother F. M. Phebus. Others planned trips include Des Moines to visit Kunath family, Helena Ark and Memphis en route, and Chicago for several days.
A 14 year old girl, Edna Meador, is gravely hurt after Ernest Nelson, 35, a farm hand, battered her with five blows and then killed himself with a firearm at a barn on the Carlbergs’ farm. Nelson claimed to be a German army deserter who arrived in 1913. The motive remains undetermined as authorities investigate the brutal act.
Sioux City council weighed a life time dog license for Buster the fox terrier who saved Gordy Knutsen from drowning. Acting mayor J C Headington proposed the grant but public safety chief C E Wilcox said no council can grant a perpetual license to a dog and no action was taken.
Wilbur Scantlebury of Hampton Iowa, a sensational Hawkeye fullback in last fall’s Michigan Iowa game, is ruled ineligible for this fall due to baseball eligibility. His two years on the varsity and the ineligibility of guard Olson, who failed law exams, dim Iowa football hopes.
England's Cambridge and Oxford universities announce a track team to face Harvard Yale Princeton and Cornell in a July 11 to 18 series in America. The roster lists Porritt Harrison and other placers across sprints middle distance hurdles jumps and throws with several reserves.
In Los Angeles on June 24 a Chinese theater shows western influence in staging. An American jazz orchestra replaces fixed native strings and Chinese women play female roles instead of male impersonators. Real scenery backdrops and wings are installed to satisfy younger generations familiar with American staging methods.
Mrs. F. M. Davis hosted a 1 o'clock luncheon at Crestmoor Golf Club on Tuesday for Gretchen Myers of New York City, guest in the Roy Gault home. After lunch the guests played bridge with Mrs. Gault achieving high score.
The Agenda class of the First Baptist church met Tuesday evening at Miss Eva Richards 307 North Sumners Avenue. Officers for the new year were elected with Mrs. Roland Hunt president Mrs. Earl Warden vice president Mrs. Grace Schobe treasurer Mrs. Hallie Moraine secretary and Ruby Raybourne Goodman press correspondent. Social hour followed with Miss Louisa Grinnel as guest. Refreshments were served by Miss Richards and Ruby Raybourne Goodman.
Miss Margarethe Wilson and Miss Katherine Farthing entertained at the Wilson home on Sumner Avenue for Mrs. Wilfred Keith of Iowa City. The afternoon featured bridge and a dainty lunch served after the game.
The Joy de Vee club met Tuesday afternoon at 608 North Maple with Mrs. L. J. Wendel. Officers elected: president Mrs. H. E. England, VP Mrs. Russell Brookman, secretary Mrs. Roy Wolbert, treasurer Mrs. Harry Bartlett, corresponding secretary Mrs. James Kiisinger. Prizes awarded for high and low in five hundred. two course luncheon served. Guests: Mrs. Bert Hintz, Mrs. Harry Strance, Mrs. Clarke Gatehouse, Mrs. C. W. Clark.
Miss Lucile Heflin led a picnic for her class of ten children from the Congregational church at McKinley park this afternoon. Assistants included Miss Eileen Herrmann.
L A to B of R T met Tuesday at the Odd Fellows hall and arranged a forthcoming special meeting.
Sioux City Iowa June 24 Twenty four hours after the body of an infant boy was found floating in the Missouri river near here police were as far from a solution of the mystery as they were when the body first was found. With no clues other than a torn newspaper dated May 16 and a woman's dress in which the body was wrapped police have practically nothing to work on. The body was so badly decomposed that it was almost impossible to tell whether or not it had suffered any violence.
Manila hosts 76 unions, supplying 62 775 members, while mutual benefit societies total 107 with 73 437 members. Overall labor force includes 87 402 men and 2 004 women in unions across the islands.
A group of tramps in Des Moines aided by police saved Charles B. Moore, a 60 year old Minneapolis man, after three robbers attacked him and threw him into a creek near Valley Junction last night. Moore was pulled from the water and survived.
Funeral services for Mrs. James Pelton of Council Bluffs were held at 2 o clock Sunday at her sister Mrs. Harry Hartley s home in Creston and at 2 30 at the German Evangelical church. The church was filled with friends and relatives, and floral offerings were numerous and beautiful. Out of town relatives listed include W H Pelton, Mr and Mrs Will Pelton and Miss Crocker of Council Bluffs, Mr and Mrs George Meecham of Omaha, Mr and Mrs Frank Spoon of McGregor IA, Mr and Mrs W H Howell and daughter Clotine of Burlington, Mr and Mrs W C Freitag of Burlington, Mr and Mrs Walter Sissel of Greenfield, Mr and Mrs Pierenger and Mr and Mrs Jeffries and daughters of Bedford, Mr and Mrs Glen Sissel and Mrs J J Oshel and son Charles of Marshaltown.
Mr and Mrs Lloyd Hines of 1002 West Montgomery announce the birth of a baby boy at home Tuesday morning at 9 30. He is named Clifford Louis Hines.
Frank Ramsbottom has returned to his home in Orient after a brief visit here.
J. C. Darby of Omaha has returned to his home after spending Tuesday in the area.
Mr and Mrs Charles Cassidy of Red Oak spent the day here attending to business interests.
Des Moines reports that Omaha will serve as headquarters for the district comprising Town, Nebraska and Kansas under the prohibition enforcement shake up announced in Washington. The change takes effect August 1.
E E Tritzman of Ottumwa arrived in Creston on Tuesday to spend several days attending to business interests.
Mr and Mrs Frank Blair of Orlando Florida who have been visiting friends here a week left this morning for a trip to Minnesota before returning home to Florida.
Thomas Lynch of Crestmoor Golf club leaves tonight for Des Moines to oversee business interests and visit friends. C B Campbell of Campbell Construction is traveling by auto to Kansas City after bidding in Missouri projects that will demand much of his time there.
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