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Newspaper
Creston Daily Advertiser
Location
Creston, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1924
Page
6
Multiple rental ads list five room houses and modern apartments in various streets with contact phone numbers. Also included are sales and trade notices for cows bottles, lumber lots, Liberty Bonds, and furniture offers in Creston and Lansing area.
An advertisement lists prices and products including Conkey's Buttermilk Starting Feed Charcoal Meat Scraps Bone Meal and coal. It offers free delivery and states prices good until market changes with contact at 113 E Montgomery Street phone 751.
Multiple small ads list items for sale including a Reed stroller and a sewing machine, along with a 1920 Buick car offered for sale and delivery. The Buick details cite new tires and recent paint, with viewing at Seeberger Garage and contact via R E Roger Executor Herbert L Jones estate. Additional notices show a general store stock sale tied to Williamson Store Prescott and Shockley Mere Co.
Classified briefs offer painting and paper hanging work by B L Lombard and K W Quinn with contact numbers. An elderly man seeks a housekeeper, while red foxes are advertised as wanted. A employment pitch invites ambitious workers to join C W Stuart & Co for nursery stock and rapid promotion. Information requested on Chas Bawelder last seen 38 years ago in River View Kansas.
Lost article from Saturday night between 6501 South Mantle and S816 N Elm. A white organdy dress with red embroidery and two rows of hemstitching. Finder should leave it at the office. Phone TOS%s.
A collection of classified snippets from Cres ton Iowa includes business ads for M C Edwards contractor and builder, dress making near Owen bakery, Fidelity Abstract & Loan Company led by J W Richardson, and various private money loan interests. Also mentions J B Taylor Creston, furniture sale at 611 W Adams, and Lansing W Sturburt at 511 W Adams St.
Miss Agnes Welch operates a beauty shop as a graduate stylist located first door east of Imperial Cafe, contact phone 1453. E B Edwards of Osceola spent Sunday in Creston visiting friends and Cornice Works at 109 111 N Elm, furnace and sheet metal work, phone 204.
Champagne post American Legion Creston announces a bonus form meeting Tuesday at the courthouse led by Commander Gratly. The legion offers free help filling forms for the adjusted compensation act, warns delays hurt beneficiaries, and notes payouts begin January 1st with heirs due after March 1st if death occurs before filing.
Mayor Ed C. Keith warns Cres ton youths to avoid loud disturbances ahead of the Fourth of July and to keep matches away from firework fuses. Four men were arrested Sunday night at the Strand theater for firing firecrackers and each paid a five dollar fine. The mayor orders pre Fourth of July celebrants arrested to curb early disturbances.
Funeral services for Alfred Holmes will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o clock at the Deitrick chapel. Rev Homer Baurgardner will officiate with the G A R members in charge. Interment will follow at Graceland cemetery.
The Line in township farm bureau will not meet Wednesday night as planned due to a busy sea sain.
Crseton Gas Co. states prices for genuine gas house coke will be nine dollars per ton for lump and thirteen dollars per ton for crushed delivered. The new prices are one dollar per ton lower than last year.
Be Quick About It listing many items for sale within 48 hours at 511 West Adams. Items include a French bevel plate mirror a hall tree four leather chairs a solid mahogany chiffonier a mahogany writing desk and chair a first class brass bed with mattress and springs a Buck gas range with double oven a cedar chest and a burglar proof safe. Contact Lan sing W. Hurlburt by phone 278.
Ex service members are urged to visit the court house Tuesday night to complete and file their bonus applications. The event aims to help veterans obtain eligible benefits.
Dr. R A Swanson is listed as chiropractor over Jaster's She Store located at 107 N Maple Street. Office phone 563 and residence 937 are provided.
Snapshot of small ads listing Gault Bros two phones Creston Plumbing and Heating at 109-111 N Elm St and Independent Taxi Auto Livery with phone 140 signaling a period neighborhood business roster.
Chick Evans of Chicago built a long title run in the Western Amateur Championship, winning eight times with four consecutive wins recent. From 1909 to 1920 he claimed titles, defeating rivaliers such as Seckel, Phelps, Standish, Wolff, Knepper, Van Elm, Gardner, and Sweetser. Evans’s 1921 victory over Gardner at Mayfield followed a dramatic clash with Sweetser, tied after extra holes, with Evans finally prevailing and revealing he had lost his life savings in Chicago wheat.
Iowa City June 36 Benjamin F Shambaugh argues voters are public officials and the electorate a government department urging political education reform as the Commonwealth Conference opens with noted public office figures and educators scheduled to speak tomorrow and Wednesday.
The G A R post will meet at the hall at 1 30 Tuesday to attend the funeral of Alfred Holmes. Mr and Mrs Fred K Fisher returned home Sunday after a six weeks absence with Mrs Fisher visiting relatives in Eolagna Missouri and Mr Fisher in St Louis and other southern cities on business. James Brower of Lewistown Pennsylvania, guest in the home of his mother Mrs W H Harrison of 405 West Montgomery street, returns home Tuesday with his mother accompanying for the summer. Sylvester Clawbury of Avon Michigan and Pillie Spies of Abington New Jersey, who stayed in Creston with Lorem Recknor, depart for Seattle Washington. They drive Mr Clawybures Lincoln. Spies and Recknor are Lombard college alumni and old friends.
The piece lists nominees including Oscar W. Underwood and Joseph T. Robinson among others as front runners at a party convention. Delegates, exhausted from a Friday night to Sunday clash, finally adopt a platform amid lingering tensions and renewed resolve for the coming struggle.
A permanent air mail service between New York and San Francisco begins tomorrow with the first relay flight from each terminus. The schedule promises coast to coast deliveries in under 36 hours, weatherproofed by night routes lit with searchlights and beacon fields. Westly L. Smith will start from Hazlehurst Long Island at 11 am with plane changes at Cleveland Chicago Cheyenne Salt Lake City and Reno.
A non poisonous water snake caused the drowning of Frank Balsz 27 Rita Balsz and Agnes Palsz at Gray's Lake near Chatsworth after a boat mishap during a picnic. The three bodies were recovered by police.
Dick Baker left this morning for Des Moines to take the optometry examination and will be absent from Creston for ten days. Elmo Roper has returned home from a Rotary convention in Toronto after visiting Montreal Niagara Falls and Minneapolis. Mr and Mrs Arthur Showers of Burlington, guests in Creston with Mr and Mrs J N Showers of South Maple street, returned home this morning.
Miss Minnie Decker wed Arthur A Gust Sunday at 1 00 pm in Cres ton at the home of the bride’s parents 600 N Birch St Rev Jerome Emanuel officiated in front of a large gathering. A wedding dinner followed and the couple will reside in Atlantic while the groom runs a contracting business. Out of town guests included Mr and Mrs Mark Decker Hartley Mr and Mrs William Decker Cromwell and Mrs H Fredericks Greenfield.
Miss Margaret Kellogg daughter of Mr and Mrs Homer Kellogg and Mr William E Ward were married Sunday morning by Rev J H Woodsum at the Baptist parsonage. They were accompanied by the bride's parents and will reside in the city after a brief wedding trip.
Burlington residents distribute travel and family visit updates. Checks were issued today at the ticket office. Mr and Mrs Joe Stranad of Morning visited Sunsay at the home of Fay Stranad. Dorothy Jones of Greenfield arrives for a two week stay with sister Mrs Charles Heflin. Dr and Mrs T V Golden and Milfred leave for O Neal Nebraska for a few days. Ruth Quigley of Valentin Nebraska returns home after a week with the Munsons. Mrs Arthur Anderson and son of Denver visit the Andersons of Wyoming Avenue. Anderson returns home after a short visit. Gretchen Myers of New York City will stay with Dr and Mrs F M Davis and Mr and Mrs L E Sternberg. Laura Dixon and Madge Cusack return from Mason City after attending American Legion Auxiliary convention. Elizabeth Hannan of Farragut leaves Creston for Chicago to attend summer school. Mrs August Carlson and daughter Lena of North Elm Street depart for Los Angeles and San Francisco for six weeks. Warren Royce of Sioux City returns home after two weeks in Creston with the Royces.
The article notes praise for acoustics in the new Congregational church with a Moller organ to be installed in fall. It covers Burton Bowman praised in Iowa City, Strauss directing Vienna Opera for ten years, Bl joining Cincinnati Symphony, and Chattanooga hiring Elwin Lemare for five years. It also highlights Mervyn De Muth Agnew harpist success, with Creston band concerts and upcoming park event.
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