Des Moines toowa News Briefs on Oct 17 Iowa traffic and crimes
Des Moines reports heavy rail movement of football fans from Illinois to Towa City with several special trains and road conditions poor for motorists. Don L Parker, Home Utilities manager, faces a grand larceny charge in Peoria with $5,000 bond. Governors Hammill visited for Hawkeyes clash. Fort Madison snow recall notes. Keokuk youth larceny, Ottumwa nurse graduation and Odd Fellows convention. A break in at Hahr Construction yielded $40. Towns report theft via local suspects.
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Rock Island
Towa City
Don L Parker
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Elinois Contract Corporation of
Peoria
Parker
Open season pheasant protest and local obituaries noted
Southeast town women attend district American Legion conference here yesterday with next year’s meeting set for Wapello. Blackhawk County residents uniformly reject hunting lands as open pheasant season nears. In Bellevue Esther Brady dies at six after a fall. Dubuque reports Funeral services for Rev. J H Brinkman held. Bishop Ward Howard officiates for Mother Marygnes. Dubuque also notes a lawsuit accusing Granite Top Surfacing of secret patent contract with a local contractor.
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American Legion ‘Women’s Auxiliary
Yesterdsy
Wapello
Withdraw Pupils from Schools Teaching Irish
A Mayo technical committee cut funding for Irish language teaching from 670 to 400 pounds and warned of more cuts. D’Atton noted parents may withdraw children if Irish is not dropped. He blamed economic decline for language loss, while government plans compulsory Irish and a commission to study the language’s decline in Irish speaking districts.
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Associate Press
Dublin
Echnical Committee
County Mayo
D'Atton
Trioh
Cedar Falls WCT leader Mary Jane Philpot serves twelfth term
Mary Jane Philpot aged 76 of Cedar Falls was elected to her twelfth consecutive term as chairman of Black Hawk county Women’s Christian Temperance Union. A veteran organizer, she helped found the local union, served as director of six state departments, state field secretary and organizer, and attended multiple national conferences. Her early crusade work included aiding the 1874 temperance movement and the Cedar Falls effort that closed several saloons, amid threats and a brick thrown at her carriage.
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Cedar Falls
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Ccal
Mary Jane Philpot
Black Hawk County
Philpot
Midwest States
National Society
Mary J
Birt M. E
William Plettle
EA. Snyder
Cedar Falls Woman Devoted to WTA and Missions
Vouyeast journal notes long service of Mrs. Philpot who has taught a day school class for decades and helped build missions. She helped found local societies, served as temperance secretary for the Upper Iowa conference, and contributed to church and WCTU work.
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Vouyeast Journal
Pussis
Cedar Falls
Mra Philpot
WTA
Lome and Foreign Missionary Societies
Methodist Episcopat Church
Th Clas Hay
Upper Iowa
M. E. Church
WCTU
James Brownea
W Relief Corps
Great Number of Women In Oxford Summer School
Oxford October 17 The Oxford summer school showed a great proportion of women students. They were numerous in lecture rooms and often outnumbered men in libraries. The experience suggests women in a university are more conscientious and work harder than men, without gaining proportionate honors on exams. This fact tends to reconcile fears about female predominance.
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Oxford Summer School
Associated Press
Oxford
Oxford Ummer School
New Islands Found by Japanese Explorer M Inouye
A Japanese explorer M Inouye reports discovery of over ten coral islands in the South Seas valued around 900 yen. The group lies about 350 miles off Mindanao Philippines and will be surveyed by the Japan Geographical Society. The largest island is said to exceed fifteen miles in circumference and the islands are uninhabited.
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Associated Pre
Tokio
South Seas
M. Inouye
Japan Geographical Society
Mindanas Island
Philippines
Internationsl Geographic Association
Inouye
Morgans Gives Census Figures for Des Moines County
Des Moines county census data outlines farm land, buildings, and livestock values. It lists 129,486 acres of plains and pastures, 38,074 acres of rough land, 8,467 acres uncropped last year, and total farm land valued at 39,869,725 dollars. Agricultural equipment includes 285 tractors and 1,680 autos. hogs numbered 4,300 with cholera losses of 4. Nearly 4,300 hogs died and cattle reached 45,777 head valued at 769,202 dollars. Beekeeping counted 205 hives.
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Des Moines County
Value of warty producers estimated near 400000 dollars
Mrs Willan Farrell left for Fairfield to visit relatives. Tom Keir of Corning returned home after days with her daughter Mrs A R Maxwell of 306 North Sumner Avenue. Maxwell accompanied her and will attend a luncheon in Corning today.
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Fairfirld
Tom Kei
Corning
A. R. Maxwel
North Sumner Avenue
Maxwell
Will
Tm Corning
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