Mrs Fleming Elected President of Iowa Teachers
Mrs Eva M Fleming superintendent of Decorah schools was elected president of the Iowa State Teachers Association at the Des Moines convention attended by over 5 000 teachers. Grace Bradshaw and Frances Ampleby named to executive roles. Blackmar and Corlett chosen as vice presidents. The vote was to be finalized at the Coliseum business meeting tonight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eva M. Fleming
Decorah
Iowa State Teachers’ Association
Des Moines
Lillian Wohlford
Lillian Greer
Town State Teachers’ Association
Fleming
Grace Bradshaw
Pocahontas County
Miss Bradshaw
Frances Ampleby
Emerson School
Blackmar
Ottumwa
Robert K. Corlett
Burlington
Coliseum
Wards Rise as State Institutions Hit 9759 Population
The board of control reports fourteen state institutions house 9759 residents, up 200 since 1914. Oakdale tuberculosis sanitarium and Glenwood Feeble Minded Children’s Home are at capacity with long waiting lists. others are less crowded. Readouts include School for the Deaf 188, Town Soldiers’ Home 872, etc. Construction continues on Woodward Epileptics Colony and Rockwell City Women’s Reformatory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Control
Oakdale
Glenwood
School For the
Town Soldiers’ Home
Town Soldiers’ Orphans
Institution
Industrial School
Mount Pleasant
Independence Hospital
Clarinda
Cherokee
Inebriate
Oakdale Sanitarium
Fort Madison
Anamosa
Woodward
Women’s Reformatory
Rockwell City
A Chance for Decorah in Limestone Crushing
J A Beattie of Floyd bought a large limestone crusher with a capacity of two and a half to three tons per hour and formed a partnership with Clarence Wagoner to supply motive power. Orders exceed 2000 tons of pulverized limestone for Floyd county farms, with calls to establish a Decorah crushing plant to fertilize farms and improve roads year round.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles City
J. A. Beattie
Floyd
Clarence Wagoner
Floyd County
Winneshiek County
Decorah
Marked Roads Guide Waukon Travelers
Waukon Commercial club marks principal roads from the city to nearby towns. Poles along county roads bear color coded lines to Postville Decorah Harpers Ferry Ossian Lansing and Dorchester. Thomas Lee did the marking.
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Waukon Commercial Club
Waukon
Postville
Decorah
Burlington Way
Harpers Ferry
Ossian
Lansing
Dorchester
Thomas Lee
Ols
Three More Cheese Factories Planned in Allamakee County
Harpers Ferry creamery has been bought by Hon. D J Murphy of Waukon and will be fitted for cheese making. Plans call for another factory at Village Creek and a third about ten miles north of Waukon in French Creek township. Murphy already owns several county factories and the dairy industry looks set to grow for local farmers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allamakee Co
Harpers Ferry
D. J. Murphy
Waukon
Village Creek
French Creek
Solomon on the Pumpkin and American Pie Delights
A nostalgic meditation on the pumpkin symbolizing abundance and unity in American life. The piece celebrates pumpkin uses from farms to pie, noting its role in households and markets, with regional mentions and a nod to November bounty as political borders blur into shared appetite.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Bryan
White House
Aborn Opera Company Brings The Bohemian Girl to Minneapolis
The Aborn Opera Company tours to the Metropolitan Opera House for three more performances this week. Jeanette Wells sings Arline with a dainty lyric voice while Harold Blake plays Thaddeus. Cast also includes Albert Wallerstedt Ralph Nichols Francis Tyler Joan O’Neil F. J. McCarthy Phyllis Davies and Dora Lyon as the ensemble. A large audience greeted the company.
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Grand Opera House
Aborn Opera Company
Minneapolis Tribune
Balfe
Metropolitan Opera House
Minneapolis
Jeanette Wells
Arline
Miss Wells
Thaddeus
Harold Blake
Albert Wallerstedt
Ralph Nichols
Francis Tyler
Joan O'Neil
F. J. McCarthy
Phyllis’ Davies
Dora Lyon
Metropolitan
Sumner Boy’s Acre of Corn Prize Result
Henry Hochberger of Sumner township Bremer county yielded 65.95 bushels shelled weight from a trial acre in the corn prize contest. Judges W Creager and JF Treloar measured and weighed the crop from 1914 seed raised by J D Noehberger and grown as Teed's Early Murdock. Moisture test pending. ears look hard and dry.
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Henry Hochberger
Sumner High School
Sumner Township
Bremer County
W. ©. Creager
Sumner Nursery
JF. Treloar
J.D. Noehberger
Teed
Molting Hens Care Tips for Draft-Proof Poultry Houses
During molt hens recover best when drafts are eliminated. Ensure there are no cracks near the roof and keep birds well fed. The guidance applies to all poultry whether in molt or not.
Neighbors report incidents and developments across towns
Local notes mention the Illinois Central building a new depot at Nashua the J D Bickel bakery fire at McGregor a scarlet fever epidemic closing Randalia school thefts in Guttenberg and Waterloo a five story warehouse planned at Waterloo and a power wringer injury to Don Anderson Iowa City. The Cedar River bridge contract went to Illinois Steel and Bridge for 18780 and a flood of notices ends with the Chicago Anamosa and Northern railroad sale bid attempts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ilinois Central
Nashua
Lansing
Denver
Hazelton
Buchanan County
Guttenberg
Schaffer
Mieria
Fayette County
Randalia
J. D. Bickel
McGregor
Scott
J. E. Smith
Waterloo
Bath Packing Co
Don Anderson
Iowa City
Cedar
Waverly
Ilinois Steel and Bridge Company
Fire chief uses student essays to press home fire safety
A convention speaker described a plan in Murphysboro where a fire chief secured essays from school children on defects in their homes that could cause a fire. The chief then visited each owner with their child’s essay and demanded required repairs. The speaker urged adopting the scheme in Iowa and claimed it could work nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Murphysboro
Towa
United States
Great Corn Weather Drives Record Harvest Pace
The Town reports six weeks of ideal dry sunny conditions for ripening and drying the big corn crop. Favorable weather has accelerated cribbing with an estimated 377,000,000 bushels in progress by early November and Thanksgiving promises substantial progress toward completion.
West Union Fire Ravages Business District
A major blaze in West Union Fayette County began Monday night near the rear of the Princess theater likely from an electric wire. It spread quickly as firefighters struggled with an initial hose line delay, threatening adjacent buildings before gaining headway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fayette Co. Union
Princess Theater
Enterprising thief swaps coats and pockets goods
BE. FP. Rogers, who claims to work for a Minneapolis auto concern, hid an overcoat in a clothing store then swapped it for a better one and pocketed handkerchiefs a cap a collar and other small items. He is serving thirty days in Mason City county jail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FP. Rogers
Minneapolis
Mason City
Bootlegger Is Fined and Liquor Destroyed in Court
H Glazier appeared before Judge Springer on bootlegging charges and pleaded guilty. The judge fined him 125 dollars plus costs, which were paid. An order to destroy the liquor was executed by Sheriff Kerar County Attorney Shaffer and Constable O Day, who poured it down the courthouse sewer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Hampton
H. Glazier
Springer
Kerar
Shaffer
O'Day
Court House
Death of William P F Riemenselneider in State Center
William P F Riemenselneider aged 43 of State Center Marshall county was found dead in bed by his mother after failing to respond to breakfast. Beside him lay his 4 year old son Roscoe. Cause of death heart disease. Missouri shoe factories employ 15 477 persons valued at 55 148 000 in 1915 16.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William PF. Riemenselneider
State Center
Marshall County
Roscoe
Reimenschneider
Missouri
Fifty Years Ago News Notes from Decorah Area
A roundup from Winneshiek county recalls Claik Day selling 36 acres to brickmaker B. Kornmeyer and plans for a brick yard. A new Republican paper prospectus emerges in Cresco by Wood and Mix. A jail break attempt is recounted, with four men fettered. A lecture course group forms in Decorah for winter. Hunters Vreeland and party brought home two large deer. Lincoln Station rail stop established near ten mile creek. Two deaths reported Ossian and Decorah. Asa W Adams and Emma J Fuller wed in Decorah.
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Claik Day
Standring’s
B. _Kornmeyer
Kornmeyer
Cresco
Messrs
Wood & Mix
Cresco Times
L. P. Barth
Arneson
Decorah
Vreeland
Yellow
Wapsie
Winneshiek County
J. Hargreaves
Burr Oak
Freeport
Ten Mile Creek
Lincoln Station
Brooks
Ossian
George Stone
Sile Ervin
Asa W. Adams
Emma J. Fuller
A Little After Two Joke From Dublin
In a tale of a daughter who elopes with a man her father disapproves of an old man chases them. The riddle ends with a pun about time. Jones says the time was a Little after two.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones
Smith
Little
Dublin
Pater
Business Man Has High Ideals In Cedar Rapids
A Cedar Rapids profile highlights Dr. Conigisky an optometrist from Decorah now at 219 South Third Street He offers glasses and a philosophy of giving more than a square deal with many testimonials but no public display of them He aims to serve a growing city with vision and humane service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Decorah
Gilead
Conigisky
South Third Street
Actor Fiske O Hara Proposes An Actor Regiment Camp
Fiske O Hara calls for a two month summer training camp to form an actor regiment to support national preparedness. He argues actors endure stage fire, critics' shots, and fearlessly face audiences, likening it to military readiness and praising Gov Whitman for support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fiske O'Hara
Grand Opera House
Decorah
Sherman
Mr. O'Hara
Uncle Sam
Governor Whitman
Albany
N. Y
Do You Have Sour Stomach A Home Remedy
If sour stomach troubles you eat slowly and chew food thoroughly then take one of Chamberlains Tablets after supper for relief. Sold by R A Engbertson. Adv for Colts to be weaned advises keeping mares apart. Feed the colts well.
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R. A. Engbertson
Adv
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Mrs. Fleming
The
Solomon
Sumner
West Union
Republican
Fiske O’hara
M. J. Soukup
Iowa
Patrician Design
B. Shubert, Inc
West
Austin Ave
Chicago
U.S.A
Kapp
Decorah Furniture Co’y
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