Small-Town Notes Tickle Readership With Local Gossip
A collage of social happenings in Higin and nearby areas includes Mrs Olson visiting in the home of her daughter Myrtle, signs of spring yard work, theater plans for next Friday, and a description of local shop notices. Letters from Cedar Rapids visitors, congratulations for a new baby born in Lime Springs, and remarks on a state convention in Des Moines add to the community snapshot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boythe” Olson
Gunder
Higin
Myrtle
Priday Eaventog
Denton Quackenbush
Steeler's Drug Co
N.Y
Bee
Cedar Rapids
T. J. Capper
Mra J. Bower
Elgin
J. D. Shaffer
Des Moines
Pleasant Valley
Cummings
Bartlett era notes and local notices from Cedar Rapids area
Local items include John Falk trip to Cedar Rapids and Saturday happenings, Aunt Deborah at the Opera House next Friday, horse balking contrasted with automobiles, sales notes on Silver Spangled Hamburgs, Red Wing work shoes advertised, nursing updates about Clermont caretaker Marie Skiei, plus community letters from Postville Review and Cedar Rapids Republician. Mentions of May Festival at Cornell, Mary Skarshoug visiting Mt. Vernon, Fred Ueberson from Shellsburg, weather and wheat market notes, and Cedar Rapids area social visits and kin from Hikader.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Falk
Cedar-“Rapids
Deborah
Opera House
Hamburg
Maynard
Berg
Londen
Wood
Frances
Cedar Rapids
A. B. Bauder
Fred Ueberson
Shellsburg
Wisconsin
Elgin
Northwest
Cedar Rapids Republician
George Schrampher
Hikader
Carl Schrampher
Beske
Sam William
Mecklenberg
Kansas
Weibel Mill Company Buys and Sells Farm Goods
The Weibel Mill Company lists truck sales and attachments including a Ford truck with Smith Forman, a Buick truck, and cheap sales by John Fal Buick Garage. They note weather delaying farmers seeding, rising farm rents in Anamakee County, and a large stock of tankage feeds. Rev J H Graham and family moved to Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts for a pastoral post. Mrs Bevin dies. Mrs Finke sends condolences to Des Moines and Corning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palmer
Kansas City
Anamakee
Wai. S. Hart
Wheeler Farm
Jefferson Town
Weibel, Mill Company
Minnesota
Welber Mill Company
Finke
Mlgin
Bevin
C. T. Cole
Des Moines
Corning
Hugh
Love and wages spark debate on bills and meals
The Cedar Rapids Republican notes stray thoughts on love as a force for enduring poor meals, college dining rooms paying high wages to professors, and calls for clerks in Washington to join Leed farms. It questions wage hikes, spring potato giveaways, and how long wages can rise before a crash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Lews Farms
Everthing
Cedar Rapids
Republican
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Elgin Savings Bank
Iowa
Tilyria
Plymouth Kegey
Frank Hunsberger
Sunny Date
Berg & Kohler
Chris Moser
Theo Schmidt
Miss. Lyons
Whetstone
Miss Berg
Fred Rothlisberger
Rothlisberger
Louis Martin
Glenfield
North ‘Dakota
Hlgin
Rogers
Nour
Nae
Citizens’. State Bank of Fagin
Citizens’ State Bank
Age Lo
Georgette , Tricolette
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