Local Residents Attend Socials and Visits in Elkader Area
A parade of calls and visits fills a weekend in Elkader and nearby towns. Libbie Klingman entertained friends while Cora Larson visited, and many households report guests from West Union, Elgin, Manchester, and Cedar Rapids. Attendees also note farm tasks, threshing season, and a Harvest Home Picnic at Fayette.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Libbie Klingman
Cora
Larson
C. M. Klingman
Elkader
Will Frieden
Whe
Rudy ‘Younker
Plessie Kiple
Wigin
Nannie Fritz
Elgin
Bessie
Myron Chayman
Wil! Pollock
Guy Moore
Emmetsburg
Town Falls
Fayette
Coranell Rothlisberger
John Probert
Andrew Yearous
Eagle Grove
Ellen Hunsberger
Jerome Yearous
West Union
Olga Benson
Cecil Klingman
Henry Frieden
Iona
Ray Chapman
Roy Wall
Pauline Fisheel
Wallace Peters
Anna
May Kimball
G. A. Gibson
Lester Wenger
C. Wenger
Leon Kerr
Fred Reichert
Manchester
Ralph Reichert
Cedar Rapids
Martha Chapman
Harlow
Arthur
Will
Lena Wenger
Max Guyer
Cc. L. Klingman
L. W. Meiellar
Farge Mumber
C. L. Klingman
Martin
Henry McMillan
Mary Wenger
Eleanor Schneider
Little Billy Wilbur
Wm. Brabham
Walter Wilbur
Local Happenings Across West Union and Environs
Melvin Boyer motored to Gelweia, M C Hovey shipped four carloads of sheep to Chicago, and Amos Craft of Sioux City visited relatives. The B P A picnic occurred at West Union park. residents helped at Pledgant Grove cemetery. Miss Katharine Wright visited from West Union. various townsfolk shared small travels and visits. F R Berg promotes as Elgin Auctioneer with past sales ranging from seven to eleven thousand dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melvin Boyer
Gelweia Isunday
M. C. Hovey
Chicago
Amos Craft
Sioux City
Stanley Gillett
Gelwein
Martin Hovey
Ridgeway
Katharine Wright
West Union
Arthur Patterson
Sid Patterson
George Tripp
Pledgant Grove
Odith,Brouse
Frank Lyons
Hdna Bartholomew
Dell Northup
Mary Boyer
Waterloo
H. G. Boyer
Fay Thompson
Thelma Lyons
Edith Brause
John Monnahan
Roland Bartlett
North Dakota
Martha McAlyon
New Hampton
Nutting
M. ©. Hovey
Hast Country Club
L. D. Hitch
Gunder Home Coming Celebrates Service Members
Plans for Gunder Home Coming August 30 to September 1 near completion with registration, a parade, and exercises by school children. Notable features include a service flag ceremony, Postgille Band music, a home talent play, fireworks, memorial service, and addresses by Gen. Allen and Attorney Ainsworth. An aero exhibit by Clifton Penn Oleson is expected, with veterans as honored guests. Dr. Frank Crane closes with a reflective meditation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gunder
Postgille
Marshall
Cedar Rapids
Ao Spenter
Rev
Tanner
Moorehead
Minn
Gander
West Clermont
Gen. Allen
Ainsworth
West Union
Clermont Bari
Clifton Penn Oleson
McGregor
Coin toke fancy of Arabs in Abyssinia and Arabia
The Maria Theresa silver dollar dominates trade in Abyssinia and Arabia. Arabs prized its queen’s effigy and Turkish bans on imports spurred smuggling through Aden. Minted from crude originals dating to 1780, these coins travel via Trieste to Red Sea markets, exchanged for local goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abyssinia
Arabia
Red Sea
Intervala
Aden
Trieste
Plans for two stock pavilions in Fayette County debated
Members of the Fayette County stock association split evenly between West Union and Oelwein on the site for a proposed stock pavilion and gate yards. West Union and Oelwein each offered to build and charge a minimal gate fee. A possible outcome is two pavilions, one for breeders in the south and one for the north. Voting mirrored the tied choice. A county directory's printing is near ready, with details to follow soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fayette County
Stock Association
West Union
Oelwein
Fair Association
West Anion
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Ad Claims Cure and Reward
One hundred dollar reward offered for catarrh cures Hall's Catarrh Medicine advertised as bloodborne and mucous surface healer claiming thirty five years of use and dramatic health improvements. Sold by druggists 76 cents address F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio. Bowery dance at Brackin Bowery Saturday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Ohio
State Spelling Match Notices Mailed for County Entries
Notices to county superintendents inform a state spelling contest will be held in the auditorium of the woman’s building on the state fairgrounds August 27. Each county may enter one representative who must not yet have entered high school, with graduation from the eighth grade last fall not acting as a bar. Free admission tickets will be issued. prizes include first $20, second $16, third $10, and eleven $5 prizes. Dr Hutchinson and wife hosted Mrs Kapinoa and children of Spillville this past week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman's
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Generous Royal Gambler Tale of a Prussian King
A plain stranger at a faro table amasses fortune in a legendary run and breaks the bank. An Austrian officer eyes the wealth and is promised a twentieth part, then learns the man is the king of Prussia in disguise. The tale, recounted by Thiselton-Dyer, endures as a romantic gambling legend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thiselton-Dyer
Prussia
Military Correspondence Reveals Courtship Tone
A Birmingham Age-Herald item extracts a playful exchange about Col. Puttersby’s letters to Miss Gloria Piffle. The critic quips that “Too much military efficiency” prompts the reply “How was that?” and notes the opening “From Col. Put tersby To Miss Gloria Piffle Subject Love” as a witty artifact of wartime correspondence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Col. Puttersby
Gloria Piffle
Birmingham Age-Herald
Returned Soldiers Honor Roll Notice in West Union Iowa
Notice seeks names, home addresses, and services of returned veterans and fallen service members for Fayette County Honor Roll. Readers urged to write R. H. Mellrae at West Union and invite neighbors to submit names. Also notes Fayette County Fair crowds, Home Coming events at Gander, and local updates on Walter Dennler and Harry Keiser.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. H. Mellrae
West Union
Iowa
Fayette County
Hoho
Gander
Chicago Tribune
Walter Dennler
Fothergill
Harry Keiser
Des Moines
College of Commerce
Waterloo
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Carl Blockhus
Chris Dummermuth
H. Gilson
Axel Berg
Nels Steinerson
Gus Gun
Heaven
Nature
Dove
Isis
God
Frank Crane
Maria ‘Theresa
Bowery
Dr. L. &. Hutchinson
Poland
China
L. Hunsberger & Son
Wadena
Ern Holzer
Bill's Orchestra
Dayton
H. S. Hadsel
M.D
Dr. Hutchinson
Bana
Elgin Savings Bane
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