Community News From Cedar Rapids Area
F R Berg Andrewear and Max Lehman were in Cedar Rapids Monday and Tuesday Mrs L J Kohler visits from West Bend to see relatives and friends a skating spot formed near Otter Creek bridge after flooding the area Miss Nancy Baldwin in Iowa City for cataract surgery with a second operation planned in ten days her brother George visiting her in hospital Saturday night a fire alarm drew a crowd to the Nicklaus home extinguishers quieted sparks from a chimney the furnace chimney burned but no damage occurred
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F. R. Berg
Andrewear
Max Lehman
Cedar Rapids
L. J. Kohler
West Bend
Ite
Otter Creek Bridge
Chas. Muehtfenthater
West Union
Dakota
Sam
Nancy Baldwin
Iowa City
Bey
George
Miss Baldwin
Woolyria Items Eleven Days Till Christmas
Local notes report many residents coping with colds and cold weather. Social visits surface among Gehring, Stuffer, Klingman, Medberry, Yearous, and others. Ray Walls to enlist, passing exams and heading to St Louis for U.S. army service. Red Cross set for December 14. several families host visits and hold gatherings across Elgin and nearby areas.
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Lester Gehring
Herachel Stuffer
Halverson
Ole Benson
Elma
Bertha Medberry
Foxwell
Will Frieden
CG L. Klingman
Ray
Les Klingman
Postville
West Union
Israel Shaffer
Ed Wenger
Chicago
Mary Shaffer
Elgin
Jim Yearons
Harry Wenger
Henry McMillan
Ida Mattocks
Mildred Yearous
Ingrippe
Red Cross
Patsy Minihan
Lena Wenger
Henry McMalon
Fred Reichert
J. Colgrove
Kenneth
G. M. Fritz
George Gibson
Harry Gilson
Wayne
J. Cosgrove
Russell
Cedar Rapids
Roy Walls
St. Louis
U. S. Army
Coast Defense Division
Red Cross Christmas Drive Aims For Ten Million New Members
Next week marks the start of a national Red Cross drive to add ten million members to the five million already in the organization. The effort urges every branch to uphold pledges of Christmas goodwill, aiding soldiers at home and abroad and those in suffering lands. Other items note Mrs. Nicklaus’s visit in West Union, Mrs. Ann Cooley's trip to Decorah, telephone workers rewiring and moving the central office above Elgin Savings Bank, and Russell George, first high schooler to enlist, returning from Cedar Rapids after testing for service.
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Red Cross
American Red Cross
The
J Russell George
Russell
Henry George
Cedar Rapids
Fayette County Union
West Union Iowa Promoted as Regional Hub and Desirable Home Center
A promotional piece extols West Union as a political religious and social hub in a seventy five million dollar county. It highlights a top high school with twenty teachers water sewer drainage parks churches and shade trees. The town is presented as prosperous with rising population and values plus strong media fairs hospitals parks roads and services. It invites buyers renters and sellers to explore abstracts farms homes and loans.
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West
Union
Iowa
West Union
Linden Park
Court House
Weat Union
Our City
Pike Roads
Woat Union
The Natural Law Play Returns to Small House
Casper returns to Champaign after visiting the Straud residence. The Natural Law at the opera house last night drew a very small audience, though it had generated strong buzz in New York City. Performers were described as pleasant, with good acting and a generally favorable reception.
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Casper
Champaign
Ill
R. P. Straud
Opera House
New York City
Magazine gift sale and porch inquiries
Group purchases offer notable savings with Mrs. F. W. Hughes or leave word at the Hide office. An advertisement praises Chamberlain’s Tablets for stomach trouble and says Mrs. L. A. Drinkard of Jefferson City reports quick relief. Stoehr & Co. handles the product. R. Q. Woodard’s son George, a University of Missouri law student, applied for military service in the university medical unit.
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F. W. Hughes
R. Q. Woodard
George
College of Law
S. U. S. Head
University City
Union
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McCall
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Joyn
Gires
PATI
Satatoute
Aarons
Wmemccall CO
West 37Th Street
Newark
N.Y
C. O. Fothergill
M. D
Higin Hotel
Stoehr
Elgin, Towa
Aluminum
W. J. Kohler Hardware Store
Standard Telephone Company
J. W. Bopp
Weel One
L. G. Lehman
Schori Bros
Yowa
Conigisky
Optometrist
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