Alumni and High School Girls Battle Night Showdown
Local night game features Alumni teams with strong players facing high school rivals in a double header. Georgia Schort and Hulda Meyer spark late scoring for the Alumni girls to edge the high school, while the High School girls rally late but fall short. Next Friday hosts Arlington teams in a curtainraiser, with Postville visits the same night. games start 7:30 and 8:30 p.m. at the local gym, officiated by Kelly of Upper Iowa.
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Dena
Ian
Ehool
Ata
Wighes
Bard
Falk
Kiple
Hulda Meyer
Georgia Schort
Hulda ‘Meyer
Arlington High
Arlington Town
Tigers
Postvile
Postville High
Arlington
Tiger
Bobori
Johnson
Moyer
Grether
Creees
Dummermuth
Peeper
Hanson, &Mosby
Gruver
Kingman
T . Eeteey
Balb
Ft Greenley
Comner
Fosveeseeereree
le Kiple
Cyereeee
V. Kiple
Shorscreey
Kirwin
Cornell
M. B. Church Notes Urge Recommitment to God
M B Church notes remind readers to place God first and announce next Sunday as a proper time to decide or renew commitment. All week services run at regular hours. Echo office handles payments owed to F W Hughes with book forms and receipts issued by R P Strauch FP W Hughes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. B. Church
F. W. Hughes
Echo
R. P. Strauch
W. Hughes
A Papper Defined and Winter Milk Delivery Changes
A local note mentions a character called a Gapper and a plan for a single morning milk delivery daily for the rest of winter. Several small items follow: Mrs Carmichael is ill. Mrs Mosby visited Oslwein last Thursday. a 1984 Buick was purchased by Hane Bilden and family from a local agent. Robert Peters and Rene Harzettof Allison hosted dinner at the Chas Feller home. The post office staff have had two short breathings recently, and Christmas meals this year were unusually large. Kids faced a show storm and playful snow drift ideas were shared.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. ©. Carmichael
Samus
Mosby
Hane Bilden
Robert Peters
Kida
Clermont Poultry Thefts Lead to Grand Larceny Charges
In Clermont area a poultry theft case escalated when sheriff Wright seized a car containing a half pint of hootch and seed timothy from Timothy seed plants. Charges of grand larceny arise as Quin brothers and others face jail. Henry Ford museum inquiry prompts exchange over an antique carved snuff box found by Knudt family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agien- Doud
John Zion
Clermont
Hoth
Quin Brothers
Timothy
Wright
Bion
Senth
Avidente
Layton
Timothy Sehpt McGragor
Jad
Bofor
Heritt
Dout
Winneshisk
Zion
Argo‘Gazette
Antther
Henry
Lawfeies Knudtson
Arsand
Knudtatme
Beexsee Ugt
Lawrence
Henry Ford
Ford
Baptist Church Noten Noten Service and Meetings
Sunday events at the Baptist Church include a German service with communion at 10 a.m. followed by Sunday school, dinner at 12:15 p.m., junior and committees meetings at 1 p.m., and annual reports and the election of one trustee at 2 p.m. On Wednesday January 9 at 2 p.m. the Ladies Aid Society meets at Mrs Arnold Bauman’s home. Thursday January 10 at 8 p.m. prayer meeting. A watchnight service featured notable resolutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baptist Church
Ladies’ Aid Society
Arnold Bauman
Notice to Stockholders and Local Notices
Notice to stockholders Ihyria and Highland Telephone Company will hold their annual meeting at the Migin Savings Bank on Saturday January 5 at two o clock L L Wenger president Other local notes mention Elkader visits Mrs Celia Rennison improvement Wealbal Mill Company Elkema family home return Rene Hazlett attended a funeral John Benson illness Clermont Double Store sold to John Jacobzon and Joe M Brorby Diamond ring mystery sparks talk Time will tell
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ihyria and Highland Telephone Company
Migin Savings Bank
Clermont
A. L. Coray & Co
John Jacobzon
St Olaf
Joe M. Brorby
Calvin Coolidge Career Timeline From Farm Chores To Presidency
A historical outline traces Calvin Coolidge from farm chores and country school through preparatory studies and college work, then law apprenticeship and practice. It chronicles his rise: city councilman at 27, city solicitor at 28, county clerk at 32, state senator at 40, lieutenant governor at 44, governor at 47, vice president at 49, and president at 61, noting the engaging arc of a future leader.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calvin Coolidge
United States
Bors
Tractor Farming Riddle Reworks Body Parts as Curious Questions
In a whimsical verse from the era a speaker asks where a man can buy a cap for his kneat or a key for the lock of hair and ponders pupils in an academy. The riddle links facial features and limbs to odd needs and ends with life on the farm and the question of sharp shoulders.
Fires Ignite in Astoria Plant History Repeats
Sentiment in business in the great Astoria Light Heat and Power Co plant notes fires started over a century ago in the old New York Gas Co plant. A 1906 event placed the world’s largest gas plant in operation, and today fires burning in Astoria’s plant trace back to 19th century origins. Cow Testing Assn Elects Officers In Elgin Wadena meeting on December 28 elected H. S. Groth president and others. J. N. Spencer and Roland Pentle arrived to begin local testing duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sentiment Jn
Astoria ‘Light, Heat and Power Co
New York
Astoria
Elgin-Wadena
Elgin
Association
Christmas Echo items and social notes from Wadena page
A jumble of local notices reports visits and social events. Mrs. Harry Heston sick for days Prof and Mrs Hikema visiting last Thursday Mr and Mrs Gua Gunderson entertained Sunday at Mrs A Olson s home Subscriptions and bartering wheat corn oats and other grains offered Echo reminders Troubadours to perform at Odd Fellow Hall Wadena Friday January 1st or 2nd in Lyceum Course program خوان
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Heston
Hikema
Gua Gunderson
A. Olson
Wadena
Wadena Lyceum
Journey Across the Southwest A Letter From Los Angeles
A letter from J D Shaffer in Los Angeles dated December 26 recounts a cross country train trip from Elgin Iowa through Kansas to Tucson and California. He notes snow in Kansas and New Mexico, a six inch Santa Fe snow, and warm California details such as orange groves in the Imperial Valley. He mentions friends and local family, school study of the desert, and greetings to readers in Iowa and Elgin.
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Los Angeles
Californias
Richard Strauch
Elgin
Iowa
the Folke
Helen
Kansas
Tuscon
Arizona
Santa Ropa
N. M
Great American Desert
Nea
California
Redfind
Imperial Valley
Yumon
Mgm
Fred Hanson
George Falk
Charles Neuenschwander
Jerome’ Phillips
Charles Cavey
Ferguson
Bower
J. D. Shaffer
Run After What You Want and Home Bargain Sales
A column urges proactive living and avoiding passive wishes, urging readers to chase opportunities. It notes an eye ear nose and throat clinic at Postville hospital on Tuesday forenoon, mentions Mrs C W Nicklaus visiting Des Moines, and promotes local January bargain sales. It argues community vitality comes from local merchants and spending at home rather than mail order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Postville Hospital
C. W. Nicklaus
Des Moines
Rex Stark
Elgin
Local social notes span Ames to West One Holl events
A long list of Sunday visitors and dinners across Ames, Cheery Valley, Volga City, Cedar Falls, and nearby towns includes Mr and Mrs Frey, Mrs Frieden, Mrs Medberry, and family, with multiple Rothlisberger, Yeurous, and Wenger households hosting relatives. Community figures like Harold Strong and Reverend Butler are noted as callers, while Coe College student Russell Peters and others visit family during holidays as neighbors share meals and greetings. An Ellery church note asks readers to reevaluate their place with God, with adjusted winter service times: Sunday school at 1 30 p m and church service at 2 30 p m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugene Woodsworth
Ames
Andrew Yearous I
Wickham
Dubuque
Fre ‘Mont Ogle
Otis Roethlisberger
Floyd Ernst
C. L. Klingma P
Carroll
Mikader
Nancy Ernst
Perry Medberry
Bracker
Cheery
Elmer Medberry
Ray
Lea
Hilda
Albert Kilngsman
Jack Shaffer
Adolph Hanson
Gotfred Frieden
Ruth Schneider
Jacob Gebacing
Cheery Valley
Eleanor Schneider
Elgin
Fred Schneier
Theodore Hannon
Jake Gehring
Checary Valley
Arthur
Allan Schneider
F. Roethlisberger
Butler
Aon Bobby
Fred Rothlisberger
Donna Probert
Volga City
Walter Rothisberger
Fred Burrow
Amt Mra
Law Lehman
S. H. Foxwell
Walter Rothiisberger
Mildred
Arthur Yearous
Artington
Lucille Mattocks
Vil Olin
Ruth Trothlisberner
West Union
F. Rothlisberger
Russell Peters
Coe College
Cedar Rapids
W. L. Peters
Walter Rothlisberger
John Rothlisberger
Chas. Rothliaberger
Chris Wenger
Harry Wenger
Cannon
Lawrence
Illyria
Sera
Plymouth man fined for death and failure to report accident
A Plymouth county man responsible for the death of Mrs. Mary Tucker was fined 500 dollars and 100 dollars costs and barred from driving again in town after failing to report the accident. Several locals gathered at Miss Florence Lehman’s home on New Year’s Eve to ring in 1924, while Rev. and Mrs. Dee V. Butler and son returned Friday from a Nash- Jun visit in Wattttoo with their car.
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Plymouth County
Mary Tucker
Florence Lehman
Dee V. Butler
Wattttoo
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Shirley
Mao Heston
Maz Hestod
Barry
Marie Heaton
Tune
Ning
Denly
Mary Hanson
Marie Mosby
Ruby
Oleson
Geraldine Sobert
Cope
Rcolumhunlty
Oglates
Ahter
Flarty
Marie Hoatét
Automobile Department
Gand
Perial Bo
Emhcounky
F. D. Welch
L. L. Wenger, Pres
Ebalibi
Otto Emglebert
Elkader
Dusiness
Celia Rennison
A. TR
Dakota
Fred Schelder
Howard ‘Shaffer Sro
Harold Strong
West One Holl
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