Wadena Community Notes Carried by Many Visitors
Dorothy Wood from Fairfield visits a week at the Wood home. Numerous guests call on families in Arlington and West Union. A boy born January 19 to Mr and Mrs Frank Lonegran. Stays include visits by Oelwein, Waterloo, Manchester residents. Aug Oldfather hospitalized in Arizona. Weather and social events centered around local homes and churches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy Wood
Fairfield
Patential
J. R. Woodhomie
John Thiele
Oelwein
Will Whitten
Bough
Naomi Crandall
Berthd Corbin
Weater Font
Hans Baumgartner
Hazel
Strawberry Point
Harry
Masonville
John ,Hoffiman
Tom
Presto
Illyria
Lauren Welsh
Marie
Jim Davis
Near Elgin
George Davis
H. C. Rundell
Storm Lake
Rob Frey
Harry Johnson
Lamont
Paul Kuhnes
Beverly Jean
Lyle Kuhnes
Marie Johnson
Walter Medberry
Dewey Thompson
Aslington
Roy Cline
Frank Poor
B. A. Jennings
H. B. Peterman
Clarence Nus
Arlington
Frank Raftis
Lucille
Frances
Cellera
Delwe
Howard Mason
Mr. Williams
West Union
M. A. Klingman
Fred Kuhn
Eldorado
Henry Kuhn
Grace
Hopkinton
Will Harris
H. Whitcher
Harry, Lawrence
Rosa Whitcher
Waterloo
J. S. Molumby
Myr
Walter Molumby
Dickens, Tawa
Wadena School Notes Highlight Attendance and Health
The Wadena school notes celebrate perfect attendance in the first semester across grades, name students by name, mention a grocery project thanks to Mr. Walters, and note letters from ill pupil Marjorie Herwig. It also lists students with perfect attendance in grades five and six, reports illnesses and recoveries, and notes the birth of a boy to Mr. and Mrs. George Howard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee Aeschliman
Harry
Chapman
Lester Johnson
John Murray
Dorothy Cline
Darrel Johnson
Alice Sniffin
Mr. Walters
Rita Felder
Martin Frey
Derry Leonhart
Donald Livingston
Vivian Minihan
Darryl , Wordell
Robert Bond
Address Change Notice for Subscribers
Subscribers are urged to notify the subscription department promptly of any address changes. Under new postal laws newspapers must pay postage due for notices of changes in address furnished by the post office. Delays in delivery or failure to receive the paper are addressed by sending the change of address in advance.
Wit and Whimsy Across a War of Words In The Post
A collage of quips and cartoons reflects cultural play at issue time with witty exchanges on Europe, spring, and daily life. It features column jokes about style, law, and a running gag of dialogue between adults and children, ending with a grandmother and grandson exchange about talking versus time.
Balimando brothers build futures from a shoe shines parlor
A Boston shoe shine stand run by Tony Balimando supports four sons as they pursue varied paths. One son completes a medical course in Naples, another studies engineering, while two others in the United States enter clothing and contracting trades, funded by the family business’s nickels and dimes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Tony Balimando
Ufe
Naples
Pigeons Nest Blow In Reveals Historic Table Ashore
A Lewiston resident found a pigeon nest on a bedroom sill containing an egg and a historic round mahogany table with a marble top, once used by Andrew Tackeon at New Orleans 1815 near Jackson’s army, later bought by J. M. Williams’s great-grandfather in Alina Oklahoma.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewiston
Maine
Andrew Tackeon
New Orleans
J. “M. Willams
Telephones for Lappe Ready in Lapland Tents
Swedish nomads in Lapland may soon install telephones in their tent settlements. After years of radio use, they will gain direct communication with the outside world as the government advances northern line connections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lappe
Lapps
Arctic
Lapland
Ais
Mammoth Tursip Exhibit From Virginia Farm
A giant tursip from the Lee farm at Irvington near the northern neck of Virginia reached Richmond for exhibition. The vegetable measured exactly nine and a half inches in length.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee
Irvington
Virginia
Richmond
The Scheme Seldom Falls Peach Cordial Exchange
A fragment shows a jokey dialogue where Joe asks for a peach cordial recipe and Jack offers to send candy, implying casual, humorous banter without a clear news event or context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe
Jack
John B Cannon 1855 1938 West Union farmer and father
John B Cannon born February 8 1855 in Albany New York died January 16 1938 at his daughter's home aged 77 years 11 months 18 days last survivor of a seven child family moved to West Union as a child spent life on farm retired ten years ago to daughter Nora Wenger's home married Ellen Thorson February 10 1894 children Nora Wenger Elgin and Lawrence Cannon West Union widow left with two grandchildren John and Clarence Burial in Clermont cemetery funeral at West Union Catholic church conducted by Rev J F McCaffery pallbearers listed
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John B. Cannon
Albany
N. Y
Harry’ Wenger
William
Bridget Gannon
West Union
Lawrence
Nora Wenger
Ellen Thorson
Elgin
Lawrence Cannon
John
Clarence Cannon
J. F. McCaffery
Clermont
Martin Shea
John Dullard
Ellie van Sickle
Dan O’hallorn
William Krumlauf
Herman Hinsenbrock
Card of Thanks for John Cannon and family
To all friends and neighbors we extend heartfelt thanks for their acts of kindness and sympathy during the illness, death, and burial of our beloved father John Cannon and family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Cannon
Harry Wenger
Lawrence ‘Cannon
Henderson Widow of Randalia Native Dies in Elgin
Julania A Henderson daughter of Hubbard and Sophia Hadsel was born January 28 1856 in Clifford Susquehanna County Pennsylvania and died January 16 1938 in Elgin. She married Otis C Henderson in 1881 at Central City Iowa and had two children Leo Henderson Decker and O F Henderson. After her husband’s death in 1921 she moved to Elgin living with her brother Dr H S Hadsel. She was active in St Pauls M E church the Order of Eastern Stars the Elgin Study Club and civic groups. Funeral held at St Pauls M E Church with Order of Eastern Stars service. Interment Hawkeye Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julania A. Henderson
Hubbard
Sophia Hadzel
Clifford
Susquahana County
Pennsylvania
Elgin
Fayette County
Otis C. Henderson
Central City
Iowa
Leo Henderson Decker
Newton
O. F. Henderson
Balboa
Canal Zone
Randalia
H. S. Hadsel
Lois Hadsel Rollins
Order of Eastern Stars
Samuel Mosby
Max Thoma
L. B. Carter
Forest Welch
B.schori
Ern Bauder
Hawkeye
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Ralph Reed
J. J. O'Hara
Wallace Peters
Robert Peters
Fred Ernst
Kirk Hicks
Will Chriateleit
Volga City
Ray Bergan
D. B. Jellings
Cedar Rapids
Lyla Jones
Gerald Weber
Sophia Weber
Coggan
St. David
Arizona
Fred Thompson
Will Thompson
Howe
St. Louis
John Thompson
John Erickson
Warren Perkins
William Frey
The
Missionary Society
Lizzie Schrock
W. F. Moore
J. S. Moore
Mission Band
Blanche Whitcher
Max Jennings
John Hofer
Opal Dennler
W. C. Falh
George Fath
Georgiana
George Howard
Europe
the Post
Boswell
Polltixen
Copenhagen
Cineinnati Enquirer
Towa Crier
Ghendal Mangwa
Tokyo
Jimmy
Paul
John 'B. Cannon
Fox Bros
Weat Union
F. J. Keeling
Cane
J. S. Phillipe
Myrtle Nelson
George Raft
Constance Cummings
Mae West
John Wayne
Duke
Joe’ ‘E. Brown
Ginger Rogers
Our Gang
Farina
Bea
Elgin State Bank Capital
West Elgin
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