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West Union News Briefs and Local Notices
Local items report improvements at Oak Grove with a community water supply for lodgers above the hall and a forecast of a front near Falb flat. Notables include returning soldiers from overseas, visits from Chicago, Camp Dodge furloughs, farm projects on Weibel Mill, chautauqua success, a bridge job, a graduation, a hospital scare from heat, a barn-raising, and a serious auto crash near West Union injuring three children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charl. Holzer
Gottfried
Oak Grove
Judas Scholen
Theodore
John Christ
Bobby Belle
Wm. Christ
John H. Bower
Camp Dodge
John
Henry Hrickson
Express
Henry Skarshoug
John Berndt
Guttenberg
Berndt
George Morehouse
Weibel Mill
GC. C. Cooely
Chicago
J. C. Cooley
Caroline Bauder
West Union
Hugh Lookard
Wigra Township
Fayette County
Iowa
Clyria
Frances Saunders
Elina Anna Hummell
Wadenn
Robert Ving
Wadins
Union Church
J. §. Moore
Wadena
Arlington News
Verle
Josephine Kniel
J. W. Bopp
Chautauqua
Shedlon Hoyle
Wm. Brabham
Hull
Walter Wilbur
Gon Billy
Ben Brabham
Frank
Fred Solsberger
Robert Wilson
Jim Bartlett
Willis
Wilbur
Alfred Weibel
Andrew Moser
Henry Moser
Gon Lenard
Fred Miller
Osterdock
Thomas Mitchell
Robert Cross
St. Paul
Tillie Frey
A, Wetel
Owen
J. Curley
Fairbank
Fred Weibel
Strawberry Point
Charles Greenley
Decorah
Iowa War Savings Committee
State Savings Committee
John’ Stavens
Algona
Yankee Robinson
Marshall DeSart
Dale Holmes
Fayette
M. Phillips
Gladys Nelson
Helen
Pearl Lyons