Farmers Plant Seventy-Five Seed Crews at Barnhart Farm
The state experiment station located on Barnhart Farm east of town started last week with Mr. Jones from Ames planting seed for a twelve acre plot. Seventy-five farmers furnished seed corn and the Commercial Club funds the rent and cultivation. A series of tests will compare new seed varieties, kernel counts, and ear tests. Professors Holden and Holden’s farm meeting and picnic are planned for fall.
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Pte
Barnhart Farm
Jones
Ames
Commercial Club
Corp
Board of Supervisors
Holden
A Story With a Moral from Algona Courier
A brief Algona Courier item recounts a tale of a newspaper man and a struggling country editor in Williams Hornet. It profiles Walter H. Hellen, editor of the Hornet, as a thoughtful figure in a town where small papers fight for existence amid health and life contrasts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter H. Hellen
The
Hornet
C. D. Hellen Yavbo
Evening Tribune
Des Moines
Register and Leader People
Mr. Hellen
Summer camp set for Guardsmen at Lake Okoboji
Nine members of Company G and the Fifty-Sixth Regiment Band will enter summer camp at Lake Okoboji on August 18 for ten days. Col. W T Chantland personally inspected Spirit Lake Storm Lake and Lake Okoboji grounds and chose Brownell Heights near Hayward's Bay as best suited for the troops. Lake Okoboji encampments are popular with both units, promising good attendance. Also notes local real estate transfers and cabbage and cauliflower plant ads.
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Iowa National Guards
Fifty-Sixth Regiment
Lake Okoboji
W.T. Chantland
Spirit Lake
Storm Lake
Brownell Heights
Hayward’s Bay
Fifty- Sixth Regiment
Fort Dodge
Spirit Lake Beacon: Orleans rebuilding after May fire
Spirit Lake Beacon notes the May 11 fire destroyed the Orleans building, with Gay Burnside to rebuild and T. J. Francis contracted for a new structure to match the burned site. Materials ordered, Rock Island to deliver promptly, workers from the prior building to be rehired, and Burnside pursuing a summer hotel on the former site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spirit Lake
Orleans
Gay Burnside
T. J. Francis
Rock Island
Francis
Burnside
A. B. Copley
Oklahoma
Very Fine Address Delivered to Estherville Graduates
Dr Chas S Medbury gave the commencement address at Estherville High School with a class of seventeen, nine girls and eight boys, as they graduated in the Methodist Episcopal church. The program featured music, a violin solo, diploma presentations, and an address on Intellectual Nobility that impressed local readers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Estherville
Methodist Episcopal Church
C. E
W. C. Wasser
Chas
Medbury
University Christian Church of
Mishler
Dr. Medbury
Chicago
Sient
Alden Times
A Tribute to the Boys in Blue in Winfield Kansas
Evangelist Billy Sunday spoke to Civil War veterans urging pride in towns with surviving blue and giving tribute to fallen soldiers. He said death is the enemy, estimated veterans perishing daily, and urged honoring memory as time passes and fewer Civil War survivors remain.
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Winfield
Kansas
Billy
Lyons Evangelist Meeting Draws Large Tabernacle Audience
Evangelist Lyon and helpers captivate Estherville crowds as seven conv et s first week and a large Sunday turnout. Weather hindered attendance but about four thousand filled the three services. The damaged tabernacle is being re-roofed and a strong array of memorable quips and moral admonitions highlighted the sermons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evangelist Lyon
Estherville
J. Dale Stentz
Chester F. Harris
Society Christian Church
Lyon
Tabernacle
Christ
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State Experiment Station
B. FB. Taylor
J. Wilder
G. H. West
Geo. West
J. AH. Willey
W. A. Harris
Martin Balmer
P. H. Graves
Geo. Shifflett
C. A. Vedane
J. W. Pannell
Nels Nelson
J. Goldsberry
Chas. West
Anton Smith
John Jokamsen
J. J. Iverson
F. Hornby
Chas. Hagebook
Wm. Luikart
Wesley Sutton
Frank Haisman
Ben Harland
G. H. Romsa
Carl Christianson
C. H. Brown
R. H. Lynch
CO. L. Deming
J. 8
Kuode
H. W. Woods
W. R. Swanson
PF. E. Lynch
Frank Davis
W. F. Coon
O. Lingenfelter
Jay Heath
Chas. Schultz
Chas. Gage
B. C. Bombarger
L. Herum
W. J. Weir
A. Dobberstein
J. A. Anderson
Geo. Luikart
BE. W. Isgrig
EB. R. Kirchner
Frank Bombarger
Frank Leupold
Martin Tinderholt
Jacob Herum
Baste Jacobson
L. P. Peterson
Walbridge
W. F. Swartz
C. Walbridge
Arthur Marksey
W. L. Hull
Clark Lingenfelter
Chas. Schults
Henry Kruse
BE. Crumb
H. B. Crumb
E. Crumb
Okoboji
Onur
Anderson
Alcy Lough
Chau
Blakey
State University of Iowa
Mae Hisenhower
Lydia I. Osher
Bertha Davis
Lawrence Swartz
Clara EB. Kennedy
Clara E Kennedy
Alden
Dea Noines
Four Winds
Island General Offices
Cedar Rapids
TT. W. H. Given
Minnesota
Garret Davis
Ldora, Mo
W. A. O'Neil
Boston
Mtt
Walt Wrattan
Rock Island Round House
Sioux Falls
John Perkins
Casmore
N. Dak
Soo Line
Geo. Buseman
Mr. Perkins
Harry Heffelfinger
Chas. S. Medbury
Addres
Edward Campbell
Clarence Ladd
Medbury S Perl Bemis
Geo
Crowe
Portland
Oregon
Chas. Keating
Spencer
Claude and
Clint Swale
Minneapolis
Andrew Woolcutt
Albert Lea
Thos. Garren
rRistrong
Rabk
Boys In Blue
Lyon Epigrams
Jesus
Lord
Hell
Jesus Christ
Ark of Safety
God
Humen
Grace
Law
America
Lord Jesus Christ
Foot
R Anderson Drug Co
Allen & Kise, Attorneys At Law
Halleck
Jay Johnston & Co
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