Local News Briefs Highlight Busy Regional Travel and Visits
A string of short notes from local readers lists Miss Martha Murray returning from Pontiac Mich and A H Neller leaving for Freeport Ill on business. Many residents including John Boos Lena Ecklund Helen Higby Roscoe Thoma Don McGiffin Raymond Stewart Marjorie Brown Ernest Rudolph Harold Unkrich Turner Dave Carroll Wilbur Whisler C C Long and Della Newloe are visiting relatives or hosting guests in Ottumwa Burlington Sigourney Columbus Junction and nearby towns. Ralph Reed returns home after Camp Dodge discharge. A newborn son Harold Zeigler is welcomed at Jefferson County hospital. Lieutenant Harry Higby reported indemnity claim work and mayoral appointment in St Romaine France.
Mrs Swearingen Dies After Influenza Illness
Mrs Louis Swearinger died Saturday evening at her home after several days of influenza. Born Lillian Strothman in Yarmouth Iowa April 29 1883 she married Louis Swearinger March 20 1902. They had seven children Lyle Tracy Roland Avis Bernice Nita and an infant. Roland died April 3. Funeral plans move to Yarmouth Tuesday April 8 for Trinity Cemetery burial accompanied by the mother and son remains.
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Louis Swearinger
Lillian Strothman
Yarmouth
Iowa
Lyle
Tracy
Roland
Avis Bernice
Nita
Trinity
War Departments to Resume Direct Flour Purchases
New York April 7. The war and navy departments and the marine corps plan to resume direct flour purchases. The Food Administration Grain Corporation said the departments are considering buying methods aligned with grain board practices, to meet mills' desirable features within legal limits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
War and Navy Departments
Marine Corps
Food Administration Grain Corporation
Grain Board
Cash per capita is 54.56 dollars in United States
The article notes money circulating this month would provide 54.56 dollars to every man woman and child, up 0.86 from March and 4.80 from a year ago. It cites total money available at 5,847,363,641 dollars and an estimated population of 107,166,000, up 44,000 since March.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Mareh
Seaman Identified After Unconscious Find in London
The victim, a seaman named S. Seely, 38, from Muskegon Michigan, was found March 28 in London in an unconscious state and near death. He is the son of Mrs. Mine Seely of Retd'nag, Mich and Michael W. Seely of Tenia, Mich. Relatives learned of his condition through press dispatches.
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Yank Sailor
London
Mrs. Wine Seely
Muskegon
Mich
Rainbow Division Heads Home From Rhine Front
Coblenz and Washington April 7 The Rainbow division began leaving the Rhine area for Brest and the U S A The 42nd division headquarters and attached units led the exodus Three trains a day will run until April 11 with the tail end expected home soon The War Department plans demobilization at Camp Meade and home camps for units and expects the division back in the United States before the end of April
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Coblenz
Rainbow Division
Rhine
Brest
Atlantic
Washington
War Department
General March
Pershing
Camp Meade
March
Dallas postal clerk held for theft case
Dallas April 27 John W Cheatham former postal clerk is jailed by federal agents on charges tied to pilfering 12500 and additional funds from the mills on March 23 16818 The report notes incongruent spellings and garbled details including a note about a hidden item under a barn floor and empty stovepipe mentions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Tex
John W Cheatham
Herp
Keyven Voted to Strike Over Grievances
The Commercial Telegraphers Union of Washington voted unanimously to strike unless Postmaster Burleson adjusts their grievances. A secret ballot nationwide will be conducted from the headquarters in Newark and close at the end of this month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wrebington
Wntion
Washington
Burleson
Nienxo
Twenty One Air Squadrons Retained in U S Peace Arm
The War Department announced that twenty one aero squadrons will be kept as the flying arm of America's peace army. De mobilization continues with enlisted personnel reduced to about fifteen thousand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Force
America
Peace Army
Washington
War Department
Yeowomen to Stay in Service in National Reserve
Washington reports that woman stenographers and clerks enrolled as yeowomen in the national reserve force during the war will remain on active service in their current rating as long as needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
National Reserve Force
Soviet Republic Proclaimed in Munich Reported
Spa, April 7. Mathias Erzberger of the German armistice commission received a wireless message announcing the proclamation of a soviet republic in Munich.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bavaria
Spa
Mathias Erzberger
German Armistice Commission
Munich
Flies Over the Andes in British Plane
Lieutenant Cortinez flew over the Andes in a British airplane at an altitude of 18 000 feet near Santiago Chile on April 7 reporting a bold aerial traverse.
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Andes
Santiago
Chile
Cortinez
Andes Mountains
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Black Kid Oxfords
Flocal
Martha Murray
Pontiac, Mich
A. H. Neller
Freeport
Illinois
John Boos
Lockridge
City
Lena Ecklund
Burlington
Helen Higby
Perlee
Walter Prouty
C.W. Vermilion
Centerville
Roscoe Thoma
Don McGiffin
Ottumwa
Raymond Stewart
Grinnell
Marjorie Brown
New London
Ernest Rudolph
Richland
Harold Unkrich
Winfield
George Unkrich
Wilson. Turner
Rock Island
Mrs
S. B. Turner
Dave Carroll
Ollie
F. A. Carroll
Wilbur Whisler
P. D. Wagner
C. C. Long
Miss Swanson
Columbus Junction
B. F. Wnorouski
Della Newloe
Sigourney
Otto Messer
Oskaloosa
Louis Messer
Marguerite Smith
Ralph Reed
Camp Dodge
Ralph Walker
Earl Shipley
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Robert Despain
Jefferson County Hospital
Harold Zeigler
Robert Harold
John Gable
Dayport
BE. J. Nichols
le Mars
Colorado
Grant Enlow
Birmingham
Lucile Lamberson
Hulda Peterson
Miss Lamberson
Clarence Hall
Eldon
L. V. Coder
Dallas City
A. L. Bennington
Edward Lane Coder
F. H. Higby
Lieut
Harry Higby
St. Romaine
France
Food Administration
John W. Cheatham
Keyven
U. S
Browning
Ray Angstead
John T. Davies
Ren
E. C. Leber’s
Fatty Arbuckle
Fatty
Lina Cavaleria
Mary Miles Minter
Dorothy Gish
Geraldine Farrar
Mary G. Ewing
The
Mother Church
First Church of Christ Scientist
Boston
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Frank D. Kerrick
Tripune
A. V. Frazey
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