Personal notices from local paper list dozens of visits and travels
Miss Elizabeth Brown finishes studies at Howard Business College and becomes stenographer for Ford in town. Several residents, including Miss Hedgie Leafgren, Mrs. Frank Cooper, Miss Christine Elliott, Miss Agnes McNamara, Miss Vanilla Smith, and others, are visiting Ottumwa or nearby towns. Families travel to Pleasant, Batavia, and Lockridge. The grand jury indictments involve Frank Banada and hun Melinski for furnishing alcohol to minors. Various residents attend visits, funerals, court, and business trips in Mt. Pleasant, Ottumwa, Keota, Dysart, and Keokuk. Recovery hopes improve for D. L. Baird of Ainsworth after illness in Iowa City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elzabeth Brown
Howard Business College
Ford Automobile Company
Hedgie Leafgren
Lockridge
Frank Cooper
Ottumwa
Rebekah
Christine Elliott
Agnes McNamara
Vanilla Smith
Guy Loeb
Edward
Dysart
John F. Loehr
J. R. McElderry
C. A. McElderry
Thomas Osborne
Mt. Pleasant
Pleasant
Ted Kocher
Batavia
Charles Curtis
Harry Patterson
Keokuk
Wilbur Ireland
South Main Street
D. L. Baird
Ainsworth
Iowa City
John E. Crail
Bobby
Henry Hinkle
Germanville
Fred Neibert
Chicago
John B. Stever
St. Joe
Izora Bishop
Libertyville
Sutton
M. M. Mitchell
Canada
Company M Notes Corroborate Early Officer Appointments
Captain Smith recommends noncommissioned officers Louis Faulkner Byron Hamilton Samuel Bell Henry Hart and William Shantz as sergeants. Cor porals named Ora Williams David Smith Leslie Daggett Harry Perry Victor Wicksell Clarence Ristine and Truman Greenfield. Bert Davis, former cook, returned to camp signing the new oath after five days of civilian life. Corp Hart in Courier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Captain Smith
Louis A. Faulkner
Byron W. Hamilton
Samuel M. Bell
Henry W. Hart
William FH. Shantz
Ora C. Williams
David M. Smith
Leslie L. Daggett
Harry Perry
Victor A. Wicksell
Clarence T. Ristine
Truman &. Greenfield
Bert Davis
Bert
Corporal Hart
Courier
Banquet for Lutheran Baraca Class Delights Youth
At Yeoman hall a large Lutheran church banquet hosted by the Sunshine and Builders Sunday school classes welcomed the Baraca group. J A Huglin and Rev A H Anspach led a lively program praising unity and future church plans while Miss Reva Elder and Miss Anna Benson welcomed guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sunshine
Builders
English Lutheran Sunday School
Baraca
Ladies’ Aid Society
Church Council
Dillon Turney
Reva Elder
Miss Elder
Anna Benson
Baraca Convass
J.A. Huglin
Company M
Sunshine and Builders
Colourch Council
Pauline Woelhaf
Mabel Trail
A. H. Anspach
Lutheran Sunday School
Death of Miss Elizabeth Arrowsmith in Burlington
Local notices report the death of Miss Elizabeth Arrowsmith at her Burlington home. Other items note Ercel Easton returning from Chicago, I W Dyer visiting his ill mother, Mrs Elizabeth Dyer, and a missionary meeting in Ottumwa. Also mentions Crail and Prouty visit, a ill patient, two building lots for sale, and vegetable plants offered by Crail & Brown market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Arrowsmith
Burlington
Miss Arrowsmith
Ercel Easton
Chicago
Ada
I. W. Dyer
York
Neb
Elizabeth Dyer
South Main
D. K. Crail
Ottumwa
The
Christian Church
Walter EF. Prouty
Lockridge
South Main Street
Billy Sunday Opens New York Revival Campaign
The evangelist Billy Sunday launches his largest revival in New York starting April Sth drawing twenty thousand listeners twice daily, potentially over three million in three months. City elites host prayer meetings and businessmen organize committees as The New York American plans to serialize sermons and events with a three month subscription offered for $1.50.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billy Sunday
New York
New York American
New York Daily American
Patriotism and Enlistment of Youths Urged in Call to Action
The piece argues against compulsory service, praising volunteers as in the Civil War and warning that democracy faces a threat from Kaiserism. Dr H A Mosser and Rev W R Keesey frame the war as a defense of liberty, urging young men to enlist and resist autocratic rule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
H. A. Mosser
Wilson
W. R. Keesey
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Fantireland
Hugh Newsom
Ft. Madison
Loren White
Floyd Wildman
Lockrid
F. S. Cummings
Ray Allender
Crail & Brown Meat Market
Orpheum
Donight
Orpheum Orchestra
Frank Borgaze
Anna Little
Chas Chaplin
Robert Warwick
Man
Hart
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Apollos
Hart Schaffner & Max
Gobble
Hart Schaffne
Heer Marx
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