Local Society Notes Highlight Area Visitors and Travels
A flurry of visits and departures fills the town news. Maurice Laughlin and family from Batavia visit, Miss Mabel Swain teaches in Washington schools here for the weekend, and Hiram Heaton of Glendale spends Saturday in town. Travelers head to Maquoketa, Mt. Pleasant, Davenport, and California for work or family. A church address by Leta Ashley in Des Moines draws a $140 offering, and several residents journey to Kansas City, Washington, and Evergreen Cemetery hosts the Castell funeral.
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Leta Ashley
Des Moines
The
Christian Church
Birthday Club hosts guests from Chicago at South Main
Mrs HK R Smith entertained Birth day Club members Saturday at her South Main Street home honoring visiting Chicago guests Mrs C M Junkin and Mrs KE A Howard. A luncheon was served. The W C T U will meet tomorrow at 3 PM at Mrs Louis Easton's North Main Street home.
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HK. R. Smith
Birthday Club
South Main Street
C. M. Junkin
KE. A. Howard
Chicago
Smith
Louis Easton
North Main Street
Students Recital at Conservatory Studio Tomorrow Evening
Conservatory pupils of Parsons College under Prof Moorhead present a recital at 7 30 pm in Moorhead studio with a program including Chopin pieces Rachmaninoff works and several student commissions. Notable performers include Wanda Wilbur Keeley Elizabeth Bock Mabel Gardner Elizabeth Turney Florence Gavin Irene Barley John Oliver Grace Sharer Lucille Stallman Rowena Neller Ruth Zeigler among others.
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Rachmanekoff
Elizabeth Turney Barcarolle
Bliss Harry Lee Israel Nocturne
Chopin Florence Gavin
The
Westen
Irene Barley
the Gipsy Girl
Bohm
John Oliver Begit Pig
Sea Save
Willy Gladys McClain
Dutton Grace Sharer
Mokrejs
Lucille Stallman
Devoe
Alice Horneman
Orthe Rowena Neller
Remus
Tees Schaffer
Ruth Zeigler
Gas engineers tour local plant and plan upgrades
Thomas D. Miller of Chicago visiting the Iowa Electric Co. gas plant outlines alterations and improvements to lift service and earnings, estimating a few thousand dollars needed for a first class operation. John M. Drabelle of Several Co. surveys the old electric light plant to assess future needs. Hartford City reports a raid seizing three drays of liquor from a former saloon keeper, deemed illegal sales. A Presbyterian church supper offers roast beef with brown gravy on Thursday evening.
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Thomas D. Miller
Chicago
Iowa Electric Co
John M. Drabelle
Dows, Smith & Reed
Hartford City
Ind
IL. G. Wilhelms
Wilhelms
Poison Case Mystifies In Columbus Fireman Wife
Columbus Indiana January 15 Mrs Alonzo Beckwith wife of a city fireman is in critical condition after swallowing poison by mistake for medicine Her husband who brought the poison home from his locker at the firehouse says he did not place it there and is puzzled by its presence
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Columbus
Ind
Alonzo Beckwith
Strikers Return to Work at Quaker Oats
In Cedar Rapids Iowa Jan 15 the 700 striking employees of Quaker Oats returned to work after both sides agreed to arbitrate and the company recognized the strikers organization.
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Cedar Rapids
Quaker Oats Company
Registration Notice for City Voter Registration Dates
The Board of Registration will meet January 18, 19, and 27 at ward polling places to register voters not registered in the last election or who changed residence. A January 30 session will register voters who were away. If unregistered you cannot vote in the January 30 special election. Signed by Mayor D. F. Spratt.
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Board of Registration
D. F. Spratt
Lewis Brothers Meat Market Burglary Report
The Lewis Brothers meat market on the west side of the square was burglarized late Saturday morning. A little over $1.50 in silver was taken from the money drawer, which was pried open with a butcher's cleaver. The safe was untouched. Entry was gained by breaking boards from the cellar window and exiting after unlocking the front door.
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Lewis Bros
Horse Sale Notice At Goeke's Boot and Shoe Hospital
A horse sale announced for Wednesday January 17 invites buyers to attend at Goeke's Boot and Shoe Hospital located at the northwest corner of the square. I. T. Wisecarver promotes the event offering all kinds of horses and good repairing services.
Card of Thanks for Mrs. W. A. Chariton
The Green family and Mr. W. A. Charlton express gratitude for sympathy and help during the bereavement and burial of Mrs. W. A. Chariton. They acknowledge thanks from friends who contributed music to the service.
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W. A. Chariton
Alonzo J. Green
W. A. Charlton
Presbyterian Church Supper A Call To Attend
Community notices invite readers to a church supper at Presbyterian church on Thursday evening. The card expresses thanks from Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Carpenter for support after their fire loss and lists available rental and employment ads including furnished room at 202 West Adams Street and a chamber worker sought for Legger house. A couple seeks a six or seven room modern house to rent by March 1 from a married couple with no children, contact by phone.
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M. S. Carpenter
West Adams Street
Legger House
For Sale Delivery Busines with Wagons and Horses
Ill health forces sale of delivery business including wagons and optional horses. Call telephone 2301. Frank McMurray on West Van Buren Street.
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Call Telephone
Frank McMurray
van Buren Street
Also Mentioned on This Page
ACME
Maurice Laughlin
Batavia
Mabel Swain
Washington
Hiram Heaton
Glendale
B. A. Howard
Tll
City
Calvin Doughty
Maquoketa
Western Union Telegraph Office
Chas. Cornick
Mt. Pleasant
John Samuelson
John Spielman
California
Roll Stansberry
Libertyville
John Frasher
John West
Kansas City
Robert Harrah
J. Walter Matlock
Eden
Florence Garber
G. W. Mintoyne
Moline
Abe van Dyke
G. W. Wright
Son Clyde
Bertha Miller
County Line
Claude Gaines
Levi Graber
Davenport
C. P. Foreman
George Cochran
New Chicago
Hattie Gudgell
Pleasant Plain
James Dickinson
Forest Clinkinbeard
Iowa City
W. B. Castell
Keesey
Evergreen Cemetery
Bitterfly
Mabel Gardner Lavallee Esceer
Rondo
Grace Stallman Mokrejs
Presbyterian Church
Lewis Brothers
I. T. Wisecarver
Drags Gaumer Bros South Side
J. C. Bradshaw Furniture
Brussels
Fairfield Steam Laundry
Daniel, Frohman
Ann Pennington
Princess
Supreme Feature Film Company
Thos. H. Ince
William Fox
Virginia Pearson
Jesse L. Lasky
Thomas Meighan
Anita King
Che
Lleir
Mutual Film Corporation
Charles Chaplin
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