Personal notices from Fruitland to Keosauqua list
A long list of local visits illnesses and departures. Roy Despain visits home from Fruitland and Byron Huddleston returns from Fruitland to the city. Raymond Barger from Monmouth visits relatives. Anna Crile is seriously ill with pneumonia at the Messer home. Many residents travel or relocate and a funeral is announced for Attorney J. M. Johnson. The Hawkeye Rebekah Lodge plans a staff meeting tonight at 7:30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond Barger
Monmouth, Ill
Byron Huddleston
Fruitland
City
Anna Crile
A. H. Messer
South Fourth Street
Hawkeye Rebekah Lodge
Day of Prayer for National Constitutional Prohibition
A Day of Prayer event at Mrs. Laura Chilcott’s home on Jan 18 gathers Jefferson county unions. All day meeting includes hymns readings prayers and talks on National Constitutional Prohibition and enforcement of law with participation from multiple organizers and sections led by various members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laura Chilcott
Jefferson County
Doud
O. T. Hoopes
Montgomery
Lillian M. A. Stevens
C.» Thompson
T. B. Short
R. H. Spence
Gray
Salem
Slack
Cheesman
The
United States
Chilcott
E. S. Parks
Kate Snook
Jesus
Small Twins Good Typists in Spokane
Spokane, Washington. Robert and Grace Rice, five-year-old twin children of E. I. Rice, are shorthand writers with a claimed speed of one hundred words a minute. They are speech typists who surpass many business college graduates. Home taught, they have had two daily lessons for three months, increasing from short sessions to fifteen-minute periods. Their typing bag aids spelling, and shorthand has aided drafting proficiency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spokane
Wash
Robert
Grace Rice
E. I. Rice
Business College
Bride for the Sixth Time in Conway Courthouse
Mrs. James Richards Lea a twenty nine year old Arkansas woman, married a man named Roberts in the Conway courthouse by Judge John W Holt. It is her sixth marriage. the fifth was about three years ago in the area and she has lived in Russellville since. Mrs Roberts is sister of Georg Doss who recently eloped with Addie Pruitt, a fourteen year old marriage later annulled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Conway
Ark
James Richards Lea
Roberts
John W. Holt
James A. Lea
Russellviltle
Addie Pruitt
Marrieage
Hungarian Cavalry Captain Invents Flexible Wooden Sole
Budapest reports Captain Barna S. Koblener, a cavalry officer who lost an arm, has created a flexible wooden shoe built from layered wood held by heavy oils to glue the pieces. He claims the sole has leatherlike elasticity and improved usefulness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Budapest
Hungary
Barna S. Koblener
Koblner
Presbyterian church supper serves roast beef and gravy Thursday
A church supper at the Presbyterian church offers roast beef with brown gravy served Thursday evening. Guests are invited to attend and enjoy a hearty meal in a community event.
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Presbyterian Church
Horse Sale Notice at Wisecarver on January 17
A brief notice announces a horse sale on Wednesday January 17 at 112 Wisecarver Street. The ad invites buyers of all kinds to attend the event.
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Hreerbody
Newspaper Aviators Training School For Journalists Planned
New York firms under the New York Flying Yacht club plan to train newspaper men as aviators. J. C. Mars and Augustus Post will lead the school at North River water front One Hundred Twenty-ninth Street with Francis W. Clinton overseeing. The program offers free instruction and aims to prepare journalists for war time roles as air couriers scouts and coast patrol members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Francis W. Clinton
Mars
Coast Patrol
MADE WAR ON CATERPILLARS IN PHILADELPHIA SCHOOLS
Miss Caro Miller led a school garden campaign to exterminate caterpillars. The group reports 78,9390 caterpillars cocoons and egg masses removed, each egg mass implying about 500 caterpillars, counting as millions eliminated at the eye stage. A girl achieved the best record with 11,356 killed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Caro Miller
Mayer
Worry Kills Engineer In Amherst Train Wreck
Dennis W. Leonard, 52, engineer on the Twentieth Century Limited, who survived the Amherst wreck on March 20, died at home. Physicians attribute heart disease triggered by worry about the crash as the cause. Leonard had 35 years with the New York Central and was absolved of blame for the catastrophe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
Dennis W. Leonard
Amherst
Leonard
New York Central
Women rookies bar men from Lake Geneva Navy camp
At Lake Geneva Wisconsin the women’s division of the Navy League orders male spectators barred from the national service school camp. Only instructors with signed passes may enter to protect about 150 rookie cadets from disruption. New rules also prohibit the girls from wearing their batt down the back.
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Lake Geneva
Wis
National Service School
Navy League of the United States
Jefferson County Bar Celebrates Firm Anniversary
Members of the Jefferson County Bar meet at the Clerk's office to plan a banquet and program marking Leggett and McKenney’s 49th anniversary on May 3. A general committee is formed with J P Starr, J A Huglin, Roscoe P Thomas, E R Smith and Ralph H Munro.
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Jefferson County
Leggett & McKenney
J. P. Starr
J. A. Huglin
Roscoe P. Thoma
E. R. Smith
Ralph H. Munro
Jefferson
R. C. Leggett
Leo Thoma
Rorick
Starr
Roscoe Thoma
Jordan, Ross, Cummings
D. B. Wilson
Bond Ordered to Chicago in Auto Thieves Case
Eva Bond described as the brains of the Midwest automobile thieves’ trust faces imminent transfer from Minnesota to Illinois after the Minnesota Supreme Court ordered custody for delivery. A ten day stay was granted to seek federal review.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnesota Supreme Court
Chicago
Eva Bond
Automobile Thieves’ Trust
Middle West
Minneapolis
United States Court of Appeals
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Supreme Court
Bond
Public Sale of Farm Stock and Implements Near Fairfield
I am quitting farming and will auction at the U S Cochran farm three miles northeast of Fairfield and three miles northwest of Beckwith starting at 10 a m Five head of horses including two driving mares and a driving horse Two cows Jersey cows aged five and seven with freshening in about ten days and three weeks Ten or twelve numbers of chickens Four tons of mixed hay Implements including a DeLavel cream separator wagon buggies surrey corn planter plows harrows cultivators drills harnesses and other items Terms usual.
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U. S. Cochran
Fairfield
Beckwith
DeLavel
Surrey
Lunch on by the Ladies Aid
E E Carter T B Allender auditor and W C Brawder clerk list for a Ladies Aid lunch event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. B. Allender
W. C. Brawder
The
Ladies Aid
Registration Notice for City Voter Registration Sessions
The Board of Registration will meet on Thursday and Friday in January at the four wards polling places to register voters not registered at the last general election or who changed residence. They will also meet Tuesday for those away previously. If unregistered you cannot vote at the January election.
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D. F. Spratt
Money to Loan on City Property See Thoma Thomi
A brief notice indicates money available to loan against city property with references to Thoma and Thomi handling the arrangements. Details on amounts terms or deadlines are not provided in the fragment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thoma
Thomi
Dainty 25 Cent Supper at Presbyterian Church
A supper fundraiser offered for 25 cents at the Presbyterian church on Thursday evening from 6 to 8 o'clock. Proceeds support parish activities.
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Presbyterian ‘Waarch
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ACME
Roy Despain
John Belville
Washington
Mrs. Pafe Coop
Robert Gumm
Frank Lawson
Keota
Frank Trabet
Four Corners
C. J. Gilly
Eli Blough
George W. Ball
Des Moines
Capt
Wilson Heaton
Ft. Douglas, Ariz
J. W.grimsley
East Briggs Street
George Simmons
Birmingham
R. V. Lawson
Keosauqua
Harvey Easton
Fred Wray
West Kirkwood Street
George W. Burch
Fredonia
Kan
J. M. Johnson
Irin Castell
Algona
Mary Howell
Muscatine
W. B. Castell
Cecile Belville
Coop
Mt. Pleasant
Iowa Wesleyan
R. T. Woodard
Salt Lake
Utah
Blanche Banta
Ernest Frank
C. P. Judson
Amy Johnson
Brighton
Hattie Edmonds
South Street
Carl Fiieberg
M. H. Cuddy
William
California
W. Long
Mary Long
DAY OF Prayer For
Easton
Ulm
Ain Wen
New York Aviation Club
J. C. Mars
Augustus Post
American Press Association
Mans
R. J. Wilson
Simmons
Jaques
Munro
Simmons Roscoe Thoma
Johnson, Jordan
Entertainment Committee
Smith
Conlee
Nady
Ready
Sparks
A. m
E. E. Carter
Gaumer Bros
J. C. Bradshaw Furniture CO
Brussels
J. C. Bradshaw
Fairfield Steam Laundry
Qorpheum Toommnigchhat
Supreme Feature Film Company
Thos. H. Ince
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