Local Briefs Highlight Community Movements and Visits
Mrs George Edick and her children depart for Danville Indiana to visit her parents Mr and Mrs Oscar Kurtz. Numerous residents including Orrin and Charles McMurray of Company M visit relatives here and Miss Ruth Clarke returns from Ames College to teach in Union Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Edick
Danville
Ind
Oscar Kurtz
Orrin and
Charles McMurray
Company M
Everett Allen
Rupert Yocum
Lucas
J. A. McLaughlin
New York City
H. P. McLaughlin
Ruth Clarke
Ames College
Union
Iowa
Dorothy Zichy
West _nd
Aurelie Zichy
Delein
W. E. Paul
Vivian
Galesburg
Ill
James Hammon
George Consbrook
Burlington
C. H. King
Olive Graber
Geo. M. Ball
Graber
Southeastern Iowa Nurses’ Association
Helen Anderson
Huston
Texas
Clyde Anderson
Oskaloosa
Spe
E. R. Smith
Eloise
Harry Booker
Margaret Simmons
Ames
Miss Smith
Miss Simmons
Red Cross
Property title suit seeks verdict over Libertyville parcel
B W Morrison sues Martha A Weir James S Weir John L Prather and others claiming Lot Three in Block One of the Old Plat Libertyville Jefferson County Iowa. He seeks to quiet title and bar adverse claims with a decree enforcing plaintiff’s fee simple ownership and to prevent any right or title adverse to his claim. Default warned if defendants fail to appear by September term 1917.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martha A. Weir
James S. Weir
John L. Prather
Prather
Adam H. Weir
Weir
Conable & Smyth
Conable
Smyth
Libertyville
Jefferson County
Iowa
State of Iowa
District Court of
B. W. Morrison
County of
Jefferson
Fairfield
Andrew J Kessel Dies After Illness in Pleasant Plain
Andrew J Kessel died at 2 30 AM at his home 1104 South Second street after a seven month cancer illness. He was born December 2 1875 near Brighton and moved to the city last March. He married Margaret Adrian January 18 1901 and left five children Adeline Clement Lawrence William and Margaret. Surviving siblings and funeral details at St Josephs Catholic church Pleasant Plain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew J. Kessel
Second Street
Rochester
Minn
Mr. Kessel
Brighton
Andrew
Mary Kessel
Keota
Margaret Adrian
Adeline
Clement
Lawrence
William
Margaret
Jacob Kessell
Pleasant Plain
Joseph Kessel
Fairfield
Emma Berg
Bertha Kessel
Burlington
Dick Crail Visits Friends in Libertyville Yesterday
Dick Crail traveled to Libertyville and spent time with local friends yesterday. The visit involved casual social stops and informal meetings with residents of the town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dick Crail
Libertyville
Methodist Pastor Truman G. Williams Dies in Indianola
Danville Illinois June 11 The Rev Truman G Williams a longtime Illinois conference Methodist pastor who retired in 1908 died at his home in Indianola He was a graduate of Asbury college now DePauw university Greencastle Indiana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Truman G. Williams
Danville
Ill
Illinois Conference
Indianola
Asbury College
DePauw University
Greencastle
Notice to Sanitary Sewer Bondholders
Any person holding Sanitary Sewer Bond No 39 for 300.00 dollars must present at the city clerk office for payment as interest stops from June 11. Paul Coleson City Clerk. 829
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Coleson
British Losses Decline to About Ten Thousand
Reuters reports from British headquarters in France say British casualities in the Messines Ridge battle are exaggerated by German figures. Up to Friday evening about 10 000 men failed to respond to roll call. About sixty percent are wounded lightly enough to walk and many of the remainder may rejoin their regiments later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Messines Ridge
Reuter
France
Cadillac man drowns after car crashes into quarry
Leon Jespie of Cadillac drowned when his auto skidded and dropped about forty feet into a water filled abandoned quarry near Grand Rapids Michigan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Rapids, Mich
Leon Jespie
Cadillac
Boy Killed by Truck in Front of Foster Mother in South Bend
In South Bend Indiana on June 11 Ernest Christabel an adopted six year old boy was struck and killed while trying to lift a toy car from the street. The crash occurred in sight of his foster mother Mrs J A Metzler. Eyewitnesses freed the driver from blame. The boy had been taken from an orphans home by the Metzlers a year earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sadie Goehner
Misa Wparie Weygandt
Boston
Mass
Lake Okoboji
Raymond Voorhies
Columbus Junction
Maggie Voorhies
Southern Street
John Oliver
H. A. Oliver
Jeerson County Hospital
Gertrude Downs
Ottumwa
Parsons College
Wirtz
South Bend
Ind
Ernest Christabel
J. A. Metzler
Metzlers
Cabbage Plants for Sale at Crail & Browns Market
Prem Flat Deuth Bald Head and Sure Head cabbage plants offered at 5c a dozen 35c a hundred and 2.50 per thousand. Plants promise heads of 10 to 15 pounds under favorable conditions. Available at Ray Allender's patch near Crail & Browns meat market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray Allender
Crail & Brown
Piano Lessons Resume at 801 South Second Street
Notice states Leland R. Holgate will resume piano teaching at his home 801 South Second Street starting June. Contact numbers 246 and 1268 to arrange a time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Second Street
Leland R. Holgate
G A Merich Advertising Reach for Wholesale Grocers
G A Merich acts as agent and salesman for John Slutton Cos Wholesale Grocers Chicago Illinois based at 204 South Main Street and reachable by phone 553.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. A. Merich
John Sluvton & Cos
Chicago
Cal
South Main Street
Dodge to Give 1,000,000 Toward War Fund Drive
Cleveland H Dodge announces he will personally give 1 million dollars toward the 100 million dollar Red Cross war fund if twenty four other individuals or corporations each contribute the same amount. The nationwide campaign opens Monday June 18 and runs through the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Cleveland H. Dodge
Wilson
Red Cross War Council
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Anita
Charles Lee
Jefferson County Hospital
West Jackson Street
W. F. Bevering
Dubuque
Gustin
John Samuelson
Raymond Holgate
Martin Edwards
Lloyd Stanford
Floris
J. F. Stanford
J. W.,ausherman
Springer, New Mexico
Ausherman
Isabel O’brien
Tomorow
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church
Gaule
Messines
Plement Newspaper
Dodge
C. E. Anderson
Fairfield Pure Ice Company
Wile
J.C. Bradshaw Furniture CO
Gaumer. Bros
Ture
Lowa
Frank D. Kerrick
Iowa State Savings Bank
John T. Davies
Undertaker
George Q. Loesch
L. E
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