Local news briefs list arrivals and travels around Ottumwa
Mr and Mrs Fred Rains spent yesterday in Ottumwa. Mrs Frank Glotfélty of Liberty ville is in the city today. C E Newkirk of Batavia is in the city on business. Mr and Mrs Roscoe Thoma spent yesterday in Ottumwa. Mrs E C Hull of Wellman is visiting relatives here. Cochran and Hoops are in Birmingham on business today. A baby girl was born yesterday to Mr and Mrs Sylvan Wilson. Miss Jessie Allender of Burlington is visiting Miss Jessie Traxler. Mrs Reva Elder leaves for Ottumwa to visit Miss Georgia Willard. Mrs G P Anderson leaves for Ottumwa to visit her sister Mrs Joseph Blixt. Mrs L E Gire leaves for Richland to reside. Mr Gire went last week. Frank Daggett, A R Harper and Gus Scott returned to Creston after visiting here. Mrs Gift and Mrs Bryan have returned from Los Angeles. Mr and Mrs E P Abbey and son return home to Creston after visiting the E K B Abbey home. Mrs E D Y Culbertson received a telegram from her son Dan stating he arrived in New York. Miss Grace George returns to Moravia for school after a week with her parents. A baby boy born Saturday to Mr and Mrs L D Graham at Fourth Street, named Milton Graham. Mrs Grace Miller returns to Council Bluffs after visiting her daughter. Mrs A W Lindsay of Alberta Canada visits her sister Mrs H C Raney. Lindsay arrived from Birmingham where she visited her brother.
College News Week at Parsons College and Events
Dean McDonald announced summer school at Parsons College offering normal and college work. Prof Mountain to lead a Ballard Hall music social Friday night to inaugurate a new piano. Fred A. Mason to speak at the Y M C A and new officers to be installed. President Montgomery hopes to hire Prof Carter for biology remainder of year. Devere Players set for Barhydt Chapel April 9 with another entertaining show.
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Dean McDonald
Parsons College
Mountain
Ballard Hall
Fred A. Mason
Montgomery
Prof
Carter
Winters
Devere
Barhydt Chapel
Rebekah Convention Program Completed in Fairfield 1919
The 16th Annual District convention of the Rebekah Lodges of Iowa’s 51st district will meet in Fairfield on April 10 1919 with an all day session. Events include business sessions, calls to order by Ida Dunkel, opening ode singing prayers minutes readings addresses, reports from lodges, talks by Georgia Quigley, a ballot box demonstration, a Pauline Woellhaf reading, a play Waiting for the Train, and a district lodge member program ending with a picnic supper.
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Rebekah
Iowa
Fairfield
Ida Dunkel
Chaplin
No. 386
Pauline Woellhaf
Harding Turmoil Looms Over Rathbun Confession Letter
Des Moines March 24 Governor Harding to testify before house investigating committee plans to present a Rathbun confession letter from his cell at Anamosa. Letter allegedly describes promises by state agents and confession signing under pressure. Editor of the Register and Tribune to be called as committee probes Ida Grove affair and potential gubernatorial protections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Harding
Investigating Committee of the House
Rathbun
Anamosa
Havner
Attorney General
Harrington
Register and Tribune
the Tribune
Ida Grove
Carroll
Young Rathbun
Evening Tribune
House Judiciary Committee
Thad Snell
Attorney Clark
Kennedy
Thadeus Snell
Elks To Stage Coney Island Musical Comedy Next Week
Elks Lodge presents A Day at Coney Island at the High School Auditorium. Over 150 locals, celebrities, and chorus groups perform in side-splitting sketches with lavish song and dance. Director Carolyn Elinor Staley leads a large cast including 75 children. local press hail Atlantic and Estherville reviews predicting a record show and about one thousand dollars net for the lodge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coney Island
Elks Lodge
George Cohan
Madame _ Sherry
Jack Cliffor
Lillian Russell
Samuel Hicks
Skeeterville
Arkansas
Great Society Circus Company
Amy
Fat Wonder
Crazy Village
Zip
Joe-Joe
Gay Paree
Honolulu
Yokohama
Carolyn Elinor Staley
Fairfield
Iowa
Atlantic News
Atlantic
Herbert Lee
Estherville Democrat
Elks
The
Kilks
Card of Thanks for baby Ivan Fry
Mr and Mrs Herbert Fry thank friends and neighbors for sympathy during the sickness and death of their dear baby Ivan and for the floral offerings.
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Ivan
Herbert Fry
Free circular distributors sought in each town
Job offer of $2.50 per day for one person in each town to distribute free circulars about concentrated flavoring in tubes. Permanent position offered by F. BE at Barr & Co. in Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. Be, Barr & Co
Chicago
Merchants Meet Thursday Instead of April
The Merchants Bureau will hold a meeting next Thursday night March 27 replacing the April 3 date due to an Elks Club show next week. The topic is Closing a Sale with supper at 6:30. A full attendance is expected. Also announced is the show A Day at Coney Island on April 2 and 3 at the Auditorium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elks Club
Retail Merchants Bureau
Coney Island
Rehearsals Begin for Coney Island at Elk's Club
Notice announces rehearsals for the play Coney Island starting Wednesday at seven thirty p m at the Elk's Club rooms. Open to all adults in cast and chorus with contact 970 25 for details.
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Coney Island
Elk’s Club Rooms
Special teachers examination at Court House in March
A special teachers examination will be held at the Court House on March 28 and 29. Teachers entering this examination will not be required to have the twelve weeks normal training. June Chidester, County Superintendent.
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Court House
Chidester
I will pay cash for your Liberty Bonds
A brief personal notice offering to purchase Liberty Bonds for cash. Provides contact by telephone number 246 and names R. C. Leggett.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. C. Leggett
Storekeeper Reclaims Life After Phosphated Iron Cure
A prominent city merchant long confined by illness recounts how his recovery came after using Phosphated Iron. He describes renewed energy, improved appearance, and renewed zest for work, urging caution to obtain genuine capsules and avoid fake pills.
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Mrs
Fred Rains
Ottumwa
Frank Glotfélty
Libertyville
City
C. E. Newkirk
Batavia
Roscoe Thoma
E. C. Hull
Wellman
C. C. Cochran
H. A. Hoops
Birmingham
Sylvan Wilson
Jessie Allender
Burlington
Miss Jessie Traxler
Reva Elder
Georgia Willard
G. P. Anderson
Joseph Blixt
Frank Daggett
A. R. Harper
Gus Scott
Creston
Mrs. Gift
Mrs. Bryan
Los Angeles
Cal
E. D. Y. Culbertson
Dan
New York
Grace George
Moravia
W. H. George
Mrs. L. D. Graham
Fourth Street
Milton Graham
Grace Miller
Council Bluffs
Floyd Mathews
A. W. Lindsay
Alberta
Canada
H. C. Raney
Lindsay
College News
Vince
Tes
Assembly
Georgia Quigley
Jesus
Union Evangelistic Meeting
Selks
Elks’ Lodge
Ray Angstead
Carl Stanford
Maine
Tae
Matinee
Orpheum Cremona
Anita Stewart
Elk’s Glub
Jericho & Easton
Guarantee Abstract Co
Richard C. Leggett
Pres
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