Local Social News and Club Meetings Summary
The Daily Journal reports W C T meeting at 3 pm at Mrs. E S Parks’s South Forth street home with expected large attendance and dime-card turn-ins. Kathryn Rauscher hosts a Lockridge house party ending with a tour to Oakland Mills and Mt. Pleasant, attending guests from this city include Fern Nichols Minta Hoagland Berta Hoagland and Viva Valentine. The Bay View Club meets Lois Sackett on East Broadway at 7 30 pm tomorrow with members urged to attend. The Bridge club hosts a six o clock dinner at Mrs Walter V Hughes on East Burlington street with guests Mr and Mrs Ben Wallace of Washington and Mrs Maurice Jencks of Sioux City. The Book Club holds season finale picnic in Fulton pastures followed by a meal. Aristo-Delphie Society Parsons College hikers tour spring browse chaperoned by Miss Hunt, ending with a weiner roast and theater trip to The Primitive Call at the Orpheum. Mrs H C Alston to host Health Club at West Hempstead street Wednesday afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. S. Parks
South Forth Street
Kathryn Rauscher
Lockridge
Oakland Mills
Mt. Pleasant
Fern Nichols
Minta
Berta Hoagland
Viva Valentine
Aristo-Delphie Society
Parsons College
Miss Hunt
Orpheum
Fairfield Youth Appointed Englewood High Military Instructor
Lieut. Lair Maurice Fryer of Culver Military Academy has been named military instructor for Englewood High School. The former instructor at Fairfield and Culver graduate has been called to Ft. Sheridan. Fryer is the son of Mr and Mrs O F Fryer and is noted for his military attainments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maurice Fryer
Fairfield
Chicago
Lair Maurice Fryer
Culver Military Academy
Englewood High School
Ft. Sher
Fryer
O. F. Fryer
Culver
Local social notes from Ottumwa and surrounding towns
Miss Gertrude Burman of Newton visiting at Mt Pleasant with the Maas sisters. Ottumwa residents Eulalia Dollar and the trio Martha Nelson Mabel Carlson Lucile Burke spent the weekend with relatives. Vic Burden of Birmingham visited his sister Mrs Clifford Way. Keota residents J C Richardson and family at Dr Ray Kirkpatrick home. Frank Bruggemeyer of Muscatine spent weekend with city friends. Ottumwa couples John Johnson C W Jordan W W Dyer visited John Gosick home. Erickson and grandsons Jack and Maxwell Easton returned from Bloomfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. R. Mesmer
Ottumwa
Margaret Banfield
Eulalia Dollar
John Roth
Martha Nelson
Mabel Carlson
Lucile Burke
Vic Burden
Birmingham
Clifford Way
J. C. Richardson and Sons
Keota
Ray Kirkpatrick
Frank Bruggemeyer
Muscatine
City
John Johnson
C. W. Jordan
W. W. Dyer
John Gosick
Erickson
Jack
Maxwell Easton
Bloomfield
Mrs Fred Greber Dies After Yearlong Illness
Esther Amanda Swanson Greber, longtime resident, dies at home of her parents on East Lowe Street after a year with tuberculosis. Born December 7 1885 in Varna Ill she moved to the county in 1898. She married Fred Greber January 5 1909 at Salina and had two sons who predeceased her. Survived by husband, parents Mrs and Mrs P A Swanson, sister Mrs Ellen Engstrand and Henry A Swanson. Funeral at 2 PM from the Swanson home and 2:30 PM at Lutheran church with Rev H A Anspach. interment Evergreen cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Greber
P. A. Swanson
East
Lowe Street
Esther Amanda Swanson
Varna, Ill
Salina
Wesley Henry
Howard Leslie
Ellen Engstrand
Henry A. Swanson
Swanson
East Lowe Street
Lutheran Church
H. A. Anspach
Evergreen Cemetery
Fishing Season Opens Tomorrow at City Reservoir
The city reservoir opens fishing tomorrow with access limited to the lodge or west pond. The east pond remains closed for three years to protect last fall’s stocked fish and violators face heavy fines.
Corn Root Worm Threats 200,000,000 Bu Losses
The article warns that corn root worm costs the corn belt about 200 million bushels yearly. It urges crop rotation and avoiding two consecutive years of corn. If root worm damaged land remains, switch to barley and prepare soil thoroughly before replanting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corn
Seed Corn Standards From the National Crop Improvement Service
The service states twelve to fifteen ears of seed corn are needed to plant an acre. Forty eight ears should be germinated now to test vitality, and weak ears should be discarded. Do not plant poor corn this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Crop Improvement Service
Medicos Back National Prohibition At Bloomington Meeting
The Illinois Medical Society delegates in Bloomington favor national prohibition citing reduced crime death and poverty. Springfield chosen for the 1918 convention. Officers elected include President E W Flegenbaum Edwardsville and vice presidents E K Sloan Bloomington and Sadie Bay Adair Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bloomington
Ill
House of Delegates
Illinois Medical Society
Springfield
E. W. Flegenbaum
Edwardsville
Ek. P. Sloan
Sadie Bay Adair
Chicago
A. J. Moreley Belvidere
W. J. Gilmore
Mount Vernon
Pastor Abandons Sermon and Elopes With Parishioner
Richmond Indiana May 14 The Rev W R Motley pastor of the Spartansburg Christian church left his village with Mrs William Mann wife of a prosperous farmer. They drove away in a congregation provided rig abandoned at Greenville Ohio. Motley later mailed a note from Dayton saying he was gone for good and no trace has been found. Mrs Mann had told her husband she planned a trip with Motleys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Ind
W. R. Motley
Christian Church
Spartansburg
Here
Motley
William Mann
Greenville
Dayton
Lake Superior boat damage blocks navigation
Sault Ste. Marie report lists vessels damaged by ice on Lake Superior. The John Owen runs ashore near McCullough on Carbill point. The Vulcan disabled in Whitefish Bay. The Cowle has blades knocked off its wheel. The Northern Queen tows North Wind after both disabled in Iroquois Bay. No fatalities reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sault Ste. Marie
Lake Superior
John Owen
McCullough
Carbill Point
Vulcan
Whitefish Bay
Iroquois Bay
Guards Detained After Belleville Shooting
In Belleville Illinois thirty five guards from Orban Stove and Range were detained by police after a crowd incident the night before left six injured. Patrolman George Ehrhardt was shot in the head but others are not in serious condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belleville
Ill
Orban Stove and Range Company
George Ehrhardt
Indiana plans bachelor corps for national service
Evansville May 14 A proposal from a seventy year old bachelor seeks to form a company of single men to offer to the President for service. The effort reports strong enlistment progress and the project has been launched by a veteran bachelor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evansville
Ind
Indiana
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the Daily Journal
SAN Taylor
Bay View Club
Lois Sackett
East Broadway
The
Book Club
Fulton Pastures
H. C. Alston
Health Club
West Hempstead Street
W. Taylor
Idan
Gertrude Burman
Newton
Iowa Wesleyan
Marie and
Elizabeth Maasdam
Medicos
Illinois Association
Mrs. Shoenfelt
Orpheum Building
Se Earia
John T. Davies
Undertaker
George Q. Loesch
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