Local Briefs Highlight Visits and Travel Across Counties
Mr and Mrs Wm Kann of Perlee visit the city. Oscar Larson visits son T Larson at Camp Dodge. Fleming family motored to Ottumwa. George Cochran returns from Camp Dodge Des Moines. A M E Choir to perform Friday in Vee. Minster family visits Brighton. Grace Bree from Burlington visits Leova Arnett. Mrs Mary McKenzie of Washington visits her parents. Rev L E Kuhns back from Ash Grove. Arthur Woods travels from Rock Island due to his mother Belle Woods illness. Helen Millhouse from Ottumwa visits Stella Millhouse Elga Spry. Hughes couple depart for a Southern trip via Excelsior Springs and Hot Springs. Birth announced of a daughter to Oscar and Mrs Oscar Green in Lew Van Sask. Vester Moul returns home after visiting Ruth Gavin. Pierce family en route to Omaha then Neosho. Charles Martin family heads to Denver to settle. Olga Stewart returns from Kansas City with son Ole Frisk, who undergoes operation. M E Garmoe family from Iowa City visits. return home. Parsons College Conservatory recital set for tomorrow at seven thirty in Prof Moorhead studio by Miss Iva Scheffel pupils. Dr J F Clarke in New York City ordered to stay three weeks longer. Mrs Clarke to remain. Jesse Pickering and son of Brighton join C E Lambert Columbus City and Minda Lambert Brighton visit H D Minster. Lambert family return. Minda Lambert returns to Ollie with son for Sunday visit.
College Notes and Campus Meetings Report
College notes list students visiting from Washington Mediapolis Winfield Albia Burlington Emerson Indianola Ames Osceola Nodaway Brighton and a trip to see Mrs Moore for camp cookery. Chapel note offers class if schedule permits. Forensic club meeting discusses the Presidents Cabinet vs Congress with Penn Iona Wesleyan. Football victory prompts campus celebration with speeches and a bonfire at Alumni Field.
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Forensic Club
Morris
Congress
Penn
Iona Wesleyan
Slow Response to Second Liberty Loan in Jefferson County
On Saturday October 13 the Jefferson County subscriber count for the second Liberty Loan stood at forty two. The total pledged reached 59250 with fourteen days left to meet a 745000 county quota. The notice urges banks and residents to invest in four percent notes to support soldiers, stressing that principal is returned and interest earned.
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Jefferson County
Fire at Rock Island depot prompts quick response
A fire auto truck was dispatched yesterday afternoon to the Q depot and found a small blaze at the Rock Island depot platform. Oil from barrels had leaked and a passerby’s match likely started the fire, which was soon extinguished.
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Rock Island
Simpson Students Rally Strong Support For Rose and Green
The Simpson student body, numbering four or five hundred, created much noise at last Friday's game. Chet Welch, class of 1913, now with the Army Y M C A at Ft. Dodge, supported the Old Rose and Green. John Hedrick’s father attended and learned his son could play a high class game. An lineup error led Hedrick to substitute for Gibson rather than Wesley.
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Simpson
Chet Welch
Army Y. M. CC. A
Ft. Dodge
Rose and Green
John Hedrick
Fifty Three Runs in Two Games by Camp Team
Willard Goddard of Fairfield Iowa, with the 133rd Infantry 34th Division at Camp Cody New Mexico, hit three homers as his unit defeated Company L Keokuk 23 to 7 and Company K Washington 7 to 3. Ralph Parrett visited Libertyville friends.
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Register and Leader
Willard Goddard
KE. Goddard
Journal
Tribune
Co. M
Germany
Fairfield
One Hundred Thirty Third United States Infantry
Camp Cody
N. Mex
Des Moines
Company L
Keokuk
Company K
Washington
Goddard
Posse Seeks Firebugs After Barn Fire Ravages County
An armed posse hunts a group of vandals blamed for arson and terror in Edgar County. Victims include farmers Harrison Moss and Lew Wallace whose barn fire destroyed about 6000 dollars in beans and valuables.
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Paris
Edgar County
Harrison Moss
Lew Wallace
Wallace
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Wm. Kann
Perlee
City
Oscar Larson
T. Larson
Camp Dodge
J. E. Fleming
Ottumwa
George Cochran
Vee
Hi. D. Minster
Edna
Brighton
Grace Bree
Burlington
Leova Arnett
Mary McKenzie
Mrs
H. B. Keltner
L. E. Kuhns
Ash Grove
Arthur Woods
Belle Woods
Helen Millhouse
Stella Millhouse
Elga Spry
James Hughes
South
Excelsior Springs
Hot Springs
Ark
Oscar Green
Lew van, Sask
Canada
Vester Moul
Mt. Pleasant
Ruth Gavin
Charles Pierce
James Samomns
Omaha
Neb
Neosho
Charles Martin
West Hempstead Street
Denver
Colorado
Olga Stewart
Kansas City
Ole Frisk
M. E. Garmoe
Iowa City
W. D. Garmoe
Will Garmoe
Parsons College Conservatory of Music
Prof. Moorhead
Iva Scheffel
J. F. Clarke
New York City
Jesse Pickering
C. E. Lambert
Columbus City
Minda Lambert
W. L. Lambert
Ollie
H. D. Minster
College
Mildred Stewart
Grace Applegate
Gladys Goff
Lucile Helfenstine
Nellie Sharar
Mediapolis
Areel Stiles
Marie Johnson
Winfield
Marcia Smith
Albia
Meria Magel
Misses Taylors
Emerson
Harold Wilson
Indianola
Leland Page
Ames College
Alumni Field
Dr. Montgomery
Capt
Flinspach
Calvin Seavel
Curtis Schillerstrom
Miss Stanwood
Veil
Gaines
Parsons
Rooters
Eral Farm Loans
C. M. Redick
Stubb’s
Fairfield, Iowa
Q. Depot
Hedrick
Gibson
Wesley
Ralph Parrett
Libertyville
Posse
the Lennox
America
J. P. Smith Shoe Company
Chicago
Raelus Nic
CC. Anderson
Otice
Fairfield Theater
Bree
Avalon
Gestion
Zaumer Bros
Manhattan
Cuddy
By Agne Fletcher Bain
Douglas Fairbanks
Pure Life Insurance
National Life Assn
WD. Parrett
James F. Wilson Jr
Agts
John T. Davies
Undertaker
George Q. Loesch
L. E
J. M. McKain
South Third Street
Iowa
Washington, D. C
J. Gilly
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