Local social notes and wedding bells fill city week
Oskaloosa guests and visitors from Birmingham Des Moines and Cedar Rapids populate the social calendar. engagements marriages include Beulah Brown and John Dewey Beghtol at the Methodist parsonage and Bertha Freshwater with Arthur Miller in Cedar Rapids. Community notices invite Ladies Aid meetings and a Friday social at Beckwith schoolhouse.
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Beulah Brown
Ladsdale
John Dewey Beghtol
W. R. Keesey
Bertha Freshwater
Arthur Miller
Cedar Rapids
Miss Lydia Pool Attends Parents Golden Wedding
Miss Lydia Pool daughter of Rev and Mrs T S Pool of Mt Pleasant returns from twelve years in India to witness her parents golden wedding anniversary planned for October 1917. She waited eleven days in Hong Kong for sailing and expects arrival in Mt Pleasant around October 8th or 10th.
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Charles Cormick
Mt. Pleasant
John Samuelson
Fred Neibert
W. E. Johnson
Hayes M. Fuhr
Hastings
Neb
Lincoln
R. T. McClain
Canada
Ben Hassel
Burlington
Rollin Israel
Cedar Rapids
Deming
N. M
Lucile Lamberson
Des Moines
Bert Cleasby
Libertyville
Henry Pierson
Oscar Leedham
Frank K. Leedham
Peoria
Ill
Mary Leedham
J. ©. Barnes
East Washington Street
Orrin Axtell
Lincoln, Neb
Lee Johnson
Ihiastings
East Burlington Street
Lydia Pool
T. S. Pool
India
Hong Kong
China
Pacific
San Francisco
Colt Calf and Corn Show Scheduled Across County
Jefferson County Farmers Institute hosts a four day event from October 16 to 19 featuring Colt Calf Corn and Poultry shows at Cross Lanes East Pleasant Plain Beckwith and Lockridge with a final sweepstakes on October 20 in Fairfield. The program and premium list will be issued soon and organizers call it one of the finest institutes in the county.
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Jefferson County Farmers’ Institute
Cross Lanes
East Pleasant Plain
Beckwith
Lockridge
Fairfield
Card of Thanks for Kindness After Illness and Death
The family thanks friends for acts of kindness and sympathy during the illness and death of our husband and father and for the floral offerings sent in this sorrowful hour. Signed by the children.
Prohibition Amendment Fight Tied to Iowa Spending
A local notice cites R. H. Spence as county treasurer urging votes for the Prohibition amendment while claiming funds from a booze factory campaign in Iowa. It notes a 264 penalty taking effect October 1 and pressures voters to back the amendment on October 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Ely's Cream Balm Restores Clear Breathing From Cold
Relief from nasal congestion with Ely's Cream Balm practical guidance to apply in the nostrils. The antiseptic cream soothes swollen membranes and provides instant relief from catarrh and nasal blockage.
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Ely
For Sale Typewriters at Deep Factory Discounts
Rebuilt Remingtons Monarchs L C Smiths and Royals offered direct from factories at 40 to 89 percent below manufacturers prices. One year guarantee. Five day trial with cash or easy terms. Catalogue on request. Ask the Journal. American Writing Machine Co Inc 329 South Dearborn Street Chicago IL 860
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Remingtons
Monarchs
L. C. Smiths
Royals
Ask the Journal
American Writing Machine Co., Inc
South Dearborn, Street
Chicago
October 15th dateto vote for Iowa Prohibition amendment
Voters are reminded to cast ballots on October 15 for the Iowa Prohibition amendment. The brief notice urges participation and notes the measure seeks to modify state liquor laws.
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Iowa
October 15 election tests loyalties to poor man or whisky man
A brief political note contrasts a forthcoming October 15 election with a choice between the poor man’s interests and the whisky man’s influence, signaling campaign tensions and voter alignment dynamics.
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Harry Johnson
Oskaloosa
Mrs. W. E. Johnson
Belle Rail
Birmingham
Mattie S. Junkin
Ellery Raney
Trento
Atty
J. S. Mcekmey
S. FE
Bert E. Neimeyer
Ottumwa
Earl Parsons
Rock Island
Arsnal
Ila Miller
W. E. Schoen
CliMax Grocery
Mark Baker
Chicago, Ill
Anthony Turner
Ella Pratt
Davenport
John Z. Wildman
A. C. Brookhart
Myrtle Peel
Smith Brookhart
Ned
Jas. L. Brookhart
Margaret
Odes Brookhart
Mry Quinn
South Haven
Mich
Amos Wildman
Ben
Sapulpa
Okla
Lora Cunningham
Lee
Cantril
Victoria McElderry
Bloomfield
Mary E. Taylor
Laura
M. T. Taylor
C L. Taylor
Arthur Pumphrey
Ladies’ Aid Society
First English Lutheran Church
Nettie Parsons
South Third Street
Clayton Hodgens
Ernest Bailey
Parsons
C. A. Allard
Mary
Kenneth O’niel
This City
Edna
Enla Flinspach
Florence Carlson
Katherine
Browner DuBois
Florence
Gerrude Gavin
Erma
Miss Freshwater
James Freshwater
West Grimes Street
Leader
Mr. Miller
Etta A. Miller
E. B. Lane
the Baptist Church
Aontireland
R. H. Spence, Co. Treas
A. V. Frazey Verle Frazey
PEONE
A. V. Frazey & Son
Charles Lyon
Lowa
Parsons College Conservatory OF Music
James P. Moorhead
J.& K. Shoes
C. E. Anderson
Gaumer Bros
Kodak Films
Orpheum ‘Vronignhnt
Orpheum Orchestra
B. A Rolfe
Mabel Taliaferro
Peggy, Will
June and
Katherine Lee
the Two Little Imps
Fairfield Theater
East Broadway
Jean Sothern
Lee Cloud
Kingsley Benedict and
Eileen Sedgewick
Man and
Pure Life Insurance
National Life Assn
W. B. Parrett
James F. Wilson Jr
Agts
John T. Davies
Undertaker
George Q. Loesch
L. E
Frank D. Kerrick
Iowa State Wings
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