Packwood Area Correspondence Highlights Community Visits
Local notes record numerous calls and visits by residents to families across Linby Fairfield Ottumwa and surrounding towns. Travelers include J C Hill Louise Hill Glen Myers and families and many others visiting relatives and attending church and social events. Community rail connections improved with better Linby station timings aiding east and west travel.
Amana visits and Fairfield callers across the week
People visited relatives and neighbors across Fairfield, Amana, and surrounding areas. Nathan Jones and family traveled to Amana colonies. many hosted or attended gatherings, fairs, picnics, and church services, with names like Spalding Jones Dana Coffin and Heston appearing among visitors and hosts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davidson
Nathan Jones
Olney Hoskins
Delta
Clarence Turnbull
Sigourney
Wynona Macy
Brighton
Bert Ash
Wm. Tucker
Frazier
B. A. Smalley
Illinois
Ed Hosler
Mt. Pleasant
Wilbur Vandyke
Henry Coffin
Ira Hadley
Ed Balderson
Phoebe Jones
H. Jones
Fairfield
Lucile
Arlene Soetens
Warren
Gregory Dutton
Near West Liberty
Mary Millane
Stoner Davidson
John Lefflers
Albert Coffin
Edith Dana
George Bray
Dana
George Ash
Lela
Mable McPherson
Rev. Kessler
Oskaloosa
Curtis Rogers
Donald Allen
Walter Stuart
Clifford Davidson
Faye Allen
Hazel Apt
East Pleasant Plain
W. C. Jones
A. A. Soetens
Alma Sharp
Keota
O. C. Spalding
Kessler
Howard Grove
Wm. Trail
Charlie Baker
Herner Ingham
C. R. Jones
Fred Ryner
Jake Sheets
Oliver Rice
Luther Elmore
Ralph Bray
Wes Watson
Local residents share news and obituaries in What Cheer area
Lindy Edwards and Leona Edwards visit the Mowery home while Geraldine Baughn stays with grandparents this week. Miss Florence Searing reports Jonathan Nelson of What Cheer has died at 77, Civil War veteran buried in Highland cemetery. Other notes include Cyrus Ruggles returning from Minnesota with potato crop woes, George Caldwell’s death in Ottumwa, Grandma Edwards ill with inflammatory rheumatism, and multiple visits among area families and relatives through Friday and weekend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hattie Ruggles
Coley
McCarthy
Sigourney
Miss Wells
Cedar Rauids
Lindy
Bruce Mackay
Cyrus Ruggles
Eloise
Carl Cline
C. W. Edwards
Leona Edwards
R. E. Mowery
Geraldine Baughn
Florence Searing
Oskaloosa
Jonathan Nelson
What Cheer
Elias
Emily Nelson
Highland Cemetery
Minnesota
Harold Myers
Farson
George Caldwell
Abingdon
Grandma Edwards
Welker Dooley
Ottumwa
Vansdall
Bert Ingle
Fairfield
Cynthia Cline
Lawrence Myers
Miss Delinger
Nelson
Ellen
Martha Webb
Joe Curtis
Hedrick
Floyd Hale
L. L. Smith
Foster
Melaca
Minn
Iowa
Mabel Peterson
Nell Smith
Josephine
Des Moines
M. N. Smith
Local residents visit and travel notes around Libertyville Ottumwa and area
A string of social visits and travel reports from Libertyville Ottumwa and nearby towns. Guests include Mrs. Mattie House of Ottumwa with Mrs. Lester Burnaugh, and Misses Louise Ruth Moss visiting a Brighton aunt. Several families travel or host in Eldon Fairfield Keota and Davenport suburbs, with arrivals from St. Joe Missouri and Chicago. A sudden illness and funeral mark a family obituary in the Libertyville area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irene
Ruth Samuelson
Marie Woolum
Agency
Majorie Sonner
Samelson
Ward Chandler
Zear Hinshaw
Hinshaw
Charles Chandler
Thelma Asquith
Harriet Neff
Fairfield
A Reid
Joe Gottschich
Oskaloosa
Gus Bissig
Opal Closon
Ottumwa
Ben Stephenson
E. W. Woolum
Packwood
Frank Mitchell
Ollie
Roy Redman
Stewart
Leathers
Colorado
John Murphy
Newt Lyon
Mabel Sabel
F. Barnes
Pekin
C. K. Wallace
Loren White
J. W. Fulton
Helen
Libertyville
Bartlesville
Okla
Free Oliver
Oliver
James Rigway
Pearl Widner
Edna Dysert
Clara Barron
S. K. Coats
C. M. Scott
Carl Edmund
Etta
J. S. Loughary
Will
Everett Wagoner
Knoxville
Percy and
Dean
Mt. Pleasant
J. W. Ray
Illinois
Irving
Ula Reiner
Pearl Gardner
Mediapolis
Mattie House
Lester Burnaugh
Guy Doolittle
Baby
R. W. Stansberry
Niel Bennett
Eldon
N. D. Wilson
Walter Nelson
Ft. Dodge
Luther Leedy
Lucille
Elizabeth Laughlin
Lee Gallup
Rock Island
Louise
Ruth Moss
Brighton
Glen Anderson
George Gifford
St. Joe
Dale Harlan
J. F. Herrick
Verne Maddix
Trenton
Eugene
Raymond Swanson
Keota
Washington
J. O. Boyd
David Haynes
Kathryn
Lucy Boyd
T. S. Mason
Grinnell
Ed Hogans
Carl Moberg
Davenport
Mary Gunmere
Rex Workman
Birmingham
Shipler
Faye Peck
Frank Glotfelty
Chicago
H. D. Davis
Emmett Myers
Turning Corn Into Money Through Hog Profits
Farmers urged to convert corn to hog production to boost profits and weight gain. Emphasis on proper housing like hog houses, pens, and feeding equipment. Eclipse offers equipment and promotes V S Ehrhardt’s Gothic roof barn as a model farm improvement. Endorses buying from Eclipse to relieve coal storage by sourcing winter fuel now.
Local residents share visits and travels in Mt Pleasant area
Glasgow residents Charlies McClain and family leave for Newton after weeks with relatives. Numerous calls and visits occur in Lockridge Fairfield Mt Pleasant Danville and Birmingham as farmers prep fall plowing and attend fairs.
Abingdon Visitors and Local Notices Highlight Week
Abingdon and Centerville residents travel for visits as Geo Caldwell's funeral is held in Abingdon. Ray Nelson builds out-buildings. State fair attendance planned. Frank Bonnett and family visit Elmer Davis in Abingdon. D J Johnson hosts Paul Mowery. Jake Miller's Abingdon friends celebrate his 54th birthday. Fred Kreigh, Frank Mowery families visit near Bladensburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gaylord Mowery
Centerville
Ford
Bro. Karacker
Batavia
Anna Woolums
Abingdon
Geo. Caldwell
Ottumwa
Dave Caldwell
Ray Nelson
Frank Bonnett
Birmingham
Elmer Davis
Davis
Bonnett
Paul Mowery
D. J. Johnson
Jake Miller
Fred Kreigh
Frank Mowery
Bladensburg
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Maggie Chandler
Woolum Gee
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J. C. Hill
Bloomfield
Isaac Webb
Martha
Joseph Nelson
Glen Myers
Fairwere Packwood
Fred Oliver
Fulton
Edwin Johnson
Shea
Charley Lisk
Miss Lock
J.C. Hill
Marsh Smithart
Lawrence Wood
Mona Fairmont
Winfield
L. G. Myers
Walter Harrison
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Guy Brown
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C. B
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Milwaukee
C.M
St. P
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Babcock
Wilson
Oklahoma
Best Lenning
Etta Edmund
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Lida Mowery
C. G. Miller
Nina Newberry
Charles Gobble
James Cowin
Warbritten
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B .B. Kenyon
John Oliver
Sargent
Loughary
Oscar Steigleder
Roy McChesney
S. K. Coats Monaster
The
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Charles Gob- Gilbert Smith
McClure
Melville Barron
Dc. M. McChesney
Virta Steele
Richland
Earl Weld
Gilbert and
Leland
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John Fray
Frank Stanfield
Sopha
Augusta Samuelson
Fred Steigleder
Ernest Seeeey
Wilford
White City
Crites
Mincher
Sam Nelson
Margaret Mincher
W. A. Mincher
Bruce Thomas
Isaac Trow
Kan
Ben Trow
Carl Riggs
James Stnsberry
Velma Bartholow
Edna Thompson
May Riggs
John Coleman
Wilfield Phillips
Belmont
Neb
A. G. Rail
R. R. Colton
Clarence Lindler
Burlington
Ralph Peebler
Iva Young
Alvin Kinney
Glasgow
Catherine Rodabaugh
Glen Horn
Douds
Brace Horn
S. H. Watkins
Mildred
Bert Cleasby
Hubert Fry
Clifford Heston
Ed Stever
Jefferson County Hospital
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Unionville
Isabelle Bishop
John Dorothy
Elizabeth Coleman
Olive Thompson
Summers
Maude Borghart
Cedar Rapids
Inez
Jessie Hoffman
Reed Crawford
Crawford
Emil Anderson
Nevada
Elmer
Chas. Rodibaugh
Centralia
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Mary Stewart
Ray
Grover Schwartz
Glascow
J. A. Stewart
M. E. Church
James Turnipseed
Mesdames Turnipseed
Emmett Glotfelty
Henry Grebe
Harrie Grissom
Niel Linder
Niel Greeson
Mesdames Leppo
Kelly
Yost
Stiles
Swanson
Hill
Slimmer
Watkins
Williams
Dustin
Fordyce
Armstrong
Young
Gallup
Hoffman
Ira Peebler
Raymond Peebler
Carlson
Maddix Colton
Eyestone
Davis Bishop
Roy Maddix
Myra Fleming
Glen Maddix
Stockport
Sasseen
Maxine
Ames
T. W. Hawkins
Hawkins
O. A. Swanson
Gail
Henry Hawkins
Hill Swartz
Alva Swartz
Niel Goff
Chilicothe
Dave Riniker
Fred Davens
Epworth League
Harrie Carter
Chas Allison
Hazel Hisel
Erle Baker
Harold
Wm. Dickinson
Sam Dickinson
Everet Coffin
Wm. McVey
Pleasant Plain
Addie Funson
Marshall Edmonson
Funson
Edmonson
Luella Jones
Philadelphia
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Rachael Jones
Idaho
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Pauline
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Os Gowery
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Jose Rice
W. R. McVey
Clarence Dana
George Pray
Everett Coffin
Elmer Coffin
Weldon Heston
Mahlon Roberts
Clyde Coffin
Mattie Coffin
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Rubio
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Albert Fin
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L. A. Barnard
Charlie McClain
Milford
Newton
Herbert
Martin Hall
Lockridge
Clifford
Florence
Cleota Kiger
Parvin Howell
Marjory Blucher
Elizabeth Blucher
Charley Bloomquist
Lloyd Blucher
Hazel Wyatt
Danville
Charley McClain
Clifford Taylor
Elliott Taylor
Corliss Teeter
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Edith
George King
George McElwee
Ralph Charbonneaux
Fred McElwee
of State
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Elizabeth Martin
Leona
Ray Grant
Wilma Lorraine
Susie Teeter
Herman Zeigler
Eva Shaner
New London
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Everett
Marjory
Tama
Patrice Loving
George Sturgis
Fredson Heer
James Grant
Charley McClaren
Pleasant
Electa Rice
Vance
Caroline Baldwin
Frank Helfenstine
Vivian
Alven Kinney
Salem
Andrew J. Loving
Martin
Adolph Hall
Emory Crenshaw
Hattie Dickson
Ben Hall
Mildred Bishop
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