Weekly Visitors and Local Notes From Iowa Papers
Estherville Democrat notes families planning move from Milford to Springville New York where they bought farms Lakota Record reports ministers claim world faith waning yet Liberty bonds traded for fake stocks Champion Town ranks fifth in autos New York state leads with 600000 town has 62000 It is estimated one auto per ten people in US Osceola county tenant farmer dispute about hog carcass disposal affecting hog losses Whittemore Champion Waterloo Blackhawk county invites bids to grade and pave 17 miles of primary system bids rejected for high prices up to 6 per yard for paving and 1 per yard for grading implying mile costs over 70000 for both
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Estherville
Milford
Springville
New York
Champion Town
New York State
United States
Whittemore
Waterloo
Blackhawk
Estherville and Surrounding News Roundup of 1920 Events
Local notes report Julius Miller selling his farm two miles southwest of Estherville for two hundred dollars an acre and buying a 100 acre farm inside Boone for five hundred dollars an acre. Halfa school wins county spelling contest with 99.8 score and will keep silver cup. Parole board reports activity across several prisons including panty rounds in Anna, Rockwell, and Fort Madison. Road program in Star County outlines paving and tiling work. Sugar beet project discussed with Mason City interest. City notices include Chicago spark plug fraud case and high school basketball defeat for Milford. Various small items from Emmetsburg, Ringsted, Swen City, Penton, Milford, Griswold, Fenton, Story City, and Spencer.
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Estherville
Julius Miller
Jast Spring
Boone
Ringsted Dispatch
Trowa
Emmet
Calf Found Alive After Straw Stack Upset
Ringsted Dispatch notes a calf from W. H. Green farm near Bancroft went missing on December 24 and was found in an overturned straw stack a month later. The animal remained frisky after being given water. The report contrasts this with local notes from Story City Herald on post office classes and local governance.
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Ringsted
W. H. Green
Bancroft
Story City Herald
Senate
City Council Proceedings March 1 1920
Regular meeting with Mayor D W Gameron presiding. Present were L T Peterson I F Noble L L Lindsey Tom Allen. absent Louis Christiansen. Feb 2 minutes read and approved. Bills presented: Graettinger Times printing 12.28 and John Paulsen night watchman 5.00.
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Albert Jensen
W. G. Foster
L. L. Lindsey
Cameron
L. T. Peterson
I. P. Noble
Louis Christiansen
H. V. Dickey
Neee
Roll Call
D. W. Gameron
I. F. Noble
Tom ¥. Allen
Billa
Graettinger Times
John Paulsen
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Mina ‘Taylor
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Hart Schaffner & Marx
Lawrence Clothing Company
Osceola County
the Graettinger Times
John. J. Sullivan
Eatherville
Halfa
Colyer
Maple Hill
State Board of Parole
Annamosa
Parole Board
Fort Madison
Rockwell
Swen City
S. Terwilliger
Northern Sugar Corporation
Mason City
Penton
Chicago
Toledo, Ohio
Milford Mail
Graettinger
Milford Boys
Spirit Lake
Morningside
Sioux City
Emmetsburg
North Dakota
Griswold
J. BR. Schofield
Alton Democrat
Jamaica
Boone ‘Democrat
Fenton
Clarence Haase
Iowa
Towa State College
Spencer
Gus Anderson
L. B. Peese
Lake Park
Henry Pless
Comfrey
Minnesota
Humboldt
Pocahontas County
Calhoun
Manson
Pomeroy
Frank Peterson
Spencer News-Herald
Otto A. Bjornstad Company
Ed Borah
Greenville
Mr. Borah
Farmers Supply Co
Tom Allen
Harry V. Dickey
Council Proceedings
Oxy-Acetylene
John Clemenson
First National Bank
Mina Taylor
Aly
Mina Taylors
Johnson’s
the Farmers Store
P. G. Johnson & Co
Lowa
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