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Newspaper
Gravity Independent
Location
Gravity, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1939
Page
2
Will Chandler of Des Moines joined Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Brown and Carol on a trip to Tarkio Missouri Tuesday morning for the United Presbyterian College commencement exercises. Victory Brown of Clearfield, a nephew of Mr. Brown, was in the graduating class.
Mr and Mrs Floyd Fickess Darline and Francis drove to Kansas City Sunday to visit Mrs Fickess parents. Their daughter Marie who had spent three weeks with relatives in Kansas City returned home with them.
Genevieve Stafford of Conway visited over the weekend with her grandparents Henry Stafford and his wife.
Miss Marcella Larson and Mr. Amos Jencks of Des Moines were wed at Stanton on Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Campbell attended with family. Jimmie Johnston and Mrs Lena Terry visited their mother in Clearmont Missouri over the weekend.
Guests in the Albert Levi home Sunday were Mr. Levi's sister Mrs. D. G. Hughes, her husband and son Idwal and wife of Bayard, also Paul Morgan and family of Omaha.
Mr and Mrs Gene Wiebrecht of Waterloo spent Sunday night with Mrs Wiebrecht's parents Guy Campbell and wife. They were on their way to Wichita Kansas to spend their vacation with relatives.
The Free Methodist Church lists Sunday School at 10 a.m. and morning worship at 11 a.m. in charge of Mrs. Biggerstaff. Evening service at 8 p.m. features an evangelistic message by the pastor. Prayer meeting on Wednesday at 8 p.m. with a cordial invitation to attend. W. F. Biggerstaff invites all to join.
Ella Maxwell departed Saturday for Clarinda after visiting her son Frank Downing and his wife, marking a brief family reunion before returning home.
Mrs Anna Daniels of New Port Oregon arrived here Wednesday of last week for a visit at the home of her brother Frank Downing and wife.
Mr and Mrs J Reisdorf of Clear Lake visited Tuesday at the C E Martin home.
Al Lund and wife Art Lund and Mrs. Julia Sawyer of Shenandoah were here to observe Memorial Day.
Clarinda resident Miss Carmaleta Cuttell visited friends here Monday evening, sharing time and calling on acquaintances during her stay.
W R Brookman of Blanchard spent Tuesday in the city at the home of his mother Mrs Ella Brookman.
Winnie Hootman and wife of Braddyville visited the Frank Downing home on Tuesday. Marion West and her Prescott family spent Sunday evening at the home of her father, A. J. Leighton, in a series of quiet social calls.
Mrs Albert Parka came home Saturday from New Market where she spent time with her children.
Mrs Scott E Cramer of Chicago Illinois is expected Saturday for a visit with her parents J S Francis and wife She will accompany Mr and Mrs Vernon Felt who will spend their vacation with their parents at Prescott and near Corning respectively.
Bert Meyers and wife of Northboro visited here for Decoration Day observances, joining local residents in ceremonies and expressing remembrance for veterans.
Mrs Lillian Hill of Grand Island Nebraska arrived Sunday to visit until after Decoration Day with her sister Mrs Glen Savage and family and other relatives. She was accompanied from Clarinda by her brother George Fawcett and daughter who spent the day here.
Elynor and Joyca Jamison of near Villisca are visiting at the home of their grandparents, Chas. Lock and wife and other relatives.
Mary Campbell and daughter Mary of Lincoln Nebraska and Mr. and Mrs Vern Hosic Nell Haden and Mrs Haden and Mrs Hosic, sisters of Mr Roberts, were visitors at the George Roberts home on Tuesday.
Lambert Hitchcock of Cheshire Connecticut founded a Winsted cabinet and chair factory in 1818 that grew into Hitchcockville by 1821. He helped popularize a sturdy rocking chair type with red and black painted finishes and gilt stencil decoration that became a regional furniture hallmark.
A Pearson's London Weekly correspondent explains the saying Mind your P's and Q's dates back to old inns where P and Q marked pints and quarts on a slate or to printers hand-setting type where p and q could be mistaken. The phrase warned accuracy in accounts or lettering.
The North American colonization effort began with Monts and Champlain. After a failed St Croix island post, they settled Port Royal in 1605, then Champlain founded Quebec on July 3, 1608. Champlain, born in Brouage, was the son of a sea captain, marking French influence in early Canada.
The founder of the United States trotting horse family was Messenger, who never trotted, and his descendants were bred to Canadian animals in the early nineteenth century. The US horse and buggy era followed as offspring learned to trot with little teaching, establishing the trotting breed for trotting purposes.
The text explains nationality as belonging to a nation by birth or allegiance and notes loss by naturalization elsewhere. It defines citizenship as the status and privileges of a citizen and cites honorary citizenship, such as George Washington being made an honorary citizen of France. It also mentions Americans who held high positions without full citizenship and notes that American Indians gained citizenship only in 1924.
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