North Liberty Community News Rounds Up Christmas Preparations
Local notes report W A Bell finishing corn husking then town for Christmas shopping. Hinze quarantine lifted. Hinze family out. Walter Johnson home children recovering from whooping cough. Brown family moved to Mrs Laura Knappe farm. Brown to work for Harry Wieder. New baby born to B S Fletcher couple. Lucille Evans travels to Lineville Iowa for Christmas with relatives. Garretts enjoy new Ford. Arlo Hays and crew hauled five loads of hogs to Riverton. Cliff Clary’s car fell off bridge. car recovered and repair pending. North Liberty school dismissed. pupils escorted to Sidney for farmers institute. North Liberty won prizes for mmap and corn stalk log cabin. Attendees at institute listed. Mary Werner and Frieda Schneider visited Hamburg for program. Mrs Laura Knappe to return from Shenandoah for Christmas with Wieder family. Miller and Beck families among those at Omar Miller funeral.
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W. A. Bell
Ernest Hinze
Harry Wieder
B.S. Fletcher
Lucille Evans
Lineville
Iowa
M. J. Garrett
Arlo Hays
Riverton
Cliff Clary
Simpson Fill
Anna Werner
Fred Schneider
W. F. Knappe
Sidney
Farmers Institute
North Liberty
Ford Knappe
Institute
Ed Davisson
Fred’ Schneider
Neva Simpson
Rose
Saturday Night and the Church in a Quiet Texas Town
In Lewisville Texas a Saturday night scene reflects on rest, family, and the value of Sunday. The piece argues Sunday should be a voluntary churchgoing day, criticizing legal mandates like the Lord's Day Alliance. It emphasizes church influence when allowed to remain live and let live, urging prosperity through moral appeal.
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Bank
Lewisville
Tex
Enterprise
Russia
Harness Thief Foiled by Shotgun At Strahan Farm
Alva Hartley awoke to his dogs alarm and saw a man exit the barn with two harness sets. He fired his shotgun, the thief dropped the harness and fled, leaving some shot behind. Hartley notes this as a useful deterrent to petty theft.
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Alva Hartley
Chas
Gripe
Strahan
Death by Own Action Near Braddyville
Charles Brooks, 60, wealthy Braddyville vicinity resident and heavy stockholder in the Bradyville Bank, shot himself Saturday morning near Yorktown after a period of ill health and despondency over the bank’s closure. His wife found him, summoning Edwin Anderson and Willard Yaple. He leaves a wife and daughter Miss Hazel, a Gravity teacher.
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Yorktown
Charles Brooks
Braddyville
Braddyville Bank
Brooks
College Springs
Fire erupts in Esden building basement shop
Saturday morning smoke issued from the Esden building basement housing the Argus office. Jim Howe was melting metal in a furnace when the device exploded, setting a wall and part of the ceiling ablaze. He acted quickly to extinguish the flames.
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Argus
Jim Howe
Jim
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