Mayhem and Moments From Iowa Falls School Year
Local residents from Conrad Iowa Falls Liscomb and Alden visited Prent Ransom and George Manley homes. Commencement May 28 featured Dr Cleworth Cedarids and a packed high school auditorium with thirteen seniors. School closed May 29 with picnic and baseball against Steamboatd. senior play The Ghost Bird cast listed. town social scene noted through Wednesday visits and banquet at Woods Hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mell ’Stewart
Conrad
George Manfey
Marlys Kane
Iowa Falls
Prent
Dorothy Chantrill
Marjorie Conkin
Eloise Fuller
Elden Havens
Laverne Hoffman
Via Jackson
Radolph
Herbert Klemme
Marion
Local Social Roundup From Prairie City and Ellsworth
Thursday visits filled the George Fuller home with guests including Mr and Mrs Fuller and son from Prairie City for Eloise Little Fuller’s graduation. Rosemary Trickey traveled to Dows for a final day of school and a picnic with Miss Mildred Trickey. Illness news touched Mrs George Reed with surgery at Ellsworth hospital and improving condition later reported. Ed Baker and Jerry Youngman of Waterloo were dinner guests in the R Welsh home. Oliver Cessna and Chauncy Cessna in Washington hospital with small hopes of recovery. Arthur Saunders Iowa Falls and Vern Sanders Creston called at the P Ransom home. Edward Granton and family enjoy a new Nash sedan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Fuller
Eloise
Rosemary Trickey
Dows
Mildred Trickey
George Reed
Ellsworth Hospital
Ed Baker
Jerry Youngman
Waterloo
R. Welsh
Merle Trickey
Ellsworth
Ackley Funeral Rites Held for Mrs Charley Bird 63
Funeral services for Mrs. Charley Bird 63, who died Wednesday evening at her Ackley home, were held Friday at noon at the home and 1 p.m. at the Christian church in Iowa Falls. Interment was in the Towa Falls cemetery. Mrs. Bird born in Chesterton Indiana April 7 1866 came to Town in 1886. She married Charley Bird in 1888 and lived on a Robertson area farm before retiring to Ackley about ten years ago. Six or seven children with two sons and three daughters surviving along with five grandchildren and two sisters. Also noted are local scarlet fever quarantines and a Missouri mule incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charley Bird
Ackley
Christian Church
Iowa Falls
L. H. Sours
Towa Falls
Mra
Bird
Chesterdon
Ind
Robertson
Frank
Wendell
Jessie Strahorn
Rockwell
Sylvia Folkers
Allison
California
Montana
Frank Kachelhoffer
Frances
Elva Mullane
Margaret
Paul Heetland
Pearl
Ellsworth College graduates 27 to 28 strong at Iowa Falls
Ackley Gun club hosted a shooting tournament drawing a sizable state turnout with C. E. Heston of Fairfax winning the silver loving cup on 136 of 150 targets. Illinois Central railroad agent M. T. Steiner discussed safety as part of a longstanding injury reduction campaign with notable gains by 1928. Painters prep interior woodwork at the Sacred Heart academy in Ackley ahead of September opening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellsworth College At
Iowa Falls
Braseler
Buckeye
M. T. Steiner
Illinois Central Railroad
Ft. Dodge
Ackley
Illinois Central System
C. E. Heston
Fairfax
Iowa
Sacred Hegit Academy
Theer
County Agent Reports July Fourth Picnic Plans
The farm bureau picnic committee in Iowa Falls appointed committees for the July 4 event with Director R. K. Bliss of Ames set as morning speaker. An afternoon program is planned for non fans of the ball game. Local clubs cooperate on finances and crowd management. A loudspeakers committee reports confidence in good sound. Also notes booster steps on hog tuberculin and calyx spray for fruit crops including lead arsenate and lime sulfur treatments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farm Bureau
Iowa Falls
R. K. Bliss
Ames
Trea
Burglars Loot Union Office Find Meager Cash
Union grain office burglars found only 1.57 dollars in cash after ransacking drawers for valuables. A fountain pen was taken while Mrs. Arvilla Smith suffered severe hand injuries from a washing machine wringer earlier Wednesday morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union
Arvilla Smith
Foken
BE. V. Thode
Cedar Falla
W. H. ‘Orfe
Harry Buck
Owa City
Helen Byers
Union High School Class of Nine Graduates Play at Christian Church
Local seniors Ethel and Bethel Cundiff Edwin Biersborn Harry Stanfield Margaret Martin Helen Rogers and Geraldine Prindle constitute nine graduates this year in Union. They presented the class play Mrs Briggs of the Poultry Yard at the Christian church Thursday and Friday nights. Baccalaureate services were held at the Christian church Sunday evening May 26 with Rev J F Miller delivering the address. Residents of Eldora Junction report hospital improvements and community notes. several social calls and gatherings are noted with visits to Marshalltown, Whitten, Rutherford, Drake University, and local homes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. Lepley
Deaconess
Marshalltown
Glenn Fagan
Deaconess Hospital
Union High School
Ethel and
Bethel Cundiff
Edwin Biersborn
Harry Stanfield
Margaret Martin
Helen Rogers
Geraldine Prindle
Briggs
Poultry Yard
Sunday Evening Wedding in Union Parish Union
Sunday evening a ceremony in Union joined Mr and Mrs Quincy Dillon in a quiet vows moment with close family members present. The couple exchanged rings and held a brief reception afterward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maynard Cobb
Quincy Dillon
Wellsburg junior senior banquet honors life of the sweet pea
The Wellsburg school annual banquet at the Willard home in Marshall town featured a toast program tracing the life history of the sweet pea, the class flower. Harley Linda man presided as toastmaster introducing John Riekena Clara Neessen Viola Meyer Jean nette Wiseman Floyd Hackworth. A theatre party followed with faculty and grade teachers as guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wellsburg
Willard
Marshalltown
Harley Lindaman
John Riekena
Clara Neessen
Viola Meyer
Jeannette Wiseman
Floyd Hackworth
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