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Newspaper
Hedrick Journal
Location
Hedrick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1928
Page
6
Neighbors share routine updates from Montezuma Ottumwa and Sigourney including visits graduations and family travels. Listings note attendees at Cedar Falls Lennox College Oskaloosa and Pekin events with plans for community gatherings and a homecoming in Lowell. People named include Vanderlippe Teeter Birdman Messerschmitt Heninger Hutton Allen and Brown with assorted travels and social activities.
Linby residents report Mrs Viola Bank and her young daughter with Miss Lenore Ruggles of Nebraska visiting relatives. Mrs Bessie Nelson remains quite sick. Ira Saunders and family of Brighton were callers at Mrs Cella Edwards yesterday.
June 11 social roundup from Highland Center reports Mr. and Mrs A Allen and children in LaPlata Missouri Mrs Stevens ill with mumps Mr and Mrs F Bennett and children and Hottie McGee in Ottumwa Mr and Mrs Wesley Barney visiting Kalona Mr and Mrs A J Beggs and daughter at infant funeral of Mr and Mrs Stanley Evegs Mrs James Muller back from Ottumwa after week with Miss Carte Wickofe Mr and Mrs Arthur Lacon of Hayesville and Mr and Mrs Albert Bond and War Vetcorner and Mr and Mrs Ray Donk with children at M Bacon home Little Betty Lois Dimimie returns home after week with aunt Mrs Alva Sylvester Belvia Donk visits Ida Davis Hedrick Carl Hilton Parson visits Highland Center Dr and Mrs JF Williams and daughter Doris drive to Ottumwa Joyce Elaine Nelson ill.
Farson and Richland residents visited the G W Davis home yesterday. Ottumwa callers included IS S Boyden and Roy Creech. Mrs John Meekwen returned from Detroit visit. J A Vanney and family from Competine visited. A late wind and rain storm caused damage to fruit trees and outbuildings. Dr C A Henry called in Abingdon last week. Ben Reno and family visited the Garber home.
Washington reports a proposed American plan to establish definite east and west traffic lanes in the Pacific for an international safety conference in London next year. It notes that Atlantic routing was organized at the 1924 London conference and outlines proposed routes, seasonal allocations, and the rule to keep to the right with a notable reversal on a Halifax route.
Nikolaiken, East Prussia, commemorates an ancient myth by erecting a pillar crowned with the smelt stallion, the legendary king of the smelts chained to the city bridge to lure fish for local fishermen. The tale links the city’s fame in the Spirding lake smelt fishery to a stone monument.
In Tokyo Japan beggars children must receive education but over 100 mendicant youths in the capital are skipping school to beg. Parents rely on their children for street begging and only about ten cents a day is earned. A special school for these children is being considered.
L. Nielson, 47, of Audubon, died when blasting a ditch and his wires touched a high tension line. The accident appears to involve a contact with the line and a fatal result for the worker.
In the Laird district near the Yukon border a claim is made that certain vegetables like lettuce and radishes reach prodigious size in 24 to 80 hours due to a warm soil rich in nutrients. Florists and truck gardeners plan an excursion to investigate reports of rapid growth in a valley surrounded by hills with hot springs and steam.
The three weeks old son of Mr and Mrs Carl Valeske was found smothered to death in his crib at Cedar Valley hospital Charles City The infant born at home was kept at the hospital where the mother received treatment
Two Lawler boys Lyle and Gerald Warcrtz aged 16 and 10 drowned in Crane creek near Lawler. The tragedy was unwitnessed. it is believed one boy had cramps and the other perished while attempting a rescue.
Stockholm reports the original Arizona Peter from Bret Harte's tale is alive in Smedjebacken Sweden at seventy and blind. Per Hrlk Anstroem, the man, left Sweden in the 1880s for the American West, where he aided a Sioux chief Grey Bear, rescued captive women from brigands, and faced robbers at a canyon. After a mining setback and lost love, he returned home and lost his sight in an explosion.
Missouri Botanical Garden bulletin details a tomato grafted onto a potato stock producing tomato fruits above and potato tubers below. The technique is simple, requiring similar skill to grafting an apple twig, with roots and fruits remaining independent. The first record dates to an amateur scientist De Tchudl in France.
Alaska Governor George A. Parks sets out June 1 with Territorial Commissioner Malcolm Elliott and Highway Engineer R J Sommers to inspect all 48 landing fields. They will fly over reindeer herds fur seal rookeries mines Mount McKinley the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers fisheries and pulp mills.
In Constantinople a stormy labor meeting of Turkish men demanded dismissal of thousands of women workers in tobacco factories. They called for ending woman labor as wages of women average 60 cents a day, far below men’s demands.
Otto Peltzer’s hometown in Germany features a unique tower clock with a bearded bogey man face at its center. The figure eyes roll side to side every second and hold a metal plate displaying the day of the month. The clock sits on the castle tower once home to the dukes of Pomerania, now a municipal building and bears the inscription 1780.
A Liberty writer argues city life is unsexing men and women. He contends urban life makes men feminine and women masculine by offering identical tasks, transportation, entertainment, and perspectives. The piece notes adaptation to environment and cites subway shock, clerks reverting to farm traits, and wartime shifts toward bold behavior.
Discoveries at the vitrified Dunagall fort on Scotland's Bute island reveal 200 B C to 100 B C weapons and utensils, including bronze and iron items, bracelets, napkin rings, and writing tools. Thick walls, rubble interior, and a brushwood fire created a natural concrete bedrock, foreshadowing reinforced concrete and cement structures.
Prolonged studies left Spinoza sociable in lodgings, mixing with family and provoking spiders to fight. Socrates liked children, Balzac collected crayon portraits. Dr Samuel Clarke jumped over tables and chairs, Swift ran up and down deanery stairs. in old age Johnson noted he stood about ten hours daily.
A Pathinder Magazine excerpt queries who would receive a president’s resignation if given. It notes a 1702 law requiring a written instrument of refusal or resignation, signed by the official, and delivered to the secretary of state as the sole evidence of acceptance issues.
Nature Magazine notes that wingless grasshoppers are not true crickets though called stone or cave crickets. Young grasshoppers are wingless, yet some stay wingless for life, making them voiceless as they do not sing without wings.
A young officer of a British shipping company was sent to Tasmania by doctors who said he had less than a year to live. He drew his pension for 83 years, dying in Tasmania at age 104, after being sent there as the healthiest spot in the empire.
Guam in the Marianas is a U S possession about 1500 miles east of the Philippines. It covers roughly 210 square miles and has around 16 000 Polynesian inhabitants. A naval officer is appointed to serve as governor.
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