Chautauqua Opens Tomorrow With Wide Range of Acts
Chautauqua opens Thursday afternoon at three with Hawaiians music and Dr C D McKeever’s humorous lecture. The Sandwich Islanders will close the opening night with ukuleles and songs. The second afternoon features the Rouse Sisters Quartette and a demonstration of electricity by Harry Starnes. Saturday offers the Ringsdorf Concert Company and a lecture by Congressman Everett Sanders. Sunday presents Barnabys readings and Henrys art acts, with closing day featuring a ladies band, Vermont fiddler Chas R Taggart, and the Junior Chautauqua pageant Modern Crusaders at 4.30. Season tickets priced at 1.95 before opening day, 2.00 with tax. singles range 40c-75c, total 5.35 for all.
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Thea
Barnabys
Dr. I. P. Berry
Henrys
Vermont
Chas R. Taggart
Ewings Ladies Band
Modern Crusaders
Humeston Plays Tennessee Rats In Park Showdown
Today and tomorrow Humeston meets the Tennessee Rats at Barry's Park in a key game after chautauqua. The Humeston lineup is unsettled due to recent shifts while the tournament at Allerton looms. Meanwhile local notices recount church committee work, a pastor famed for weddings, and several visits among area families.
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Humeston Nine
Humeston
To Get Cars Go Get Them Better Iowa Publication
The Millerton Livestock Shipping Association in Wayne County faced a car shortage for hog shipments. Three carloads were ready but no cars, risking losses. The Wayne County Farm Bureau led a joint effort with association officers and the county agent to secure cars and ship hogs next day. They also surveyed nearby points finding idle stock cars, prompting a plan to “buy” cars for future needs and a promised shake-up from the division superintendent.
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Iowa
Millerton Livestock Shipping Association
Wayne County
Farm Bureau
Millerton
Althoit
Wayne County Farm Bureau
Shipping Association
Altho
All in the Family Pa’s Hawaiians Coming at Chautauqua
Pa leads the Hawaiian act Mr Pa head of the Hawaii company and faculty at Ziegfield College of Music Chicago. Ma is with the company as Mrs Pa. The program blends Hawaiian melodies with rhythmic swing and singing, promising popular appeal under skilled performers.
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Pease
Father
Mrs. Pa
Chautauqua
Ziegfield College of Music of
Chicago
Hawaii
Attendance at county WCTU convention draws locals
A good turnout at the county Woman's Christian Temperance Union convention was reported from the area last Wednesday, with attendees from Allerton and nearby communities listed by name. The report notes visits by residents to Kirksville and Des Moines, and mentions Frank McCulloch and Nannie accompanying him to Chariton.
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Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Allerton
Libbie Hull
Nellie Keller
S. H. Hedrix
E. M. Cook
C. N. Caldwell
Chas. Shelton
G. W. Clow
Will Clow
Jennie Gilliland
Minnie Warren
Geo. Fennell
CG. Huston
G. Hb.brown
A. Gasford
H. Hedrix
D E. Williams
Ir A Page
H. K. Evans
Corydon
L. A. Shaw
Garden Grove
S. Throckmorton
Frank McCulloch
Des Moines
Nannie
Chariton
Real Battle Chooses Iowa Horseshoe Champion
In every county veteran hurlers work on new pegs in barnyards as they train for the state horseshoe pitching championship to be decided at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines from August 25 to September 3.
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Towa
Des Moines
Maddy Green Wedding Solemnized at Derby Parsonage
On Wednesday August 4 at the Methodist parsonage in Derby Mrs Minnie Green married Mr A H Maddy. Rev R C Russell conducted the ceremony at high noon and a wedding dinner followed. The couple plan to live in Derby after a wedding trip by car. They receive many congratulations from friends.
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Derby
Minnie Green
A. H.maddy
Horseshoe Pitchers Decide State Championship at Fair
Towans show rising interest as practically every county in the state enters teams for the state championship horseshoe pitching contest at the state fair. Competition runs daily with a preliminary 22-shoe throws per end, followed by an eight-team final round of 21 points between teams.
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Towans
Fair Board
Jet
Wayne County Fair Set for Big Exhibition in Corydon
The Wayne County Agricultural Society announces its fifth annual exhibition in Corydon Town from August 23 to 27, 1920. It promises top stock displays of horses cattle hogs and sheep, a fast half mile harness track with $5 000 in purses, a 240 foot grandstand, prize premiums, and a star lineup including Al Sweets Singing Band and touring acts. Daily band concerts stock parades clever stage acts and grand fireworks conclude each night.
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Wayne County Agricultural Society
Corydon
Town
Val
al Sweet
Aronty Bros
San Yee
Tee Chong Tae
Uyeno
Belithazer
Spencer
Davenport
Trio
Lohse
Sterling
Gnilets
Eshos
Thier-Duffield People
United States
Wayne County
Allerton Chautauqua to Host Governors Day Speakers
C L Her ring and N E H Kendall the Democratic and Republican gubernatorial candidates will speak Thursday afternoon August 19 at Allerton Chautauqua. H E Bettis of Clio arrived Sunday with a broken arm after his car left the Waubonsie Trail ditch. another party helped bring him into town.
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Allerton Chautauqua
C. L. Herring
N. E H. ‘Kendall
Iowa
H. E. Bettis
Clio
Waubonsie Trail
Horse Dealer Reports Strong Weekly Trade
G. B. Rushing said yesterday that in the past week they shipped out 115 head of horses and mules, his largest business in 22 years. The shipment included 40 draft horses for the Ringling Bros. shows, first shipped to W. P. Hall at Lancaster, Missouri, then to the shows. He notes the prophecy that horses would go out of fashion has failed.
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G. B. Rushing
W. P. Hall
Lancaster
Russell Union Suspended Publication Last Week
Russell Union at Russell in Lucas county issued its final paper last week after E R Gaddis, who bought the plant last September, fell ill and faced rising paper and supply costs. He arranged to transfer subscriptions to the Chariton Herald-Patriot and will work lighter for a time, leaving only two papers in Lucas county the Leader and the Herald Patriot at Chariton.
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Union
Russell
Lucas County
E R Gaddis
Chariton Herald-Patriot
Leader
Herald-Patriot
Chariton
Local notes reflect heat and travel around Humeston area
An array of brief items from Humeston shows a record 110 degrees noted, multiple residents traveling to Ames for a tractor demonstration and to Des Moines for threshing repairs, and visits among families from Garden Grove to Monmouth. Other notes mention bank staff leave, Mayo Clinic visit, and a vineyard sale in Kalamazoo with related travels.
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A.D. McGuire
Walker Livestock Publications
Kansas City
Arthur Brown
Jessie Bond
Frank
Truax
Saskatchewan
Canada
W. BF. Lazear
van Wert
Cas. Wilde
Bernice Crawford
Broken Bow
Nebraska
Howard Williams
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Dakotas
Som
The
Methodist Church
W. R. Richard
Wilma Richard
Grace McConnell
Margaret McKibben
Irene MacRae
Mose Downing
Arkansas City
Kansas
Lfe
Indiana
Davis County
Salt Creek Township
Christian Church
Stillwater
Ohio
P. Q. Sterett
Red Oak
Levi Williams
Judge
Frank Parr
Baby
L. W. Day
C R. Scott
Marion
W. H. DeVies
J. W. Winland
W. D. Wright
Chillicothe
M. C. Maytum
Polo, Missouri
Jay Dennis
B. E. Ables
Laura Bachus
Diagonal
D. P. Northrup
Fe May
MADDY
Pearl Booth
Hopeville
Bert Pool
Weldon
Blaine Young
Chanute
Chas Greenlee
Ft. Dolge
Angela Buck
Oklahoma
Claude Black
Mrs
Tra Krouch
Leroy
Russell Union
Logal Mention
Moser’s Market
J. J. Hasbrouck
New York
Ray Evans
W. Lewis
L. K. Doze
Glenn Newell
Fred Foster
C. A. Tallman
T. M. Sil‘cott
Ames
I. A. Courtright
Home State Bank
Colorado City
Colo
Rocky Ford
Roy Barnett
Bert Trisler
Elmer Richman
Chas. Zinn
Rolly Leonard
Pearl Brown
Carroll
Pearl Richards
Donald
Marie Leonard
J. M. Davison
A. M. Purviance
Mrs. Davison
W. R. Monroe
Merwin, Mo
O. H. Myers
Milton
J. W. Monroe
P. C. Watsabaugh
Cedar Rapids
East Iowa
Keith Dunn
Jewell
George W. van Tuyl
Allie
Jeanette
Monmouth
Illinois
Geo. McCart
HK. T. Morford
Mr. van Tuyl
Wallace Johnson
Topeka
Everett Caldwell
Rochester
Mayo Brothers Hospital
Homer Ross
A. Standiford
T. M. Silcott
Mr. Standiford
Drakesville
Sadie Rix
W. W. Hebden
Kalamazoo
Mich
B. J. Rix
Oakland
Corydon, Leon
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