Harmony Happenings and Local Visits in Polk County
Harmony items report Andrew Flynn on the slok list and Miss Carmen Sears returning from McCoy for Christmas. Several residents, including Claude Hayes and Ammy Flynn, travel between Dayton Gopher Valley and Monmouth. New Year party at Alf Hills draws local youth. Mr. Fink sells his farm to Kennedy but stays until October. School attendance averages 97 percent for Harmony. many locals listed by name. Community members attend, travel, and host gatherings across Monmouth Benton Lane counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carmen Sears
McCoy
Claude Hayes
Dayton
J. B. Hayes
Ammy Flynn
Gopher Valley
Maudie Blair
Cora McLean
Alf Hill
Mr. Fink
Kennedy
Thomas Dickey
Clarence Blanchard
Clifford Wanless
Robins Brothers
New Year's Visits and Local News from Monmouth Area
Local residents share New Year visits and family reunions including Mrs G Good of Dallas and Mrs J B Stump. Snow, mild temperatures, and frozen pipes are noted. Ethel Newman tours Lebanon while Whitman College’s David Campbell was present at a Christmas gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. Good
Dallas
Stump
N.S
Normal Chapel
Phipps
C. E. Stump
David B. Campbell
Whitman College
Rhodes
Salem
H. EB. Guthrie
Willamette Valley
Monmouth
Ethel Lucas
Roseburg
W. H. Lucas
M. A. Rickard
Corvallis
H. &. Guthrie
David Foulkes
Portland
L. Grounds
Ethel Newman
Lebanon
New Odorless Stump Powder Promises Safer Stumping
Hauser Bros. of Salem Oregon claim Trojan Stumping Powder is nitroglycerine free so it won t freeze and causes no odor or headaches. They offer to explain details by letter or phone as farmers seek safer stump clearing solutions. Local notes mention updates on residents Fred Hamann Lois Osborne Ella Chase and others with several moves and visits around Monmouth Pendleton and Slab Creek. Grandmother McElmurry is reported to be improving amid trying days for a woman in an old gown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hauser Bros
Salem
Oregon
Henry Hamann
Monmouth
Sam McElmurry
Henry McElmurry
Albany
Isaac Compton
Slab Creek
Grandmother McElmurry
Piccardt
Prussia
Louis
France
Cardinal Richelieu
Richelieu
Holland
Germany
Zwalle
Holy Lawi
Ems
Quakenbonk
Paris
Highland Visitors Reported From Independence Area
Frank Russell and wife and William Finch and wife of Independence visited Sunday week at Peter Shafer's. George Hamann made a flying visit home last week, spending two days with his parents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Russell
Wm. Finch
Independence
Peter Shafer
George Hamann
School Report Buell District No 34 December 1908
Buell Oregon school district No 34 monthly report for month ending December 25 1908 lists students not absent or tardy including Fay Jones Ralph Braley Minnie Braley Reva Merrick Ivan Merrick Mury Dickey Eugene Huffman Pearl Harold Aleph Harold Clarence Walker Farrell Dickey Marion Huffman Rosa Braley Tony Braley and Francis Bennett Wallace Kellogg is principal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buell
Oregon
Fay Jones
Ralph Braley
Minnie Braley
Reva Merrick
Ivan Merrick
Mury Dickey
Eugene Huffman
Pearl Harold
Aleph Harold
Clarence Walker
Farrell Dickey
Marion Huffman
Rosina Braley
Tony Braley
Francis Bennett
Wallace Kellogg
Mystery Netherlands Messenger Delivers Hidden Treaty to Prussia
During a covert exchange, a Dutch envoy appears as a friar and conceals a treaty copy within a waxed lump under the rib. Prussia’s king agrees to a defensive alliance with the Netherlands as Richelieu’s agents fail to intercept. The ruse culminates with a surgeon revealing the thin paper after a staged medical check.
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Bee Hive
Polk County
Monarch
Clearance Sale Men's
Gale
Marseilles
Lonsdale
Gale Boys
Capa
W. L. Douglas
Queen Quality
Gordon
the Bee Hive Store
Andrew Flynn
Grooms
William Fishback
W. H. Mack
Cresswell
Alice Bennett
Winfield Hgelston
Elkins
R. M. Bosley
Ethel
Anna Bingman
Kate
Edith Bingman
Herman Wunder
George Sullivan
James Goodman
Mia
Eva Barnes
Katie
Keith
Antioch
John Pitzer
Arthur
Monnouth
Fred Hamann
Lois Osborne
Pendleton
Dave Stapleton
Ella Chase
Highland
The
Netherlands
Weser
Elbe
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