Local Briefs From LeGrand and Nearby Towns
Local items note book and supply requests at the post office. Green Mountain Fred Paxson visits on business. Thos Eames ships fat cattle to Chicago with a weak market report. McKeown’s walls re-pointed ahead of a new paint job. LeGrand Swing Co ships to Conrad to collect nickels on the 4th. Multiple residents travel or visit relatives in Aplington Nevada and Knox ville. Parcel post stamps now usable with ordinary stamps. limited future parcel stamps. A fox terrier owned by H C Herbert is killed by neighbors after going mad on a hot day. Hector the dog had died earlier by chloroform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thos. Eames
Chicago
McKeown
LeGrand Swing Company
Conrad
J. W. DeBuhr
Aplington
J.W
Josephine Herbert
Nevada
Barnes Myers
Stanfield
Post Office Department
H. C. Herbert
E. H. Sharp
Hector
Herbert
MARRIED FERGUSON HOLDEN IN TAMA COUNTY
A pretty home wedding was held at 5:20 PM last Thursday June 27 at the Holden residence northwest of Montour. Miss Mabel Holden wed Mr. Eric C. Ferguson with Rev. Bessie F. Collins officiating. About 75 guests attended and a reception followed on the lawn at Mrs. Flora Sharp’s home. The couple will farm in Marion township after the ceremony, with the bride formerly a teacher in Tama and Marshall counties. Congratulations were extended by the Reporter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stephen
Holden
Montour
Mabel Holden
Eric C. Ferguson
Bessie F. Collins
Friends Church
Salem
Carver Ferguson
Marion Township
Tama
Marshall
LeGrand
Flora Sharp
Ferguson
Farmo
Old Home Town Paper Reads Like Local Heartbeat
A folksy poem praises the small country newspaper from his Old Home Town. It keeps readers posted on local social life, crops and who’s up or down, offering comfort after long days and a preferred reading over bigger city papers.
Soldier Days From Bull Run to the First Line of Works
A first person WWII style reminiscence (Civil War era) recalls tiring and advancing under fire at Bull Run. The narrative describes charges bayonets, enemy retreats, and the brutal heat as cannons, grape and canister fire, and casualties punctuate a day of combat. The soldier reflects on fear, blood, and scarce water, with vivid details of suffering and improvised mercy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bull Run
Co. F
New York Battery
Pennsylvania
Blue
Sunday church services and community notices burst with events
A village column lists Bible school at 9 45, morning worship at 11, evening worship at 8 with subjects on Christian living and prayer. Midweek 7 30 services and workshops invited. Also notes Sunday school leaders, Sunday guests, births, visits, lost watch found, and local business and legal notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ethel van Horn
J. Ansert Dexs
Bible School
Ruth Bowen
Eunice Arnold
Speeding Motorcycles Rally Call to Enforce Laws
Citizens decry a dead speed ordinance as autos and motorcycles, especially bikes, speed from ten to fifty miles. A motorcyclist frightened a team hauling a drowned man, dropping the corpse by the road which shocked onlookers. Residents urge action before a child is harmed.
Causes of Stomach Troubles and Diet Remedies
An advertisement lists causes of stomach troubles including sedentary habits lack of outdoor exercise insufficient mastication constipation a torpid liver worry and anxiety overeating and eating or drinking unsuited to age and occupation. It promotes Chamberlain's Tablets as a cure and notes sale by H W McKeown Ady.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H.W. McKeown
Ady
Also Mentioned on This Page
Will
Fidelity Savings Bank
Marshalltown
Town
Martin Lamer
LeGrand, Iowa
Bert Everist
M. E. Churen Marshale
ITF
H. J. Bowen
M. M. Evans
E. M. Mills
D. A. Collison
McBride & Will Drug Store
Iowa
Tosng Manns
Thaint
Copymiants &c. Ading Gp
Aketeh
Speriniton
Baies Oh
Broadway
Nw York
Wanee Y
Fred Paxson
Green Mountain
Henry Wagner
Alden
Henry
Mrs. Wagner
Ruth Kelly
Cedar Rapids, Neb
Sarah L. Inman
Walter Ellismourn
C. L. Hammond
James
Wilcox, Neb
Hiram Hammond
Iowa River
LeGrand Mill
Dunbar
Osman Tweed
E.L. Condon
West
Los Angeles
Cal
Sanders
J.C. Richter
Luzettia Barton
Knoxville
Evans
Richter
Foreston
Ill
Ferguson—Holden
J. E. Harvey
L. E. Bigelow
W. E. Weitzell
Potter
Albert Lone
Ole O
Gauthan
Nunda, S.dak
Mr. Gauthan
Torkel Olson
Corporation
Marengo
Iowa Railway and Light Company
Blairstown
Belle Plaine
D. W. Richards
George Arnold
Nels Thompson Place
Webb
George
Harvey
Missouri
OLD Home Town Paper
Denver Post
Our
Christian Church
J. W. Piper
A. J. Hanson
J.L. Harrison
Margaret Watson
E. H Sharp
Marion Olson
George McCoy
Lynnville
A. A. Cook
Vancleve
B. L. Cook
Mr. Gook
A. Pierce Godley
Leonia
Grandin Andrew Godlay
C-obla
City of Toledo
Tas
Lucas County
Frank J. Cheney
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Afo
A. D
Sealy
A. W._GLEASON
all_Pruggists
Hall
Brown - ST. John CO
Union Stock Yards
Chgoa
Pickard’s
Simkins & Estel
Lam
Lars. Thompson
LeGrand, Ia
DM Sen
Des Wovnls
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