Walnut trees lining Lincoln Highway proposed by editor
Cedar Rapids editor Cyrenus Cole urges planting black walnut trees along the Lincoln Highway in Iowa to improve its appearance and provide annual nut crops. He cites war forest depletion and patriotic duty, referencing Colonel Henry S. Graves and the Forest Service. The note also mentions Navy recruiting guidance and local enlistment info from Des Moines and draft boards.
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Towa
Aparh
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Aowa
Local notes and notices from LeGrand area this week
Community updates include trades and bargains on lumber and doors, local visits from Camp Dodge soldiers Thos Guggedahl and Olaf Lernard, and plans for a Red Cross play at Union Hall. The report also notes residents’ travel to Chicago for courses, a chautauqua circuit speaker, and a 1918 subscription renewal letter detailing wartime concerns.
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Camp Dodge
Thos
Guggedahl
Olaf Lernard
Torkel Olson
al Wright
Indianola
Friends Summer School
Shelton
Kiddies
Monroe
W.W. Southwick
Montour Chapter
The
Red Cross
HA. McConnaughey
Pittsburgh
Dr. Mills
Russia
Scott Keen
Whittier
Cal
Oliver Dimimitt
LeGrand
France
Fourth of July Program At Grand Grounds
Red Cross parade at 10 30 A M features patriotic selections and readings of the declaration with performances by Odd Fellows Band Ladies Chorus and Miss Reba Ferguson Miss Alterena Hyde and the Odd Fellows Band at noon supper and 1 40 band selections at ball grounds with a Dillon vs LeGrand game in the afternoon followed by a double quartet supper and an athletic program. Bishop H C Stuntz and Bishop Homer C Stuntz address the crowds. Red Cross stereopticon slides exhibit in the exhibit hall.
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Reba Ferguson
Alterena Hyde
Odd:Fellows Band
Ball Grounds
Gasie Dillon
LeGrand
Bishop H. C. Stuntz
Omaha
Ladies Chorus
Picnic Grounds
Homer C. Stuntz
Iowa
Red Cross
Proclamations Meet To Secure War Savings Subscriptions
Government urged tax payers and wage earners to gather Friday June 28 in schoolhouses to pledge War Savings Stamps. Subscriptions may be signed for in the name of family members, with records kept of attendees and amounts. The stamps bear 4 percent interest and are tax free, with a June 28 quota for each district.
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United States
T. War Savings
Town
United States Treasury Department
War’ Savings
Funeral of Lieut Clark Bowen Held at Friends Church
The funeral for Lieut Clark G Bowen was conducted at the Friends Church with Dr Chas W Flint of Cornell College presiding. The service included a moving oration, music by a Vernon quartet, and burial in the Friends Cemetery with pallbearers consisting of Corrall College mates. Relatives from several states attended including Bowen family members and many others from Garwin Marshalltown and surrounding towns.
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Clark
Friends Chhurch
Chas
W. Flint
Cornell College
Mt. Veron
J. R. Wright
Friends Church
P. EB. Shull
The
Christian Church
Dr Flint
Alma
Dr. Flint
Friends
Flower Girls
Ware
Clarice Nissley
Mildred
Briggs
Dorothy Deardorf
Esther Dunham
Josephing “Hant
Blanche Swindell
Eilgise Jackson
Josephine. Jackson
Alice D. Verna
Davis
Jarel
Ursula Mills
Anna Bowen
Ruth
Lansing
Mich
Riley Rider
Wm. Rider
Geo. Rider
Garwin
Nathan. McGrew
Gilman
Susie “Gerhart
Jacob, McGrew
Marshalltown
C. T. Brown
Florence Brown
Cedar Rapids
Minnie McKerral
Marguerite McKerrall
Traer
Greu Kurtz
Marie Moyer
S. B. Lasby
Mattie Leech
Selma Khiss
Luzerne
Orlyn Chaffee
Lown City
Plane Crash Witnesses Stir Beau tiful Letter of Sympathy
Aberdeen Mississippi June 14 1918 a witness describes seeing a plane fall and a swift rush to assist the injured. The account ends with a heartfelt note of sympathy to Mrs Bowen as bystanders kneel in sorrow seeking a last moment of consciousness for the boy.
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Aberdeen
Miss
Sunday School and Services Announced at Local Church
The message highlights Sunday School at 9:45 a.m. and preaching at 8:00 p.m. with evening prayer meeting Wednesday at 3:00. Reverend Prarcer EB Saint, pastor, invites congregants to attend services in the house of the Lord.
Friends Church notices and obituary fragments
Sunday School at 10 oclock and preaching at 11 with superintendent J F Rylander. Evening services at 7 with junior and intermediate departments in the church basement. Prayer meeting Wednesday at 8. Burial service for D M P held at Friends cemetery with many relatives listed from multiple towns.
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J.F. Rylander
Retta Bigelow
Mills
Eva Cova
Leailers
Elmo Sharp
Glen Sloat
Thanks for support after burial of husband and father
Card from Mrs. D. M. Parsons and children extends thanks to those who aided during the burial. O V Moon of Des Moines, Midland Chautauqua Circuit secretary, outlined this season's offerings to the community. A vote to accept the Midland program passed and the executive committee was instructed to secure a contract. Booklets will be printed and ready by the Fourth.
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D. M. Parsons
O. V. Moon
Des Moines
Midland Chautauqua Circuit
Chautauqua
Midland
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Chicagoi
Harold. Rasmus
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Hazel ‘Harvey
Jennie. Olson
Mahaska “County
E.L Eme
Odd Fellows Band
Rev. P. E. Shult- Ladies Chorus
Independence
Odd Fellows
J. R. Manship
Dillon and
LeGrand Red Cross
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UNITE
National War Savings
Sula
Homer A
Miller
Ft ‘Ane
United States Treasury
Clark Bowen
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Prarcer EB. Saint
J. B. Wincur
Jeux Watsox McKunning
W.e
Anna
D. M. Parsona
Parsons
Friends Cemetery
J. Parsons and Sons
Ethan
Great Lakes Station
Paul
Clarinda
Lillie Caldwall
Robt. Neely
Tipton
Wm. Parsons
Mable Parsons
Harry Parsons
Marion Township
Oscar Parsons
Harold
Mable
Ben Parsons
Vern
Clemons
R. M. Parsons
Carl
Wm. Lancaster
Swan
Armstrong
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