Easter Week Notes From Emerson News
Local briefs report Omaha visitors Marion and Jack Evang. George Coyle's Mo visit. Richard Crofton from Sioux City joined W. Short Auto Co. as mechanic. Chase Kelley returns to Laurel Neb after stay with sister Sadie Snodgrass. Easter services postponed to April 11 due to weather. Mrs. W. J. Adame travels to Peru to visit daughters Hazel and Fern. Mrs. Sheridan Priest and daughters visit Mr. and Mrs. Ogrevie. Ruth Taylor on break from Chicago medical course. Eastern Star to initiate April 12. Council Bluffs trip for Southwestern Iowa Teachers Association attendees. Box supper April 9 to aid Athletic fund. College students home for Easter include Faith Dunn, Paul Carson, Louise Birdsall, John Crawford, Ben Beaton. Baptist Easter program noted with missionary pageant Christ for America and pantomime.
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J. L. Evang
Marion
Jack
Omaha
George Coyle
Lavonia
Richard Crofton
Sioux City
Methodist Church
W. J. Adame
Peru
Neb
Hazel
Fern
Ready for Them in Mills Legal Prowess and Verse
A fragmentary piece lauds Alf and Ralph as rising young lawyers from Mills hill folk origin. It imagines them wielding Blackstone like legal shafts against Glenwood’s lawyers, with mock battle imagery and verses about a boyhood rocker horse, butter on reins, and a cautionary tale of Injuns.
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Alf
Ralph
Blackstone
Glenwood
Tepees and War Whop Allusions in a Daring Riff
The text presents a rugged verse fragment with frontier imagery and Native American stereotypes. It sketches a narrator avoiding conflict by staying near his uncle Lem while commenting on eating and dancing in a tense cultural setting.
France Holds Fast Against Bolshevism and Treaty Rift
French public opinion shows resistance to socialism with nine tenths owning property and utilities run by the government. Feuillerat doubts treaty revision while France laments U.S. senate inaction. The admired Lafayette memory strengthens Franco American ties, though doubts linger about a three nation alliance.
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France
Feuillerat
America
Senate
United States
England
Lafayette
Glenwood Library Notes March circulation and new titles
March circulation totals show 2060 with 1185 adult and 875 juvenile checkouts. Notable acquisitions include The Woman Citizen by Boyd and The Iowa Educational Directory 1919-20, plus new fiction like The Harbor Road and A Damsel In Distress. Traveling library picks feature The Man of the Forest and The Story of the Great War among others.
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Glenwood Library
Boyd
Iowa
Zane Grey
Usher
Panama
Scott
Dugmore
Talbot
Stock
America
Bruce
Harbor Road
Bassett
Wodehouse
Bindloss
Irwin
Comstock
MacGrath
Oppenheim
Sherry
McCutcheon
Locke
The April Snowdrops and the Sheep Trail
A Glenwood writer reflects on an April snowfall that blessed Mills County as white Easter. He imagines poems about buds and snowdrops, recalls a lamb memory in B C, notes lawyers and Poe as muses, and thanks a lawyer friend for encouragement amid thoughts on government and enduring beauty.
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Glenwood
Mills County
B. C
W. T. Wolfe
Interchurch Convention in Malvern Friday
The County Convention of the Interchurch Movement meets in Malvern on Friday. The event is not denominational and opens with a first session at 10 a.m.
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Interchurch Convention
Interchurch Movement
Malvern
Rolla Raymond Killed in Auto Crash Near Cedar Falls
Rolla Raymond of Cedar Falls aged 24, a World War veteran, was killed when his auto struck a telephone pole after a blinding oncoming car light. Sheriff Henderson warns motorists to observe the state headlamp law. The piece recounts related legal and local notice matters, including drainage and street work obligations, a past city suit over a 1918 ditch accident, and notes on tribal leadership in Mesquakies.
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Rolla Raymond
Cedar Falls
Waterloo
Henderson
Black Hawk County
Ottumwa
Verne Spiker
Eugene Burnbaugh
Spiker
Iowa News Chronicle Sketches and Local Notes
The article catalogues prize amounts for exhibits and contests, recalls past figures and figures from Cedar Falls and Fremont County, recounts a legendary wanderer Andrew Seaman and a Chicago vs Penn basketball referee Frank Birch, plus rural farming and schooling trends, a proposed Waverly highway park funded by local and state efforts, and political campaigning sentiments across Iowa.
Ode to the old brood sow and her mighty reach
A vivid tribute extols a prolific brood sow for shaping many lives and finances. The speaker claims she educated boys and girls, funded mortgages and banquets, produced millionaires, and spurred both praise and profane words. She is praised for practicality, providing shop needs and heat, aiding travel, and easing wartime efforts against the Hun while outspeaking critics.
Owen Named Democratic Candidate at San Francisco Convention
Senator Owen a Candidate Oklahoma Democrats will name Hubert L. Owen at the convention in San Francisco as their Democratic nominee. Owen has served in the U.S. Senate since 1907 and supported Wilson administration progressive measures.
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Owen
Oklahoma Democrata
Hubert L. Owen
San Francisco
U.S. Senate
Wilson
New County Engineer Named By Board Of Supervisors
Board of Supervisors accepted the resignation of County Engineer H. H. Dean who will become County Engineer of Pottawattamie County in Council Bluffs. The board chose CO. F. Philner of Osgonola Ta as his successor and he will begin duties soon. Lincoln saw opportunities in America when he split rails.
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H. H. Dean
Council Bluffs
Pottawaitamie County
Lincoln
America
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Ruth Taylor
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Order of the Eastern Star
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Edna Eaton
Ethel Davis
Mildred Newquist
Southwestern Iowa Teachers’ Association
Faith Dunn
Paul Carson
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Simpson College
Indianola
John Crawford
Graceland College
Lamont
Ben Beaton
Ames
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Christ For
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Lem
Tepes
News Notes
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Auburn
W. H. Patrick
Cole Circus
West
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Iowa State Fair Association
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Jackson County
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Bremer County
State Park Commission
General Assembly
Ernest Jordan
Janesville
Black Muank County
Jordan
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Iowa Highway Commission
State Highway Commision
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