Pacific Junction Horse Bluff and School Week Notes
A horse trader in Pacific Junction was bluffed into a $20 wager by Fred Mendenhall and Avery Perkins who claimed their horse Elsie May, long dead, could outrun his mount. The town also closes school week with graduations and a class play The Crimson and the Blue at the opera house. Superintendent Pittman arrives by auto for next year. editor W R Orchard to lead a service, with various town updates on residents and local happenings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prairie Schooner
Fred Mendenhall
Avery Perkins
Fred
Avery
Elsie May
Wred and
Martin's Chapel
Opera House
Ww. A. Price
Highland Park College of Des Moines
M. E. Church
Pacific Junction
W. R. Orchard
Council Bluffs
Junction
Mr. Orchard
Fh. B. Pittman
Braddyville
Iowa
Pacific Junction Schools
Prof. Pittman
Malvern Social Notes Include Christy Visit
Charles Christy of Wichita and his parents visited the fore part of the week. Kenneth Korney, young son of Mr and Mrs Clarence Korney, is on the sick list with pneumonia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lynn DeLashmutt
CG. F. Anderson
Omaha
Frank Anderson
Claude
John Johnson
Garfield
Utah
August Johnson
Tay Dickerson
Charles Christy
Wichita
Kansas
Mrs
C. B. Christy
Kenneth
Clarence Korney
Poetry in the Trenches Shows Wartime Verse Rising
Wartime readers prize pocket poetry from the Front. Soldiers, sailors, and war poets appear on Devonshire Street shelves where broadside ballads and trench poems like Antwerp and Soliloquies of a Soldier circulate. The London Daily Mail notes war enriches verse, not hinders it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Devonshire Street
Harold Man
Maurice Hewlet
Henry Newbeatt
Antwerp
Ford Madox Huell
Belgi
London
Daty Mail
Land reclamation in Iraq planned after war ends
The Turkish government pursued irrigation across the Euphrates before the war, reopening Babylonian canals and building new ones to reclaim the fertile valley. Postwar recovery could transform Bedouin plains into date groves and grain fields, reviving Baghdad and uncovering buried cities as in ancient times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Euphrates
Bagdad
Haroun-al-Rashid
Sinbad the
Egypt
Babylonia
Christian Herald
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Carldon
James Pearson
John Olson
Elmer
Institution
Misses Allen
May Corcoran
Glenwood
The
Ladies’ Aid
Dan Alberg
Ellen Corcoran
Josephine Supple
Madge Lee
J. Mendenhall
Bilder Bogle
Jap Leele Place
J. W. Kelley
Claude KR. Cook
Broadway M. & Church
Blanche Marrin
State Savings Bank
Alspaugh
Macedonia
George Pratt
Silver City
Georgia
CG. F. Haynie
Central City
Nebraska
Haynies
Louise Johnson
John
Lewis Palmer
the Embroidery Club
G. F. Davis
Harrison Fitch
Agnes Carlson
Bromley & Lewis
John Carters
Vern Price
Laura Lincoln
Roy
Lincoln
Bessie Gardner
CG. J. Davis
Fred Kelley
Mr. Lagrippe
Fred Rose
Albert Alspanagh
Fr. M. I
H. Fitch
Burgess Meat Market
R. E. Cogley
Malvern
Kimonas
Mills County
J. D. Irontsonger
Glenwood, Iowa
Muslin Underwear
Ferguson McKin
Ney Make
Frederick Ockers
West Sayville
New York
Captain Ockers
Ila
Mary
Woodlawn School
C. M. Stafford
Portland Oregonian
Louisville Courier-Journal
Stanford, Conn
Mariel Ridabock
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