The Great Monroe City Fair and Sunday Church News
The column notes the Monroe City Fair on August 8 and 9, with church notices. Rev. Sidney McCarty visits en route from Amarillo Texas after his father Judge C P McCarty’s death. Pastor C P McCarty returns to Thomasville Georgia. services listed with sermon topics and Sunday School times. Woman's Missionary Society of the First Baptist meets with Mrs Proctor Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney McCarty
Amarillo
Texas
C. P. McCarty
Thomasville
Presbyterian Church
Woman's Missionary Society of the First Baptist Church
D. M. Proctor
Uncle John Adkisson Dies In Prescott Washington
News from Perry Enterprise reports Uncle John Adkisson of Prescott Washington died Friday after years in Missouri. He had lived near Perry and moved to Washington about seven years ago. Friends recall he was respected. sympathy sent to his wife and children. Also noted are a snakebite incident near Orwood, Missouri, and a visit by A C Ely and family. The item includes Missouri nostalgia, a Knights of Columbus picnic at Martin's Ford, and discussion of the Back-to-Missouri movement and a future Chautauqua in Monroe City with program details forthcoming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John" Adkisson
Prescott
Wash
Perry
Washington
Perry Enterprise
A.W. Ely
Adkisson
Knights of Columbus
Monroe City
Martin's Ford
Salt River
Fr. Connolly
W.B Fahy
Ralls County
Canada
Missouri
St Joseph
M_ B. Proctor
Death of Elsie Simms After Appendicitis Surgery
Miss Elsie Simms 18 died last Friday after an appendicitis operation at a Quincy hospital. Funeral services were held Saturday at the Catholic Church in Indian Creek with interment in Indian Creek cemetery. She was daughter of the late Robert Simms, survived by a widowed mother, sisters, and a brother, and was beloved in the community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elsie Simms
Quincy
Indian Creek
Miss Simms
Robert Simms
Miss. Simms
Farmers seed guidance and grain yield report
The State Board of Agriculture promotes New Era or Whippoor will cowpeas and details wheat yields from 10 to 40 bushels per acre. Farmers like J B Headrick and Mrs Willie Goodnight reported large threshing outputs. The note covers crop prep, seed rates, and crop recommendations including rape sorghum millet and Hungarian millet, with livestock feeding implications and recent shipments of hogs cattle sheep and poultry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J B Headrick
C Bross
Palmyra
Bross
Willie Goodnight
State Board of Agriculture
Guy
Curious Bible Notions In Welsh Farm Note Book
A note from Bishop Hows records odd beliefs about Bible use in a Welsh cottage. A farmer jokes about finding a Bible after years, while a small incident in Burlington yards involves Conductor Mendenhall and Harry Clark swatting with a lantern. Santa Fe picnic remarks praise communal dinners for whites and exclude blacks. Gypsies in town tell fortunes and steal 2.50, leading to a $2.50 fine and costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hows
Meldlitar
Clerdy
Burlington Yards
Mendenhall
Harry Clark
Imade
Mr. Clark
Mr. Mendenhall
Clark
Not For Hit and Acknowledged Farewell Tale
A minister meets a boy he once knew and learns the boy fled a troubled home after a string of family deaths and misfortunes. Dr Clair Noland visited Stouts Monday evening to enjoy soulful strains performed by the Stoutsville Band.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Clair Noland
Stouts
Stoutsville
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Monroe City Fair
Methodist
Grace Baptist
Christ
Jarius
Nain
Lazarus
A. Gordon
Christiad En
Bible School
W. Garnet Alcorn
First Baptist
Gillam
Orwood
A. C. Ely
Knox County
Mary. H. Ely
The
Columbia Herald
Kansas
Colorado
Oklahoma
Hadle
Hadley
Hill
Joe Kincaid
Hunnewell
Kincaid
Col W T Youell
Elbert Yates
F & M Bank
Joultry
Yates & Yates
Barger & McClintic
A. Lundburg
Vascerneg
Pern
Meyer & Edwards
Green & Maxwell
Wade & Dawson
Herderson and Sons
C W Tanner
Santa Fe
Farber Forum
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