Wyoming Farm Home Damaged by Furnace Explosion
A furnace blast damaged Vince Pegorick's $8,000 farm home four miles south of Wyoming at noon Friday. Fire confined to the second floor and attic. beds rugs and bathroom ruined. Wyoming fire truck aided with chemicals and water after reaching the scene on gravel. The home was rebuilt after a previous fire five years earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vince Pegerick
Wyoming
Pegorick
Ace Ward
George DeVore
Canton
Ill
Mr. DeVore
Peoria
Wyroming
Hena
Springfield
Lee Sherrill
Wisconsin
Missouri
Illinois
Sherrill
Holmes Park
New Zealand
Maynard Peck
Mr. Sherrill
Rock Island Rabbitry
Sherrill’s
Rock Island
Mr. Peck
Vergie Ana Vera Case
Iowa State Teachers College
W. B. Brown
A. Eggleston
Burlington
Rochester
Minn
A. B. Soule
Roy Bender
Thomas Green
Massilon
George Norton
Pay View Club
Memorial Hall
John T. Wherry
W. J. Beckwith
James Inelis
W. W. Bronson
Dillon Bronson
Wyominkg
Chamberlain
Alhambra
Park
Anamosa
Will
Chicago
Ben
Calif
John Holub
Clib
Ben Paul Post
Women’s Relief Corps No. 4
Augusta Hronson
Lavina Pealer
Corps No. 4
State Department
Center Junction Fire Destroys McNeilly Home in Noon Blaze
The McNeillys lost their modern home to a Saturday fire traced to a chimney spark. Neighbors helped salvage furniture while Mrs. McNeilly rested at her brother’s home after a nervous collapse. Insurance covers losses. community sympathy runs high.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. J. McNeilly
E. R. Young
Center Junction
McNeilly
Farmers’ Mutual Company
Castle Grove
J. F. Livingstone
McNeillys
Son
Velma
W. S. Pangburn
Cedar Falls
Joe Wintz
Allison
Vinton
Woman's Missionary Society
J. M. Moses
R. S. Robbie
de N. Smith
America
Prahm
S. G. Thompson
J. W. Livingstone
St Patricks Day
Norma
Martin Petersen
Onslow
Wyoming
George McDonald
Mec- Tirath
Mahannah
Presbyterian Church
Winifred Robbie
Stanwood
Margaret Norris
Baldwin
Augusta Norris
Amy Dice
Monticello
Manchester
Pauline Burmeister
Pauline Prahm
O. M. Miller
Anamosa
Margaret Dunlap laid to rest in Hopkinton cemetery
Mr and Mrs J J Dunlap arrived from Billings Montana with their daughter Margaret s body. The funeral was held at the Wheeless home and Margaret was buried beside her sister Alice in Hopkinton cemetery. Born December 18 1903 in Hopkinton she grew up in Montana and worked at Farmers Creamery in Billings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben Paul Post
W. W
Lavina Pealer
Indiana
Louis Buchholtz
Walter Beach
Wyoming Lodge I. O. O. F
Emma Alden
Davenport
Howard DeMoss
Wyoming
Manchester
Helen Downs
Mary Elizabeth Mason
Bernice Edgar
W. OC. Mason
Paul Johnston
Lenox
B. E. Loomis
Keota
W. W. Loomis
Ina
Bradke
Spernt
Delhi
Earlville
Upper Iowa
Aid Society of the Red
Oka
Chicago
Charles Brittan
J. J. Dunlap
Billings
Montana
Margaret
Alice
P. R. Wheeless
Hopkinton
Margaret Zella Dunlap
Carbon County
Business College
Mont
Farmers’ Creamery Company
Ladies Guild Meets in Onslow Adds Three Members
A meeting of the Ladies' Guild in Onslow was held Wednesday afternoon hosted by Mrs. G. C. Flett along with Mrs. George French Mrs. Floyd Chatterton and Laura Smith. A large attendance was reported and three new names were added to the membership list.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies’ Guild
G. C. Flett
George French
Floyd Chatterton
Laura Smith
Local Social and Church News From Monticello Area
Activities include a church meeting with April 10 agenda and officer elections, a death notice for Estelle McCune’s mother, teaching changes, a finger injury, cattle shipment from J R Kennedy, a successful stage play by the guild, and visits and illness updates among residents. Community events include St Patrick’s party, a 63 card game gathering, and local travel for dental work and pageants.
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Bership
Koon
Estelle McCune
Town City
Miss McCune
Ida Cass
Ben Harris
J. R. Kennedy
Chicago
Mary
Monmouth
Guild
S. G. Hutton
G. F. Flett
Monticello
Marvin Hunwardson
Maquoketa
George Sears
Ruth
Clinton
Gertrude
Mr. Sears
Will Doll
Miss Neville
Anamosa
Ben Warren
Henry Koon
Cecil
Davies
Supt
School Leader Appointed Center Point Superintendent
Roll call and current events update as Mrs Ruth Miller and Mrs Carol Hand wardson are noted. Mrs George Bottomstone visits her parents while Supt Irons, who led the local school this year, is chosen as Center Point superintendent with a salary raise. Residents express regret at the change.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald Welch
Lewis Dreibelbis
Catherine Thompson
Wynona Kleineck
Hollyce Stingley
Elizabeth James
Carol Naylor
Merlin Dreibelbis
Lloyd Moats
Evelyn Courtney
Lucile Livingstone
Wanda McDonald
Delores Dooley
Helen Welch
Donna Dreibelbis
Luella Seehusen
Helen Himebaugh
Jack Stingley
Audra Serbousek
John Ketelsen
Betty Lou McDonald
Laurel Naylor
Lavonne Welch
Maxine Moats
M. E. Church
Carol
Iowa
Ruth Miller
Carol Hanwardson
George Lyons
George Bottomstone
Irons
Center Point
Freedom and Poisoned Liquor in a Free Country
Kansas City Star notes deaths from poisoned liquor in Peoria Illinois and argues the government should not prohibit or poison alcohol. It contends bootleggers can safely handle liquor amid hard times and encourages minority control over prohibition policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Free country rights and misprints in a divorce tale
A Buffalo Evening News item notes a misprint in a linotype story about a man seeking a divorce, where the plaintiff allegedly asks the court for a change of Venus. The piece also defends freedom from compulsory drinking of a poisoned concoction, even under pressure from bootleggers or friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo Evening News
Also Mentioned on This Page
M. Brown
Congregational
May Himea Mener
Riepe
Dorothy
Cedar Nares
Agnter
Helen
Tureau
S. “McDonald
F. Livingstone
Anamesa
Peggy
Frank Preston
Russell
Cedar Rapids
Lyle. Lyman
A. P. Moats
Mercy Hospital
Burmeister
Peter Prahm
Moats
Gerd Antons
Frank Jones
Beals
Ethel Courtney
E. F. Burr
Burr
Marguerite McNeilly
Paul Smith
Jack
Des Moines
Ralph Berkley
Lee
Ray Crabb
Scott McDonald
E. F. Kleineck
Bangs
Charles Suett
Mary Lou
William Johnston
H. H. Seehusen
Truman Stanton
St. Luke’s Hospital
NEW Spring Millinery
Devlin
The
Express Cooking School
Iverson
Aan
Purina
Monticello, Iowa
Campus
J. B. Zimmerman
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