Public Schools Notes On Indoor Track And Class Work
Public Schools report track practice indoors led by Coach Francis Merten and selection for the April 1 indoor meet in Town City. Highlights include gymnastic points, science and farm classes, debate prep for state tournament, and a long list of staff and student activities across grades with illnesses and measles affecting attendance.
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Francis Merten
Town City
King
Iowa City
George Bridges
Carol Naylor
Monticello
Heiserman
Miss Linter
The Centipede and Me by Else Childrem edited by Dorothy Edmonds
A playful verse about a centipede and human legs explores mobility and mishaps with a humorous tone. The piece contrasts the centipede’s hundred legs with human two, imagining travel, footwear, and daily life in a light, childlike perspective. Nearby ads list farm goods and services, including seed oats, hay, cattle, and hatchery notices in small-town commerce.
Reading and Dutch studies in Miss Stout's class
Miss Stout's first and second graders enjoy new readers and weekly readers while designing windmills. Dutch studies continue with a Dutch sand table and poems by pupils. Irma Jean Pickett's sixth birth day is celebrated with candy rings.
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Miss Stout
Holland
Irma Jean Pickett
Sam Clark
Miss Newton
Ruth Smith
Miss Iverson
Miss Wallis
Los Angeles
Iowa
Items Of Occurrences Thirty Years Ago Continued
On the 18th at 81 a daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Fred McLaughlin of Castle Grove township. Coe college students home for vacation include Roy Peterson Essie Hoag Ruth Darling Emma Binggell and Nellie Wales. Mr. and Mrs. William Behrends reported a daughter. Mrs. Edna Sutherland died suddenly at her Oklahoma home on the 24th from a heart attack. Edmund Booth elder editor of The Anamosa Eureka died at 94 on the 29th. He came to Jones county in 1839 and helped build the first frame house at a Point then Dartmouth near Anamosa. He edited The Eureka since 1858 and later owned it.
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Fred McLaughlin
Castle Grove Township
Coe College
Roy Peterson
Essie Hoag
Ruth Darling
Emma Binggell
Nellie Wales
William Behrends
Edna Sutherland
Frank Sutherland
Oklahoma
Edmund Booth
Jones County
Col
David Wood
Dartmouth
Anamosa
T. E. Booth
Sokols Visit Libney After Florida Trip
Onslow Mr and Mrs George Sokol of Lib ney called on Mrs Lamey and her mother last week on their way home from their winter trip to Florida Miss Elsie Holst has secured a position with Sears Roebuck and Company in Chicago The Presbyterian Guild met last Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs Jessie McMaster Officers for the ensuing year were elected
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George Sears
W. A. Hicks
A. K. McMaster
Kennedy
L. B. McKinstry
Edna Wasson
James Buckner
Antioch
Dank McGovern
Chicago
Ted Hamilton
Davenport
Onslow
Margaret Loaier
Cedar Rapids
William Fletcher
Jessie McMaster
Astruman Club
Harry Paulsen
McMaster
Provan
Wiliam Dennison
George Lyon
George Sokol
Libney
Lamey
Florida
Elsie Holst
Sears, Roebuck and Company
Presbyterian Guild
Social Roundup of Visits Across Sand Spring and Nearby Towns
Sand Spring residents report a series of Sunday and weekend visits. Behrends and daughters Dorothy Lee and Elizabeth Ann visited Mrs. Alice Alcorn in Manchester. Donald Johnson and a Marble Rock group joined the E H Cox household. Langs of near Monticello spent Sunday with Wilson and Lang families. Nordman of near Monticello called on Charles Stevenson Thursday evening. Dave Wilson and Gordon and Betty dropped by Hopkinton Sunday evening. Ann Clement of Monticello spent Sunday with her mother in Sand Springs. A J Schmid of Dubuque visited Saturday. Rev. L McDonough of State Center called Monday. F M Johnson Marvin and W L Barker spent Saturday at John Wright home near Scotch Grove. Mrs Louis Smith and son Lloyd of near Worthington visited Charles Stevenson Tuesday afternoon. Mrs Dave Wilson spent Friday with her sister Mrs Lewis Treland at Langworthy. Behrends family noted again.
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W. H. Behrends
Dorothy Lee
Elizabeth Ann
Alice Alcorn
Manchester
Evert
Donald Johnson
Marble Rock
E. H. Cox
Lester Lang
Monticello
Wilson
J. J. Lang
G. B. Nordman
Charles Stevenson
Daughters and guests visit in multiple Iowa homes
Dorothy Lee spent Friday at the Otto Funke home near Petersburg where a Crosley radio was installed. Edgar Ender and family of Worthington visited Fred Welter’s home Sunday evening. LaVerne Gearhart spent the weekend at J. P. Smith’s home near Hopkinton. Letha Brown Helen Schrader and Harriet Cox of Dubuque were weekend guests at E. H. Cox’s. Margaret Murray of Monticello spent Sunday with her sister Mrs Stevenson. Daughters were supper guests at Andy Smith’s near Delhi Sunday. E. H. Cox and daughters Phyllis and Donna Lee, Donald Johnson and daughter Donna Lee, and Mrs J. W. Cox visited Herbert Cox in Center Junction Saturday. W. L. Barker of Morris Minnesota, wintering with his brothers at Manchester, visited here this past week before leaving.
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Dorothy Lee
Otto Funke
Petersburg
Behrends
Crosley
Edgar Ender
Worthington
Fred Welter
LaVerne Gearhart
J. P. Smith
Hopkinton
Letha Brown
Helen Schrader
Harriet Cox
Dubuque
E. H. Cox
Margaret Murray
Monticello
Stevenson
W. H. Behrends
Andy Smith
Delhi
Phyllis
Donna Lee
Donald Johnson
W. Cox
Herbert Cox
Center Junction
W. L. Barker
Morris. Minn
Manchester
Famous Fiction Figures Immortalized in Stone and Bronze
A brief survey notes how authors and their fictional characters gain global fame through monuments. Munich honors Little Red Riding Hood with a statue, Don Quixote has a memorial in Spain, and Paris boasts a Porthagnan statue. Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn receive bronze tributes on a national road near Mark Twain’s home, while Robinson Crusoe stands in Largo, Fife.
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Munich
Bavaria
Little Ted Riding Hood
Spain
Don Quixote
Paris
P'Artagnan
Mark Twain
Tom Sawyer and
Tackle
Herry Finn
Thle
Largo
Fifeshire
Robinson Crusoe
Early American Horses By Europe Route Found
An investigator returning from a South American expedition uncovered fossilized Norces indicating horses existed in the Western Hemisphere thousands of years before European contact. The skeletons differ from modern horses yet connect the true horse to prehistoric equines, with specimens like ostaths and omiastudens noted.
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America
Europe
South America
Hemisphere
Glass House In Nyack Amid Misfortune Obstacle
A cryptic note references DLW Cather living in a Glass House in Nyack with a glass nose, marking a peculiar residence detail and dated 08 49. The fragment hints at character formation through hardship and latent traits sharpened by fortune.
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Nyack
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