Epworth League Convention Concludes in Dubuque District
The Dubuque District Epworth League convention closes after three days of sessions with about eighty delegates from abroad. Officers elected include C. C. Metuman president and Nellie Willey as second vice president with resolutions praising education and missionary work and urging support for Epworth Seminary and Upper Iowa University.
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Dubuque District
Epworth League
Tim Express
District League
Guy P. Benton
Upper
Iawa University
C. C. Met ‘Uman
AL. E. Fayette
Tlarlon JL. Stove Delhi
Nellie Willey
Fue Dependence
Termin Wells
Strawberry Point
Myra Coats
Dubuque
Dubuqine
Monticello
Epworth Seminary
Upper Iowa University
Forward Movement For Missions
Students’ Missionary Campaign
Chisholm
Jones
Dressmaker Announces Home Studio Near Monticello Bottling Works
Local dressmaker informs Monticello residents she will operate from her home near the Bottling Works, offering custom sewing and alterations to ladies seeking personal fittings and wardrobe updates.
Cass May correspondence notes visits and farm activity
May reports show Austin Price going to Missouri and Bessie Condit visiting Oelwein. Mrs. Frank Lubben visited Cass while Miss Cora Sandhouse from Monticello stayed with friends. W. L. Ketcham sold four short horns, and Elmer Ketcham shipped cattle as W. Bray sent hogs and cattle. Plowing rushes to finish, corn acreage to grow, rural mail delivery proves satisfactory. nine boxes exist in Shady Lane corner.
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Cass
Austin Price
Missouri
Bessie Condit
Elmer Ketcham
Neded
Shady Lane Corner
Local Visit Chatty Notes and Town News
Center Junction reports a string of visits and relocations. Mrs J Curtwright visits relatives in Olin while Mr and Mrs Lew Mene of Chiy travel to friends here last week. Anna Nordiagan of Propkinton visits Mrs W Kronse and Mrs Alta Baily of Amaber stays with her parents. Myrtle Dreibelbis spends Sunday with Bertha Alexander near Onslow. Carrie McDonald of Olin assists Mrs Janes Carson this week with house cleaning. Norman Espy now works for a nursery firm in Troy Ohio and is on the road. Mrs Wm Leach travels to Atmmosna for a doctor visit and possible treatment. Kate Magee goes to Waterloo to see her brother rock and to welcome the new arrival at Freds home.
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Cestren Junction
May Sth
Curtwright
Olin
Lew Mene
Chiy
Anna Nordiagan
Propkinton
W. Kronse
Alta Baily
Amaber
Myrtle Dreibelbis
Bertha Alexander
Onslow
Carrie McDonald
Janes Carson
Norman Espy
Troy
Ohio
Wm. Leach
Atmmosna
Kate Magee
Waterloo
Rock
Fred
Obituary of John McNamara of Battale Township Linn County
John McNamara died this morning at about age sixty three miles south of Prairiebure in Battale township Linn county. He was a well known respected farmer with a wife and several children. He accumulated substantial property through years of honest labor.
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John McNamara
Prairiebure
Battale
Linn County
MacNamara
Observing Puppy Shows Clever Adaptation at Door
A rector in Honiton reports a ten month old bullpup and a four year old bulldog as pets. The puppy, unable to enter a wife’s room, imitates the older dog’s single gentle scratch when at the door and later learns to mimic the old dog to gain admission.
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Honiton
England
Chen
Lighting a Cigar
An observant Philadelphia tobacconist notes smokers waste matches by relighting without knocking ashes, which prevents the flame from reigniting the cigar. He advises removing ashes before relighting to save on match waste and benefit the match manufacturers.
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Lucifer
Cle
Philadelphia Tuquirer
Comic Concert Misprint in Ballyshiekgathery
An English visitor finds posters for a Patti concert in a Northern Ireland town. The manager announces Patti cannot appear and replaces with local singer Miss Arabella Jones to perform a song, sparking irony over the unmet star.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ireland
Mme. Patti
Patti
Arabella Jones
Ballyshiekgathery
Greeley Firm Sells Imported Percheron Stallion Tilfis
The Greeley Horse Importing Co sold the imported Percheron stallion Tilfis for 2600 to a local farmers’ company. Officers include President d M Jfofrere Secretary Will Sandhouse Treasurer J R Kiburz Manager John Kurt. Imported from France last fall the horse is regarded as a fine animal and the firm has improved local horses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greeley Horse Importing Co
D. A. Slabhert
Tilfis
D. M. Jfofrere
Will Sandhouse
J. R. Kiburz
John Kurt
France
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