Peculiar Iowa Tales Highlight Old Time Treasure and Odd Feats
The column recaps 1856 Pocahontas County treasure rumor spurred by a spiritualist, a Rusell farmer’s fence shock system for hogs and chickens, three Mount Vernon truckers fined in Washington County for a weight theft scheme, a Sac City kite tournament with 241 entrants, an Iowa Falls chain letter incident, a rare luna moth sighting near Nevada, a Nashua watch recovered after 20 years, Hampton’s 67 years of business closure, Chelsea near Tama cow birth of triplets, and Jasper County reporting its first female inebriate sent to the state hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Vernon
Linn County
Justice Court
Washington
Washington County
Vincent Marek
George Polka
Chelsea
Taman County
Jasper County
Woman Charged by Husband Seeks Treatment for Alcohol Abuse
A Mount Pleasant woman, in alternating fits of stupor and rage, was taken to the hospital by the sheriff. Her husband filed charges and said he could not live with her unless she was cured. He traveled from their farm to tell officers he could not endure her continued drunkenness from drinking extracts and wood alcohol.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Pleasant
16 year old shooter repels farm burglary near Ankeny
William Fleming Jr of Ankeny Polk County asleep upstairs fires shotgun when two burglars attack his farm home. The men return fire. Fleming escapes unharmed. Thieves flee. both believed wounded as officers chase suspects.
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William Fleming, Jr
Ankeny
Polk County
Fleming
William
Feud with Self Roosts in Window and Revival Opens
A robin battles its reflection in a Birmingham basement window, returning daily for hours of combat. Rev. Howard Murphy holds a "hard times" revival service in Chariton urging overalls for men and print dresses for women. Sibley’s baseball team shuts out Ocevedan 35 to 0 in Osceola county. Louie Goldsmith reports strong cattle gains, selling 20 Steers in Chicago at $15.25 per hundred, a 300 percent seven month profit. QO. O. motor plate collection grows with a 1909 Rambler tag from Des Moines. Miss Ethelwyn Wilcox, Buck Creek home economist, reelected for next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daily News
Birmingham
van Buren County
Harley Graham
Howard Murphy
Chariton
Lucas County
Sibley High School
Ochevedan
Osceola County
Sibley
Ocevedan
Louie Goldsmith
Clarence
Cedar County
Goldsmith
Chicago
QO. O. Sports
Battle Creek
Ida County
Ed Lindsay
Des Moines
Lindsay
Church Services Listed for Multiple Des Moines Area Churches
Local notices outline May 26 worship schedules for St. John's Paul Gutknecht Wayne Zion St Joseph Prairieburg St Matthew Center Junction Congregational Evangelical Reformed and Methodist services. Topics include German and English masses Sunday school times union memorial services and Ascension day observances with ministers named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. John’s Lutheran Church
Paul T. Gutknecht
Wayne Zion
St. Matthew's Lutheran Church
H. L. Adix
Methodist Episcopal Church
Wm. J. Macaulay
Congregational Church
Irl Hudson to Appear at Monie Theatre Sunday
The veteran Texas cow hand Irl Hudson appears at the Monie Theatre for matinee and evening shows this Sunday after broadcasting on WMT at 6 30 p m. He comes from over 40 midwest stations in seven years and will be joined by Claudette Colbert in Private Worlds and the new Technicolor feature La Cucarachna.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irl Hudson
Texas
WMT
Midwest
Monie Theatre
Claudette Colbert
Adv
E. R. Moore Former Demo Power Dies in Florida
E R Moore longtime Jones county Democratic leader died in Miami Florida last Wednesday from a stroke He moved from Illinois to Jones county where he led as superintendent of schools and later ran an insurance business edited the Anamosa Journal He served as county Democratic chairman state committee and United States marshal under Wilson He left a wife and a son the associate editor of Cosmopolitan in New York He was a major force in local Democratic politics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugene R. Moore
Jones County
Miami
Florida
Mr. Moore
Illinois
Oxford Junction
Anamosa Journal
Wilson
Moore
Dubuque
Cosmopolitan Magazine
New York
Camp Hitaga Opens For Work June 13
Training courses for volunteer leaders of Camp Fire groups will open at Camp Hitaga on Thursday June 13 and close Sunday June 16. Directed by the Cedar Rapids Council of Camp Fire Girls it has been chosen as one of two midwest camps for this purpose with about fifty leaders expected. Instruction will be given by a competent state expert in Camp Firework. After training, the girls camping season runs from June 17 to July 29.
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Camp Hitaga
Cedar Rapids
Middle West
Portrait of a Monticello Figure and War Service
A Cedar County native who left high school twenty five years earlier at sixteen served thirty five months with the A E B F attached to Pershing's Pets during World War I. He fought at St Mihiel, the Argonne, and the Vosges witnessing the first Vosges shell in six inches of snow on July fourth. He moved to Monticello in 1919 and joined Central Lumber and Coal, earning influence on boards commissions and directorships while joining local clubs and a diet of one orange seed and water daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar County
A. EB. F
Missouri-Kansas
Pershing
St. Mihiel
Argonne
Vosges
Juty
Monticello
Central Lumber and Coal Company
Gun Club
Chiseler's Club
Fom
Cirson
Group of 32 Members R N A To Convention
Thirty two members of the Dale Camp No. 553 R N A of Monticello attend the eighteenth district annual convention in Cedar Rapids. Local staff will conduct sessions and include Mesdames Lambert Stambaugh Cashen Kiburz Wilson Claus Milroy Howland Byerly Kiburz Conley Hartman Yeoman Egan Howell Bright Power Ritter Carmichael Lambert Hearn Marsh Farley Clark Harford Shelley Zubler Sutherland Lambert Cassidy Hogan and Miss Cunningham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dale Camp
Monticello
National Guard
Coliseum
Cedar Rapids
Mesdames
Evaline Lambert
Emma Stambaugh
Erma Cashen
Linda Kiburz
Nelle Wilson
Pearl Claus
Fannie Milroy
Irene Howland
Parade of the Wooden Dolls and Beanville School Closing Day
Slough school near Scotch Grove presents a program on Thursday May 9 featuring Kiburz orchestra with There’s a Tavern in the Town and The Dearest School of All, an intermediate play A Change of Heart, Second Grade Review reading Little Mabel and Big Brother, On the Good Ship Lollypop by primary and second grade girls, and Closing Day at Beanville School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Slough
Scotch Grove
Beanville
Kiburz Orchestra
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Iowa News
Jarnagin
Iowa
J. W. Jarnagin
Patrick Calligan
Pocahontas County
Calligan
George Banks
Russell
Banks
Sac City
Sac County
Sac City Kiwanis Clup
Iowa Falls
Hardin County
Hazel Eilers
Nevada
Story County
Hugo Beerscheel
Nashua
Chickasaw County
Beerscheels
Hampton
Franklin County
Frank Kratochvil
Kratochvil
N. W. Beebe
W. D. Ott
Ethelwyn Wilcox
Buck Creek
Miss Wilcox
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church
Prairieburg
Stephen J. Kucera
Center Junction
M. E
S. V. Williams
Vera Moats
Epworth League
Mary Leech
Moats
Samuel G. Gutensohn
Evangelical and Reformed Church
Armin H. Tendick
People of God
Ursinus Classis
God
Christ
Heaven
E. R. Moore
Demo Power
Hitaga
Opera House
Will Marshall
R.N.A
Joe Fisher and His Orchestra
Harold Elston
Spider Kurth
Princess Theatre
Curious Bride
Warren William
Margaret Lindsay
Edmund Lowe
Victor McLaglen
Mary Carlisle
Die Rogers
Rochelle Hudson
Richard Cromwell
George Barbier
Jane Darwell
Slim Summerville
Walter B Pithin
Hutchinson's
Hutchinsons
Good Housekeeping
Bureau Lerber
Monticello Express
Monticello Opera House
Gladys Ertz
eTrac Ty
R.H. Buster Farm
MontiecHo
Lowa
Yardley
Bill Ford
Ricklefs’ Dry Goods
Monticello, Iowa
Shellane Gas Cooking School
Stuhlers
Grocery Department
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