Interesting Iowa Wedding Customs And Notable Local News
Weddings in St Marys Warren County inspire a town dance and later a charivari if not observed within two weeks. Crayton Watkins Jr and Bertell G Smith escape a dynamite crash near Humboldt with minor injuries. Barbara Ann Taylor falls from a second floor window but sustains only a facial scratch. Sidney American Legion seeks a Libby Prison gavel relic once owned by the G A R. Bootleg whisky prices spike near Onawa as horses treated for sleeping sickness. Edward Lorentson of Manning loses a lung but is expected to live normally with future lung growth.
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St. Mary's
Warren County
Crayton M. Watkins, Jr
Gilmore City
Pocahontas County
Bertell G. Smith
Fort Dodge
Watkins
Humboldt
Humboldt County
Smith
Lester Taylor
Gladbrook
Tama County
American Legion
Sidney
Fremont County
Sidney G. A. R. Post
Legion
Libby
Richmond
G. A. R. Post
Seed Thief Strikes Barn of Clint Hall Near Farragut
Fre mont county farmer Clint Hall finds his alfalfa seed stash stolen after threshing for next year. Ten sacks of good seed valued at $200 were taken from his barn overnight. Investigators suspect a careful observer watched his routine.
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Clint Hall
Farragut
Fremont County
Hall
High school bandmaster survives shot and burglar misadventure
Eldora Hardin county bandmaster Milo A Meyers narrowly escaped harm when a bullet pierced his window and wall after a 14 year old neighbor mishandled a loaded .22 revolver. Police search for the home intruder as another break in and odd burglary tale unfolds. A separate note recounts John Smeenk nearly poisoning himself with chicken pills mistaken for liver pills and his son rushing him to a doctor.
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Milo A. Meyers
Eldora
Hardin County
Meyers
John Smeenkof
Orange City
Sioux County
Smeenk
Ray
Jolce student hurt by foul ball at baseball game
Oswald Rogness of Jolce Worth county, a Jolce high school student, was struck by a foul ball while watching a Jolce vs Fertile baseball game. He suffered a broken nose but returned to school the next day with a pained smile.
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Oswald Rogness
Jolce
Worth County
Rogness
Jolce High School
Fertile High School
Young Iowa boy builds fame casting fly baits
Berkley Bedell, 16, of Spirit Lake in Dickinson County, began making his own fishing lures four years ago. He used dog hairs in the first files and his skill grew until national attention followed, with potential plans to hire a helper, possibly his brother Jack, as the sideline becomes a full business.
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Berkley Bedell
Spirit Lake
Dickinson County
Bedell
Jack
Veteran threshing machine in long running local tale
W A Campbell of near Lake City Calhoun county continues with the same threshing machine in the same run. The veteran engine has served 29 years and has been set about 500 times. Campbell estimates it has threshed roughly 1 073 000 bushels of grain.
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W. A. Campbell
Lake City
Calhoun County
Campbell
Local Social and Farm Bureau Notes in Scotch Grove
Scotch Grove reports visitors from Lisbon, Iowa City and Center Junction with gatherings at the Abbotts and Neighbors. Sunbeam Mission Band meets next Sunday. county farm bureau programs highlight 4 H girls, Sunday school activities, and district officer nominations. Also notes trials and travels of residents including 4-H Sunshine Girls and county leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grover Hudson
Iowa City
Evelyn Courtney
Miriam Courtney
George Courtney
Center Junction
Clifton Abbott
Onslow
Wyoming
Embree
Miller
R. A. Naylor
L. E. Moats
Inver
Guttenberg
Presbyterian Church
Scotch Grove Sunshine Girls
Harold Hartman
Scotch Grove
Sunshine
Marcella
Pauline Otten
Farm Bureau
Lottie Rickels
Ruth McNeilly
Scotch Grove Presbyterian Church
W. B. Clark
Duncan
S. G. Thompson
E. L. Himebaugh
Ray Embree
Mechanicsville
Pard Miller
Anamosa
Jessie McMaster
Arnold Apland
Mrs. A W McDonald Hopkins celebrate funeral notices
Funeral services were held for Mrs. Henry Lewis of Hopkinton who died Sept 99 at Lamont after illness. She was born Irene Watson Brown in Keokuk on Dec 3 1874 and aged 63 years 10 months 26 days. Survived by husband 11 children 27 grandchildren and one sister. Burial in Hopkinton cemetery. The report lists other local notices and social updates from Hopkinton Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Lewis
Lamont
David S. de Best
Presbyterian Church
Hopkinton
Lewis
Irene Watson Brown
Wesley
Sadie Brown
Keokuk
Francis Butler
Raleigh
S. C
Martha Cole
Louise Lewis
Will
St. Louis
Ruth Redmond
Monticello
Helen Ayers
Oxford
Mayme Dula
Josephine Phinsey
Battle Creek
Mich
Dean Clark
Ryan
George Richard
Joseph C
Baldwinsville
N. Y
Evalenna
Charles Bacon
David
Cedar Rapids
William
California
Anna Wilson
Coggon
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Iowa News
Jarnagin
Iowa
J. W. Jarnazin
Onawa
Monona County
Frank West
Edward Lorentson
Manning
Carroll County
Lorentson
Omaha
University of Michigan
Jake Mulder
Sheldon
O’brien
Art Thompson
Minneapolis
Thompsons
Veteran
Thresher
D. O. Sinclair
Hugh Robinson
Lisbon
Sinclair
Alva Freese
Kitty Callahan
L. B. Callahan
Forrest Craig
Sand Spring
Henry Hagen
Pete Paulsen
Bernard Cass
Raymond Naylor
Lou Oltman
Town State College
Ames
Loretta
Helen
Hazel Behrends
L. R. Himebrough
Marshalltown
Kathleen Hughes
J. R. McNeilly
Ed Duncan
Schmitt
Farnham
Mabel Streeper
A. Alyea
Buck Creek Methodist Church
H. FE. Morrow
Buck Creek
R. F. Billings
R. E. Lux
G. L. Parker
Independence
Ellen Bradle
Walter Kurth
Lone Tree
Earl Neal
I. T. Wilson
Wilson
Donald
G. W. Miller
H. M. Reeve
Eureka
Kansas
Albert Morgan
Columbus Junction
Mr. Morgan
Walter File
A. J. Adams
Arline
Springfield
Iil
Maud
Franc Earhart
Adams
Merle Reed
Sloan
Delhi
St. John's Lutheran Church
Ella Brokaw
James Kehoe
Loras
Doris
Waterloo
G. G. Brown
W. A. Petrie
Dairy Cattle Congress
Howard Huston
Fred Huston
W. C. Cummings
Gearharts
David Gearhart
Detroit
Gearhart
Harold Larson
Lester Ament
Dexter Kruger
Dora Morgan
Marion
Fairley
James Fairley
Lulu Stead
Harold
Louisiana
Charles Morton Jr
Rock Island
J. A. Pannhuk
St. John’s Lutheran Church
Dundee
J. C. Edgar
W. A. Edgar
Andrew Patton
Barr
Young
Shirley
Allen
Marjorie
Anna Edgar
Emma Edgar
T. Lyle Joseph
Agnes Carson
Andrew Ferguson
Roy Aldrich
Carl Griffith
Ferguson
Aldrich
Kate Smith
Edward Break
Hugh Pierce
Standard Oil
Qut
Ruth Harkness
Su-Lin
Ead
PLUL
Scotch Grove Station
Shropshire
Ewes
W. H. Null
Monticello State Bank
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