Local Community Roundup of Weekend Visits and Guests
Highway 60 news item lists residents and visitors over the weekend. Names include Keith Phillips and family at Harry Phillips home, W W Munns Centerville, J W McDaniel and Charlene Townsend at Lyn Hilton home, George McDonald with Aunt Alice Nash, Herbert McDaniels, Glen Coulson, Teta Reeves with Daphne Hilton, David Weston with Chas Boyer, Carl Tomlin and wife, Eli Hiatt, Willie McDanes with Daphne Hilton, Bert Gladfelder visiting Chas Boyer, Leon Burns and son, Lyn Hilton family, Wm Hilton gathering, Doyle Hampton helping Clyde McDonald, plus Chas Boyer and family at Eli Hiatt home. Several others visited and spent time at various homes around Centerville and Rathbun.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keith Phillips
Harry Phillips
W. W. Munn
Merk Munn
Centerville
J. W. McDatiel
Charlene ‘Townsend
Lyn Hilton
George McDonald
Alice Nash
Rathbun
Herbert
McDanel
Guy McDanel
Glen
Coulson
Teta Reeves
Daphne Hilton
David Weston
Chas
Boyer
Carl Tomlin
Wifa
Eli Hiatt
Willie McDanes
Bert Gladfelder
Leon Burns
James
Iowa column blends oddities and local chatter
A compilation from an Iowa newspaper notes a Grundy Center junk dealer suing to block an 800 foot junk storage ban. It spans oddities from a Madison county bonfire order, a miniature tractor license scheme, to Spirit Lake fires and a Des Moines airport expansion. It also cites local anecdotes on weddings, musicians, and skating feats as well as wartime tractor use in Finland.
Iconium Snow Weekend Affects Local Church and School
Rural notices report snow over Saturday night and Sunday with no church or Sunday School. School dismissed for Monday and Tuesday. Mrs Dora Hallyer guest at Lou Funkhouser dinner. Centerville callers included Mr and Mrs Will Free and Richard Massman. Dicky Newby ill and unable to compete in Ottumwa declamatory contest. Mr and Mrs Harry Jennings visited Udell relatives. Jennings attended Centerville teachers meeting. Clarence Sheldon recovering from scarlet fever. sister Mrs John McAninch filled in at Pleasant Hill. Benny Youngser sent word from Mexico City climate and sites. M E Aid held a contributed lunch and devotional led by Amy Hiner with a Bible songs contest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Jennings
Udell
Jennings
Centerville
Clarence Sheldon
John McAninch
Pleasant Hill School
Men Wanted for Local Feed Company Careers
Several honest reliable men of good character wanted by a feed company manufacturing protein feeds for work in this locality. Livestock and poultry feeding knowledge desirable, car necessary. 25 to 50 years of age. You will be trained to handle a permanent business of your own, with good earnings. Write MMC18 Moravia Union.
A Matter of Consonants at The Worn Doorstep
Margaret Guille BAXTER frets over a name and money on a Monday. Peter Lathrop suggests a plan to change her surname to Lathrop, leading to an engagement offer and a luncheon at a riverside roadhouse with the quirky promise of a nickname Peggy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Argaret Guille Baxter
London
Margaret Guile
Peggy
Margie
Guille
Eclat
Margaret Guille
Daddy Baxter
Margaret Guil
Peter Lathrop
Peter
Margaret
Lathrop
Itz
Baxter
Margaret Gui
Prevent Tooth Decay With The Proper Diet
Nutrition expert Mrs. Ethel Austin Martin of the National Dairy Council links diet to dental health. She urges liberal milk and calcium rich foods, clean teeth, twice yearly dental visits, and careful care of children’s teeth to prevent decay and protect permanent teeth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ethel Austin Martin
National Dairy Council
Martin
Iowa Towns Bickered Over Penitentiary
In early Iowa history Governor Lucas urged a penitentiary. Debates over site in 1839 split northern and southern counties. Council settled on Burlington then Fort Madison. House moved to Fort Madison. By 1840 inmates staffed a garden and cooperage shop after 1839 construction began.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Territory of
Iowa
Robert Lucas
Congress
House of Representatives
Mount Pleasant
John Ely Briggs
the Palimpsest
State Historical Society of Iowa
Stephen Hempstead
Dubuque
Davenport
Jesse Browne
Fort Madison
Hempstead
Burlington
Bloomigton
Muscatine
Iowa City
Des Moines County
Jesse D. Payne
Henry County
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Tom Marion
Grundy Center
Ttem
Marion
W.S. Cooper
Madison County
Osceola
Czecho- Slovakia
Spirit’ Lake
Spirit Lake
LaPlaza
Town High School,athletic Association
Buck
Chas. Quinn
M. M. de LaMater
Sheldon
John Cox
New Sharon
George Gobens
Lucas
Des Moines
Air Lines
Douglasses
Des Moins Citi
Harry Ross
Erwin Beneilien
Isaac Thompson
Grand Junction
Jon
Canon City
Colorado
Phort Ontat
Gadabout
Dora Harrison
Charles City
Harrison
Nick Ohms
Feet
Harlan
Mick
Bee Tibergan
Eagle Grove
Don Porter
Near
Ceek
Thomas
Corydon
William
Phoenix
Arizona
Orville Ellingson
Lake Mills
Town
Holland
Karl Christopher
Lawrence
Harold
Iowa River
Decorah
Ninth Town
Albert F. Swanson
House Committee On Privileges and Elections
Vincent Harrington
Waterloo
Turner
Moravia
John
Jane
Mr. Merchant
Moravia, Iowa
Iconium
Dora Hallyer
Lou Funkhouser
Will Free
Richard Massman
Dicky Newby
Ottumwa
Benny Youngser
Mexico City
M. E. Aid
Amy Hiner
Clark
Albia
Herbert Wilson
Frank Swaim Morayia
Horstman Oil Station
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