Elmora and Hazel College clash in Valley events
Kinser Valley hosts visitors Andy Jonnaon and Cubit from Albia as Elmora school entertains Hazel College. The Elmord school closes with a cooperative dinner while residents and neighbors share visits, shopping, and gatherings around Centerville and Albia communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andy Jonnaon
Cubit
Elmora
Hazel College
Zell Wilson
Eph Wilson
Russell Darby
J. H. Davia
Nadine George's
G. R. Darby
Rollie Carter
Centerville
Thompson
Adieu to the Seniors Poem tribute in verse form
True seniors in every way we hope you great success and for the gentle graces keep up your kindness someday you will be chosen and meet the acid test then do for the world all that you can for all you can do is the best
Costly Goods in West China Revealed in Mission Letter
A missionary friend in West China lists prices for common items such as soap chips at 1.65, soap at 6, oatmeal and coffee at 15 a pound, powdered milk 23 a pound, chickens 1 or more a pound, coal 6 for sixty to eighty pounds. Last Christmas a US sender charged Miss Wells 8.60 in tax on a package containing two bars of soap and a can of pasteurized milk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Key
C. R. Jones
Reinbeck
West
China
United States
Outlandish Iowa items mix fox den finds and air rides
A bizarre column reports Benson of Ocheyedan witnessing a fox den cache including pheasants and small game, Walter Tibben injured by a tin namemaker, and a Douglas bomber forced landing in Corydon. Other notes cover a marooned woman, dead hens with a raccoon, old cemetery discovery, Merle Prentice flying to Everly, a fish tale, a judge’s jail sentence and a long-lived family, plus a Plymouth county matador fending off a bull with a hayfork.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merle Prentice
Everly High
Tabool
Everly
Spencer
Spencer Municipal Field
Towa
Local social roundup from Josephine McDonald’s weekend visits
Josephine McDonald spent the weekend with her family. Various local households hosted and visited friends and relatives including Hilton, McDanel, Hiatt, Coulson, Boyer, and Burns families. Baccalaureate and commencement events filled Sunday evening and Tuesday night activities with neighbors attending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katie Miller
Ottumwa
Lula’ Tilmont
M. E. Boardman
Chan Delong
George Reid
Albia
Albert Coop
Ben Coop
Curtis Tomlin
Claude Hawk
M. E. Boardmand
Edward Robinson
Bromptoni
Clifton
Boardman
Otis Stafford
Jack Hershberger
Clifton Boardman
Ermy Johnson
Nadine & George's
Albert Fisher
Erma Johnson
Grant
Lincox
Josephine McDonald
Clyde McDonald
Lyn
Wm. Hilton
Ileta Reeves
Willie McDanel
Roy Hiatt
Eli Hiatt
W. W. Munn
Lyn Hilton
Betty McDonald
Merle Miller
Elsie Martin
Ernie Tucker
Margaret Burton
James Hilton
Dan Sparks
Lloyd Parcel
Zig Miller
Mannie Pool
John Stevens
James
Bill Reeves
Tleta
Hannah Gladfelder
Clell Coulson
Marie Coulson
Oakdale
Wincel Coulson
Plano
Levi Coulson
Cecil Coulson
Cameron
Guy McDahel
Jim Cline
Eli Hiatts
Gertie Boyer
Geo. Boyer
Clyde Gladfelder
Darlene
Leon Burns
Russell Burns
Charlie Boyer
David Weston
Tom Workman
Dorin Wailes
Centerville
Alvin Hiatt
Oskaloosa
Herbert McDanel
Guy McDanel
Community notices and visits spread through New Hope area
New Hope residents report calls and visits from Clyde Howell to Sim Howells near Mystic and Bessie Neff at the Orval Burton home. Mildred Wynes of Albia called on J F Chambers. Several attended Ladies Aid at the U B church and a baccalaureate in Moravia. A theft at Seligman studio Grinnell stole a Mildred Brown photo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clyde Howell
Sim Howell
Mystic
Bessie Neff
Orval Burton
Frank Hiatt
Paul Day
Mildred Wynes
Albia
J. F. Chambers
Ivan Harsh
Ladies Aid
U. B
Billie Harsh
Carl Coffin
Duane
Moravia
Elsie Martin
Frank Chambers
Richard Ballew
Moulton
Ballew
Mr. Ballew
Gerald Hunter
Mr. Hunter
John I. Chambers
George Hiner
R. C. Wilson
E. F. Wilson
John R. Wood
Dickie
Muscatine
W. E. Donavan
Elsie Derby
Grace Dooley
Dorothy Kausick
Mary Louise
Harold Turner
George Howell
Seligman
Grinnell
Mildred Brown
Miss Brown
Class Prophecy recollections at the Jones Hotel voyage
A nostalgic travelogue through a Jones Hotel visit, meeting Curtis Jones and Doris Long among classmates. The narrator chats with old friends, recalls circus figures Fairy Morris and Margaret Ward, visits Denver, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, and ends after a 1940 graduation, weaving memories of peers and careers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones
Curtis Jones
Doris Long
Hampton
Denver
Clifford Tisue
Clifford
Doris
Barnum and Baily Circus
Willard
Fairy Morris
Fairy
Margaret Ward
Margaret
Mary Margaret Long
Mary Horstman
Mardeena Wilson
Clarence Caster
Long Farm
Rosemary Main
Rosemary
Cleveland
Cleveland Indiana
White Sox
Bill Luse
Bill
Dorothy Mae McCrory
Effie Mae
Dorothy Hiner
Cincinnati
Cincy
Hilda Whisler
Crystal Callen
Pearl McKern
Chicago
the Tribune
Emily Free
Newas Basket
Emily
Phyllis Arnold
June Tuttle
California
Frances Tisue
Lloyd Ammons
Lloyd
Phyllis Hiatt
Wee 1
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Kinser Valley
Britt
Miga ‘Thompson
Lovilla
Bil
Donald Darby
Henry van Welden
Wife
Henty Sytsma
Elmord
Brompton
M. P. Main
Pesp
Skelgas
Farmers Exchange North Side
Iowa
Frank Kaufman
Lake Mills
Ole Lee
Eldora High School
Rudolph Zimmerman
Denison
Ducander
Ginger Michael
Waverly
Ginger
Irven Tweet
Moorhead
Tweet
Monona Country
Ray Bryan
Harvey
Burlington
Jack Mullenax
James McNeely
Glenwood Youths
Marian Cagley
Chickasaw
Tilton
North Side Square
V. W. Munn
Ea.arly
Bey Behows
Main Bros
Coreetinos
The
Moravia Union
BE. Benson
Ocheyedan
Walter Tibben
Adair
Chariyari
John Jergens
Tibben
Corydon
G.E. Montgomery
F. F. Marsh
Keota
Huldah Christensen
Russell Roberts
Game Reserve Board
R. E. Newcomb
Mt. Sterling
Ed Greinert
Fenton
T. G. Garfield
Alexander Gable
Clarion
Fred Gabel
David Hiracher
Donnellson
Ferdinand— Claus Ehrp
Plymouth County
First National
Federal Deposit Corporation
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