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Newton and vicinity notes and social items page
Local scribbles list visits, travels, family news, births, and business ads from Newton area. Des Moines trips, Des Moines market hogs, Oklahoma City, Lake Okoboji, and Des Moines carnival scenes appear amid society chatter, shop notices, and travel notices. Community figures include Mrs Davis and family, the Morgans and Lufkins, and various merchants, with Fourth of July events and public notices interwoven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. B. Howick
Des Moines
Libbie Dean
Grinnell
Isaac Bennett
Palo Alto
Marshalltown
Emerson McCarty
Newton
California
Carl Wallace
Will McMurray
T. K. Clarkson
West Marlow Street
Lillian Wellington
Monticello
Ill
James Parsley
Garnet
Kan
All Gates
Harry Engle
Lake Okoboji
Don, Harrah
Arkansas
A. M. Harrah
Bisa Skow
Colfax
Tulington
San Francisco
Roy Livingston
Iowa City
Livingston
B. E. Moore
Collaren
Bollhoefer
Prairie City
N. W. Lewis
Lewises
Payette
Idaho
Harry Lewis
Florence
al Jennings
St. Louis
Jennings
Jet Wright
Kellogg
Mason City
Julia Axtell
Harry
Jasper Count
Sarah A. C. Wheeler
Hixson Grove Chapel
Elmer Graham
Chapin
D. van Gieson
Wm. Bailey
Canada
Sto
C. P. Weeks
Kasson
Albert
Christie
Latter Day Saints
Fair Grounds
Eli Ammons
Lamdon
North Dakota
Jasper County
Ladies Aid Society
The
Lutheran Church
John Woodward
Clint
Bessie Robbins
Chase-Lister Theatre Co
Brown
Opera House
Morrison
John Munn
Des Mones
J. Y. Swigart
Murphy
John W. Murphy
E. Ammons
Langdon
Lister