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Newspaper
Oxford Leader
Location
Oxford, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1925
Page
3
Local notes cover a for sale house near the Catholic Church and a busy Oxford scene. Ads promote office supplies, film processing, hair bobbing, and coal saver. Numerous notices list visits, illnesses, social events, school exams, and upcoming performances including the Alumni Play Fifty Fifty in Victor and Cosgrove Cosgrove Quintet tonight.
Mrs Clarence Kutcher entertained the Sew and So Club at her home last Thursday. The gathering featured feather-stripping and a knotted comforter, followed by a lunch of sandwiches pickles kolaches cake ice cream and coffee. Grandma Kutcher attended as an honored guest. Men planned for Sunday supper using game sourced from their hunt. The next meeting is set for January 22 at Bob Mahoney's.
The husbands of the Sew and So club hosted a family game supper at Ton Thompson’s home on Sunday at 6. Served cafeteria style, the menu included baked beans apple salad bread and butter sandwiches celery pickles pie and coffee. Forty five attended and praised the meal. Afterward couples danced as the women applauded the men for a flawless service oriented evening.
The school board and local board of health plan universal vaccination for all unvaccinated residents, including schoolchildren. Melbourne schools urge parental vaccination for children. An unusually virulent northern epidemic prompts Dr. Fagan, Des Moines public health commissioner, to advise vaccination.
The report details a Saturday evening auto collision by Mr. Hamilton returning from Town City after his car struck a horse owned by Clyde Wolfe on the railroad track east of Tiffin. Hamilton was bruised but improving, and his vehicle skidded into a ditch hitting a telephone pole. Local notes include sick lists visitors and community events around Tiffin and Oxford townships.
Mrs Thomas Curry visited Iowa City several days last week while Mr Chester Grege stopped at his Diamond Trail farm Friday. Numerous locals hosted and visited friends and relatives across Cosgrove Holbrook and Riverside including the Grffins, McGillans, Seydels, Stockmans and Wm Grabins. A baby boy arrived to Mr and Mrs Marty Duffy. John Grace sale and Stockan McCabe sale drew large crowds. Several locals attended St Marys play in Oxford and a basketball game here Friday night.
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