Nearby Town Notes Mixed Visits and Incidents
Mrs Ward Dillon and Harriet left for Marshall town after visiting James McNulty. Wm Mayer and wife and Jacob Bayless family also visited Knoxville area. Jasper Newton moved to Mason City Odd Fellows Home. Rev C B Rape from China visits Knoxville and preaches. An accident at a Knoxville drug store injured Frank Dunlap by a falling electric fan. A T Bridges had a growth removed from his eye in Des Moines. Local events include a Marion county picnic at Fort Des Moines and reports of missing skeleton later identified as a dog.
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Ward Dillon
Harriett
James McNulty
Marshalltown
Wm. Mayer
Enoch Mayer
Jacob Bayless
Foshier
Council Bluffs
Marysville
Harvey
National Holiness Association Finance Committee
Roy Bayless
Little Daugh‘ter
Lorene
Nan Sherwood
Mason City
Knoxville
Oskaloosa
Theo
Dave
Frank Newton
Des Moines
Ben Newton
Ben
Ruby Ball
Walter Ball
Wilma Martin
Grand Junction
Colo
Salt Lake City
W. N. Kellum
Minnesota
Jake
Lake of the Woods
Iowa Infantry
Iowa
Marion
Mahaska
Keokuk
C. B. Rape
Chuangking
China
Bellamy
Chungking College
Rape
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Frank J. Dunlap
Dunlap
A. T. Bridges
Indiana Township
Bridges
Harold Lyman
Tracy
Ft. Des Moines
Marion County
Fort
W. E. Sherwood
W. A. Lyman
Ernest Frost
Ralph
Nellie Mick
Alva Billingsley
Jerry Speed
Pleasantville
Journal of Today
Worth Gregory
Excélsior Springs
J. W. Manhardt
Manhardt
Kansas
Tribune
John F. McMillen
Little Bill” Ridlen
Little Bill
McMillens
New Sharon Notices of Visits and Family News
Miss Inez Core of Knoxville visited her cousin Miss Beulah Core on Tuesday. Mrs. C LeCocq, visiting relatives in Pella, returned home Monday morning. Mrs. F Herring and children from Chicago arrived Monday to visit at the Le Cocq home. Misses Bessie Brom and Margaret Lester of Oskaloosa visited Tunis Brom Wednesday. Mr and Mrs A W Saunders drove to Waterloo Sunday to visit J Vanderpoel and returned Tuesday. Doctor Stork delivered a baby girl at the McClasky home northeast of town on Sunday. Mr and Mrs H D White and daughter Mrs Jack Andewes and son left Monday for Creston Iowa to spend the week with My e father GW. They drove through in hay Bea he aot 4.
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Inez Core
Knoxville
Tuesaday
Beulah Core
C. LeCocq
Pella
F. Herring and Children
Chicago
Ill
C. le Cocq
Bessie Brom
Margaret Lester
Oskaloosa
Tunis Brom
A. W. Saunders
Waterloo
J. Vanderpoel
Doctor Stork
Chas. McClasky
Jake Jones
H. D. White
Jack Andewes
Creston
Lews
My. E
Hay Bea
Fourth of July Picnic Near Monroe Brings Local Families Together
A large July 4 gathering at Geo W Lust home near Monroe drew about forty five relatives and friends for a day of picnicking music and games. Guests included D Van Buren Russell Willey Rolhena from Malcolm Iowa and local families enjoying the holiday parley and two weeks summer trips by auto to Clear Lake and Des Moines.
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Hazel Held
Newton
Irv Heffelfinger
Red Cross
O. W. Burchinal
Fee
Clear Lake
Chas. Hetherington
Isabel Vandermast
O. H. Fisher
Mable McKee
Bussey
Sovilla
John McCuen
Goldie
Chester McCuen
Maurice Yoakum
Martha
Orville
Maryville
Catherine Cochrane
James
Des Moines
Hill
Martha Targgart
Monona
Floy Cunningham
Methodist Hospital
Miss T
Jarmacia
Doctor Seidler
Geo. W. Lust
D. van Buren
Russell
Willey
Rolhena
Malcom
Iowa
Prairie City Social Notes Highlight Local Visits
Prairie City society pages recount visits by Mrs P D Wagaman in Pella and multiple families from Pella Otley and nearby towns. Civil War veteran Martin Engelsma attended the Wednesday celebration. A storm alarm logged a lightning strike on R Zaayer’s residence causing roof damage and injuries to Dick Zaayer, with shattered mirror and minor wounds.
Coat and Screen Descriptions From a Doorway Incident
A fragment describes someone heading to the coat, tearing off the door screen, and a doorway door on its way to the ground.
Eddyville social notes and local visits reported
Eddyville community news records visits from William Secress and Frank Clark from Pella Harve Powers and Peter Verwers traveled to Pella on business Mrs Case Van Dyke recovering from illness infant son of Dick Howerton and wife died after birth July 7 1917 funeral held that afternoon family travel to Covington Ind and Des Moines enlistment efforts for John and Robert Brown with James Brown failing medical due to eye injury coal miner Charles Anderson burned in gas explosion last Saturday
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William Secress
Frank Clark
Pella
Harve Powers
Case van Dyke
Pleasant Township
Dick Howerton
John Wynberg
Leighton
W. H. Pickerell
Samuel Romine
Eddyville
Noel Johnson
Chicago
Fred Elliott
John Roberts
James Brown
Wylie Brown
Des Moines
John
Robert
James
Columbia Township
Charles Anderson
Lockman
R. B
River Bottom
Rusted carbide lamp causes explosion in Eddyville incident
A worker taking carbide from a can ignited gas formed inside the can when he opened it, causing an explosion. He was rushed home for treatment. Meanwhile, Mrs. A. P. Heacock of Hot Springs Arkansas visited Eddyville relatives, then traveled to Bluff Creek for an over Sunday stay with B. B. Beamer.
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A. P. Heacock
Hot. Springs
Ark
Oskaloosa
New Sharon
Eddyville
Local Earn at Home Scheme Promises Easy Profit
A promotional notice claims hundreds of men and women can make money at home with simple, present, and permanent profit. It asks for name, address, and one reference, and is signed by I Brown at 66 Murray St New York City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
I, Brown
Murray St
New York
City
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Veauing
Garth
Fas
H. Jamison
Veo Cay Ene Geen
Monroe
Prairie City
P. D. Wagaman
Martin Engelsma
A. T. Brom
B. Brom
G. Plette
Burien
Tolday
de Wit
G. Vander Waal
Bertha
Otley
Gertrude Dykstra
C. H. van Arkel
Murray Ten Hagen
Henry de Haan
Ten Hagen
Max
Baby Ray
Walter Schut
Sully
R. Zaayer
Dick Zaayer
Biss Banat
the Tribune
W. P. Koopman
J. R. Cox
Bluff Creek
Arkansas
8. D. A. Sanitarium
Hot Springs
Fletcher
Castoria
Lways
Hans
J. E. Cornelius South Pell
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