Urgent community clash and birthday cheers in Moravia
Mies Fern Meredith daughter of B F Meredith of Moravia visits relatives and friends on Sunday. White receives a surprise from children and grandchildren for her sixty second birthday with an elegant dinner and about fifty postal cards. Town tensions flare as residents argue over dog licensing street lights and local governance with bitter sentiment about taxes and services.
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Mies Fern ‘Meredith
B. F. Meredith
Moravia
Sunday
Brown
Hank
Peterson
Billie Brierpatch
Ed Umphry
Isaac Illtemper
Hawarden Lightning Damages Homes and Barns
A Hawarden electrical storm caused damage around Hawarden last Friday night. The J H Walrod home chimney and roof were struck, soot filled rooms, but no one was injured. John Abbey's barn and Henry Soost's barn were hit. one horse died. A Briggs farm barn burned to the ground with 500 bushels of corn and other losses. neighbors alerted the Byllesbys, but it was too late to save the barn.
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Hawarden
Hawarden Independent
J. H. Walrod
John Abbey
Henry Soost
Briggs Farm
S. F. Byllesby
Byllesbys
Alta Harsin Returns From Chariton Visit
Miss Alta Harsin comes home Monday after a week with sister Mrs. Will Holmes in Chariton. J. A. Henry was in Ottumwa with a car of home last Friday.
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Alta Harsin
Will Holmes
Chariton
J. A. Henry
Ottumwa
Visite with Relatives in Knoxville Sundays
Bertha Martinack of Knoxville visited overy Sunday with her parents. Harvey News reports this family gathering and notes the regular Sunday visits among relatives near Knoxville.
Lois Harvey and Goldie Maddy Visit T B Harvey Home
Lois Harvey and Goldie Maddy spent Sunday at the T B Harvey home. Ray Mathews left Saturday evening for a few days visit with his parents in Osceola. T G Neiswanger was in Indiana and Illinois on business last week. Mrs Dannie Redding and children of Tracy visited Sunday at the John Redding home. Mrs Harry Maddy of Audubon is visiting. I T Maddy traveled to Knox ville to attend a quarterly meeting at the First Methodist. Mrs Anna McMillan of near Indiana Chapel visited I T Maddy enroute to Des Moines. Miss Blanche Woods left Wednesday for Gallipolis Ohio to visit relatives. Mary Van der Veer, two, died Thursday afternoon of pneumonia.
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Lois
Goldie
Maddy
T.B
I.T
Symon van der Veer
Pheumonia
Local Notes From Greely Otley and Nearby Towns
Weather strains corn and hay season dominates farm work while social visits and family news fill local pages. Oskaloosa Stilson Pella Monro e Prairie City sites appear with road trips and church events as residents share visits and greetings.
Fragmentary Names Note From The Gosselink Notice
A garbled OCR fragment mentions Sally Deugotere Jeannet Sarah and D Gosselink. The men appear as Mr and Mr and several surnames are incomplete. No clear event date or location is discernible in the readable text.
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Gosselink
Local notes and travel plans amid rain aid
Mrs Charley Sparks improves after illness. Lola De Wit left Colorado last Thursday to meet Jennie Roters in Kansas. they will travel six weeks. Jennie started two weeks ago. Mrs John Huigen sick. Mike Bronner and Holdeworth were in Des Moines last Saturday. Grateful for rain Monday night. Newton receives new Carlina engine for city electrical plant from Burlington. cost about 39000. 800 horsepower. Mrs Mary J. Renaud seeks divorce from Charles Renaud on desertion grounds. married August 1876 in Pella. separated after 30 years.
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Charley Sparks
Lola de Wit
Colorado
Jennie Roters
Kansas
Jennie
John Huigen
Mike Bronner
Will- “‘Holdeworth
Des Moines
City Electric Light
Newton
Burlington
Mary J. Renaud
Charles - Renaud
Pella
Ito
Gether
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Iar Peet
F. I. LeCocq
Centerville Block
Garfield
State
Iowa
The
Pella Chronicle
Durham
Harvey
Greely
Russell Binns
John Moody
Oskaloosa
Susan Davis
Valley Junction
John Moody Jr
Ed. de Long
Verna Moody
Geo. Rameey
Henry van den Noordt
Ustermark
Otley
John Klein
Ira Vriezelaar
Mr. Walker
Dr. Rawson
Ralph Hendershot
Harp
Ralph Frazer
Killduff
Frazer
John Stineman
Galesburg
Will Vriezelaar
van Lenten
Rev. Shutts
Albert van der Ploeg
Colfax
Harry Awtry
Mise Elsie Frazer
Ed. van der Ploog
de Moss
Sally
Vanderpol
J G. Vanderpol
Vanderpol’s
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