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Citizens of Dows raise 660 dollars to oil town streets. Arkansas merchants tour Iowa to study large cattle farms for blooded livestock. Camp Dodge bars late-evening visits by order for women. Names appear in overseas casualty lists. Beacon High School teachers walk home to Cedar Rapids to beat 3 cent fare. Rural townships buy tractors replacing horse-drawn outfits on deferred payment. Iowa Ladies of the G A R elect officers in Des Moines. First Reformed church at Pella adopts English services. 326th Negro Infantry completes training at Camp Dodge and sails for France. Protests over western freight classifications. no change to Iowa classifications. Egg licenses required nationwide to curb bad eggs. Grand Army Drum Corps attends Des Moines encampment. Rural schools face reopening gaps due to lack of teachers. War Savings Stamps drive urged. new pipe factory at Correctionville. Largest county-owned tractor in Grundy County used for road building. Sioux City chosen for 1919 Moose convention. St Joseph sisters celebrate resident status. naturalization not yet. Vermin-proof winter coats sent to soldiers. Gilmore City merchants grade gravel for entrance roads. Marshalltown uncle gifts $1000 for perpetual American flag at Grinnell College. Maquoketa finds a German war stamp in a library book. Four Iowa University ambulance unit members decorated Croix de Guerre. Ida Maters of Union Township gains fame as farmer helper driving six horses and Case tractor. J M Pierce urges labor unity at Mason City convention. Governor Harding defends English-language proclamation. Scandinavian churches comply. Bohemians and Italians respond. Crowe pitches ex-convict army plan with State Board of Control.
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Dows
Arkansas
Iowa
Camp Dodge
Cantonment
Charles H. Reeder
Sioux City
John W. Price
Council Blutts
Jens C. Anderson
Clear Lake
Beacon High School
Blanche K. Lytle
Mary K. Green
Beacon
Cedar Rapide
Wapello County
Lillian Burrell
Clarinda
Des Moines
Burrell
Mary Jones
Mary Heaton
Greenfield
John Wickersham
Mary Beedy
Marshalltown
First Reformed Church
Pella
United States
326Th Negro Infantry
France
Washington
McAdoo
W. B. Barney
Atate Dairy and Food Commissioner
Grand Army
National
J. H. Evans
Bert Freeman
Audubon
Towa
H. M Brown
Henry Neely
Levi Benton
J W. Coddington
J. M. Cain
R. P. Wilson
T. B. Wallace
R. S. McQeshon
J. A. McIntyre
W Keldell
N. L. Lataman
A. J. Phillips
J. J. Weedy
W. W. Wolf
Frank D. Joseph
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Eith
W. L. Harding
Woodbury County
Correctionville
Grundy County
Iowa Association of Loyal Order of Moose
W. R. Hamilton
Twelve Sisters of St. Joseph's
Order of St. Francis
Winterset
War Department
Dowell
Gilmore City
Humboldt
Robert Bruce Wallace
H. W. Somers
Grinnell College
Maquoketa
Jackson County
Croix de Guirre
Willard Dodd, Jr
Carl B. Rancley
Iowa Cit
Clarence E. Hamilton
Charles C. Powers
Cedar Rapids
Uncle Sam
Ida Maters
Union Township
Iowa City
Miss Maters
Nonpartisan League
J. M. Pierce
Iowa Homestead
State Federation of Labor
Mason City
Organized Labor
Pat Crowe
State Board of Control
Board of Control
Crowe
Pella Knitting Club aids French refugees with garments
The Pella Knitting Club reports successful fundraising and sewing of layettes and infant outfits for Belgian and French mothers. Donations included money and cloth from merchants, with Mrs Ramsey overseeing cutting and many volunteers sewing. The Red Cross will distribute new clothing to France, with further shipments planned by August 1.
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France
College
Red Cross
I. E. Renaud
French Orphans’ Committee
Harriett Syphema
Pella
Ft. Des Moines, Convalescent Hospital
Pella Knitting Club
C. Aschenbrenner
M. J. van Doorninck
Bargains On Tools At 234 H. Van Maren
Bargains offered on scoops shovels spades three four and five pronged forks axle grease grass scythes rope and many other items at 234 H. Van Maren.
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H. van Maren
Public Land Sale To Settle an Estate in Iowa
Public land auction to settle an estate includes two farms in Polk and Jasper counties, Iowa. Beaver Township parcel near Mitchellville offers 127 acres with limited improvements, 125 acres in crop, good soil, and corn crib. Jasper County farm spans 119 acres with a six room house, barn, outbuildings, orchard, and rolling terrain. Ten percent down, balance due March 1, 1919, abstracts provided. Auctioneers listed with contacts.
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Mitchellville
Iowa
Jasper County
F. Henninger
E. E. Henninger
J. D. Malone
Quieting Title suit targets Iowa land in Marion County
In Marion County Iowa district court a notice announces a petition by J M Johnson claiming full ownership of the south half of the southeast quarter of section 3 township 77 range 19 west of the fifth meridian. The suit seeks to quiet title and bar defendant claims with no personal judgments, with appearance by October term 1918.
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Beaver Township
Polk County
Iowa
Dailey Crossing
N. E
N. W
Township 79
Range 22
District Court of Town
Marion County
J.M. Johnson
District Court of Iowa multiple defendants in real estate suit
In the District Court of Iowa the plaintiff David J. Johnson sues John Hiskey and others including spouses and heirs over described Marion County land. The action targets North Half of the Northwest Quarter and Northwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter of Section Ten with unknown claimants.
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John Hiskey
Et. al
Louisianna Hiskey
Edwin Smith
Magdalena Smith
Austin Corbin
Hannah M. Corbin
John Hisky
Louisa Hisky
Andrew Mitchell
Mary A. Mitchell
John W. Clatterbuck
Nancy E. Clatterbuck
A. Doolittle
Abraham P. Burns
William Montgomery
Delana J. Montgomery
Marion
Iowa
Towit
Ownership dispute over Marion County land in 1864 deed
The petition filed with the Marion County Iowa District Court in Knoxville asserts the plaintiff, claiming fee simple ownership and undisputed possession of the described real estate, that errors in deeds and omissions in recording jeopardize defendants' claims, and that prior deeds by John Hiskey and Louise Hiskey created title defects long barred by statute. The notice directs defendants to respond by August 24, 1918.
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District Court of Iowa
Marion County
Knoxville
Iowa
Hay
John Hiskey
Louisianna Hiskey
John W. Clatterbuck
Geo, G. Gaass
Pella Markets Grain and Livestock Prices Adjusted
Market report from Pella Markets shows Van der Zyl Bros. corrections on cattle prices from six to eleven dollars per hundredweight and swings in cattle and grain pricing. Wheat and oats values listed with small shifts and per bushel figures.
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Vander Zyl Bros
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