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Knoxville News Roundup of Local Events and Trials
Knox ville reports on upcoming Republican county convention, candidate Meyer Langera k for county clerk, juror selection in Des Moines, school activities at Harvey, a dog bite wound to a dog named Jim, Mrs. Sweet visiting Knoxville, electricity startup, seed corn meeting with Prof Holden, courthouse sidewalk work, temporary plant building progress, family travel plans, May term grand juries, a near fatal route accident by Park Long, a May 1 wedding of Watson Woodruff and Edna Kellum, a small fire at J B Elliott home, the California fruit train delay due to Harvey bridge, gas pipe-laying progress with June 1 target, and a local boy’s comic snake eater tale ending in a physician visit.
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Pella
Meyer Langerak
Mannie Sumter
Sumter & Son
Des Moines
Blanche McTaggart
Harvey
Katie
Jim
C. 8
Spates
Sweet
Jessie Brown
Phillipines
Knoxville
Knoxville Electric Company
P. G. Holden
Joe Anderson
Fannie Marburg
Washington
Walters
Mrs. Marburg
Los Angeles
California
Ben Froggatt
Edmund Nichols
Chas. Bridges
S. M. Stallings
Park Long
Park
J. H. Burma
Presbyterian Church
Watson L. Woodruff
Dad Edna Kellum
Belknap
J. B. Effiott
Vera Elliott