Cordova Local News Roundup of Visits and Travel
R M Hart fills gas then makes multiple trips to Knoxville and Pleasantville with stops in Monroe Otley Red Rock and Des Moines. Social visits include Mrs Emma Shilling’s Ladies Aid and a snow storm in Otley. A car accident near Fifield leaves Klein brothers with minor injuries.
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R. M. Hart
J. M. Hart
Pleasantville
Jess Miksell
Knoxville
Otley
Cordova
C. Dykhuis
Hexenburg
Ladies Aid Society
Emma Shilling
Sybie Donahue
H. Merryman
Pella
Frank Croddle
Newton
W. A. Richerd
Monroe
J. L. Shilling
Dunreath
W. A. Rieherd
Red Rock
C. C. Core
Sam Miles
Baby
J. Mart
Calvin Bricker
Joe Muilenburg
Clyde Buckman
Des Moines
H. C. Williamson
Jesse Miksell
S. A. Johnson
Roy Shilling
Gurney Marquis
Woodburn
Williamson
Mess Miksell
Charlie Houck
Mary Miksell
Kittie Sweenie
Vandalia
Otley News Snippet: Local Household Move and Hometown Notes
John Van Dam moved from Des Moines to Pella then Otley where car trouble and bad roads forced unloading. the rest of the move was by teams. Various local visits and hospital notes follow, including Os Des Moines trip, family visits to Prairie City, Sully Lane, Davenport, and Reasnor. Garage change at Otley reported as taking new owners Arie Klein and son. Wm Vriezelaar recovering after surgery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. Vriezelaaar
Otley
White Pole
Charlie
Henry Klein
Pella
Fifield
John van Dam
Des Moines
Clarence Renaud
Davenport
Anne de Reus
Sully Lane
H. Dop
Peter Dop
Prairie City
Bert Verought
Brownie Fraver
Reasnor
J. Renaud
Bros
Blackleg
G. Vande Kieft
Wm. Vriezelaar Sr
Methodist
Ottey
Arie Klein
Gerrit
Willie Vriezelaar
Ed de Graat
Dri
Scout Chronicle Meeting Delayed By Scoutmaster Business
The Tuesday meeting started late due to scoutmaster and scribe duties. Many boys were absent for a Hallowe en party while the prize of a scout rope went to scribe Arthur De Winter for collecting paper. Willard Weir spoke as new assistant scoutmaster and signaling practice followed. The Foxes won a patrol flag and six scouts will take second class signaling tests next week. Anyone with waste paper should inform the scoutmaster or scouts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hallowe’en
Arthur de Winter
Willard Weir
Brunia
Scouts Help Harvest Apples and Free Hog at Ike Henry’s
Saturday outing with Henry Roeffel Chas De Winter Assistant Scoutmaster Weir and Scoutmaster Brunia near Olivet ten miles southeast. Two apple trees yielded about twenty five bushels each. townbound delivery fed eight families. On return the boys freed a hog tangled in woven wire by cutting fence strands with pliers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Roeffel
Chas. de Winter
Weir
Brunia
Ike Henry
Olivet
Henry
World-Wide Prohibition Drives United Resolve
A sermon urges that the world is a unit before God and that the United States must enforce the Eighteenth Amendment. It argues liquor undermines law, cites Governor Pinchot, and notes global pressure as Europe faces debts and smuggling challenges, while praising widespread state and national support for prohibition.
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State
Sam
John Barleycorn
United States
Washington
Europe
Des Moines Register
England
Canada
Senate
House
Milwaukee
Prohibition Worldwide by 1950 Claim Bits of World View
William FE Johnson nicknamed Pussyfoot recalls a London prime minister saying America’s success with prohibition would make England dry within ten years. He suggests prohibition would spread globally by 1950, framing the idea as a world-wide trend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William FE. Johnson
Pussyfoot
England
America
Indirect Responsibility and College Conduct at Central
The Central Ray discusses how education heightens student responsibility both directly in leadership roles and indirectly through peer conduct shaping college reputation. It notes past rejection of an honor system, current belief in classroom honesty, and the possibility of reintroducing the system to reinforce moral tone.
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Ray
Y. M
Central
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Northfield
Axminster
Simon’s
West High Ave
Oskaloosa
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