Nearby Town News Recalls Visits, Parades and Levee Plans
Mr and Mrs Will Slycord visited Pella last Tuesday and dined with Slycords brother. California visitors Mr and Mrs E J Goins and Goins family have returned to Iowa for several weeks. An Ottumwa hospital ambulance country crash near Pleasant township injured the driver but not seriously. Van Roekels from Pella visited sons south of town. Local soldiers serenaded the sick and aged at Henry Vanderpol Jr’s home. West Des Moines township farmers advance levee work with an excavator from Wig Harding J R Davidson and John F Hoh. Other farmers J J Jager and B B Beamer also build levees four to six feet high. Boys gave courthouse concerts to homes, aged, and Civil War veterans, led by May Keller as pilot. They performed at J J Lathrop’s public sale and organized a purse for the soldiers and townspeople.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will ‘Slycord
Pella
Ottumwa
Jays Creek
W. H. Ives
Pleasant Township
Chas. W. Johnson
Grays Creek
Anna Worth
Henry van Roekel
Leighton
West Des Moines
Wig Harding
J. R. Davidson
John F. Hoh
J. J. Jager
B. B. Beamer
May Keller
Knoxville notes on deaths and local happenings in October
Ben Beach travels to Washington after Felix Paul son of H A Paul dies in Iowa City from pneumonia. Felix was a student at the university's training camp. H A Paul owns Paul Lumber Co. Mrs Ed Brees cared for by Marguerite Brobst of Des Moines hospital force. Aimee Cornell visits Pella for Tysseling family funeral. Allen Evans from Camp Dodge returns home. Local weather lauds warm spell. tomatoes ripen unusually. birds linger past usual migration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben Beach
Washington
Felix Paul
Ed Brees
Aimee Cornell
Pella
Louis Bousquet
Tennis Tysseling
Frank Buckles
Lucile Tysseling
Knoxville
Adel candidate Burton Russell for district judge
The Adel Iowa notice extolls Burton Russell as a Dallas county native with seventeen years of legal practice and a Michigan law education. It asserts his careful attention and integrity would ensure good office in district judge if elected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burton Russell
Adel
Russell
Dallas County
Law Department
University of Michigan
Iowa
Dean's Kidney Pills Endorsement Ad
Mrs C Rus of 306 Third Ave Pella reports severe backache and weak fatigue from kidney trouble. After using Dean's Kidney Pills purchased at Keables drug store her backache eased and kidneys regulated. Price is 60 cents at all dealers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean
C. Rus
Third Ave
Pella
Keable
Mra
Rashad
Foster
Milburn
Price Interpreting Committee Weekly Wholesale Prices
A historic price sheet lists wholesale values for flour corn meal oats butter lard bacon ham and various staples. Items show per hundredweight and per pound ranges with multiple grain and dairy products, including rice flour corn starch cheese and salmon.
Reynolds Seeks Polk Township Board Supervisors Seat
F W Reynolds announces candidacy for the Polk Township Board of Supervisors on the Democratic ticket. He says he has lived in the county all his life, devoted to farming west of the Pella River bridge, and pledges to serve the people if elected. He asks for support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Vater
Board of Supervisors
Polk Township
Pella River
F. W. Reynolds
Loosen a Cold in 20 Minutes with Men-Tho-Eze
An old home remedy touts goose-grease turpentine and menthol in Men-Tho-Eze. The product claims external chest application and internal inhalation to ease a cold using a blend of wintergreen and other healing oils and essences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Japan
Read What Miss Turner Advises for Indigestion Sleep
Agnes Turner of Chicago reports overwork and irregular meals led to headaches indigestion constipation and sleeplessness. After two months on Chamberlain's Tablets her stomach was cleansed her system invigorated and she can eat and sleep in comfort. She is now entirely well according to F. D. Stubenrauch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agnes Turner
Chicago
Chamberlain
Stubenrauch
Nostrum Jar Promises Quick Sore Throat Relief
Irritated membranes of the throat and lungs relieved usually in twenty minutes. Sufferers from colds Spanish influenza catarrh asthma croup sore throat neuralgia almost instantly relieved by a single application. Get a jar today and keep it handy. For sale by most druggists.
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Eddyville
the Tribune
J. J. Lathrop
DR. C. 1. Fox
Main and Liberty Sts. Phong, No. 6
A. J. Visser
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Grand Rapids Veterinary College
den Burger's Safe Stable
P. A. Edmund
Wagner's
W. F. Crew
North Side Square
T. G. Fultz
Calla
Main Street
Vander Oye Bros
F. F. Carpenter
Citizens’ Nat'l Bank
Georgia Chalfo
Tip
the Journal
Price
Prlda
Viersiot
R. R. Beard
Nathan Firth
F.C
Warner
HH. L. Renaud
John J. Blommers
Ben Kulk
Peter Rysseling
Arle Kiyn
Geo. Sterrenburg
Odity
Alaska
Castoria
Poland
Farrow
Mark. Shaw
Monroe, Iowa
Alertmart
Uthenof
Adler
Y. T. van Niewaal
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