Local News Highlights From Renwick Area Potpourri
A butter of social visits, club meetings, and spring events fills Renwick notes. Visitors include Mrs Netmyar of LaVerne Dr Brown of Ringdled and Mr Harold Cook of Iowa City. The Woman's Club met with Mrs M D Carter. Spring footwear ads at The Corner Store and local dances drew crowds. Dr Vinton gave an illustrated Baptist lecture. The Junior Class play Bashfni Mr Babs drew full houses at Vernon Theatre. Spring farming picks up as plowing and seeding resume amid weather delays. A. R. Martin Co promotes Tonics and a local electric sign attracts customers. Veterinary prospects and a five day phonograph claim add local color.
Weathered Mood Lifts in Odd Portrait of Frustration
A whimsical poem-like meditation on changing weather and resilience. The speaker, amid gusts and rain, vows to endure with humor and practical schemes, noting hats, hair, poetry, reading, and small comforts as the world worsens or improves. References to Sherlocks, Mr Homes, and Flavius appear as framing images.
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Mr. Homes
Flavius
Fortnightly Club Holds Easter Meeting and Card Party
Fortnightly Club met last Thursday with 12 members and Mrs. LK McDirmitt leading. A short business session followed a program by Mrs. DeMaurer and Mrs. Klassi. On April 3 the social committee hosted a card party at R. M. Goettsch home with ladies and husbands attending.
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LK McDirmitt
Folett
DeMaurer
S! H. Klassi
R. M. Goettsch
L. E. McDirmid
M.€. Rockwood
W. L. Tupper
Elit
Sea
Grant Centenary Coins Attract Premium For Memorial Project
The Philadelphia mint strikes 250000 in silver half dollars and 20000 in gold dollars for the General Grant Centenary on April 27. Coins show Grants profile and his birthplace cabin from Point Pleasant Ohio. Proceeds fund a Bethel Ohio memorial and a highway from New Richmond to Point Pleasant.
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Philadelphia
Grant
Point Pleasant
Ohio
General Grant
Bethel
New Richmond
Moint Pleasant
J B C J 8 C meets in April program divisions
J B C J 8 C held its meeting on April 13 with thirteen members present. Guests included Mrs. White Mrs. Lagsen and Mrs. Brink. Mary McPeak prepared a program divided into car groups. The Crow car division led by Mrs. Ruddie Bresie Mya Block and Mrs. Yanney won the most points. After refreshments the group adjourned to meet April 2 with Mrs. Pehl.
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Pehl
Quick Witt Saves Two Workmen In Narrow Sewer Collapse
Two diggers on the Clarion sewer project escapeddeath when dirt caved in the trench. Co workers alerted them and they leapt into a tile section as dirt blocked their exit. A heavy digging machine needed to remove the soil to free them.
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Clarion
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A. W. Gray
Bee
Dr. Brown
Ringdled
Lown
Harold Cook
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Woman's Club
oHadia
A. R. Martin Co
Heinie Schemmel
Tittle” ‘Rock
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Chos Hall
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Josie’ Brown
Rela
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Cartier
Lea Norder
Goldficht
Henry Gregerson
Liu Verne
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Chas. Hall
Louis 5. Wigon
Palmer, Town
Jessie McGowan
Drake University
James McGowan
People's Cafe
the Baptist Church
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Bashfni Mr. Babs
Vernon ‘Theatre
Hove
Renwick
Corwith
California
Fred Bell
Los Angeles
A. N. Overbaugh
St. Joseph, Mo
J. B.C
State Bank of
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Efhone Company
Tor
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Johnny
Bane
Omscle
Frame Builders
Gad Brower
H. E. Goettsch
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