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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1926
Page
2
Local notes list visitors and travel from Bancroft Gilliinan and Ames to Humboldt and Lakefield Minn. Names include Ruth Scott, Marie Barber, Marie Ross Spring, Nels Jenson, and the Geigel family. Mentions State Fair plans, Renwick Schools opening Sept 6, and Hawkeye Fair at Fort Dodge. Also references US president’s bedtime and street gravel updates.
The Vernon Yurioh Consolidated School will open next Monday August 10 and hopes all scholars attend. New teachers join the year staff including Ada Johnson, Nettia Lelia, Lia Maviai, Mary Keruai, Minnie Worth, Dorothy Danford, Martha Willvans and principal M. G Mundon who serves as superintendent.
Livermore dance Thursday August 26 showcases the Twentieth Century Melody Bays of Iowa Falls with a six piece orchestra. Tickets are $1. Sept 16 presents the Third District Iowa American Legion Band with eleven players. Sept 20 features Cato and his Ten Rav ing Vagabonds with Miss Nadra Gardinier singing blues melodies. Oct 7 shows Sloved Wells and his eleven man Roof Garden band at Sioux City Micetrie Park Waterloo. Look them over, manager B. W. Shepard.
First Baptist Church J with Pastor DeVries hosts Church School at 10:00 a m and Worship at 11:00 a m with the sermon God Preparing a Man After His Own Heart Evening Worship at 8:00 p m on The Value of Time Prayer Hour Thursday 8:00 p m Home Coming Day on Sept nth and Waters for program next week.
Evangelical Church pastor E G Granner invites all to hear Rev S F Mueller of the Switzerland Conference preach next Tuesday August 11. Everyone is warmly invited to attend and hear him.
St Pauls Lutheran Church led by Pastor E. Giede planned Sunday School at 10:00 a.m. with Jaki Egenes as superintendent. No services this Sunday due to the pastor's absence from town.
Patrons are urged to bring passbooks at once for balances and canceled checks. Examiner in Charge. Several local notes mention visits and travels of residents Mrs. Laura Norder Losee, Miss Irma Wohlwend, Mrs. H Ennenga, Miss Ora Phipps, and others. A Boone Valley Old Settlers gathering is set for Riverside Park Goldfield with beef and coffee served. Fritz Gugisberg and Lloyd Block will harvest in North Dakota then travel west.
J M Trussell, ex Army Air Service engineer, touts a new parachute design by Russell that vents air along the chute wall through valves, aiming to reduce entanglement and enable safe free drops from about 100 feet. He asserts easy packing and safe operation with minimal need for expert handling.
A fragment describes Prof William Dowgen of Berlin and Prof Tloegen compiling 8400 sounds from ancient and modern times for posterity. It notes recordings of World War era noises, urban street sounds, languages of 240 tribes in Asia and Europe, and a call to prayer by a Mohammedan muezzin as novelties.
A novel gasoline tank for airplanes, composed of two cylinders with an inner revolving element, withstood machine-gun fire at McCook field without leaking. Said to be 40 percent lighter than existing protected tanks and to feature an automatic release for aerial drops in a crash to prevent fires and explosions.
A Swiss inventor and M Henry Reymond promote a musical stenography system that could let anyone transcribe an entire orchestral score after learning the method. Local social notes include Miss Laura Packard visiting Des Moines relatives, visits by Al Trummel to Cherokee, Ames residents John Zueifel and Fred Hefty, and Lena Geiger among summer students. Additional items mention Secretary Maover’s westward speeches, Dr A W Gugisberg opening an Earlham office, and weekend visitors Godfrey Otte and family, Will Walk and Will Ertman guests at Kanawha.
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