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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1917
Page
3
Iowa Red Cross aims to knit 30 000 sweaters wristlets and socks with 200 members in Renwick chapter. Volunteers urged to join. funds and donations listed include 31.00 by Lucile Southwick and 35.00 by O C F Lodge. Also notes Charles E Persons and Margaret Murday wedding and local happenings.
Glen Smith underwent tonsil and adenoid surgery at Algona Hospital last Friday. Miss Inez Cooper of Rockwell City, a Vernon Consolidated School teacher, spent the weekend at Edenwold. Misses Marie Speich and Irene Stauffacher left for Cedar Falls as delegates to the Evangelical Y P A and 8 8 Convention. Goldfield stores promote suits and clothing. Mrs. H B Cole and George visited R W Frank. Miss Freda Maier visited LaVerne with Joe Bloomer family. Mr. John Schneider attended the State Fair in Des Moines. Louise Overbaugh visited Fairmount friends and returned home. Mildred Thiel returned from Cedar Falls summer school. Helrike’s Duroe Jersey hog herd won sweepstakes at Humboldt County Fair.
An afternoon passenger train on the M and St L wrecked yesterday between LaVerne and Liver more with the entire train except the engine going into a ditch. Two people were killed and one seriously injured in the accident, and the casualty list is described as very low given the magnitude.
Legal fight over Oregon and California railroad grant lands ends. Title revested to United States. Two million three hundred thousand acres to be opened for settlement and sale under homestead laws. Includes timber and agricultural lands with soil, climate, rainfall, elevations. Map and descriptions available. Grant Lands Locating Co. Portland, Oregon.
An advertisement touts a catarrh cure with a $100 reward for a cure failure. It promises internal action on mucous surfaces and constitution building, urging readers to rely on the remedy offered by Cheney and Fh of Toledo and distributed by druggists nationwide.
Owner selling before leaving Renwick offers a fourteen room house with three lots. Includes a good well, cistern, and out buildings. Inquiries to the TIMES office.
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