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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1917
Page
3
Local items report visitors Hallie Allinson and families sharing short trips to Fort Dodge while Williamstown connections pass along family news. Readers are urged to place New Year ads early due to Christmas reduced publication days. The Vernon theatre shows The Tanks at the Battle of the Ancre, and local merchants list flour oats and farm products for cash.
A Red Cross fundraiser last Saturday drew a large crowd with over 200 donations and strong buying. Auction actions brought in about 340 dollars and two wagon loads of corn were sold with good value. Community updates note Hallie Allinson selling his barber shop to Chas Helmke and the Fortnightly Club meeting with Christmas themed program.
Special to the Times notes a Mission meeting with Mrs Krank Trowbridge on Thursday December 20. Boone two youths Lee Smallwead and Fay Snader recently enlisted. The American Rel Crosa aims for 15,000,000 members as part of a Christmas Eve drive. Abe Christmas membership campaign urges nonmembers to join and dues for 1918 to be paid now. Several Boone two members listed with blanks for rolling memberships.
Hugh Pierce, newly given a Ford by Harve Me Peak after his arrival in France, reports good health and enjoys army life abroad. The Eagle Grove basketball team hosts a Friday game as various residents visit, including Miss Ray in Humboldt and Miss Iva Benedict returning from Cedar Falls. The community notes Christmas vacation schools, revival meetings January 2, and a Strand Theatre program raising $42.00.
An old medical ad claims catarrhal deafness cannot be cured by local applications. It asserts a centalized remedy restores mucous surfaces and hearing if inflammation is reduced, offering one hundred dollars for any uncured case. Circulates through druggists with endorsements.
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