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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1916
Page
3
Local brief notes report Christmas visits to Livertere and Ames area relatives, with town office closures and community events. The piece mentions lectures at Vernon Theatre, Luther Burbank gossip, weekly serial episode progress, a wagon accident near Richard son’s store, and various civic notices including a town clerk resignation, plus holiday church programs and local visits from Fenton Allison Brodhead and nearby towns.
A collage of brief notes lists holiday visits in Iowa and Texas, stock shipments to farmers, and a Norwegian Swedish cup haul by Americans. It mentions public sales, traveling relatives, and a severe weather blizzard with a vast railway project near the Arctic circle under construction by the U S government.
Miss Evelyn Peitzke returns home from Morningside. Mrs Shhumacher spends holidays at Dickson Illinois. R S Grub visits from Canada. Ed Allen and wife visit relatives for the holidays. D W Ramm travels between Renwick trains. H Benedict rents his house for electric lights. Christmas programs at churches draw well. Elmer and Mrs Green welcome a baby girl. Verne Stone visits from Mason City. Albert Merriam welcomes a baby girl. L Chapman visits Des Moines. James Zwiefel returns from Corwith for Christmas. Stauffacher and Godfrey help finish L W Brinks residence. Watsons from Ft Dodge visit Heddle family. Emily Watson spends Christmas with Heddle. Charley Garrison of Ledyard visits the Chapman home then Galbraith.
Mr and Mrs Geo H Whyte welcome a baby boy born yesterday morning. Miss Miller of Aurora Ti visited relatives the Geo Campbell family. M J Fisher of Storm Lake Ia was in our city Tuesday for Mack farm business north of town.
A fervent call urges young men to join and lead the Go to Church effort. It stresses the danger of delaying church peace and asserts the church is for the young as well as the old, highlighting youth as the engine of the movement and community respect.
Local notices report Will M. Blesse operating a draying and teaming business in Renwick Iowa. Other items mention Wiley Beveridge visiting from Monmouth Illinois, Leonard Smith hunting a large timber wolf near Thrall, and the death of Sheen at home after a years long illness following a paralysis stroke. Funeral from Christian Church Friday at 2 PM. Verna Bilborough visiting Mt Vernon. Rev Comin spending holidays with Maryville relatives. Olive Agard back from Russell Minnesota and working at the Variety Store. Ethel Bowman resigns and begins teaching five miles northeast of Woolstock. Invitations issued for Manetta Pearl Helmer and Melvin Roy Whyman wedding near Palacious Texas. Helmer family longtime residents.
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