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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1921
Page
5
May mothers are honored on the second Sunday in May with flowers and flags on government buildings. The custom, long established, uses a white flower if the mother is dead and a colored one if she is alive. A nostalgic poem by Wilbur Nesbit reflects on aging mothers and their enduring grace.
A likely local group burglarized Chipmans hardware, Huber pool hall, and the North Western Depot at La Verne last Monday night. About 400 dollars in hardware and over 100 dollars from the pool hall were taken. the depot yield was small as thieves damaged the safe and fled in apparent disgust. Ebey is expected to be apprehended soon as investigators pursue local suspects.
Mrs Ota Strait suffered severe burns after a gasoline accident sparked by a child’s match. She was engulfed in flames as the room caught fire, with injuries possibly requiring amputation of an arm. Firefighters extinguished the blaze with little structural damage.
E A Bowles visited Clear Lake to check his Algona Beach cottage and discovered a hobo sleeping in the bed. Bowles persuaded him to move on as a transient in the area is suspected. Also notes Harry McElroy exhibited a pig with two noses and a single eye between them, born alive but dying within an hour with no body hair.
Webster City based Mr. Wnery Spurling takes charge of the Palmer Billiard Parlor barber shop with years of experience and a genial manner. Bert Danna yeas apprenticeship, while Spurling trains with the same zeal and skill once shown with the razor.
Renwick businessmen met at city hall Tuesday to form the Renwick Business Men's Credit Association Inc. Hersmen, an organizer from Clarion, has helped start similar groups in Clarion Belmond Corsweth LaVerne Kanawha and Eagle Grove. The org aims to rate citizens and farmers credit, adjust disputes, and handle bills. Principal office in Renwick Iowa with capital stock of 10,000 dollars. Directors include Maurer Martin Holt Peters Gray Richardson Beenen. The association joins interstate networks to cooperate with nearby towns.
A playful poem celebrates returning to normalcy as workers fix cars and find cheer in service. The speaker notes improved attitudes, renewed work, and the idea that steady labor heals social ills, with a jab at medical remedies compared to simple practical help. The piece ends with optimism for Old Normalcy under Walt Mason.
A golf ball from a brassie stroke at about seventy five yards struck Mrs J L Bonny in the face at Algona Country Club. The hit closed one eye and bruised her face. Mrs Honer, an enthusiastic golfer, is recovering and no blame is claimed.
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