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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1922
Page
5
The piece urges thrift education for children to build future competence. It promotes saving from a young age and starting a savings account, claiming small regular deposits grow into a tidy sum and advocating that the bank offers broad, businesslike services for all who value prudent banking.
Two West Bend couples tied the knot in late September. Arthur Ralph Bell and Lola Laura Sehrigider wed at Mr and Mrs Leo VY Minibaughs home on Sept 20 and soon left for Marshalltown. Charles Merc DeWitt and Doris Inez Dingman, siblings of local families, married at Mrs DeWitts home in West Bend on Sept 27, amid a medical incident and a theft of their wedding license as vandals struck.
Fragmented OCR reveals odd poem lines praising absence of hell and envisioning utopia free from punishment. References to a nurse, a cook in white, and imagery of fire, pitchforks, and burning rails appear alongside stray words and a stray place name near Chicago.
Publisher W Miller declares ownership and roles at Remwick Times in Ranwick Illinois. No bonds mortgages or other security holders. Notarized sworn statement dated October 2, 1822 by Notary B McDirmid.
M E church reports a prospering year across all departments, with Sunday school membership doubling and strong congregational support. Welcomes attendance at quarterly conferences, no Junior League this Friday, choir practice Saturday, and a union meeting with Rev Bates preaching at the Evangelical church. Regular service on October 8th at 7:30 pm, with exceptions noted.
The sexton reflects on his work tending graves and tombs. He notes people desire quiet resting places, while life outside rushes on with trains and traffic. He laments hard days, rain, mud, and the constant demand for graveyard spaces, yet continues his weary duty. He quotes affirming phrases about taking chances.
A Tuesday October program at the Vernon Theatre raises funds for a new wane at Renwick High School. The event features spece fal music readings and a play titled Nira with Hoops Hooper and the Fundu Cast of Characters and a long list of named performers. Admission is 50 cents for adults and 20 cents for children.
Virginians hired to beautify a cemetery in a small Virginia town trimmed lawns cleaned paths and even moved the best stones to the fence edge hoping to attract visitors. The plan backfired as residents now fear the cemetery looks mangled and its population may be unsettled.
Remnants of heathen belief persist among Tahitian natives in Cahitl where Mahitian converts rely on a carved stone deity for luck. Fishermen claim success hinges on the god’s head facing the sea, while stripping or misfortune can lead to barren catches.
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