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Local events and losses mark Lyon County week
Lyon County dedicates a new courthouse with speeches by attorneys. Sheldon loses a Hereford herd bull worth about 2000 dollars. Mr and Mrs Benson celebrate 50 years in O'Brien county after settling there in 1890. Barnum Bailey plans a July 10 show in Sheldon, largest in existence. Thomas Bloxham Sr dies in Sheldon after illness. funeral at Methodist church. Hein dy children taken to Des Moines Children's Home. mother resists. Nellie Helgerson joins U S Navy as stenographer, sixth in US since war declared. Hawarden area to see cooperative creamery planned at Husper with about 82 shares sold. Hawarden youths enlistment slows. minister refused salary raise from 700 to 800 for inability to collect.
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New Lyon County Court House
John Cross & Son
Near Sheldon
C. E. Benson
O’ Brien County
O'Brien County
Barnum & Bailey’s Circus
Sheldon
Thos. Bloxham
Bushnell
Gerrit Heindyk
Hawarden
Des Moines
Nellie Helgerson
Inwood
Iowa
U.S. Navy
United States
Germany
Huspers
U. S. Army
Flodh