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Local News Highlights and Community Notes
Reports include a used driving horse and buggy sale by Wm Vander Wilt, Joe Rensink returning from Minnesota, and Tony Veenshoten scaring townspeople with his Red Devil. Hawarden telephone rates rise for former patrons of the Hawarden Co. at Boyden while town phones stay unchanged. A Barriers Burned Away performance at the New Grand theater drew strong crowds. The Hull Opera House hosts a March 9 show, and the Dethmers home quarantines for scarlet fever as Effie is mildly ill. A farmers meeting March 16 aims to form a Co-Operative steamery and local help is sought. Hattie Stryland's fall injures her. doctors assist, and Stryland aids her home. Businessmen bolster the band after a basket social. donations rise as baskets were not all purchased. Steve Vanden Brink serves as secretary-treasurer amid strong local business.