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Local notes from Boyden Sheldon and surrounding Iowa towns
Advertisements and society tidbits cover fresh strawberries at Vanden Brink's, gifts for Mothers Day, visiting relatives, school staff changes, and local business calls. Rendering services, lice killer for poultry, and farm sales are noted along with church events, a Memorial edition plan, and a boys vs Ellis Sunday school game.
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Vanden Brink
S.C. DeValois
Minnesota
van Dyke’s. Mesdames N. D. Lowery
Jake Moermond
Sheldon
Vanden Brink’s
J. A. Stutzman
Fred Belling
Rev
Bowers
Democrat
J. H. Landhuis
Leota
Wilson Rendering Works
Iowa
J. W. Dickinson
Dickinson Life Insurance Agency
Rock Rapids
Boyden
Clara Fox
Woodbine
Will H. Eddy
Hawarden
L. Schaap
Eddy
Stehrenberg
Orange City
The
Reformed Church
Des Moines
Geo. DE Jong
Foreman
Geo. Foreman
Remsen
Messrs. R. Kamminga
Lumkes
Douwstra
Synod of the Reformed Church
Hull
U. P. Ladies’ Aid Society
King Farm
Joseph King
Matt McCabe Jr
McDowell Bros
Sanborn and Ashton
H. O. Tuttle
Betts
Mitchell
S. D
Quaker Oats Co
Pryde