Local residents note fires, visits, and social rounds
Sat urday in Sibley finds Matlock residents socializing while a professional caller visits Sheldon. An Orange City visitor stops by, and a baby born near Sheldon is celebrated. A large fire destroys Farmers Elevator in town with losses around 14000 dollars. Des Moines hosts the 29th International Christian Endeavor convention July 4 to 9 with expected tens of thousands and prominent speakers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
Towa
International Christian Endeavor
United States
Canada
Secretary of Labor
James J. Davis
William J. Bryan
William G. McAdoo
Sherwood Eddy
Gypsy Smith
Francis B. Clark
Christian Endeavor Society
Harding
H. Augustine Smith
Boston
Christian Endeavor
Greene
Boone
Story
Marshall
Guthrie
Dallas
Polk
Jasper
Adair
Madison
Marion
Warren
Community Notes From Edgewood and Surrounding Areas
Edgewood residents Mr. and Mrs. Lucey hosted relatives Sunday in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Matt McCabe Jr. Spirit Lake visitors joined relatives here, and others attended a dance at Mrs. Kate Jantzen’s north of Hull. Local Legion Auxiliary met fondly, while funeral attendees from Orange City returned home. Rendering Works in Sheldon offers eight dollars for useless horses and free dead-animal removal. Matt McCabe Jr. sold 21 head of cattle to Henry Winter for shipment to Chicago. John Scholten’s Army transfer moved him from Des Moines to Belview, Nebraska. Mustard sardines on sale at Van Den Brink’s. J. H. Dykstra swapped a Ford sedan for a new roadster with Vander Berg Bros. at Sioux Center.
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Orlen Horn
Spirit Lake
B. J. Grooters
Duesday
Holland
Mich
Kate Jantzen
Hull
Clemen
Sheldon
The
American Legion
Albert Grooters
John Timmers
Benj. Ver Hoef
Katherine Ver Hoeft
Sanborn
John van Roekel
G. van Stryland
Gerrit van Stryland
Orange City
South Dakota
Wilson Rendering Works
Iowa
Matt McCabe, Jr
Henry Winter
Chicago
John Scholten
Boyden
Des Moines
Belview
Nebr
Army
Vanden Brink’s
J. H Dykstra
Vander Berg Bros
Sioux Center
Dykstra
Borrowed Path to Wealth of Henry Phipps
Henry Phipps rose from nothing to a fortune of 50 million dollars, linked with Andrew Carnegie for five decades in steel. A tale mirrors his rise through borrowed capital, from borrowing 25 cents to advertise for work to borrowing 800 dollars to join the partnership that built his wealth.
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Henry Phipps
Andrew Carnegie
Greatest Elgin Marbles from Parthenon Recounted
The article notes the Parthenon sculptures as the greatest works, collected by Thomas Bruce, Earl of Elgin, during 1801 1816. It describes their transfer to Britain and current display in the British Museum’s High Room. It mentions Erechtheion pieces and casts, and ongoing damage to originals after Elgin’s time.
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Parthenon
Athene
Parthenos
Athens
Acropolis
Thomas Bruce
Earl of Eigin
Porte
British Museum
Erechthelon
Lord Elgin
Death of Mrs Jake Foreman at Orange City
Mrs. Jake Foreman Sr died at home in Orange City on Monday April 30 after a brief illness at age 60. Born in the Netherlands she came to America forty years ago. Survived by husband Jake Foreman three children a brother and eight grandchildren. Funeral Wednesday at 3 pm First Christian Reformed Church with Rev Haan, interment Orange City Cemetery. Sympathy from friends. Also notes Mrs Kersten of Sheldon suffered blood poisoning from a rat bite. Prominent ad for Hirschauers oil and a report on Women's Citizenship Club meeting and Memorial Day plans with speaker Mrs Max Mayer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jake Foreman
Orange City
Netherlands
America
John Holster
Carnes
George Foreman
Mike Foreman
Maurice
First Christian Reformed Church
Haan
Women’s Citizenship Club
Max Mayer
Westminster Abbey Bells Get New Additions and Tuning
The Westminster Abbey bells, rarely heard except for royal weddings, include a tenor bell from 1490. Two bells were donated by Gabriel Goodman in Elizabethan times. The octave was completed recently with two more bells added and all six rehung and tuned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westminster Abbey
Gabriel Goodman
Westminster
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North
Montana
Daho
Washington
Milwaukee
Hee
St. Paul
Puget Sound
Matlock
Minnie Huibregtse
Sibley
Dr. Cram
M. Wuwden
Mr. Uden
Mesdames
W. L. Washer
John Westerman
Sioux Falls
J. W. Te Selle
Harry Noel
George
J. D. Green
C. Katke
Nellie Duimstra
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Sioux City
Loris Kane
J. R. Hakemann
Earl Turner
Vernon Wayne
Turner
Mabel Funk
Macambell
Mapleton
Kennedy
Sioux City Tribune
the Journal
Reporter
Messrs
Rudolph and
Bert Smit
Alton
J. C. Pryde
Ethel
John Morris
Hartford
S. C
J. M. Pryde
Franklin
Hn Deere No. Corn Planter
Dykstra& Vander Maaten Boyden
Mrs. Lucey
Edgewood
Farmers Savings Bank
Will H. Eddy
S.G. Vanden Brink
Nic Rowenhorst
Geo. DeJong
Doc Bird
Iowa Creanery Secretaries and Managers Associatio
OWA Dairy Council
Rational Dairy Counch
Farmers Co-Op
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