Plover Social Notes and Local Visit Highlights
Plover Society items list neighborly visits from Plover residents to Fort Dodge Iowa Falls and Rolfe. Families and individuals including Hanchers Krejer and Vandecars appear with travel to Anoka Minnesota and Mankato. Community events include a P K Sewing Club meeting and P E Club food sale plus upcoming Royal Neighbors lodge gathering.
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Jas, Anderson
Wm. Hendricks
DeBest
Springville
Urquhardt
Rodman
C. E. Pearson
W. J. Johnson
James Speer
George Speer
Grace
Havelock
John Henderson
Roy Henderson
Belmonad
Iowa
Eb, Groves
G. CG. Groves
Groves
Minnesota
Mankato
Arlene Groves
Rockwell City
Gene Thompson
Something to Think About By F.4 Walker
A column on the power of words in home life and marriage. It warns that harsh tongues ruin harmony, while loving words restore warmth. The piece urges couples to openly express love to brighten their days and sustain their bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. 4
Walker
Arcadia
Bostow
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Elfin Artists Paint Flowers in Autumn Light
Poem by Grace E Hall describing tiny elves painting flowers with dew like crystal drops and sunset hues. The verses celebrate magic artistry in a woodland bower with mystic mountain tones and spring incense that wafts through air as petals fade. Attribution to Doda, Meat & Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodland Bower
Doda, Meat & Company
Men You May Marry By R Peyster
A satirical critique describes a man who seas sympathy and illness, paints himself as fragile, and seeks to control his partner’s health and fate. The spoof cites a “greatest organ recitalist” in the music union and warns that sympathy before marriage often turns to tippathy after.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Music Union
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Community Notes and Visits From Local Residents
Local residents report visits from relatives and friends to Laurens and Belmond. Several families from Fort Dodge and Mason City traveled to nearby homes. The Wide Awake Girls plan a food sale at the Mercantile store Saturday afternoon, and the Willing Workers announce a church meeting with lunch served.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. H. Fitgerald
Rochester
Ww. J. Johnson
Fort Dodge
Mercantile Store
John Henderson
Roy
Belmond
John Groff
Mips
Fred’ ‘Hahn
Mallard
ST. Grove
Ferguson
Child
Curlew
Egegspuehler
Remarkable rise of Harold W Cochran wizard grocer of Clarion
Harold W Cochran rose from a boy trading a button for soap coupons to a prominent merchant in Clarion Pennsylvania. He built a thriving grocery business through clever advertising and personal outreach, becoming the town’s sole grocer and its wealthiest resident with a staff of many clerks and a celebrated palace-like home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold W. Cochran
Clarion
Tha Dorner Grocery
Cochran
Tom
Pennay
Vania
Cal Coolidge Farm Boy Past and Present Portraits
The article recalls Calvin Coolidge’s Plymouth Vermont roots with a farmer’s son background and farm work. It notes his early farm life, milking cows, haying, and wearing farm gear, framing him as understanding farmer hardships and needing no campaign pose to show sympathy for tillers.
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Calvin Coolidge
Plymouth
Vermont
Cal
Coolidge
Timouth
United Strates
United States
Irge
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Plover
Zola Bucher
Sioux City
H. H. Fitzgerald
Frank Fitzgerald
Weaver Sisters
Lloyd Thompson
G. L. Sanders
Iowa Falls
Gene Kerns
Geo. Shaw
Edyth
Dorothy
Broad
Graettinger
Martin Viennis
Badger
M. L Helvig
J. H. Seger
Carroll
Joe Roberts
A. L. Roberts
Hansen
Ed Hergman
Ayrshire
I. W. Kerns
Tom Bailey
Rolfe
Sheriff Winegarden
J. A. Vandeear
Florence
Irank
Anoka
Minn
Will Hendricks
Pocahontas
West Bend
Laurens
Anoka Granite and Marbel Co
J. A. Vandecar
Ann Luther
Jack White
Los Angeles
Sarah Beddoe Walker
Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania
Bryn Mawr
U. of P
By Grace E. Hall
Mystic Mountain
By &. R. Peyser
Ruth’ Ferguson
Harold
Sanders
Manifold
Belmersburg
T. P. Comer
Edward. McCullough
Lindy
Magce Young
Smith
Ike
Eowalo
President Coolidge
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