Wartime Chautauqua Series Announces Weekly Programs
Sunday July 14 features Overseas Military Quartette and Government War Pictures. July 13 includes Dor othy Halstead Lorenzo Zwickey Marie Van Gastel Ole Theobald i Concert Party. July 13 to 19 highlights Oxford Company Dr Henry Clay Risner and U S Military Band with children's Chautauqua daily.
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Tacaphore
Messines Ridge
Vimy Ridge
Lees
Torothy Halstead
Lorenzo Zwickey
Dorothy
Halstead
Marie van Gastel
Red Cross
Antwerp
Oxford Company
Henry Clay Risner
War Benefit for Red Cross Sessions Support Cootie Garments
Every cent of profit above running costs goes to the local Red Cross branch for Cootie Garments Comfort Kits and related aid. Help the boys by attending every session.
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The
Red Cross
Pocahontas County
Rolfer
Rain, chautauqua, and rural concerns lift Pocahontas spirits
Rain cooled Fourth of July crowds but drew optimism for community gains. The Pocahontas county column extols chautauqua as uplifting and instructive while urging support for a Red Cross fund, flags prohibition debates, and calls for weed control and grasshopper defense measures for binder twine and crops.
Harvest Help Pay Rule Sparks Outcry
Farmers clash over a suggested wage cap of seven dollars per day for harvest hands. Critics say no worker should be paid more than five dollars daily, and any excess should be reported as disloyalty or exploitation.
Harvest Help Urged As Grain Cut Near
Farmers are urged to mobilize for harvest with nearly 200 workers leaving the county this month. Everyone should help cut and shock grain when ready, with businessmen promising aid. Also notes garden issues with blight and aphids and a kerosene soap spray, cautioning dilution to avoid plant damage.
Joint hearing set for drainage district costs June 1918
The joint board of supervisors resolves to view premises for Drainage Improvement District No 109 in Pocahontas and Buena Vista counties Iowa. A reconvened hearing is scheduled July 2 1918 at ten oclock am at the county line on the Hawkeye highway.
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Sint Day
Jenn
Pi Ontas
Snd
Buda
Vista
Iowa
Joint Board of Supervisors
Pocahontas
Buena Vista
Hawkeye Highway
Hawkeye
Pocahontas County Board approves auditors bills July 1 1918
Pocahontas county Iowa board of supervisors met by adjournment with all members present. Bills audited and allowed include county fund payments to Dooley Shaw Olsen Kreul Bradshaw Martin Shimon Bollard Peterson Wood Atkinson Eaton Winegarden Thornton and others plus assessors final bills Homer Mullen Yoder and road work items with fair prices cited.
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Pocahontas
Iowa
Board of Supervisors
Pocahontas County
M. J. Dooley
A. J. Shaw
Olsen
B. E. Kreul
G. Bradshaw
I. R. Martin
A. C. Shimon
M. G. Bollard
G. B. Peterson
W. C. Wood
DB. Atkinson
G. A. Eaton
R. H. Winegarden
A. L. Thornton
Homer Mullen
B. A
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Ole Theobaldi
Norway
Volce
Charles Brandon Rbooth
U. S
Rolfe
County of
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McHiwen
James Bruce
Sane
McMwen
Int Bruce
Pauly
Col
Winown
Jovar
Amumtent
Ndi
Owa
Roosevelt
Pocahontas Democrat
Dubuque
Hast Dubuque
David Harum
Staerabie Athers
Shell
R. L. Webster
Ferial
J. Park Bair
W. W. Bennet
Forris Burckhalter
Helper
Benthe Bowers
H. L. Warne
Crating
Oe Dossen
Une Rebhuhn
W. Hennesey
L. . Hartman
Breding
George
J. Nelison
Erhusen
Ahantas
Srtwe
Peterson
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Rolfe, Iowa
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