Iowa Extension Auto Tours To Visit 40 Counties
Iowa State College agricultural extension will deploy two inspection crews on a second annual farm investigation auto tour. In 1914 the program reached 3,000 farmers across 16 counties, and director W J Kennedy aims to visit forty counties this year with five experts per crew. They will advise on soils crops beef pork cattle dairy poultry farm buildings and gardening while collecting farm data.
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Western
Union News Borrica Ames
Department of Agricultural Extension
Iowa State College
Iowa
United States
W.J. Kennedy
Rolfe Local Social Roundup Features Visits and Games
Local notes recount social calls and visits among Rolfe residents, with travelers from Gilmore City and Humboldt. The West Bend high school baseball team visited for Bradgate, losing 12 to 1, while the Royal Neighbors held a banquet for new members at Wes Tilton’s home.
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Ben Butler
Grundy Center
Embroidery Club
O. J. Sheldon
Peterson
Humboldt
Ed Doe
Rolfe
Allen Coffinn
van Buskirk
Freank Seaman
West Bend
Bradgate
Bert Elliott
Ed Jepson
Herbert Benge
Merle Weaver
Sidney Lovrien
M. R. Higby
John Adams
Leola
Paulsen
Rutland
Nelson Smith
Corzette
Nellie Bowen
Wes Tilton
Irene Whipple
Carl Gon
John Reed
Gail Newgord
Chas. Bowen
Helen
of Rolfe
Clyde
Boosters to Tour Iowa in six day rail trip
Cedar Rapids reports a six day special train tour of Iowa towns with 3 000 population or more planned by the greater Iowa committee. The itinerary includes meals with commercial clubs in larger cities and starts from Des Moines. Funds raised at the meeting support the Iowa building at the Panama exposition.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Greater
Llawa
Dead Seaman From Iowa City Killed at Veracruz Landing
Frank Deverick an Iowa City youth and son of Mr and Mrs Charles Deverick was among seamen killed during the American landing at Vera Cruz He enlisted in the navy last year after being sent to the home finding association following parental separation He served as a sailor on the battleship South Carolina and his body will be taken to Blakesburg for burial.
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M. R. Higby
Fat Rolfe
Frank Caywood
Floyd
Rolfe
Hugh Hale
Gilmore City
James Sutton
J. H. Moyer
Fort Dodge
Hopkins
Lou Knoll
Halder Dale
Norway
Baptist Ladies’ Circle
May Weaver
Iowa City
Frank Deverick
Veras Cruz
Charles Deverick
Navy
Home Finding Association
South Carolina
Blakesburg
Man Hit by Bottle in Railroad Damage Suit
Judge O D Wheeler in district court directed a verdict for the Rock Island railroad in a case by Anyward Anderson, an railroad employee, seeking damages after he was struck on the head by a beer bottle thrown from a Rock Island train in Council Bluffs.
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Council Bluffs
O. D. Wheeler
Anyward Anderson
Rock Island Railroad
Rock Island
United Brethren Meeting Selects Cedar Rapids Des Moines
At the close of the convention the Woman's Missionary society of the United Brethren church chose Cedar Rapids Des Moines as the next meeting place. Mrs. George Johnson of Iowa City was named president Mrs Loretta Curtis of Des Moines vice president and Mrs Fisher of Toledo secretary.
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Cedar Rapids
Des Moines
Woman's Missionary Society of the United Brethren Church
George Johnson
Iowa City
Loretta Curtis
Mra. Fisher
Toledo
Denison Woman Nettie Kelley Dies in Chicago
Denison Miss Nettie Kelley, a resident of Denison for over twenty five years, died after an appendicitis operation at a Chicago hospital. Burial will be in Washington. She was a prominent leader in the Baptist church.
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Denison
Nettie Kelley
Chicago
Washington
Baptist’ Church
Engle denies forgery charge amid habeas corpus dispute
Newton attorney B J Engle holding a writ of habeas corpus says he will return to Indianapolis to face an indictment for forgery but claims mistaken identity led to his arrest. He alleges he was mistaken for Stoddard and notes other veterans killed in Chicago last week. The report also lists upcoming events in Des Moines including the Iowa Osteopathic convention May 20 21 and local agricultural college honors, plus crop and weather notes and burial plans for Vera Cruz casualty Frank Deverick.
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B. J. Engle
Newton
Indianapolis
Engle
Inele
Stoddard
Frank H. Laufer
Iowa City
John P. Painter
Washington
Chicago & Northwestern
Chicago
Milwaukee
Laufer
Fifty-second
Iowa Infantry
Painter
First Infantry
Washington Volunteers
Iowa Osteopathic Association
Des Moines
Frank Deverick
Vera Cruz
Blakesburg
Ottumwa
Young Deverick
A. J. Bailey
Monroe County
Ames
Agricultural College
Stanley Newall
Iowa Wesleyan
Mount Pleasant
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Bradgate, Iowa
D. M. Clow
Hugh McCreary
Carm Investigatid
General News of
Mexico
John Anderson
Boosters
United Brethren Meeting
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