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Local Brevities From the M. W. A. Meeting and Town Notes
At the regular M. W. A. meeting on Monday December 4 1905 officers were elected for the year ahead W W Doud W Town and others serving as officers and physicians. The item lists several local notices including juvenile detentions, a mercantile sale of F C Martin & Son Wellspurg, encampment plans for Hardin county and a J M Boyd farm sale. Public works improvements near the Iowa Central crossing are described along with a San Francisco returned letter noting a repentant man and a two dollar money order. The Eldora lecture series announces John Kendrick Bangs as a speaker with schedule changes and a call for storm sash orders. The Hardin County Agricultural Society reports debt and weather impacts, with officers re-elected for the next year and a note on a semi-weekly newspaper proposal.