Local Briefs and Notes From Alden Area
A compact round of Alden and nearby items covers town meetings, health notes, and social events. Highlights include new land purchases by Win Benschoof of Cottage moving to Lake Park, a bridge inspection by the county board, a fistfight in a west side restaurant with no arrests, and scarlet fever reports in Providence township. A Whitten circuit quarterly meeting features Elder Albrook. Lincoln J Carter’s The Darkest Hour comes to Wisner. Huber of Lake Park relocates to Jefferson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Win Benschoof
Cottage
Lake Park
Dickinson County
West Side
New Providence
Phillip Lovell
Chas
A. (Karl) Gardner
Lincoln J. Carter
Wisner
Sacred Cantata The Holy Infant Rendered in Iowa City
The Sacred Cantata The Holy Infant by Frederic Wield Bullard was presented at the Iowa Industrial School for Boys chapel by top school talent with Mrs. Crockett Mrs. Koeneman and J M Merrill in key roles. The sixteen to eighteen member chorus and six to seven strong orchestra supported Jno Merrill who directed the piece. The event drew about 500 attentive boys and a town audience. A hope was voiced to repeat it at the opera house for the city’s poor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holy
Frederic Wield Bullard
Iowa Industrial Schoo
O. EK
Koenman
Annie W. Crockett
Mrs. Crockett
Koeneman
J. M. Merrill
H. B. Humphries
Miles
Tlon
W. J. Moir
Ierald
Insurance war ends as county boards plan 30000 split
County attorney Noble orders all policies issued by his companies cancelled. As we go to press it is contemplated the board will divide the 30000 in insurance among twenty agencies in the county. The move aims to escape the onslaught of persistent agents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Noble
Eldora Center Telephone Line 2 Holds Annual Dinner
Members of Eldora Center Telephone Line 2 held their second annual dinner at the West Side home of Mr. and Mrs B S Ruxton with about seventy five attendees. A bountiful dinner followed and the day was long remembered. The next meeting will be at the home of Mr and Mrs William Fenton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eldora Center
B.S. Ruxton
West Side
Wm. Fenton
MOVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE TO AND FROM ELDORA
Local brief records the comings and goings of residents and visitors in Eldora. Names include Mathew Stanley Quay, Sam the state, T Boylan, Jno W Peisen, Cal Lindsay, C B Davis, R S Doud, Gordon Ren, Wm Eich, J Wardin, Mrs Carm Davenport, Rev J P Clyde, Harvey Allshouse, Emma Slack, C F Welch, Henry Veters, and others with notes on visits, travel, and occupations. The item notes revival services, a hospital stay, and tax matters, ending with an advertisement for Putnam Fadeless Dyes in 10c packages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Wardin
Waterloo
Carm Davenport
St. Paul
The Man in the Moon Autobiography Preview
A fragment from the Dunlap Herald includes a preliminary note by the 200t Century Company about a meteor or artificial celestial object found in Buncomb County North Carolina near the Black and Ma Houdin rivers. The piece claims 30 ton “acrolite” delivered to Yale Polytechnic Institute and hints at deciphered inscribed plates. It also contains a long spoof autobiographical piece attributed to a space object named Liam with a whimsical birth in Space and a family of planets, ending with an ad for dentists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dunlap Herald
Popular Science
Buncomb County
N. C
Black and Mahoudin
Yale Polytecnic Institute
Polytecnic Institute
Pyrand
Ren
Dunlap Herat
Liam
Ian
Space
Teri
Sun
Neptune
Ura
Pleiades
Jupiter
Saturn
Grandfather
Also Mentioned on This Page
C. M. Haas
Shetland
Vance
Breasuis
Hardin County Field
Herald
McKinley
the Herald For
Blanks
Herald Office
Opera House
Opera H House
G. A. Stewart
The
Daily Chicago Tribune
Board of Supervisors
Steamboat Rock
Foxy Quillers
Iowa Falls
Fred Wiltsy
Melrose M. B
A. F E. Palmer
Sam Walker
Henry Paters
Mr. Walker
Oklahoma City
B. E.purcell
Ladies of Ascension
O,k
Providence Township
Whitten
Whitten M. EB
Albrook
D. D
M. L. Edgington
Alden Times
East Side
M. E
Prescling
Hitler Albrook
Huber
Jefferson
Green County
Willis A. Blair
Our City
Cloak Meader
Kittie Benschoof
Town Falls
August Belmont
New York
Henry M. Whitney
Sysstem
Boston
William Andrews’ Clark
Montana
Morulna
Court House Insurance
fSoard
Eldora
Stranger
Our
Mathew Stanley Quay
Sam the
T. Boylan
Robt
Frederick
Jno. W. Peisen
Cal Lindsay
Uolon
C. B. Davis
Toledo
R.S. Doud
Mason City
City
Gordon Ren
Marshalltown
Wm. Eich
Winchester
Harvey Allshouse
Ildora
Wm. Allshouse
Traer Star-Clipper
Emma Slack
Des Moines
Clint
C.F. Welch
Ife
Henry Veters
Okla
Peters
Putnam
the Man IN the Moon
Rev. E. Kent
Cassiopeia
Curis Major
Earth
Sirius
Drs
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