Pleasant Ridge Community Notes From Herald Reporters
Frosts greet the week as Gus Miller moves to the John Miller farm. Local residents attend Hauser Cemetery society ice cream and hot coffee sociable. People travel to Grundy Center for the fair and Slifer murder trial. Mrs Rodgers returns from Gowrie while Rev Hollett plans to preach in Olin next year. School begins in district No 3 with Miss Carrie Fouts teaching. Walter Tiffany and Ina visit in the west. Dan Giles dies in California. body to be returned for burial. Wade Rodwell and wife sail to the Philippines. neighbors wish them bon voyage.
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John Miller
Ben Robb
Son Earl
Whitten
Hauser Cemetery Society
Grundy Center
Slifer
Rodgers
Gowrie
Hollett
Christian Church
Olin
Jones County
Carrie Fouts
Walter Tiffany
Ina
California
Washington
Dan
Giles
Union
Wade Rodwell
Philippines
Local visitors and deaths noted in village updates
E J Wood visited from Iowa Falls on business. Henry Hunt of Iowa Falls joined friends here last week. Ethlyn Gilmore of St Anthony visited most of the week. George Madden of Robertson came for a visit with his daughter Ross Reece. Mrs Thomas Hall of Whittier Cal, formerly of here, died Sept 8 suddenly. R R Hadley and wife drove through en route from Eldora. Mrs Aaron Crispen and children left for their new western home. Rev Enos Stubbs died after a 15 hour illness. The funeral is set for this forenoon. The Tuesday club hosted the Saturday Evening club of Radcliffe last Saturday at the Ballard home.
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E. J. Wood
Iowa Falls
Henry Hunt
Ethlyn Gilmore
St. Anthony
George Madden
Robertson
Ross Reece
Thomas Hall
Whittier
Cal
R. R. Hadley
Zearing
Eldora
Aaron Crispen
Enos Stubbs
Radcliffe
Ballard
Berlin and Grundy Center News Roundup at Saturday Meeting
Berlin reports fur coats seen and a recovering baby. Residents Erck Williams from Illinois and others visit Grundy County land, Grundy Center hosts a quarterly conference with 1:30 p.m. meeting, Dr Pitner to preach next Sunday at 7:30 p.m. Mrs Olive Heard returns from Granville visit, Rev Swearengen revival ends with two converts, Vandike family travels to Townsend home nearby Hidora, L A S plans double efforts this week at Thursday gathering.
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Fred Severs
Erck
Grundy Center
Wil
Latch
Minnesota
Carl Sampson
Charlie
A. Williams
Illinois
Pitner
Olive Heard
Rolla
Granville
Wallie Platts
Artie Heard
Fred Crippen
Grundy County
Henry Cummings
Dakota
Swearengen
Snaps and Sage Etiquette from a North American Wit
A collection of wry maxims and comic verse by Geo Perkins reflects on love, divorce, money, neighbors, and daily life. The piece includes playful lines about reliability of bank notes, the lure of bargains, and a humorous romance with the pink envelope. Also contains a drug ad for Heliater’s Rocky Mountain Tea and a description of a government model farm exhibit with a giant floral clock and a 50,000-rose garden.
The Tale of a Stamp Narrative of a Postage Stamp
A narrative fragment recounts a postage stamp’s experiences with an unknown author. The piece notes the stamp was never licked except once and mentions being placed on a perfumed pink envelope, with the narrator enjoying a run on that envelope thereafter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Piby
Beautify Town With School Garden Seeds Program
The Cleveland women auxiliary of the Manufacturers' Association leads a home gardening drive teaching public school children to beautify yards with seeds. About 100,000 seed packages are expected this spring, sold to children for a penny, with weekly planting guidance and a focus on sweet peas as the starter crop. Perennials are planned for future plantings, offering deep roots and years of bloom with minimal care.
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Cleveland
Woman's Auxiliary
Manufacturers’ Association
First American patent granted to English inventor Jenk
The earliest American patent went to an Englishman named Jenk in the mid seventeenth century. He secured a monopoly for selling a four hand machine for extinguishing fires, invented in England and tested after he moved to America. The fourteen year monopoly promised a very ample fortune for the apparatus.
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America
Jenk
England
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