Salem Socials and Happenings Week Ahead
A slow week for social events with many students leaving for holidays. Delphian literary class meets second Monday after noon. New Year matinee dance in Masonic temple from 2 30 to 6 30. Marcato Choral Club resumes Tuesday at 7 30. Tollefsen Trio to appear January 9 under Marcato Music Club. Woman's Club of Salem meets Tuesday 7 30 with program on parliamentary practice and law enforcement. Birthday party for Katherine Griffith at 309 North Seventh Street, decorations pink and white, gifts for guest of honor. New Year dance at Norwood Park 8 to midnight with Gregory's orchestra. Sigma Chi Club of Clarksburg holds annual dinner at Waldo hotel. officers elected. Dinner at Miss Nannie Lowe's house Friday. Salem wedding: Carl Sommerville and Ada Smith wed at bride’s home.
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Masonic Temple
Robert B. Hart
Hurst Koblegard
Charles M. Hart
Peter J. Koblegard
Henry Haymond
Robert A. Haynes
Edward R. Davis
Homer Jackson
Kember
Carl H.tollefsen
Madam Schnabel-Tollefsen
Willem Durieux
Tollefsen
America
Dorothy Virginia Griffith
M. R. Grifith
North Seventh Street
Katherine Grifth
Lst
Lila
Carlton Montgomery
Virginia
Walter Robinson
Helen Meyer
Kathleen Hickman
Lillian MacCroud
William Ober
Paul Tringle
Edward Meeks
Roy Radcliff
Edith Smith
Beulah Wright
Norwood
Park
Norwood Park Dance Hall
Gregory
Cor Wally
Eetlub
Sigma Chi Club
Youngest real cowboy drives long distance to ranch
Pierre South Dakota reports Maurice Paul Gowdy ten year old son of Chester Gowdy and Bert Waite owners of Fort Silly Cattle Company. The boy helped drive cattle from Pierre to the Missouri river ranch, missing school to work, on a large Northwest cattle operation along the Missouri.
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Pierre
S. D
Northwest
Maurice
Paul Gowdy
Chester Gowdy
Bert Waite
Sioux City
Fort Silly Cattle Company
Missouri River
Meurice
Hel
Missouri
Tom Steel
Bert. Waite
Hioux City
Tarkio, Mo
Waite and Gowdy
Boy 11 Is Expert Cake Maker In Bolton
Dec 30 Harry Massey aged 11 of Bolton is believed to be the best cake maker for his age in the state. He began making cakes at ten and now assists his family by baking.
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Bolton, Conn
Harry Massey
Bolton
Woman Appoints Superintendent for Conscientious Objectors
A Colchester woman is engaged to act as superintendent over conscientious objectors learning farm work on Essex lands. The arrangement aims to place objectors in agriculture near London and Colchester amid wartime labor demands.
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London
Colchester
Essex Farms
Dog from Belfast Home Visits Stillwater and Returns
A terrier named Dog from Belfast was taken by its owner to visit in Stillwater. The dog ran away and then returned home about forty miles distant in fourteen hours. The journey involved multiple road trips in an automobile, with the dog covering long stretches over the day.
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Belfast
Mex
Jerry
Stillwater
Diamond Union Near 420 Members In New York City
A fragmented notice states the Diamond Union has about 420 members, nearly all in New York City with a majority residing in Brooklyn. It mentions a Brooklyn diamond cutting shop handling about $1,000,000 in stones annually and a patent for cutlery related to bowing shoes from a Seattle inventor.
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Diamond Union
Russin
York
New: York
ThesDia| Mand Protective Union
eAmerica
New York City
Brooklyn
Vernon Castle Opens War Bar At Front In Paris
Paris December 30 Vernon Castle the former dancer now a Royal Flying Corps lieutenant has opened a private American bar at the British front. He plans to train a monkey as bartender and will pilot a single seat aeroplane on defensive patrol after destroying a German machine last week. He says Brussels is the longest flight he has made and aims to fly back to the front with the monkey as passenger.
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Paris
Vernon Castle
New York
Castle
Royal British Flying Corps
Brussels
Saint Omer
Strange tale of double lives ends in tragedy in Rochester
Grace Webster Harkins of New York, 88, committed suicide at Charles A Gardner’s home after learning Gardner deceived both her and a Boston woman living under the name Hyla McKenna. Gardner, 30, is charged with aiding and abetting suicide. The McKenna woman died October 31 of alcoholism and pneumonia. Gardner allegedly supported both women and was not married to either.
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Rochester
Wehn Grace Webster Harkins
Harry Webster
New York
Charles A
Gardner
Harkins
Cuba
Hya
McKenna
Boston
Floyd
Walters
Syracuse
Alco
Lithe
Soronem
Mran Harkins
Gataner
Charles A. Gardner
Indian Babies Test Better Than Whites
In Ashland a study of Indian babies at the Baka Miveritair clinic reports that examined infants weighed and given physical tests, suggesting that the Indian babies averaged better results than white babies. The report notes the examiners’ questioning and the methodology, with emphasis on the observed outcomes.
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Ashland
Birds and animals suffer in European War bombardments
A London report notes the toll on wildlife as towns fall silent after shelling. Horses and dogs fear shells, cats display calmness near ruins, while larks and sparrows sing through the din. Observations from an English soldier describe these reactions at Ypres and other bombarded areas.
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London
Ypres
Flanders Plain
Fragmentary wartime report tangled with stray lines
The readable text hints at a wartime incident with mentions of soldiers, bullets or shells, and a large meteorite tone. It references 90,000 Japanese, homes in Hawaii, and a 640 pound meteorite. The fragmentary nature leaves key facts unclear, but conveys wartime tension and unusual meteorite mention.
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Hawaii
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First Baptist Church
Nannie Lowe
Marcato Choral Club
Lee Williams
Homer Williams
Caine
Woman's Club
Salem
Tice
Oriny Morrison
Clarksburg
Waldo Hotel
George E. White
Weston
B. B. Jarvis
Clarkeburg
C. C. Jarvis
B.B. Jarvis
H.B. Curtin
Witt E. Morris
Philip P. Steptoe
Dr. B. F. Shuttleworth
E.D. Lewis
D. C. Lewis
George Osobin
S. G. Jackson
G.W. Louchery
Roy £. Parrish
W. Forest White
H.C. Williams
A. C. Osborn, Jr
Rc, White
B. Frank Horner
Stuart F. Reed
Carl D. Sommerville
Farmere’ Bank
Shinaston
Ada Smith
JD. Smith
Liston’s
Pike
Boy
California
Los Angeles
Calif
Southern California
San Diego
Eunice James Offer
Eunice James
Karl Offer
Kaiser‘s Army
Offer
Laurette J. Hill
J. Keno
Wilson
Fish
B. F. Schiltz
Barrie
E.H sHornbeck
Harry K
Weitzell
Mr. Offer
Miss James
Hill
Lucerne
Fish and Schiltz
Ashe
Finger-Siegel CO
Seattlesouh
France
BIG Guns
Weber’s Flower Store
Hotel Gore Bldg
Bell
Livingstone Bros
Glinton
W. Pike
Riftéen
Ida Stea
Ire
Eiano
WaiMain
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