Local visits and travel notes from Centerville region
A compiled list of residents and visitors with numerous trips to Mendota Centerville Exline Pollock Kirksville and other towns. People including George Davis J W Conger Walter Hobbs Olga Christian Cora Freeborn and many others are noted for business visits holidays and family meetings across Iowa Missouri and nearby communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Davis
Lemons
J. W. Conger
Mendota
W. S. Mathews
Centerville
Walter Hobbs
Extine
Ed Big
Society Notes Spark Holiday Gatherings In Town
The society column lists multiple dinners parties and gatherings as residents such as Mr and Mrs W W Tracy J Al Brown Gus Pickenbrock and W T Altes Mrs M Eppenstenn and Miss Virginia Underwood Miss Margaret Shelton Dr and Mrs J Holman and H L Holman Mr and Mrs A H Stuckey and J W Woodard host family and friends during Christmas and New Year period with events at homes in Jefferson City Port Nobilerands Club of the Rebekah Lodge and other groups planning activities and dances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W _ Tracy
H K Patterson
N R Hecker
Rickett
J al Brown
Gus Pickenbrock
T Altes
Pickenbrook
M Eppenstenn
Kitty Underwood
Virginia
Jefferson
Margaret Shelton
Virginianderwool
Jefferson City
L. H. Howard
Bridge
Kitty |Nderwood
Sorosia
Cora Swett
J . Holman
H. L. Holman
L Holman
Mary Alice
Lindley Holman
Acibel
A H Stuckey
Monda
J W Woodard
Mr Woodard
Port Nobilerand's
Rebekah Lodge
Nellie Montgomery
Mra Noland
Mra Nol
Ice Harvest Progress in Union Side
A large workforce under Mr W A Shetton has been cutting and storing ice from three ponds over several days. The Patrickee house and Shelton pond sąe filled, with eleven and a half inch ice at the old City pond. Workers faced frostbite as cold intensified, suspending work Sunday noon, then resuming Monday to finish the harvest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patrickee
Shelton Pond
Old City
Of the Same By Carol Gay 1924
A fragmented excerpt follows David Apperson and a quartet of women Norah Sylvia Betty and Laure in a Briarcliff setting. Dialogues reveal romantic tensions as Norah challenges beauty and emotional expectations while Betty's playful warmth contrasts with Laure’s silence and Sylvia’s refined charm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Johnson
David Apperson
Norah
Sylvia
Betty
Laure
Paddy Boy
Christmas Program Tragedy at Balls Switch Oklahoma Crowd Trampled
A Christmas program at a rural school near Hobart Oklahoma drew about 200 people when a fire started in a Christmas tree. Panic caused 22 deaths and 40 serious injuries as people were trampled in the zero degree crowd at Balls Switch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aioore Room
Hobart
Oklahoma
Fire Destroys Roy Cusions Lumber Yard in Laredo
A stove overheated fire last week destroyed the Roy Cusions lumber yard in Laredo. The blaze, discovered late on a bitter night, consumed the entire yard while residents watched helplessly. Loss pegged at 20000 dollars. nearby structures spared by protective sow and flax coverings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Cousins
Laredo
Trenton Republican
Remembered the Youths at Princeton City Hall
Fragmentary note describes Princeton city officials and a group nicknamed youths, with references to an ideal hill, water, and a ritual or event, but the text is garbled and lacks a clear outcome or detail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Princeton
Gamblers on the Run in Trenton
Report says a pastor of a Trenton Baptist church confronted gamblers at a local resort after a large loss. They prayed together and later visited the venue, witnessing heavy gambling activity and large cash exchanges. The pastor urged a church audience to join a fight on gambling, and about a thousand attendees pledged to support a cleanup campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trenton
Man
Baptiat Church
Savn
Tor
Ling
Hey
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Olga Christian
Odessa
T.R. Yardley
Boynton
A. Yardley
Cora Freeborn
Frank Choate
A Pollock
George Deeds
Carl Bunch
G. W. Bramhall
Herman Casady
Kansas City
Frank Middleton
St. Moore
al Lee
Minn
J RK Moore
Mra T
KirkBsville
Clarence Olinger
Lorace Bell
Kurksville
S. W . Kelley
Elmer Willett
Mystic
Ila
Thompson Nearmonville
W A Shelton
Margaret
Moulton
Ruth
Joe
Hico
Errett Kent
Bobby
Green City
J O Agee
C W Dotson
L. G Parker
W H Harrison
S F Truesdell
Cincinnati
Wesley Fletcher
Baby
Dallas
Texas
H Fletcher
Blandetta Rigsnie
Chilcothe
John Biggie Overton McCollom
Kahoka
Ecrye McCollom
Unionvile
Bernice Hibba
Northwestern
Verity
Franston
Ify
Mr Hibba
Stella Crockett
Cameron
Missouri Wesleyan College
George Crocket
Eldon Robbina
James Biden
Noah Croeks
J. R. Maise
Mins Uarla Jarman
Elizabeth Franklin
Peritarviliyla
Mary Me
Miss Wentworth
Kirksville
Eadty
Misa Lillian Travers
Will Thomas
Near
Lucerne
Gertie Michner and Son
Lincoln
Netrask
the . S. Conger
C. C. Gardner
Roland Ziegel
W C. &Sherrard
Mississippi
Henry Gardner
Ellsworth Chrisman
J W. Chrisman
Des Moines
Chrisman
Lemen Pr
Mra Jansen
Rfe
Valentine
Ard
Mra
Temen
Alan
R F
Kansas City Star and Times
Don B
Carol Gay
McClure Nowapapge
Laurel
David
Monaphere
Cee
Latrelte
Merah
Briarcliffe
Grasshopper
Zor Ts
Art Geenee
Unionville
Coats
J. F. Underwood Merc. Co
Edison Phon
Pete Bramhball
McCutchen & Son
Missouri
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