Denmark township girl named Emmet county health winner
Emmet county’s healthiest girl for Achievement Day is Enid Nelson of Denmark township, scoring 98.80 to win and will represent the county at the state fair. Wilma Mellwraith of Lincoln township was second with 97.80 in a six-team event featuring sewing, demonstrations, and a style show.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enid Nelson
Denmark Township
Emmet County
Happy Moments Club
Wilma Mellwraith
Dolliver Dollies Club
Lincoln Township
Ruby Jackson
N. K. G. Club
Twelve Mile Lake Township
Kathryn Haywood
Jessie Mae Hartman
Wide Awake “Club
Center Township
Dé Moines
N. RB. G. Club
J. A. G. Club
Emmet Township
Dolliver Dolfies
Msgs
Gladys Adams
The
Extension Service of
Ames
Vindicator
Republican
See Iowa Parks Aids and Names in Grassland History
Survey lists Springbrook Spring Brook Park in Guthrie County started 1926 with 650 acres, near Guthrie Center and Yale, on Highway 26. Notes Racoon River, dammed Spring Brook to form a 27 acre lake, beaches opened later, mining history, Indian artifacts, and 1848 gold seekers' overland trail. Also Ion Park in Woodbury County opened 1985 near Sioux City, named for Edgar Stone, with limited development, scenic drives, and early park features. Lake Keomah in Mahaska County started 1988 four and a half miles east of Oskaloosa on Highway 2, Keomah Develpment Company lands, dam completed 1934, beach and boat house planned, fishing limited until 1988, lodge and shelters overlook the lake shore.
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Springbrook State Park
Guthrie County
Guthrie Center
Fansbara
Yale
Spring Brook
Raccon
Tha
Wisconsin
Duitt Shedt
nuMiart
Edormations Fund
Agethersi
Iowa
Hie Springs
Ion Park
Woodbury County
Locat
Pux City
Jhonog
Edgar Stone
Sioux City
Ipess Bluffs
Lake Keomah
Manaska County
Oskaloosa
Keoman
Keokuk
Mahaska
Keomah Development Company
Estherville Teacher Miss Bertha Pratt Retires After 25 Years
Miss Bertha Pratt, long time educator and directing principal of Pasadena Willard, retires after a 25 year tenure in Pasadena schools. A graduate of Iowa State Teachers College she began teaching in 1892 and taught 2,000 students or more across Iowa and California during her 1897 Estherville start and later roles in Cedar Rapids and Pasadena.
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Estherville
Bertha Pratt
Pasadena
Stat
Pratt
John A. Sexson
Miss Bratt
Grant
Roosevelt
Willard
Jefferson
Occidental
University of California
University
Southern
Californiis
Iowa highway sign plan aims to mark primary roads
Ames, Iowa The Iowa highway commission will mark the entire primary road system with reflector warning signs by summer’s end, purchasing 600 more signs for a total of 8500. New signs explain sharp curves with speed guidance, while some curves remain non reflector marked. Drivers are urged to slow and use brakes when encountering reflector signs, but not to ignore common sense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ames
Iowa Highway Commission
W. H. Root
Root
Commission
Iowa
Prominent Men To Speak At Labor Day In Graettinger
The Hon Edward G Dunn United States attorney for the northern Iowa district and the Hon Berry Halden Republican candidate for United States senator will speak at Graettinger's annual Labor Day celebration on Monday September 7. Traffic warnings follow urging slower speeds on slippery roads and to drive at a speed allowing a safe stop within the assured clear distance ahead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward G. Dunn
United States
Iowa
Berry Halden
Chariton
Graettinger
Northwest Iowa music lovers hear Bohumir Kryl concert
Northwest Iowa music lovers will hear Bohumir Kryl and his forty piece symphony orchestra on October 24 at Spencer. The Clef Club of the city releases the program under whose auspices the internationally known ensemble will perform. Margery Maxwell will sing, joined by a violinist and harpist, both renowned in American opera and concert circles.
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Northwest
Bohumir Kryl
Spencer
Clef Club
Kry
Margery Maxwell
New York
Chicago
America
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Plumilee
Mary
May
Lon
Sada
Stella
Lulu
Sarah
Laura
Julia
Viola
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O.glass
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