Community Notes Include Many Local Visits and Death
Local residents report visits across Minnesota Iowa and Illinois with relatives friends and visitors in Grun dy Center Fort Dodge Lockport and Spirit Lake. The community shares condolences for Orin Roben who died in England and greetings for service members awaiting deployment as neighbors join church events and Red Cross efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvey Solomonson
Albert Heaton
Henry Kleen
Rosenberger
Hero Johnson
Ole Blom
Fred Anderson
Anton Robena
Mildred Halvorson
Minnesota
Frank Wertz
Grover and Dolliver Community News Highlights
Local meetings and events fill the week in Gruver Dolliver and Grover Iowa. Red Cross work under Miss Anna Anderson continues Wednesdays. A Sunday School picnic is planned for High Lake July 18. A wagon incident injures Leonard Brood. the old schoolhouse near Gruver sells by auction to Will Stemple. A large Epworth League service honors service members with a flag dedication and Boy Scouts in new uniforms. A cattle shipment from Maple Hill is noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rose West
Fort Dodge
Lucia Graves
Seneca
Paul Graves
France
Midway Country Club
Red Cross
Grover
W. Ralston
Waterloo
E. Curtice
H. Carpenter
Millidgeville
Illinois
Will Waechter
Bert Bergeson
Montana
Ed Linegar
Hastings
Nebraska
Will Nehring
Eva
Floyd
Philip Peake
Swan Lake
Harvey Miner
Miner
Afississippi
Grace Guild
Spirit Lake
Anna Olsen
Superior
John Hanson
Jack Creek
Norwegian Aid Society
John Manson
Lutheran Church
Henry Kruse
Meta
Glénn Reisinger
Dosis Waechter
Estherville
Mrs. Certice
Ben Ppne Ina
Sanays
Walden Grove
High Lake
Gruver
Will Stemple
Farmers’ Grain Elevator
Fred Dowden
S. B. Reed
Mary Trees
Sheldon
Malvin Peterson
Berth Peterson
Armstrong
Mary Deming
Estherseville
Constance
Lorraine Carroll
Levi Porter
Dakota
Anna Eggers
Ernest Dowden
Bruce Reed
Jim Whitman
Lawrence Solomonson
Epworth League
Earl
Barfoot
Lee Pickell
J. W. Morse
Inger Jessen
Maple Hill
Yankees Description Recalled From 1860 Speech
A Washington Iowa report notes a 1860 remark by Thomas Corwin calling Yankees industrious and virtuous, then, in a June 21 item from Ry Body 3 Per Day for Harvest Hands, the county defense council approves 34 dollars per day for ten hours work with 30 cents overtime, to cover hay harvest and corn plowing. The wage aims to standardize farm help pay and reduce disputes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Iowa
Farm Labor Committee
County Defense
Maxwell
Money Instead of Merchandise for Soldiers
The War Department rewrote shipment rules allowing majors and higher officers to approve parcels sent to expeditionary forces, not just company commanders. A 5,000-sack review found most items sent were unnecessary, totaling 500,000 pounds weekly. Relatives are urged to send money instead, to buy items in France via the quartermaster corps store at lower prices. Tobacco is provided as rations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
War Department
Secretary of War
Quartermaster Corps
Also Mentioned on This Page
Walker Motor Co
Misa Jessie Irwin
Bragg
Ethel West
Earl Kruse
Ira Swartz
Minneapolis
Anton Roben
Thomspon
Roben
Riceville
W. H. Miner
Missouri
Grundy Center
Anna Wachter
Lockport
Ilinois
Philadelphia
Harry Peterson
Wm. West
Lime Springs
Grover and
Swan ‘Lake
Eatville
Wallace Wertsbaugher
Owen ‘Wertzbaugher
Auto
Southern
Irwin Hewlitt
Practice Thrift
Estherville State Bank
Iva Taylor
F. Nichol
Jessie
Allan Krieger
L. P. Phepho
Dolliver
Mandan
Yankees
State Historical Society of
Town
Thomas Corwin
House of Representatives of Congress
England
Bunker Hill
America
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Hart Schaffner
Marx
Hugh B. Lawrence
Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes
William Elbert
Chas, Salz
Mr. Elbert
Elbert
Emmetsburg
Democrat
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