Farmers Union Picnic Huge Crowd At Estherville
The Farmers Union picnic drew 5000 plus attendees on ideal weather. County President Clemments opened the day, with State Director J S Stamps and U S Senator Smith W Brookhart speaking on liberty, cooperation, and economic justice. Evening entertainments featured entertainment by D W Lucas and Gaughter, Reed and Jack Creek performers, Howard J Clark, and prize winners across boys and girls divisions, fat man’s race, hog and chicken call contests, and prettiest girl titles. City of Estherville received thanks for support and assistance from Lilley and City Manager Conley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. N. Jensen
Corres
Farmers Union
Clemments
J. S. Stamps
Myx
Stamps
U. S
Mr. Stamp
United States
Smith W. Brookhart
Mr. Stamps
Brother Brookhart
J. F. Utz
Brookhart
Europe
England
Denmark
Poland
Sweden
Germany
D. W. Lucas
Gaughter
H. Ketchem
Geo. Ericson
Gyles Reed
Gerald Reed
F. H. Higgins
Miss Pullen
Rosie Zitterick
Miss Cox
Miss Strid
Ethel Gustafson
Roy Hood
Hartman
Guy Fields
Miss Hamilton
Geo. Frank
Eleanor Swanson
Alexander
Estherville
Lilley
Conley
Baptist Church School Is Big Success
Three weeks of Vacation School at the Baptist Church ended with an enthusiastic forenoon of ice cream, singing, and yells. Sixty-three were enrolled, average attendance fifty-two. Staff included Miss Jennie Pingrey principal, May Case, Sara Martyr primaries, Emma Obye, Lola Hale beginners, Miss Pingrey directed juniors, Margaret Bevan treasurer, Leontine Kately teller, John Doolittle and Mr Huxford handwork for boys. A closing program was held Thursday evening but attendance was light due to heat. Handwork display will run in Allen Furniture window and pieces will be sent to the State Assembly in Iowa Falls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baptist Church
Jennie Pingrey
May Case
Sara Martyr
Emma Obye
Lola Hale
Pingrey
Margaret
Bevan
Leontine Kately
John Doolittle
Huxford
Allen
State Assembly
Iowa Falls
Deficit looming for Estherville Chautauqua tickets
The Estherville Chautauqua committee faces a deficit after selling only 1378 season tickets versus a guaranteed 1789. The week featured Rainbow Orchestra, Dr. Ben Wilson on the English Labour Party, style talks by Mrs. Mabel Burns, and entertainment by Ridgeway and Keighley Players. Lectures covered Lenin, Mussolini, Gandhi, and the Far East ahead of a closing program by Adam and Eva with William Keighley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Estherville Chautauqua
W. H. Bidermann
Rainbow Orchestra
Ben Wilson
Labor Party
Wilson
Ramsey McDonald
America
England
Mabel Burns
C. E. Burgderfer
Apostle of Fun
Ridgeway
Edward T. Devine
University of Columbia
Mussolini
Keighley Players
E. T. Hagerman
Edward Burtor
MacDowell
Egypt
Far East
Tobias- Harper Company
Verra
Lawrence C. Denyes
Lone Star Military Band
Jas. A. Cooper
Cooper
Adam and
Eva
William Keighley
Hughie Fitzpatric
Mrs. Ames Breaks Hip in Marshalltown Visit Fall
Mrs. Josephine Ames of Marshalltown slipped on a floor Monday evening, breaking her hip at seventy, a doubly serious injury for her age. She is cared for at Birney hospital. Mrs. Ames is visiting with daughter Mrs. Geo Specht and had traveled with relatives from Marshalltown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Josephine Ames
Marshaltown
Geo. Specht
Birney Hospital
Men Appointed to Sell Stock in Creamery
At a Chamber of Commerce board meeting a committee was named to canvass the city and sell non profit sharing creamery certificates. The 6 percent secured notes will be issued in ten dollar denominations with payback nine months from September 15 and monthly retirements after plant operation. The plan prioritizes retirement of non producers first, with volunteers pledging several hundred dollars monthly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
B. B. Anderson
Fred Ehlers
Henry Mahlum
Henry Klocow
Chas. Bixby
H. M Lambert
W. P. Galloway
W. H. Biedermann
Iowa State College
Ames
Thirty-Ninth General Assembly
Barths
W. OH. Sigdedaaat
Sec'y
Arthur Peterson to head new Excelsior bank
Arthur H. Peterson, longtime Mandan banker and Mandan Creamery director, resigns as cashier of Farmers State Bank Mandan to head a new Excelsior Minnesota bank. His wife and daughter Margaret will join relatives at Spirit Lake. departure delayed to mid July after local deaths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Peterson
NEW Excelsior “Bank
Pioneer High Lake Man Dies in 1872 Birthplace
Bert Herum born January 15, 1872 on his parents homestead in High Lake township died July 7 after thirteen years of cancer suffering. He lived alone until four months ago, then with sister Mrs A Egeland in Estherville where death occurred. He was youngest of twelve. six siblings survive: Henry and Chris of Manley Iowa Andrew of Randall Minnesota Bertha, Mrs A Egeland, and Mrs P S Anderson of Estherville. Funeral Friday at 1 pm from Egeland home and Wallingford Lutheran church. interment Wallingford cemetery. Reverends Lunde and Strand to preside. He was quiet and unassuming, bore long illness without complaint. He will be missed by family and friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Peterson
A. Q. Peterson
Farmers State Bank
Mandan
Excelsior
Arthur H. Peterson
Farmers State Bank of
Peterson
Mandan Creamery & Produce Company
Mandan Building and Loan Association
Missouri Slope Group
N. Dankers' Association
Chamber of Ecommerce
A. H. Peterson
Jerusalem
P.E. D
Lanterman
Ripley
Bank
California
Margaret
Arthur
Spirit Lake
Iowa
Bert .Herum
Peter Herum
High Lake Township
A. Egeland
Mr. Herum
Henry
Chris
Manley
Andrew
Randall, Minn
Bertha Herum
P.S. Anderson
Estherville
Jacob
Egeland
Wallingford Lutheran Church
Wallingford
Lunde
Armstrong
S. Strand
Interesting Canadian Wedding Trip Dispatch From Verna and Norman
Mr and Mrs John Sandyen share letters from son Norman and wife detailing a Canada auto trip in July 1925. They describe Port Arthur and Grand Marais, harbor views, dams, railroads, pulp and ship mills, and a visit with a Princeton professor, Dr Lawrie. They note beer in Ontario, local stores, pol es, and a current river camp life with friends from Wisconsin and Manley, ending with affectionate sign off.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Sandyen
Norman
Canada
Auto
Ford
Port Arthur
Ont
U. S
LaVerna
Duluth
Canadian Pacific
Grand Marais
Taly 4
Princeton
Kickabeck Falls
Niagara
Lawrie
City
Dominion
Ontario
U. 5
Fort William
Thunder Bay
Prince Edward Island
U.S. Possession
LA Verna
Oransky 7 Stock Reducing Sale Opens July 10
Beginning July 10 Herman Oransky will run a stock reducing sale of general merchandise for fifteen days. The event is billed as a major mercantile affair with prices cut to the lowest possible extent to offer buyers savings on high class merchandise. See the big bills for particulars. Ve RaL Bennett sports a new Stugbacker Brougham bought through the Harry Cockburn agency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herman Oransky
al Bennett Sports
Stuigbaker Brougham
Harry, Cockburn
Mrs M Miller Dies After Long Illness in Estherville
The Estherville community mourns Mrs Mabel Crewling Miller who died Monday after a year with tuberculosis. She came to Estherville twenty three years ago, married Monte G Miller in 1903, and leaves four sons, her husband, aged father, a brother, and a sister. Services will be Thursday at the Presbyterian church led by Rev. G Voorhies, with family from Oklahoma attending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mabel Crewling Miller
Davidson
Okla
Wm. Crevling
Longdale
MacLaren
Miller
Anita
Iowa
George and
Lena Crevling
Anita and
Simpson College
Indianola
Presbyterian Church
G. Voorhies
Oklahoma
Rock Island
Emmet County Pioneer Passes in Washington
Dan Felkey, longtime Armstrong resident and widely known across Emmet County, died at his Lyden Washington home earlier this week. His sister Mrs O E Neville notified the county Monday. Services will be held in Lyden, with burial in Hamilton Montana where his son resides. Felkey left Armstrong about twenty years ago after a life as a mail carrier between Armstrong and Estherville, forging broad county ties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dan Felkey
Armstrong
Lyden
Wash
O. E. Neville
Amilton
Mont
Elkey
Estherville
Mrs Perkins Remembered By Rock Island Conductor
Mrs Perkins who died in the Santa Barbara earthquake last week is praised by Conductor L R Benton of the Rock Island as generous and devoted to laborers. He recalls her Democratic loyalty and frequent visits to workers, noting her husband once led the Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad and her sympathy for railroad employees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perkins
Santa Barbara
Egtherville
L. R. Benton
Rock Island
Burlington
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
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Arnold's Park
Fox Lake Park
Hanus Park
Fairmont Legion Boys
Interlaken Park
Interlaken
Jensen
A. E. Bigelow
Colone
South Dakota
Ira
Tom Nivison
Jessie Bigelow
Pioneer High Lake
Bert Herum
Mrs. Egeland
Fielder “Converse
Los Angeles
Oransky 7
M. Miller
Lakes
Sioux Falls
Marian Orvis
Emmetsburg
Helen Brockway
Waterloo
Florence
Vivette Swale
Minneapolis
Wm. Freed
Yowa Falls
Kansas City
Mis
Kuhlhavey
A Mitchell
Frank Kirk
Cedar Rapids
John Johnson
H. Zollar
Rush Lake
Minn
Bertha Paul
J. F.paul
P. Kilduff
Chicago
Engineers
Emmet County
Pioneer Passes
Washington
V. Well
Mrs. Perkins
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