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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1925
Page
7
A long list of Estherville area residents is described visiting relatives in Sioux City York Nebraska Minnesota Missouri and Ohio, with several returning home. People attend conventions travel for work or pleasure and plan future trips to Florida Mississippi and other destinations, while local families welcome visitors and announce new births and moves.
Social gatherings and club reports fill the page. Five Hundred Club members meet at Spirit Lake cottage. Phi Beta Phi hosting at West Okoboji. East Riverside Club discusses civic duties. Mrs A O Myhre hosts in honor of a California visitor. Rose Heneman surprise party aids her school work as she heads to Mankato.
A group of women hosted a farewell party for Inez Waters who departs Friday for Minneapolis to attend Twin City Business University. The evening featured games and a late lunch. Earlier, members of the 0.O. U. club gathered at Lake with Mrs Morse, and the A. B. Club met at Mrs. Pullen’s North Sixth Street home this afternoon.
Mr and Mrs R H Sheldon were last heard traveling in Yellowstone National Park and planned to move to Pocatello Idaho if conditions permitted. They expected to settle in Pocatello should the circumstances prove favorable.
Emil A. Olson of Dodge City Kansas aged 39 and Anna Rosella Hager of Estherville aged 38 received marriage licenses. The Estherville Lutheran Church notes include a L A and M S meeting planned for August at the church parlors with Mesdames J M Vestrum Lars Weel Hans Hal verson and Lars Tindaly among those to serve. Dorcas society will meet August 5 with Miss Mamie Lande as hostess at her south 7th Street home.
Pastor B C Carver announces 10 30 Sunday School and 11 30 services with Prof W A Ortmeyer from Armstrong delivering the message. No services on August 9 16 and 23 due to pastor and family vacation in New York. Services resume August 30. Circle meets Thursday afternoon this week.
Estherville residents shine at State University summer session convocation. Gerald Reid earns Bachelor of Science in Commerce, Wm Sohngton receives Juris Doctor, and Nelsine Laurine Nasby earns Master of Arts in Education. Leo Crawford joins as inspector overseeing motor bus speed and compliance with state laws.
Roy Burt and family drove to Emmetsburg for a Sunday picnic with Rolfe neighbors and found Rolfe roads nearly impassable on return. Mrs. Leonard Carlson visited Columbus Junction with her Edwards relatives from Armstrong, noting hard roads but good crops. J H Maroney plans a Thursday trip to Farmington Minnesota to visit siblings, while Chas Jones hosts Chas McCracken family from David City with sisters Mrs Jones and Mrs McCracken. O M Omundson and family of Pocahontas with Spirit Lake parents were Sunday guests, as A O Peterson stayed with his family at Spirit Lake Cottage Tuesday night.
Special at Des Moines details a grand re-enactment titled Rome under Nero to run August 26 to September 4 at the Iowa State Fair. It promises massive scenes of Circus Maximus and Coliseum, Nero’s Golden House, lavish feasts, and the burning of Rome with nightly fireworks as the finale.
Railroads across Iowa and parts of Missouri announce reduced round trip fares of one third for the Iowa State Fair from August 26 to September 4. General admission is 50 cents, with free camping on the 80 acre State Fair grounds.
Eighteen thousand dollars in prizes draw entrants for a five day card at the Iowa State Fair and National Livestock Show from Aug. 26 to Sept. 4. Over 300 trotters and pacers are entered including top middle west performers. Thirty-three in the Western 2:14 trot and fifty-one in The Hawkeye 2:13 pace. Speed officials expect the best race program yet with $1,200 added money in the Hawkeye event.
A garbled Ames dialect note presents Abe claiming some people are as prickly as porcupines and must be kept at a distance. The fragment hints at two possible approaches to handling such a person, one to shave them and one to leave them alone, but the text remains unclear and informal.
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