Estherville Briefs Highlight Local Happenings
Local notes report Frank Allen confined at home, new cottages for Crowell and Clinite families, and Dr. Clinite welcoming a daughter. Board of Supervisors adjourns after three weeks. Ball team to play Worthington and Armstrong, with additional city, road and social items. July 4 post office hours noted and optimism about local baseball. Several residents receive new Hup Mobiles while others plan camp and travel. Weather notes mention unusually hot June. farm outlook cited as poor in Minnesota.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. S. Clinite
L. L. Druley
M. G. Wilson
North Sixth Street
Board of Supervisors
Enoch , Houts
North Second Street
Estherville
Worthington
Senator Franciss
Harry Miller
Spirit Lake
Orleans Pavillion
Chas
Dayton
A. H. Rohde
Pipestone
Woodstock
Minnesota
Frank Koehler
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Chicago
St. Paul
Austin
Des Moines
Henry Grant
Minneapolis
Frank G. King
Grand View Cottage
Geo. Rhodes
Mrs. King
Billy
PURELY PERSONAL NOTES OF ESTHERVILLE AREA
A long list of residents and visitors is noted with many short trips and greetings. Individuals from Albert Lea Minneapolis Winnebago Fort Dodge and surrounding towns visit relatives, attend events or travel for work. Several couples plan trips to camps and cottages at Spirit Lake and Okoboji, while others return from visits to Iowa Falls Cedar Rapids and Omaha.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. Turner
Omaha
George
Myrtle. Kilgore
Albert Lea
Chas. Bemis
Minneapolis
Wm. Tone
Frank
Pelton
Iowa Falls
A. R. Hendrickson
Mallard
H. Eglin
W. H. Foote
Lou McCoy
Cedar Rapids
L. McCoy
Thayer
Lake Park
McCoy-Myers
Marjorie Foshier
Benunah Thompson
Gertrude Thompson
Lewis Lyman
Manden
Caleb Deming
Armatrong
Ioo
Ellsworth
Mable Miller
C. B. Murtagh
Weat Okoboji
Thos, Houltshouser
Troutsman
North Carolina
al Hottitehouser
H. ¥. Chamberlain
St. Louis
B. F. Kelley
Forest City
Clarence Williams
Babe
Swea City
L. M. Christensen
Spirit Lake
D. H. Adams
The Man of Millions Explains Wealth Rules
A benevolent figure in Puck offers a simple path to fortune for a youth. He urges work, saving, and buying stocks or promising local stocks at low prices, noting opportunities today surpass earlier eras. The narrator ends with the youth falling through a floor to the reception room below.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy R. Atkinson
Puck
Danish clans allow name changes for heads of families
Denmark legalizes family name changes to reduce naming confusion. Population of 25 000 town largely bears Hansen Petersen or Sørensen names. Many residents have adopted more distinctive surnames under the new law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denmark
Hansens
Petersens
Soerensens
Grasshoppers threaten crops in James Keeler field west of town
James Keeler reports tens of thousands of small grasshoppers in his field west of town. Though tiny, they could cause major damage, turning a large potato patch brown and bare quickly. He notes they differ from ordinary grasshoppers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Keeler
Emmetsburg
Rock Rapids
Estherville
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Brief City News
Frank Allen
Bis
Walt Crowell
West
Okoboji Cottage
Herman Crancky
F. M. Shadle & Sons
Miller-Christensen Dry Goods
John Woods
Walter Myers
Sabra McCoy
Iowa
Wortington
Tuesaday
G. ©. Atuby, P.M
Geo. Shadle
Clem Peterson
P. H. Strabe
Carl Johnson
Oakes Youngman
Rae
Whittier
California
Arnolds Park
Sam Schmieding
Utica
Illinois
W. E. Turner
Sylvia
Alice Nichols
George Anderson
Orleans
G. A. Nichols
Emma
Adelaide
Templar Park
L. Heffelfinger
Fred Hendershot
Grinnell
Blanche Johnston
Dows
Rogers
Greenville
Lydia Osher
Iowa State University
Charles Preston
Davenport
Lydia
Geo. Gruwell and Son
Dunnell
J. R. Lochmiller
Denver
Colorado
Capt
E. B. Soper
KE. T. Sondrel
John Montgomery
M. K. Whelan
J. P. Kirby
Dolliver Savings Bank
Grover Savings Bank
State Bank of Armstrong
Huntington Savings Bank
First National Bank
E. Peterson
South Dakota
North Dakota
C. A. Anderson
Rush City
Leonora, Olsen
C. D. Russell
Helen Olsen
F.L. Godfrey
G. ‘T. McKibbon
C. Doolittle
John Barker
Luke Doolittle
Mra. C. S. Blakey
Dorothy
Superior
Mrs. Blakey
A. H. Nash
J. J. Klopp
Wyler
Nels Swanson
Lawrence
Ole Albertson
Canada
Mary Norris
Graettinger
E. Ingvall
Albertson
Ingvall
Lars Bargatrom
Kathven
Mayme Hayden
Bancroft
The
Estherville Telephone Exchange Co
Wallingford
Lorenzo Lough
Anne Tubbs
Caspire
Wyoming
A. O. Peterson
Herman Oransky
Getchell
Wilder
Homer Denham
Howard Graves Emmet County Land and Abstract Company
Owa
James Espeset
Arstine
Lota
Emmet CO Offich
Estheryville State Bank
Hugh B. Lawrence
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