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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1925
Page
2
Births at J W Randolph home and C A Gorton Bartlett and others. Visitors Nora Nellie Kiley from Iowa Falls. Chas C Galloway a Philadelphia trained surgeon locates in Estherville. Many town improvements and growing business list including 7 stores 4 hotels and 2 papers.
LeRoy Ferguson 42, known in Kossuth banking and court circles, died by suicide in Cerro Gordo jail after being held on drunken driving charges. He cut both wrists with a safety razor and hanged himself with a leather belt, his body found by fellow inmates after dinner. Ferguson, once connected with Klipto Loose Leaf Co and Le Mars Printing Co, had a long history of intoxication arrests and traveled for courthouse supply firms. His wife and family were notified as authorities investigated the scene.
Experimental work at Iowa State College trial gardens over three years shows several dahlia varieties grow well in Iowa with proper methods. Best types include Countess of Lonsdale, Mrs W E Estes, Helen Durnbaugh, George Walters, Mina Burgle, Oregon Beauty, Pride of California, Millionaire, Mrs G Gordon, Mrs Jessie Seal, Geishen, and Insulinde. Proper variety selection, staking, weekly deep watering, windbreaks, single tubers with one bud, and pruning to two feet promote large blooms.
Robbins Brothers bring a four ring circus to Estherville on Monday May 18 with afternoon and night shows. The act features three herds of elephants lions polar bears tigers camels zebras and a full menagerie plus two grand spectacles Arabian Night and Review of America. Encounters include seals sea lions kangaroos ostriches and a new camel zebra act debuted in 1924. Local note: Estherville May 14.
Dr C J Jake of Iowa State College urges elm and maple tree protection from flat head borers with a soap naptha repellent, applied starting May, plus regular trunks painting. Separate notice describes poison bait for cutworms using bran, Paris green or sodium arsenate, to be used late day, with cautions for poultry. A brief comment on moths and birth control discussions closes.
The May 1 Farm Bureau gathering at Center schoolhouse drew about fifty attendees with C G P Jackson in charge and P H Donlon of Palo Alto county as speaker. County Agent showed Hog Sanitation films and a comedy. The June meeting will be at Center School first Thursday. Last Call for Boys and Girls Clubs urges May 15 enrollment. The nutrition school meeting discussed Eggs Meat and Fish and will meet May 28 at Mrs C P Jackson for Fruit and Vegetables. Shipping Association directors and manager met April 30 to review quarterly business. Prof E L Cady praised Emmet County’s performance.
Sunday services at 11 o clock with the subject Adam and Fallen Man. Golden Text Hosea 14 1. Israel return unto the Lord thy God for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. Sunday School at 10. Wednesday meeting at 8.
A free public reading room operates every Wednesday and Saturday afternoon from 8 to 6. Here the Bible and all authorized Christian Science literature may be read or purchased. The public is invited to visit and attend services.
Emmetsburg Democrat reprints Ayr shire Chronicle argument against outsourcing county job printing. The piece condemns sending work to distant firms despite local printers offering lower costs and notes officials including a school superintendent once pushing for higher pay yet not spending locally. It cites past orders placed outside the county due to commission payments and urges supporting home institutions.
In urging county job printing bids, the writer argues locals deserve a square deal as taxpayers and supporters of home progress. He cites fairness in business and politics, praising local residents while noting ingratitude is unwelcome. The piece shifts to a joke about doctors blaming typhoid on impure milk, not oysters.
If you feel tired after meals it may signal gas and undigested matter in the stomach or bowels. Adlerika with buckthorn bark magnesium sulphate i p glycerine is advertised to relieve gas and constipation quickly with a claimed hour or less action and no griping, by Jay Johnston & Co. Druggists.
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