West Chester School News Teaches Student Life and Play
School reporters summarize PTA night and upcoming comedy A Ready Made Family to be staged April 18. They note music contest results at Sigourney with Madrigal and boys quartette placing second and praise track team members Hotle Pearson Harvey and others, plus classroom awards and spelling perfection scores across grades.
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Sigourney
Ronald Hotle
Gordon Pearson
Preston Harvey
Red-Head
R. G
M. M
P. T
Statler
Bernie
R. M
W. K
R. Miller
Ted
Marie
Fred
Mary D
West Chester
Agnes Martyn
Henry Turner
Tak
Sammie
Doris
Agnes
Henry
Meeting at Conant Home Highlights Birthday Club
The Mary and Martha Sunday school class of the Methodist church held an all day meeting and birthday party at Rev. P. M. Conant’s home. January to March birthdays included Flora Popham Ella Weller Mrs T O Nicholson and others. A noon dinner preceded a program of spring poems piano solos and songs with words by A J Nichols and music by Mrs Conant.
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A. L. Braden
P. M. Conant
A. J. Nichols
A. J. Nichols and the Music Was Composed By Mrs. Conant
Grace Crowell
Conant
Frank Brush
Barnie Maplethorpe
Grant Griffith
George Foster
Nellie Spear
Edith Weller
Nellie Dorrance
George Bell
Bete Ne
Local Club Activities Span April Meetings and Visits
April events include the Legion auxiliary meeting at the Legion hall with a pot luck dinner and sewing project. Delegates for the Mt. Pleasant district meeting were elected, and a hospital birthday cookie project was planned. Also noted are church society meetings, a Washington, D.C. employment move for Alyce Fisher, and various local family updates and social visits.
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Legion Auxiliary
Legion Hall
Lloyd Bull
William Wagamon
Fred Herr
Melvin A. Yoder
Mt. Pleasant
Ed Henn
Keith Adams
George Bell
P. M. Conant
Washington
Harold Swartzendruber
Wayland High School Music Wins Big at District Contest
Wayland high school music groups dominated the district contest in Mt Pleasant winning eight first places five seconds and three thirds. Mixed chorus boys glee club and band advance to the state contest in Oskaloosa next month. Several soloists and small ensembles earned top ratings with the girls sextet and boys quartet achieving firsts.
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Wayland
Wayland High
Mt. Pleasant
Oskaloosa
Verdella Widmer
Kathleen Jackson
Maxine Zihlman
Miriam Meyer
Betty Wyse
Ruth Suter
Calvin Clark
Tom Wenger
Richard Sodergren
Robert MechKirahan
Pauline Henss
Elizabeth Stutzman
Evelyn Schrock
Rosemary Eicher
Bob McKirahan
Virginia Hixson
Annette Schrock
Girls Glee Club
Betty Alen
Douglas McClintie
Mr Pritchard
Retis
Guengerich
Sarajevo Birthplace of World War I Ruins Nearby
Sarajevo once called the birthplace of the first World War lies in ruins as regional maps place it about 122 miles from Belgrade amid ongoing memory of the Archduke Ferdinand assassination and its historic impact.
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Sarajevo
Jevo
Archduke Ferdinand of
Austria
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Janitor Takes Post at Local Church
Leslie Powers began his new duties last Sunday as janitor of the church here. A nice job for a nice boy we think. Ed Morphys of near Washington visited with their son, George, and family here Sunday.
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Leslie Powers
Morphys
Washington
George
Big Tom at Oxford rings curfew at nine oh five
The Oxford curfew bell Big Tom weighs about 0.07 tons and is nearly seven centuries old. It tolls 101 strokes each night at five past nine when college gates close. The bell marks nightly curfew and is a historic landmark in Oxford.
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Big Ben
London
Big Tom
Oxford
Honor Birthdays for Dale Brown and Glen Mullikin Jr
The Glen Mulikin Seth Carris and Doyle Brown families marked the birthdays of Dale Brown and Glen Mullikin Jr at the parental Clarence Brown home on Sunday. Mrs Hendricks attended. The report notes rain delaying farmers sowing oats and a Washington call by Rodney Goney and Earl Neal last Thursday. The Meuth and Emery families visited the John Moxley home in St. Louis over the weekend.
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Robert Godlove
Rex Levert
Cleo Moothart
Charley Schachner
C. C. Thiessel
P. E. Smith
Winn Durst
John Durst
Opal Bickford
Donnie
Gary Moothart
Prody A. Borkoski
Brighton R
Glen Mulikin
Seth Carris
Doyle Brown
Clarence Brown
Barthdays
Dale Brown
Glen Mullikin, Jr
Hendricks
Ralph Stephens
Larry Meuth
Rodney
Goney
Earl Neal
Washington
Darlene
Lee Emery
Baby
John Moxley
St. Louis
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