W W C T U Convention Set at Ainsworth This Week
Ainsworth hosts a two day Woman's Christian Temperance Union convention on Thursday and Friday with sessions in the afternoon and forenoon. Mrs Lena H Wale will speak twice. several local women and town ministers participate. public invited. Also note a probate notice regarding Robert Thomas and a letter from Edward Gray of Prudential Life Insurance lauding Thomas's service.
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Ainsworth
WC. TU
Lena H. Wale
Ains Rth
T Town
Blic
Vanadds
Robert Thomas
Rovert
Thomas
Edward Gray
Prudential Insur
Thom
Gray
Death of Mildred Swanson at Franklin township
Mildred Viola Swanson aged about two years died Tuesday at 2 15 PM at her parents Arvid and Nettie Swanson home in Franklin township eight miles NW of town. Born May 2 1918 she suffered whooping cough followed by pneumonia and complications. Funeral 3 PM Thursday at the home with burial in West Chester cemetery.
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Mildred Viola Swanson
Arvid Swanson
Nettie Reighard Swanson
Franklin Township
Huthe
West Chester
Visitor Carolyn Parker and local notices from Crawfordsville
In Crawfordsville April 28 Miss Carolyn Parker of Monmouth Ill visits J H Crooks home. Mr and Mrs T J Nicholson depart for relatives in Washington Cedar Heights and La Porte City Iowa. Church services for communion are set Friday night 7 and Saturday 2 at United Presbyterian. Glove use noted as Clemenceau wore gray cloves at the Peace Conference amid oil handling. London’s West End sees entry of the Jew and exit of the Gentile as a noted social change per F N Charrington after 60 years welfare work.
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Crawfordsville
Carolyn Parker
Monmouth
Ill
J. H. Crooks
T. J. Nicholson
Washington
Cedar Heights
la Porte City
Iowa
United Presbyterian Church
Clemenceau
London
West End
F. N. Charrington
Worth While Girls Springtime Social at Baptist Church
The Worth While Girls held a springtime social at the Baptist church with Miss Lucile Forgey as chair. Hazel McCarty won the Hills Bud sprig Tower and received tulips. Mrs Clas Hays provided music. Reading by Miss Helen Wood and a piano duet by Mrs Cher Hays followed refreshments. The evening included a curling game, a “farmers' Love Story” naming contest won by Mrs Regan who received a large potato. A brief business session completed the event.
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the Baptist Church
Lucile Forgey
Hills Bud Sprig
Hazel McCarty
Clas. Hays
Helen Wood
Cher. Hays
Ruth Lemley
Community organization notices list upcoming meetings and social events
The Ladies Aid groups and community clubs announce gatherings in late April. Mrs. Hillhouse hosts a Thursday 2:00 PM needlework meeting. 6008 Cedar hosts a get acquainted social on Friday April 30 to welcome new residents. Washington Lodge meets April 28 for Fellowcraft degree at 7:30 PM. Pleasant Hill school hosts a box and candy social Friday April 30 with a pupil program at 7:30 PM. St Pauls Evangelical Ladies Aid meets Thursday at Mrs Knettnerus home with full attendance urged.
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Cedar Community Club
Join Kurtz
Pleasant Hill
Washington
Aaron Stafford
St. Paul's Evangelical Ladies Aid Society
Knettnerus
Damas cus Shrine No. 10 Spring Ceremonial April 29
The Spring Ceremonial of Damas cus Shrine No. 10 W. 8S. of J. will be held Thursday April 29 at Moose Hall. Business meeting 3 PM banquet 6 20 PM at Baptist church work 8 PM. Mrs Rose M Reid W H P Mildred Rice W 8S 6113 Hope Mission sewing all day Thursday. AT BLO social in Methodist church basement Thursday evening. All members requested to attend.
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Damascus Shrine No
Moose Hall
Baptist-church
Rose M. Reid
W. H
Methodist
DeBord Specials Prime 77 Acre Suburban Farm for Sale
Fine home farm of 77 acres near Otluamwas offers a two story house furnace cribs garage and woven wire fencing. Located on a main road with paving nearby the property is priced at 425 an acre with $15,000 down and owner financing 4 years at 5 percent.
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Otluamwas
Port nightly club music dept to hold last meeting of year
The music department of the Port nightly club invites ladies to wear eprom and gather at the east door for the final regular meeting of the year on Monday at the home of Mrs. J. B. Crooks. Mrs. Fifer and Miss Tripp will lead. The Baptist choir rehearses Friday at 7 36.
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Portnightly Club
J. B. Crooks
Fifer
Miss Tripp
the Baptist Choir
Oil prospecting firm backs Missouri Valley land deal
In California Junction area farmers back a $20000 prospecting company to test for oil and gas. Thomas B. Coulthard of Canada bills himself as the tester for the Dominion government and plans to locate test wells. The article also notes a quirky remark that American ages average about 13, with a aside on juvenile minds.
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Missouri Valley
California Junction
Thomas Bh. Coulthard
Canada
Coulthard
Dominion Government
There Are Two Kinds of People In Washington Today
A fragment appears to be an advertising rhyme promoting Washington Butter from W. S. Reister & Sons. It contrasts two kinds of people and urges usage of Washington Butter priced by the pound. It reads like a period promotional verse with a humorous twist.
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Marel Ist
Wellington County
Washington
Noted educators at Iowa City this week
The conference in supervision under the college of education and extension division of the University of Iowa opens in Iowa City Thursday and continues through Friday and Saturday. Distinguished speakers include D B Waldo Kalamazoo Normal School W W Charters Carnegie Institute F E Spaulding Cleveland P C Parker Detroit J H Beveridge Omaha C P Cary Wisconsin and H H Seerley Iowa State Teachers College Cedar Falls.
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Iowa City
College of Education
University of Iowa
Walter A. Jessup
The
State University
D. B. Waldo
Kalamazoo Normal School
W. W. Charters
Carnegie Institute of Technology
F. E. Spaulding
Cleveland
P. C. Packer
Detroit
J. H. Beveridge
Omaha
C. P. Cary
Wisconsin
H. H. Seerley
Iowa State Teachers’ College
Cedar Falls
University College of Education
Spaulding
Graduate College
Boards of Education
Educators to Meet at University of Iowa Conference
State school officials from boards of education superintendents principals and supervisory officers will attend the sixth annual supervision conference at the University of Iowa from April 29 to May 1. About 400 officials from high schools and colleges are expected to participate. The program aims to address managing next year finances efficiently finding space for classes and boosting instruction supervision and administration within given money and space.
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Iowa City
Boards of Education
University of Iowa
Conference to tackle public education finances in April
W P F Russell urges focusing on long term needs as boards of education face serious financial problems. The conference will cover taxes, salaries, fuel, repairs and other outlays with sessions on April 29 and Friday on salary schedules followed by a dinner at the women's gymnasium.
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Boards of Education
Divorce action seeks eighty thousand alimony in Audubon
In Audubon District Court Mrs. Keyes Halleck seeks a divorce on statutory grounds and eighty thousand dollars alimony from her husband, a wealthy landowner with about one thousand sixty acres near Brayton. Judge J B Rockafellow granted the petition and a fifty thousand dollar attachment against the husband’s property.
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Audubon
Keyes Halleck
District Court
Halleck
Brayton
California
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Cook’s Cafe
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Louden Machinery Company
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Bert Hodge
New York
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