Society Notes From Aug Seventh Locals
The Highland Seting Circle met with Mrs Glen Miller in Ainsworth. Eighteen members shared favorite sandwich fillings. Luncheon featured thickened sandwiches pickles iced tea and cherry a la mode. Mrs Kate Murphy invited to meet Sept 11. West Chester W C T U met with Mrs J G Henderson. September gathering planned with Mrs McFarlane. The West Chester Methodist group met at Mrs Howard Stewart with social time and refreshments. Mrs Will Longer hosted HH club with nine guests. songs and solos performed. next meeting Sept 4 with Mrs Mayer. Outing and birthday gatherings marked by games refreshments and lawn lighting. U and L club met with Mrs Charles Sloat. luncheon and contests planned for Aug 36. Mrs Haney of Chicago was an out of town guest. Second United Presbyterian Young Ladies Missionary society held a well-attended meeting at the church. delegates to the Columbus City convention discussed. Birthday luncheon for Mrs Nicola and Mrs Grayson hosted by Roy Nicola and guests left with tokens of remembrance.
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Glen Miller
Ainsworth
Ferne Steele
Mise Myrtle O'Connor
Ethel Steele
Florence Steele
Mamie Krote
Kate Murphy
West Chester
Will
HH. Club
Gray
Mary Norosel
Jesus
Helen Brown
Stephanie Cavotte
Alphones Czibulka
U and L. Club
Charles Sloat
Sloat
Frank Morgan
Corbin Fields
F_ D Hanéy
Chicago
Young Ladies’ Missionary Society
The
Second United Presbyterian Church
HK Baird
Columbus City
Willard Wyle
Fila Gordon
Etta Connor
Fred Stewart
Wylie
Roy Nicola
Nicola
Ed Grayson
E. O. W. Club
La Follette Plans Conference With Running Mate
Senator La Follette independent candidate for president awaits talks with his running mate Senator Wheeler of Montana. Wheeler and family vacationing on Cape Cod likely to return to Washington soon for conferences shaping the campaign plan. Wheeler to lead with a speech late this week or early September in New England, Boston, and perhaps New York, while some advisers push for a Labor Day start.
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Washington
la Follette
Wheeler
Montana
Cape Cod
New Kheland
Boston
la Follete
New York
Delegates to Nominate Judge in Ames on Monday
One handed and fourteen Republican delegates from seven counties in the eleventh judicial district will meet in Ames Monday to nominate a successor to Judge E M McCall of Nev ad who resigned to practice law. Counties include Boone Franklin Hamilton Hardin Story Webster and Wright.
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Ames
Eleventh Judicial District
E. M. McCall
Nevad
Counties
Boone, Franklin, Hamilton, Hardin, Story, Webster and
Wrigh
Drowning of Elmer Wilson in Des Moines River
Elmer Wilson a 17 year old colored boy drowned in the Des Moines river near the boat house below the Dawkeye Fair Grounds at 3 30 yesterday afternoon. He was with a party of other colored boys when the accident occurred. The city police began a search for the body immediately. Wilson came to Fort Dodge about a month ago from Champaign Illinois in search of work.
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Associated Pres
Fort Dodge
Elmer Wilson
Des Moines
Dawkeye Fair Grounds
Wilson
Champaign
Tailor Debt Prompted Dinner Jacket Recall
A fragment shows a gentleman dismissing a meeting with his tailor while noting the tailor owes him a receipt for money paid toward a dinner jacket. The source reads as a humorous line from a Parisian periodical.
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le Journal Amusant
Baris
Great Milling Center Medicine Hat Flour Power
Great Milling Center in Medicine Hat is noted as one of the world's great flour milling centers described as a place where the cold comes from. The claim highlights the city’s prominence in flour production.
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Medicine Hat
The
Wold
Directory of Local Society Announcements
The Ladies Aid Society of the Methodist church at West Chester will meet on Wednesday August 18 with serving committee named. Notices list K C regular meetings in hall and by J E Wolf and W H Sigafoose. Sunshine Community Club meets Wednesday afternoon at Mrs C H Wolfe. Young Women's Missionary Society of Baptist church holds a music program Monday evening at 7 30 in church parlors.
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Ladies Aid Society of the Methodist Church
West Chester
Fred Bauer
Fred Forinash
Herman Schultz
Car Vorhees
Sunshine Community Club
C. H. Wolfe
Young Women's Missionary Society of the Baptist Church
Bandits stalk Salt Creek Bank hold up
Two masked men robbed the Bank of Salt Creek at Lavaye in the Salt Creek oil fields 45 miles north of Casper. They tied up four clerks and took two sacks of money in a sum not yet known. A posse arrested a man near town after shots were fired. Sheriff Perry A. Morris and deputies rushed to the scene.
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Casper
Wyo
Salt Creek
Lavaye
Here
Perry A. Morris
Body of Boy Pushed Into River by Stepmother
The body of six year old Nicholas Maharies was recovered from Cedar River 300 yards below the drowning point where his stepmother Marie Maharies confessed to pushing him in Thursday. A first degree murder charge was filed against her as prosecutors seek the death penalty. she signed a confession stating she planned to die by hanging and killed the boy to end her dislike for him.
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Associated Press
Waterloo
Nicholas Maharies
Cedar River
Marie Maharies
Marie Mahames
A. C. Nielson
Disappearance Mystery Near Missouri River Inquiry
Council Bluffs police investigate theories after Grover Robinson John Sturgeon and others recount a river drowning. Peter Buckner 30 reportedly fell overboard while testing water depth on the Missouri River with A J Duck John English and Buckner missing. Local detectives review competing explanations.
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Council Bluffs
Grover Robinson
John Sturgeon
Bald Creek
North Carolina
A. J. Duck
John English
Missouri River
Peter Buckner
Reelfoot Lake Formed by 1811 Tennessee Earthquake
A lake in Tennessee was created by an earthquake in 1811. It measures about thirteen miles long and one mile wide, reflecting the dramatic geologic change caused by the seismic event.
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Reelfoot Lake
Tennessee
How Did He Do It Offender Pleading Guilty
A historical note from London Tit-Bits records an offender pleading guilty. The brief item notes the subject’s stance, paraphrased as I stand without a leg to stand on, reflecting a courtroom demeanor.
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London
Former Students Plan Picnic in Davenport
Several hundred graduates and friends from Iowa State College two year agriculture and herdsmen courses will attend a reunion picnic at the Mississippi Valley Fair Grounds in Davenport on Wednesday August 18. Arthur Meints of Dixon chairs the planning with talks by Professors H H Kildee and J Cunningham. Attendees are bringing picnic baskets for a noon meal and evening lunch as the program runs from morning to evening. Many attendees live in eastern Iowa and plan to visit farms and fellow alumni with prominent participants listed from Washington, Crawfordsville, and other towns.
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Ames
Iowa State College
Davenport
Mississippi Valley Fair Grounds
Arthur Meints
Dixon
H. H. Kildee
J. Cunningham
Rome
Iowa
Warren Walker
Iowana Farms
Frank
Ralph Martzan
Washington County
Chas
Bartholow
Washington
Deem
Ainsworth
Maurice Benda
Walter Smith
Kenneth Swisher
Jeremiah Evans
Crawfordsville
Lawrence Howell
Priests Celebrate Mass Inside the Kremlin
In Moscow on July 19 a group of 300 archbishops bishops and priests in ornate regalia entered the Kremlin cathedral and held mass. Officials and soldiers halted work, murmuring about the surprising religious gathering in the Soviet seat of power.
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Kremlin
Russia
International
Moscow
Holy of Holies
Waterloo Boy Still Missing and Conspiracy of a Stepmother
Waterloo Iowa August 9 police investigated the murder of six year old Nicholas Maharies after his stepmother confessed to luring him to the Cedar river and pushing him in. A late telephone tip claimed the boy was alive with his real mother in Riverside near a paper mill. A sister of Nicholas lived in the cottage. search yielded no trace of the child.
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Waterloo
Nicholas Maharies
Cedar River
Riverside Addition
John Farrell
Maharies
Mahares
Marshalltown
Occidentalizing the Kimono The Modern Negligee
The article describes negligees inspired by the Orient with wide sleeves and a sash echoing the obi. It notes no slavish imitation, adds Eastern atmosphere with side openings and soft collar, and highlights crepe satin collar and sash. Garments are affordable, easy to sew, with simple lines and ample folds for good fit and modest protection.
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Orient
Washington Rejects King's Crown Suggestion in 1782 Letter
An army officer wrote to George Washington proposing he become king as democracy faltered. Washington replied with disbelief and urged banning such thoughts for the good of the country, himself, and posterity.
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George Washington
Washington
Puzzling Question on Self Satisfaction Across People
The remark ponders how individuals so different from us can feel fulfilled with their lives, noting the mystery of diverse values and personal contentment that eludes easy understanding.
Pearl shell hooks lure albacore in South Seas
Odd fishhooks made from pearl shell are used for trolling in the South seas to catch albacore bonito and sea pike.
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South Seas
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McFarlane
Dayton
Aee
George McGinnis
Robert Cherry
Great Milling Center
K. C
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K. P
W .H. Sigafoose
Wyoming
Rency
River
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Rainier National Park
Tacoma
Wash
Glady
Kenman
Grace Copeland
Myrtle Eleeth
Stepmother
Charlevoix
Detroit
Cnthey
Physicians and Surgeons
A. John Droz
Kar
West Main
Frank Boller
City
Mutual
W. Washington St
T. J. Pease
Farmers and Merchants Bank
Brave Mutual
J. D. Dayton
Westchester
R. R
Austin Sutherland
Brighton
T. A. Michel
Washington, Iowa
Morrison & Morrison
Brookhart Bros. Law
Opera House
Mutual Phone
CG. J. Wilson
Waron
Wilson & Wilson
Opposite Journal
Livingston & Eicher Law
Abstract Department
Real
Nat'l Bank
Green
C. W. Brown
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