Local band to play Warren county fair in Indianola
The Washington band has been hired to perform at the Warren county fair in Indianola next week turning the trip into a weeklong outing. Twenty five pieces will travel by auto with a cook and tents, two uniforms, and Hop Shearer will sing. Director F L Mannhardt leads new concert selections as plans for next year grow. a chautauqua concert is scheduled for August 25 promising wide exposure.
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Washington
Indianola
Des Moines
Ianola
Indianal
F. L. Mannhardt
Warren County
Shearer
Hop” Shearer
Central Park
Washington's
Liklihood
Granger Bank Robbery Reveals $45000 Bond Loss
The Bank of Granger suffered a larger robbery loss than first stated. Thieves stole about $45,000 in Liberty Bonds and war savings stamps, plus papers. Thirty safety deposit boxes were broken into after the vault door was cut with an acetylene torch. Ownership of the bonds remains safe from loss. the bank is owned by Brenton Bros. of Dallas Center.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bank of Granger
Dallas County
Brenton Bros
Dallas Center
Indian Mound Near Kansas City Named Signal Ground
Indian Mound in the northeast part of Kansas City was built about 67,000 years ago, per Edward who studied prehistoric mounds in the United States. The mound lies one mile north of Sheffield on a high bluff overlooking the Missouri River and the River valley. It is called Indian mound and was probably signal ground.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Edward
United States
Sheffield
Missouri River
Rluer River
Local Express Charges Increase Under Railway Board Review
Agent McCloskey reports a circular justifying a rate rise by the American Railway Express. Wages for Express workers rise about 31 million dollars yearly, boosting local employees about 30 dollars monthly. The commerce commission handles the petition. deficit coverage ends August 31. 1919 deficit nears 25 million, likely over 18 million this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McCloskey
American Railway Express Company
Railroad Labor Board
Railway Express
Express Company
Etition
Sean
In Merce Commission
Transportation Net
Elnment
September Term Jurors Drawn in County District Court
Petit jurors for the September term were drawn this morning by the county auditor recorder and clerk. Court opens Monday Sept 6 with Judge Henry F P Wagner presiding. The docket will be largest in years with 112 new civil cases filed plus 219 civil cases docketed to date and two weeks left for filing. Jurors listed include Allen Bh F Kalona Applegate Bli Washington Beenblossom C R Washington Brinning Clarence West Chester etc.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry FP. Wagner
Allen
Bh. F
Kalona
Applegate
Bli
Washington
Beenblossom
C. R
Brinning
Clarence
West Chester
Crain
Fred
Riverside
Carr
Alva
Cole
Geo
Chadwick
Merwin
Carrison
C. J
Durst
Amos B
Edwards
EF. R
Brighton
Emde
D. E
City
Jazier
Godfrey
Jurging
W. F
Jones
J. A
J. H
Ainsworth
Miller
S. D
Mayhew
W. C
Maple
Orr
Wellman
McCall
Claude
Nicholson
Ralph
Porter
Edgar M
Prebyl
James, Jr
Page
R. D
Quinn
I. D
Ross
A. E
Roe
Riley
T. H
Crawfordsville
Spear
A. J
Leeton
Keota
Stewart
Fred L
Stephens
M. H
Small
Anson
Richmond
Sanders
W. A
Tucker
W. L
C. W
Tobin
Pat
Wesely
Widmer
D. W
Noble
Willits
L. C
Wood
L. A
Shalom Group Elects Officers and Guests Attend
Miss Hazel Siberts hosted the Shalom Group of the Methodist Sunday school with two new officers elected Mrs. A Anderson president and Ella Salterburg vice president. Guests included Miss Edna Speaker of Richland Illinois and Miss Barker a new member attended. A dinner and songs followed the business session and later a recital plan was announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hazel Siberts
Shalom
Methodist Sunday School
A. Anderson
Ella Salterburg
Miss Speaker
Sis
Oleta Stewart
Barker
Edna Speaker
Richland
Illinois
Seek the Higher Life and Personal Growth
Orison Swett Marden urges readers to pursue a higher life beyond rank wealth or station. He frames personal development as the great school of life, a lifelong task to cultivate character, symmetry, harmony, and beauty within all God-given faculties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orlson Swett Marden
Chicago News
Community church and lodge notices for August gatherings
Announcements list a Washington Lodge meeting with second degree for two or three candidates, choir rehearsal, sermons, and multiple club meetings at homes and churches. Also notes a Presbyterian Sunday school picnic at Box Springs with transport, baskets, and attendance details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Lodge No
A. F
A. M
Chas. Freding
W. M
Presbyterian Fellowship Supper Invites Congregation Visitors
The notice invites all Presbyterians and worshippers to a church meal featuring chicken meat baked beans potato and cabbage salad cottage cheese pickles cake and pie. Special supervision for the final children allows mothers to cate and enjoy themselves.
Vleur de lis Club Meeting and WCTU Session
The Vleur de lis club will meet with Mrs T J Harvey Friday at 2 00 PM. The Women’s Christian Temperance Union meets Thursday at 2 30 PM to elect officers and review dues. The Second United Presbyterian Church Sunday school and congregation will hold their annual picnic tomorrow at Sunset Park with a basket supper at 6 15 PM.
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Women's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Church
Second United Presbyterian Church
Sunset Park
Rebekah Club
I. 0
QO. F. Hall
The
Presbyterian Church
Box Springs
Ed Presbyterian Church
Ladies of the First
Vleur de Lis Club
T. J. Harvey
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Allen Stewart
N. 2Nd Ave
Stewart
Second United Presbyterian
Paroled murderer seeks pardon after 12 years in prison
Twelve years ago William Winters, then a bold young man on a Kossuth farm near the Minnesota line, aided a bank robbery and fatally shot Linn Trimble in Union Hardin county. He was sentenced to life and now petitions the board of parole for clemency while Mrs. Trimble and son Lloyd oppose. Winters acts on his own motion. his father has not sought mercy.
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William Winters
Kossuth
Minnesota Line
Germania
Titonia
Winters
Hardin County
Union
Linn Trimble
Penitentiary
Board of Parole
Auto Accident Fatal in Mason City
Jacob Wolf 55 metal dealer died in a Waverly hospital from injuries after a Studebaker swerved off a three foot embankment en route to Waterloo. His wife severely injured, in non serious condition. Sam Wolf unharmed. Survived by wife and three sons Harry Sam Julius. Burial planned in Cedar Rapids.
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Mason City
Jacob Wolf
Waverly
Studebaker
Waterloo
Harry
Sam
Julius
Cedar Rapids
Sunday
Supreme Court Upholds Wife Deger tion Penalty Case
The Iowa supreme court in the case of state of Iowa against Robert Caswell of Marion county upholds that wife deg er tion is a penitentiary offense, in line with the state constitution. Caswell was found guilty by a Knoxville district court jury and sentenced to one year in Anamosa reformatory. appeal followed after a February 1919 trial before Judge Dugan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
Iowa
Robert Caswell
Marion County
Knoxville
Anamosa
Dugan
Spectral Horseman Foretells Dying Man in Night Visit
In a haunting scene a pale horse and its rider appear at a dying man’s door. The apparition, ghostly and horse-white, stands in the night as the man’s breath falters. He must mount the specter and ride as fate claims him.
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Washington Organization
Wigoin Altos
Granger Bank
American Railway EX
Frank Braly
Westmind Street
Sikkerewer
Holland
George Lohline
Omaha
Nebraska
Harry Thomas
FE. J. Harmeier
W. S. Elton
Opal White
William Fulton
West Main Street
Sarah Fleming
Emma Fleming
Akron
Colorado
Everette Fulton
Fort Scott
Kansas
Fulton
Helen Wilson
Gertrude Ward
Oklahoma City
Ben Wallace
Jay Sproatt
Town City
Miss Ryan
Lydia Eicher
Presbyterian
Ehurch
Dowers
Bridge Club
Homer Darbyshire
Rural Women's Club
Frank Dittmer
Francis Swift
Havre
Will McBride
Ates
Kar Miner
Wade Gardner
Honard Stewart
Lexington Aid Society
Ezry Gardner
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Palm Beach
Klein
Georgette
New York
Rothschild’s
Oskaloosa
Mississippi
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