Society notes of gatherings span Covred Dish club and Augustine reunion
Friday evening hosted by Mr. and Mrs. L B Lupton for Covr éred Dish club members with twelve place settings. Guests included Miss Bether McGugin and Miss Mildred Stewart. The White Way club held an annual picnic at Sunset Park with a large cafeteria dinner and social hours. The Augustine family reunion at the Andy Augustine home drew about one hundred relatives from Davenport Chicago Burlington Ottumwa Cedar Rapids Rubio Tublin and Washington with officers elected for the coming year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. BR. Lupton
Covréred Dish Club
Buddy
Mary Dee
Lupton
Bether McGugin
Neveland
Mildred Stewart
Chicago
Stewart
White Way Club
Buneet Park
Folke
Augustine
Andy Augustine
Davenport
Hurlington
Orkaloosa
Cedar Rapide
Rubio
Tublin
Washington
Glock
Joshua Augustine
William Luithiy
Harry Lytle
L. D. Laithly
Augustine Home
Beavers' Shopping and Travel Plans From Editorials
Local notes discuss two weeks of shopping for new apparel including beaded dresses and blouses. The group plans a westward trip starting Sunday and a week in Iowa City. The weather is pleasant. liquor is accessible. prices for dresses range from 17 50 to 25 dollars with black as the leading color.
Claims Paid Today by Farmers Mutual Insurance
Secretary J. J. Benda reports Farmers Mutual paid numerous claims across Washington County. Payments cover cattle, horses, sheep, hogs, and barn or structure damage, with amounts ranging from 9.50 to 1,560. Names include Fleming, Carlson, Cannon, Statler, Huber, Kyle, Groff, Haage, Dayton, Miller, Cress, Hotle, Hastop, Hoskins, Carter, Liska, Fredrickson, Luckey, Schneider, Robinson, Greiner, Wagamon, Lukavsky, Brinning, Darbyshire, Hildebrand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. J. “Benda
Washington County Farmers’ Mutual Tonsurance Association
Claitms
W. F. Fleming
Washington
Eds
Ernest and
Mery Carlson
Washman
J. R. Cannon
Wyman
House
J. Statler
H. L. Huber
Walter M. Kyle
Tare and
Colt
John A. Groff
Weilman
Heifer
M. P. Haage
Ainsworth
M. C. Dayton
West Chester
Glen Miller
Hay
Cc. J. Cress
Riverside
W. C. Hotle
Keota
W. G. Hastop
Crawfordsville
James Hoskins
Pleasant Plain
Cc. S. Carter
North English
Joseph Liska
John Fredrickson
W. RR. Luckey
Haskins
Frank Schneider
C. B. Schneider
D. Robinson
Richland
Frank Greiner
M. W. Wagamon
Wellman
Fred Lukavsky
Mare
A. H. Brinning
Donald W. Darbyshire
Gotlieb Hildebrand
Wayland
Independent club holds riverside picnic and fishing outing
About thirty people and families from the Independent club enjoyed a Saturday noon picnic on the Iowa River. A chicken dinner and watermelons were served, with fishing and swimming in the afternoon. Ralph Stephens of Keota caught the largest fish, a four and a half pound catfish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Independent Club
Lowa
Ralph Stephens
Keota
Owner of Smallest Shop in World
The 100 pound proprietor Milton Lubin runs a tiny jewelry store on Seventh Avenue near 42nd Street in Times Square. The three day closure for alterations reveals a five by three and a half foot interior with six foot frontage and a high rent of 6600 dollars yearly. One employee, H. Stetson, keeps slim to stay aboard as only one customer fits at a time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Milton Lubin
Seventh Avenue
42Nd Street
Times Square
Lubin
H. Stetson
Dogs Foretell the Weather at the Zoo
Prairie dogs at the New York zoological park engage in elaborate burrow work before storms. Large members loosen soil with forefeet and shovel earth outward, while others reinforce the burrow from inside. They appear to build a dam to keep water out of their tunnels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Growth and History of St Pauls Evangelical Church Valley IA
The article recounts the 1857 organization of St Pauls Evangelical Church at Paria Valley with early pastors including Rev Haack and subsequent ministers through 1919 65th anniversary hopes. It notes build of a church, a Washington congregation, and a Sunday school, plus the gathering of families to sign the constitution and join as members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evangelical Synod
A. Hill
Tonawanda
New York
Alexander
Karl Michels
Washington
Valley Church
C. Sprenger
Rome
N. Y
C. T. Rasche
West Burlington
Iowa
Valley Ladies Aid
Francis Zicha
Gust. Ronte
Chelsea
Mich
Valley
C. W. Klein
Organization of the St Pauls Evangelical church at Valley
In January 1857 the German settlers around Dutch Creek near Paris Iowa gather at a log school house to form a formal Christian congregation. Families travel by sleigh from frontier towns seeking worship on Sundays and a local church home after years without a settled house of God.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul's Evangelical Church
Valley
Pasitor C. W. Klein
Dutch Creek
Paris
White Oak School
Iowa
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Nome
Germany
Wilds
Early Church Builders Reach Dream of Iowa Parish
The German Evangelical church at Dutch Creek in Washington County Iowa began in fall 1857 when founders from Georg Mueller Adam Mayer Georg Frank Kilian Leimbach Christian Horning August Draheim Anton Ramge Georg Blattner John Blattner Widow Bruening Charles Singmaster Peter Rudolph John Rudolph started laying a building at Paris a mile west of Dutch Creek. They sacrificed greatly, giving from scarce means to erect a house of worship and hoped the Holy Spirit would guide a lasting congregation and community for future generations. Will their hope be fulfilled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georg Mueller
Adam Mayer Georg Frank Kilian Leimbach
Christian Horning
August Draheim
Anton Ramge
Georg Blattner
John Blattner
Bruening
Charles Singmaster
Peter Rudolph John Rudolph
Dutch Creek
Washington County
Iowa
Paris
German Evangelical Church Association of the West Founded in 1840
The Evangelical Synod of North America traces its origins to an 1840 meeting in Gravies settlement now Mehlville Missouri where six pioneers formed the German Evangelical Church Association of the West. Adolph Baltzer emerged as a key figure, later serving as first president general and shaping the doctrinal statement and growth of the church into the 19th and early 20th centuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Evangelical Synod
Gravies Settlement
Mehlmille
German Evangelical Church Association of the West
Evangelical Church
Christian Church
German Evangelical Association of the West
Germany
Bremen Missionary Society
Adolph Baltzer
Long Prairie
Illinois
St. Louis
St. Charles
Seminary
Association
Baltzer
Little
John Baltzer
Pisher
Rankins
America
Deutschland Uiber Alles Is National Hymn Again
Berlin reports that the German republic adopted the pre-war anthem Deutschland, Deutschland Uber Alles as its official national hymn during a Reichstag ceremony marking the republics third anniversary. The scene included diplomats and a tense Count Saint Quentin who finally rose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
German Republic
Reichstag
Count Saint Quentin
Hummel
Baden
Philharmonic
Communist Party
Saint Quentin
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Rhat
Iowa City
Biondes
Vrere
Rothschild’s
Farmers’ Mutual
St. Paul’s Evangelical Church
Valley, Iowa
Haag
German Creek
John Albert Meyer
Johannes Mayer Adam Martin Baker
Johann Martin Baker
the Evancelical Synod of
North America
Mother Arth
Mareth
Washington, Iawa
Mason Transfer & Storage Co
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