Ainsworth News Highlights Local Visits and Carnival Plans
Mrs Georgia Jackson visits relatives in Ohio. Mr and Mrs W T Trotter travel by auto from Muscatine to Detroit with Burlington delegation for Equitable Life Insurance convention then onward to Cincinnati to visit son Leonard Trotter and wife. Boy Scouts carnival set for Tuesday August 16 with band concerts parades and sports.
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Ainsworth Ainsworth
Georgia Jackson
Ohio
W. T. Trotter
Detroit
Mich
Muscatine
Burlington
Equitable Life Insurance
Trotter
Cincinnati
Leonard Trotter
C. M. Spera
Fairfield
Hal
Wind Cave and Hot Springs Tour Highlight Black Hills Trip
The article tours Wind Cave in the Black Hills with a $1 guided tour from 10 pm to 2 pm and notes a government game preserve of over 66 000 acres where bison roam. It praises Hot Springs as a tourist and patient retreat with baths and a Mountain Sanitarium and a Soldiers Home amid the area’s scenery and Irish caravan spectacle. It also recaps Richmond Farmers Union events, parade prizes, a clown band, and local festivities with remarks on milk yields and a tug of war victory.
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Mapple Grove
Wind Cave
Black Hills
Subterannean
Sweet Will
Kome
Custer
Fall River County
Dakota
Hot Spring
Hot Springs
Cadifornia
New York
Coyote
Dempsey
Sullivan
Farmers’ Union
Richmond
Young America
Journal
Briley
Washington County
Crawfordsville Visitors and Church Attendance Report
Crawfordsville August 14 Steve Jones and daughter Lucile visited in Washington Saturday. Rev Albert Lanoue his wife and daughter Alice went to Milton Iowa where Lanoue preached yesterday. Mr and Mrs W P Davidson and children attended service at First United Presbyterian in Washington yesterday forenoon. Dr and Mrs H M Gilkey and daughters of Columbus Junction spent the day here Saturday at Lisle Maxwell home. Mr and Mrs W W Twinam Mr and Mrs S G Taylor W H McCall were also noted in attendance.
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Albert Lanoue
Alice
Milton
Lanooue
W. P. Davidson
Margaret
Marian
William
First United Presbyterian Church
Washington
H. M. Gilkey
Columbus Junction
Lisle Maxwell Home
W. W. Twinam
G. Taylor
H, McCall
Family and church visitors attend services in town
Miss Gladys Maxwell returns from Niagara Falls and the Great Lakes. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Young and son Robert of Ft. Madison, Mrs. Sellers, and F. E. Young home guests yesterday. A group including Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Maxwell, Alice, J. M. Maxwell, Ruth McElroy, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Mitchell, and Mrs. N. E. Lease attended First U. P. church services in Washington. L. A. Jones and children from Washington, Esther Larrimer of Oskaloosa visited the Manners home.
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Mary
Covenanter Church
Wyman
Gladys Maxwell
Niagara Falls
Great Lakes
Clarence Young
Robert
Ft. Madison
Sellers
F. E. Young
F. J. Maxwell
Alice
J. M. Maxwell
Ruth McElroy
J. C. Mitchell
N. E. Lease
U. P
Washington
L. A. Jones
Esther Larrimer
Oskaloosa
Manners Home
Community Club Social at Huston Home
On August 8 the Commercial club hosted about a hundred guests at the Huston home with ice cream cake and social time. The next Community club meeting is set with Mrs 8S. Carrick on August 24. Mrs Shirley Bartlett and children visit Brighton while Mrs Harold Oldt and son visit Lomax.
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Wyman
Commercial Club
Hal Huston
Carrick
Shirley Bartlett
Elizabeth Ann
Nancy
Jim Frain
Brighton
Harold Oldt
Donald
Lomax
Local Social and Travel Notes From Riverside Area
Riverside society news lists residents traveling to Kalona Iowa City Cedar Rapids Davenport and other towns for visits and chautauqua. Families and friends arrive or return from California Iowa and ringgold county with updates on health and work obligations.
Local social notes recount visits and gatherings
Mrs. Charles Heaton hosts visitors from Yankton while afternoon games honor Mrs. Hubert Kerr and consolation goes to Mrs. Joe Quinn. Davenport visits include Mr. and Mrs. Robert Heitzman, Mrs. Tobin and Velma, and Mrs. Charles Moran’s party for Helen Philips. Daisy Ford returns from Iowa City, Will Lohberger party tours, and the Senior Needlework club meets at Mrs. Dautremont’s. Vera Page returns from Iowa City.
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Charles Heaton
Yankton
Hubert Kerr
Joe Quinn
Mesdames Hahn
Griffin
Kern
Quinn
Heitzman
Lowe
Knittel
Bushek
Frank
Moran
Lafourek
Robert Heitzman
Davenport
Robert Tobin
Velma
James Duffy
Denver
Col
Charles Moran
Helen Philips
Daisy Ford
Iowa City
Will Lohberger
Wheeler
Texas
Lee Mottet
Tama
Waterloo
C. V. Dautremont
Vera Page
Revenue Service seeks valuation engineers for mining energy fields
Washington August 14 The Bureau of Internal Revenue needs valuation engineers in general mining coal mining oil and gas and the forest industry The Civil Service Commission will accept applications until October 1 No written exam will be given ratings based on education training experience and physical ability Duties include estimating quantities market values equipment cost and development Full details and blanks available from the Civil Service Commission Washington DC or the local civil service board at the post office or customhouse in your city.
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Washtiington
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Washington
United States Civil Service Commission
Washington, D. C
Civil Service Board
World’s Water Power Estimates by Continent
World totals horsepower from water power set at 450 million. Africa leads with unknown value, Asia at 71,000,000, South America 34,000,000, North America 62,000,000, and Tlarepe credited with 45,008,000.
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Africa
Asia
South America
North America
Convict Drowns Himself in Mississippi River
John Rowland a life prisoner at the state penitentiary walked into the Mississippi River near the prison and drowned himself. A prison officer searched for the body but failed to find it. Later a restaurant worker recovered the body and it was taken to Clement's funeral home for burial in Burlington. Rowland, about 45, convicted of murdering a Keokuk woman, had been at the prison eleven years and kept birds around him on the grounds. His father lives in Burlington.
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FT. Madison
John Rowland
State Penitentiary
Mississippi
Clement
Rowland
Burlington
Keokuk
Washington Iowa Ordinance Sets Grade Points on South Third Ave
Ordinance No 149 establishes the grade of South Third Avenue at designated points in Washington Iowa. The document defines curb top elevations in feet and decimals above a city datum plane and requires grade lines to connect via straight lines unless noted otherwise.
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South Third Avenue
Washington
Iowa
Ordinance Repeals Conflicting Street Grades in 1922
The ordinance repeals and alters street grades on South Third Avenue and South Madison Street as specified, effective after passage and publication. It notes the center lines of Adams Street and applies changes to resolve conflicts with prior ordinances. Mayor M D Work signs, attested by City Clerk Kellogg, on August 7, 1922.
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Third Avenue
Madison Street
Adams Street
Iowa Voters to Decide 22 Million Dollar Soldier Bonus Bond Issue
A 1921 Iowa act authorizes 22 million dollars of state bonds to fund veterans bonuses for service between April 6 1917 and November 11 1918. The measure creates a Bonus Board to administer payments and imposes a yearly 1.1 million tax levy to cover principal and interest for twenty years. The act requires voter approval at the November 1922 election and outlines eligibility and penalties for false claims.
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Iowa
United States
General Assembly
State of
Siate of
Iown
Des Moines
Treasury of
State
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Students Army Training Corps
Adjutant General
Bonus Board
Executive Council
SS 39Th General Assembly
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