Neighboring Towns News Notes and Local Events
Mr and Mrs Grant Book of Wooel visit Washington Tuesday. Fair attendance at Fairfield. Chautauqua week features prizes for Sands drug, Lee Norris, and more. Ainsworth Havre football score 9 to 8 with proceeds to wood. Epworth League play Oak Farm Aug 18. Various visits, birthday celebrations, and church gatherings noted. House fire near Rid dington prompts Boy Scouts’ quick action.
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Grant Book
Wooelson
Floyd Book
Washington
Will Lake
Dows
Arthur Forbes
Wilbur Forbes
Wiem
Fairfield
Don Gowey
Rubio
Lem Reed
Bell Waterhouse
Robert McCaleb
Arthur Gherkie
Maxine
Bourlington
Ade
Harold Bolieu
Sands Drug Store
Lee Norris
Richard Lins
Willard Thompson
Ainsworth
Nora Spessard
Sadie Nichols
Edith Peterson
Havre
Bovea
Crawfordaville Band
Leneau
Ainaworth
Epworth League
Helen Trumbul
Maxine Stephens
Cynthia Warner
Alta Carter
Sally Smart
Alice Peterson
Helen Snelson
Florence Krause
Maurine Stephens
Margaret McKiernan
Norma Keeney
Lexington Visitors and Local Contacts Across Iowa
Frank Fleming and daughter visit relatives in Quincey HI while Norma Gardner stays with Harris McGugin in Wellman. John McCrabb toured Washington Saturday. Frank Wilson and family plus Mrs H Benn dined with Jim Schulty. Warren Mathess visited Wellman. Bernice Paul visits friends in Norway Iowa. Ernest Wahl stayed with sister Mort Emde. Ralph Schulty and Mrs Schulty of continue local social notes.
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Lexington
Frank Fleming
Walter Patterson
Quincey
Norma Gardner
Harris MccGugin
Wellman
John MecCrabb
Washington
Frank Wilson
Bernice Paul
Norway
Iowa
Ernest Wahl
Mort Emde
Ralph Schulty
Rural Route News Roundup From Washington County
Rural Route 5 Washington notes a string of visits including Geo Evans and the Mayer home, Anna May Conrad with grandparents, and Mrs J Bh McCaleb with Rob and wife. A bridge crew works south of Dublin while canning and threshing efforts continue. Crops need rain. a shower arrived Tuesday evening.
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Geo. Evans
Chas Mayer
Howard Leacox
Caldwell
Anna May Conrad
George Augustine, Jr
Walter Hotle
C. C. Hotle
John McCaleb
Poy Scouts Carnival Triumph At Oak Park
Ainsworth Aug 17 The Poy Scouts carnival held Tuesday in Oak Park drew strong attendance on a hot day. Prizes were awarded in several contests including William McParland first in the horse race over 800 weight Harvey Sands pony first in the 800 weight Raymond Sweet first in the bicycle race and Leora Dawson first in best horse.
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Ainsworth
Oak Park
Wm. McParland
Harvey Sands Pony
Raymond. Sweet
Leora Dawson
Lanning Visit Featured in Crawfordsville This Week
Mr and Mrs Lanning of Oskaloosa spent several days in Crawfordsville this week visiting local residents and enjoying the sights of town.
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Crawfordsville
Lanning
Oskaloosa
Curl returns to birth home for visit and photos
Will Curl travels Tuesday to Peoria to visit his birthplace near the old log cabin and schoolhouse, hoping to capture pictures of boyhood scenes. Sol Millers welcome a new girl, and Clifford Curl shares news of a new boy. One of Arnold Von Haney's twins dies. Harley Bull and family visit Otumwa relatives.
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Nira
Will Curl
Peoria
Sol Miller
Jesse Harvey
Chas
Rowe
Clifford Curl
Arnold von Haney
Harley Bull
Ottumwa
Two Die In Morraine Train Wreck In Missouri
A collision between two Missouri passenger trains near Morraine killed an engineer and a fireman. The trains involved were No 50 from Memphis to St Louis and No 806 from St Louis to Tennessee. Both were described as fast and up to date.
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St. Louis
San Francisco
Morraine
Memphis
Tennessee
World telegraph champion Ostourke dies after suicide
Terrence Ross Ostourke, famed as a world telegraphy champion, shot himself at his sweetheart's door after a defeat by Canton Chad. He died hours later at Ravenswood hospital. Ostourke had set a Morse code record at the Pageant of Progress by receiving 19 words in 2 minutes 53 seconds.
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Chicago
Aus
Terrence Ross Ostourke
Canton
Chad
Ravenswood
Ottourke
Mob Attack Hits Keeley Amid Gary Strike Turmoil
Elgin Joliet and Eastern chief electrician W Willam Keeley was mobbed by gangsters in Gary Indiana while commuting to work. The assailants smashed windows and damaged his sedan before Keeley fired a revolver to drive them off. He suspects striking shopmen orchestrated the attack.
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Gary
Ind
William FE. Keeley
Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railroad
Keeley
Orphanage Fire Claims Twelve in Strawbridge
A fire at the Jewish Boys' orphanage in Strawbridge, near Montreal, killed twelve and left eight of sixty orphans unaccounted for. Caretaker Thomas Legault aged forty two, his wife forty one, their son Jean twelve, and daughter fourteen were among the missing. Cause undetermined as village efforts struggle to control the blaze.
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Montreal
Can
Strawbridge
Thomas Legault
Jean
Reach Agreement in Kansas Mines Resume Operations
Pittsburg Kansas August 17 contracts have been reached with two coal mine operators in the Kansas district on the basis of the Cleveland agreement George L Peek president of District 14 says the mines employ 200 men and will resume work at once they are not members of the Southwestern association. Lexington Ky August 17 Dr James Kennedy Patterson 89 year old president emeritus of the University of Kentucky is dead He served from 1860 to 1910 the longest period of native service by any US college president.
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Pittsburg
Kan
Kansas District
Cleveland
George L. Peek
District 14
Southwestern Association
Lexington
James Kennedy Patterson
University of Kentucky
United States
U S House Members Seek Details on Rum Sales
Washington August 17 resolutions were introduced by Rep Sullivan and Rep Brennan calling the United States Shipping Board to disclose where and how much liquor it bought for sale on American ships since prohibition began.
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Washington
United States Shipping Board
House
Sullivan
Dem
Mass
Brennan
Rep
Mich
Hoppers Swarm Ranches Along Whitewood Bellefourche Route
Grass hoppers have become alarmingly numerous along the railroad between Whitewood and Bellefourche. The inbound Chicago and Northwestern passenger train had its engine coated in crushed hoppers giving a greenish front as it plowed through swarms.
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Bellefourche
Whitewood
Chicizo & Northwestern
Bouresseau Brothers Die In Bathing Tragedy at Anniversary
In Detroit on August 17 Russell Bouresseau nine and his brother George also nine were drowned while celebrating Russell’s seventh anniversary. Russell went beyond his depth and George, seeing bubbles, dove in to help. They surfaced entwined but sank before others could reach them.
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Detroit
Mich
Russell Bouresseau
George
Russell
German Opera to Tour United States from Berlin Company
The German opera company, with 120 chorus, 95 orchestral players and new scenery, will tour major U S cities. Costing over 1 million dollars, it opens January 2 at the National theater in Washington and runs fourteen weeks with multiple New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston and San Francisco performances, including a run at the Manhattan Opera House. Salome to be staged in German for U S audiences.
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Berlin
United States
George Blumenthal
American Impressario
National Theater
Washington
Philadelphia
Boston
San Francisco
Manhattan Opera House
New York
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