4-H Peppers Meet with Bertha and Beatrice Kephart
The 4-H Peppers met with Bertha and Beatrice Kephart on Thursday with fourteen members and one guest Geneva Shebeck. After the business hour demos by Leanna Donaldson and Elsie Wagner and music by Leanna, refreshments were served. Also reported are the eleventh Dunbar relatives reunion at Sunset Park with many distant relatives, a surprise 83rd birthday dinner for Mrs. Latta, and multiple weddings including John D Patterson Jr and Margaret L Isom, and Samuel Simmering and Eva Dickey. Maude Morrison and Marion Hutchinson wed at the Baptist parsonage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bertha
Beatrice Kephart
Geneva Shebeck
Leanna Donaldson
Elsie Wagner
Leanna
Lock Lamond
Dunbar
Sunset Park
Wm. Bowers
Ivan Fickle
Colfax
Indiana
Mary Dunbar
Gertrude Elson
Lineville
Iowa
Paul Lohr
Corydon
Ferrill Huston
Burlington
Brighton
Fairfield
Keota
West Chester
Washington
MELLO GLO Face Powder Promises Pure Finish
An advertisement from Sherman Bros promotes MELLO GLO French Process Face Powder. It claims long wear and skin benefits such as hiding large pores and keeping a youthful appearance available at the foillet counter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foilet
Sherman Bros
Pythéan Sisters Meet and Cemetery Work Planned
The Pythéan Sisters of West Chester hold a regular meeting Tuesday at 8 PM. The Pilotsburg Cemetery Association plans work next Wednesday. all men with tools are asked to assist. The Ladies Aid serves dinner at noon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pythéan Sisters
West Chester
Pilotsburg
Summer Christmas party planned by West Chester Methodist group
The Susan Coffey auxiliary K H s and L b s of the West Chester Methodist church announce a Summer Christmas party at the church Friday evening August 26 at eight. Members are asked to bring assorted sewing materials and small items for foreign field boxes. A radio program from the field will be part of the event followed by refreshments. Relatives are invited to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Susan Coffey
Methodist Church
West Chester
Sunshine Community Club to Meet Mrs Krause on Wednesday
The Sunshine Community club will meet with Mrs. John Krause on Wednesday August 24. Attendees are asked to come dressed as children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sunshine Community
John Krause
Resolutions by Owen Fellham on Fairness
A 1620 quotation from Owen Fellham argues that fairness is the best path, even when extreme options fail. It notes that fairness can satisfy desires and earn love, contrasting it with constraint and opportunistic approaches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Owen Fellham
Bess Carter Reaches the Top in a Quiet Town
In a spring park scene Tom Kelly proposes, but Bess Carter reveals she must run her late father Horace Carter’s business. Over three hard years she builds a thriving enterprise, then sells to Tom who has since found happiness with Dick, his ward. Tom later returns, proposing once more as Dick urges union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carter
Tom Kelly
Bess
Tom
Brent
Toi
Sam
Kress
Horace Carter
Horace
Yom Kelly
Shose
Mrs. Deters
Jackson McCall
Jackson
Helen Joneston
Mrs. Peters
Weill
Richard
Aunt Bess
Fortune’s Smile and Napoleon’s Rise to Command
Detroit News recounts a legend of how Napoleon Bonaparte allegedly secured funds for his Italy campaign. A trusted clerk, a gambler, reportedly doubled the purse after a night at the gaming table, enabling Napoleon to take command in splendor, with Junot rising from aide to general.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Napoleon Bonaparte
Italy
Europe
Napoleon
Amloche Junot
Detroit News
Duralumin Alloy Composition and Light Girders
Duralumin is an alloy of aluminum copper and magnesium. It contains about 62 percent aluminum 3.5 to 4.5 percent copper and 1 to 4 percent magnesium with a tensile strength around 5000 psi. Girders made from it weigh about one third pound per foot yet can support 125 pounds per foot when used as beams under evenly distributed load.
The Other Kind Plays Up A Move Plan
A brief exchange shows neighbors discussing a move scheduled for tomorrow. One invites the other to help, highlighting community ties as they prepare to relocate.
Weather and mood clash in brisk household exchange
A brisk exchange compares vigorous exercise with weather. A maid reports cold and windy conditions while Mrs asks for rouge and notes the need for a healthy sushi today.
Weekend visitors and local notices in Crawfordsville Iowa
Mr and Mrs Frank Bentley of Waterloo visited relatives here for the weekend. Rev and Mrs W C Porter and family returned from trips to Buchard Neb Mayetta Kansas and Tarkio Mo. Miss Lillian Holmes finished a vacation trip driving eastern states. Several other locals and visitors appear at homes and churches with brief notes on travels, visits, and a cataract operation in Iowa City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ter
E. Dickey
Scott & Hardin
Groom
Jacob Simmering
Fred Stewart Hardware
Crawfordsville
Iowa
Aus
Frank Bentley
Waterloo
J. S. McCleary
W. C. Porter
Buchard
Neb
Mayetta
Kansas
Tarkio
Lillian Holmes
J. P. Jones
Vernon and Russell
Irwin
Charles Kennedy
Rockford
Ér. HW. Fisaburn
Washington
John Kennedy
Carlyle McCleary
Idaville
Indiana
Lulu McCleary
Somonauk, Krr
W. H
Mary McCall
McCleary
United Presbyterian Church
Ruth McElroy
Verle
Iowa City
J. M. Maxwell
Moore
Reynolds
T. H. Barnes
CC. ©. Burris
Cotter
Jamey Kelsey
Milton White
Amana
Dennis Thomas
Mary Borders
Cedar Falls
Joan McCall
Robter McCall, Jr
Journal Wants Ads Pay Trial Convince
A brief item notes a publication seeking payment for advertisements. A forthcoming trial is expected to determine terms or remedies. The report emphasizes the journal’s posture toward settling balances and resumes page space for sponsors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Journal
Iowa State Fair Opens With Massive Exhibits
Des Moines August fairgrounds transform into a temporary metropolis as carloads of stock and machinery are placed in exhibit buildings and dozens of concessions are erected. Officials anticipate up to 408000 visitors, while camping section tents rise to house ten to fifteen thousand guests by opening day. Grant Chapman of Ames is camp manager.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Aus
Iowa
Farm Bureau
Grant Chapman
Ames
First airplane camera car used in Milton Sills film
The first aerial camera car built to shoot serial scenes for Hard-Boiled Haggerty features a mono plane with pilot in a cabin and the cameraman director and script clerk in a conning tower. The film stars Milton Sills with Molly O Day and supports Arthur Stone Mitchell Lewis George Fawcett Yolande Avril and is showing at the Fox Theatre tonight and Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milton Sills
Haggerty
Sills
Paris
Molly O'Day
Arthur Stone
Mitchell Lewis
George Fawcett
Yolnr d'Avril
Hageeerty
Fox Theatre
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J. M. Latta
7Th Avenue
J. P. Knott
Dorothy
Max McDaniel
Billie Maxine
M. ©. Blair
Robert Alan
M. RE. Latta
Columbus Junction
P. B. Latta
Lloyd and
Alan
Everette Latta
Riverside
Scott Latta
Joan Lee
Anna Wilkins
Loren Horton
Will Saville
Donald Darbyshire
Lee Hesseltine
Lafe Finke
Jake Shrader
John D.patterson, Jr
Margaret L. Isom
Winfield
Methodist
W. W. Bowers
Jasper N. Mink
Standard Oil Company
Baptist Parsonage
Samuel Simmering
Eva Dickey
Arthur A. Vinz
Jeanne Johnson
Clifford Baker
Daugh
Maude Morrison
James A. Morrison
Marion Hutchinson
John Hutchinson
Webster City
Jno. I. May
Ft. Madison
Ainsworth
Field
de Molays
Masons
de Molay
Trenton
The
Ladies Social Union of
New Haven
Ruth Sheetz
Westphal
Twins United
Etta May Cleaver
Edward A. Cleaver
Harrison
Ohio
Etta May
Etta May Myatt
Toledo
Ind
Nellie Manners
Blue
Purp Sioux
Hosiery
H. 1. Ward & Co
D. MH. M, Inc
Iowa State
Ine
Pepperell
Rayon Lioomers
Kayser
Phoenix
Jiro
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