Chautauqua Ends With Record Attendance And Pledges
The Washington Chautauqua closed after ten days of programs described as the best in twenty years. A record number bought season tickets. daily receipts averaged about $100, boosting hope for a surplus. Band concerts drew large crowds, with many attendees viewing from outside the tent.
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Washington Assembly
Washington
Association
Carl M. Keck
Treasury
Chautauqua Association
Chautauqua Board
Rewds
Harold Bachman
Louie Jones
Jesse Miller
Mr. Williame
Gladys Barnoski
Chautauqua
Silas Ross
Likely to Try Boyd Case in September
The state of Iowa against A J Boyd of Fairfield is expected to be moved to Washington county for a September term trial on a venue change. Clerk J D Glasgow has a request for blank subpoenas and awaits the case transcript, with Boyd alleged to have aided theft from railway freight cars.
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Glasgow
Boyd
Fairfield
Gracy Houck
Wayne D. Houck
Ruth Freel
Richard Freel
Wendl Reha
Nettie Reha
Elizabeth May Keller
Winfield S. Keller
Clarissa M. Harris
James W. Harris
Harold G. White
Rosina White
Bessie Prymek
Homer Prymek
Wagner
State of Iown
Ray M. Ramsey
Edw. Muller
Frank Marloff
A. N. Grady
Justice Court
Ainsworth
John Grecian
Justin North
Four Chair Barber Shop Keeps High Standards
The Globe barber shop promotes four chairs and four barbers Don Young Shelly Eberling John Waymack and Bob Wilson as partners. They offer prompt efficient service with hair bobbing styles and White Mud Massage touted as a top beautifier.
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Globe
Iowa
Washington
Don Young
Shelly Eberling
John Waymack
Bob Wilson
Waymack & Wilson
Gravel Hauling Resumes On Kalona Road Project
After a brief stoppage caused by a missing gravel shipment to Washington the T C Kyle fleet is back in operation. Trucks are now five miles north of Kalona surfacing the road and will continue to the halfway point toward Washington before sourcing gravel from Kalona.
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T. C. Kyle
Kalona Road
Washington
Kalona
Old Michigan Avenue lots left vacant at event grounds
The text notes that the eastern side of the grounds on the old time Michigan Avenue failed to fill this year. High heat from dying trees without west shade kept the hot lots empty, and organizers claim growth in advance tickets may boost next year.
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Michigan Avenue
Baby health clinics to hold in multiple towns next week
The Wellman Advance notes clinics for babies and underweight children will be held at Riverside Kalona Wellman Brighton Crawfordsville and Ainsworth next week. Effie Haines says examinations at Wellman High School start Monday at 9 00 am and are free to all. The effort promotes preventive health with State Shepard Towner law backing and public cooperation urged.
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Wellman
Riverside
Kalona
Brighton
Crawfordsville
Ainsworth
Effie Haines
Wellman High School
Wiegman Buys Princess Theater in Montezuma Iowa
G W Wiegman has purchased the Princess Theater at Montezuma Iowa and will take possession early next week. The moving picture house seats five hundred and Mr and Mrs Wiegman will move to Montezuma at once. He previously managed the Cort Theater in Des Moines for about a year and sold it last spring.
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G. W. Wiegman
Princess Theater
Montezuma
Ashton Clemons Dies in Des Moines Civic Leader
Des Moines civic leader and former Des Moines Chamber of Commerce president Ashton Clemons died at a local hospital. He headed an automobile sales company bearing his name.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Ashton Clemons
Chamber of Commerce
Smouse Family to Attend Smouse Association Meeting in Altoona
Will Spend Time in the East. Winfield Smouse and Mrs. S B Dewey with Mr and Mrs Claire Dewey and Glen Conrad plan to depart Monday for Altoona Pennsylvania for the Smouse Association of America annual meeting on September 1. After the meeting they will visit locations in Pennsylvania and Maryland and stay in Cumberland about a week. They were born in Cumberland and have many uncles and aunts and cousins there. They expect to return home around September 15.
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Winfield Smouse
S. B. Dewey
Claire Dewey
Glen Conrad
Altoona
Pennsylvania
Smouse Association of America
Maryland
Cumberland
Heavy Docket for September Term at County Court
106 new cases filed for the September term signaling one of the heaviest dockets in county history. Foreclosures exceed thirty, with many carried over from March amid post realty boom activity. Eight divorce actions and several related cases also listed amid a broad set of criminal preparations including a Boyd larceny case moved from Jefferson County.
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District Court
Cleo A. Luther
Mabel
Luth
More Than 600 Autos Parked on Grounds
Closing performance of the hhautauqua drew 637 automobiles on the grounds or adjacent property. East gate 422 entries and west gate 50 entries tallied. about 90 west of the main entrance and 75 east of it. Nearly 4,000 people attended.
Con Hickey Old R R Man Dies In Rock Island Home
Cornelius Hickey known as Con Hickey died today at a Catholic home for the aged in Rock Island Illinois. A longtime Rock Island railroad employee he retired due to age and ill health and had saved money to buy a life from the home. He was a native of Ireland.
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Cornelius Hickkey
Washington
Con
Rock Island
Illinois
Hickey
Rock Island Railroad
Well Known Doctor Dead
The Associated Press reports pioneer physician Phil Lips of Afton died in Creston this morning at age sixty five. He was a well known figure statewide through medical circles.
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Associated Press
Creston
Phillips
Afton
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