Social Gatherings Fill Sunset Park With Picnics
A flurry of neighborhood events fills Sunset Park with gatherings from Monday Afternoon Bridge Club to the Romine reunion. Friends host and attend picnics at Keota and nearby towns with meals, games, and friendly visits, while church groups plan future meetings and excursions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Romine
Sunset Park
Mra
J. H. Romine
Frank Romine
M. BE. Romine
Clarence Taylor
Murray
Iowa
Win Durst
W. H. Romine
Davenport
Ray Bickford
Ed Pickering
Charles Beatty
Willis
Community Club and Fraternal Notices
Announcements list a BE O W Club meeting with Mrs Roy Litters Wednesday at 7 30 p m Initiation for Rebekahs Friday at 6. Banks of Washington closed Labor Day. Shockley and Hotle reunion set for next Thursday Aug 31 in Richland. Christian Church Ladies Aid meets Thursday afternoon and Baptist Missionary Society meets Friday at 2 30 with officer elections.
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BE. O. W. Club
Roy Litters
Washington
Shockley and Hotle
Richland
Ladies Aid Society of the Christian Church
Baptist Missionary Society
Vieasant Hill Aid Society
Will Sav'ile
Women's Missionary Society to decide eatable sale funds
Friday after the Rebekah meeting the society will choose which home fund to support with proceeds from a forthcoming eatable sale. The 6s12 Women’s Missionary Society of the Second United Presbyterian church meets Friday at 2:30 PM with Mrs Sam McCleery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rebekah
Women's Missionary Society of the Second United Presbyterian Church
Sam McCleery
First Use of Khaki in Army During Spanish American War
The text notes the switch from heavy dark-blue to Khaki Cloth service uniforms for volunteers called for the Spanish American War. It states that this change followed the raising of troops and led to a complete revision of army dress regulations in 12.
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Tropics
Sailor Jack of Oregon Waits for Bride in Hills Cabin
In Marshfield Oregon the reclusive sailor nicknamed Sailor Jack, now over 80, has lived 40 years in a pine shack with an old rooster and three cows. He awaits a bride, despite deserting a church wedding decades ago, hoping a wife will come to the cliffside cabin and share his frontier life.
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Marshpield
Ore
Sailor Jack
Oregon
Jonesy
Marehfield
Jack
Tor
Smallest Kingdom on Earth Dies Reopens on Kauai
The tiny Nualolo kingdom on Kauai with a three-man guard survives in cliffs and surf. A rope ladder has been restored, reviving access to nine valleys and historic irrigation built by Hawaiians.
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Honolulu
T. H
Nuglolo
Kauai
Hawaii
Kamehameha the Great
Nualolo
Kingdom of
Nualolo Beach
Kamehameha
Nua-tolo
Honopu
H. E. Gregory
Bishop Museum
Old Kingdom
Man
Two Corpses Found At Steering Wheel
Kansas City August 30 two bodies were found bound to the steering wheel of a sunken auto over the Missouri river near Nearmann Wyandotte county sheriff Kepler telephoned police. Divers reported two corpses believed to be a white man and a negro seated at the wheel under eighteen feet of water. A crowd of about one thousand watched the search from the riverbank as sheriff Kepler said more bodies may be found.
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Kansas City
Missouri River
Nearmann
Kepler
Wyandotte County
Holland’s Lely Drives Zuider Zee Reclamation Plan
Dr. Lely, key Waterstaat minister, champions a near thirty year push to reclaim the Zuider Zee. Plans call for two dikes, converting 890000 acres into arable land and shielding coastlines, with 1918 law authorizing work and 1919 start on the North Holland to Kieringen dyke.
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Lely
Zuider Zee
Holland
Dr. Lely
Waterstaat
Netherlands
North Holland
Kieringen
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Ruth Lemley
North Lown
Sif
Yar
Guilpiers
Avem, Cuesis
George Foster
Carets
Boner
Elton
Washington Goon
J. A. Garden
L. 8. Patterson
Highland Sewing Circle
W. R. Murphy
Jesse Meeks
Christian Church of
Prairie Flower Church
Burham & Bowman Woods
Twin Bridges
Grunden
Edward Sehmacker
Kalona
Jacob Grunden
A. D. Bener
John J. Schrock
A. J. Swartzendruber
Wellman
Co. C. Christner
Wayland
John KR. Wenger
John Christner
William Heschley
Noble
John Martin
Will Stockman
Woman's Home Missionary Society
O.F. Laubach
Society of the M
West Chester
Hanhe
Anna Ross
Nash
Carrie Stauffer
L. Lauer
Will Conger
Mollie Tierney
Treas
W. S. Boyer
A. T. Augustine
Mra. Stanffor
Laubach
Rebekahs
C.D. A
K. C. Hall
American Legion
A. R. Oates
The
Presbyterian Church
R. E. Dougherty
J. T. Tucker
Genuine Mobilott
Washington, Lowa
Wieringen
Friesland
Piaam
North Sea
Mr. Konig
Brazil
Norma Talmadge
Studebaker
Washington Territory
Lewis McKeone
Washington County
Studebaker Sales & Service
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