Local Notices and Social Updates From The Region
Dr Luella Shaw specialist in women’s diseases visits Congress Hotel. Mr and Mrs S A Walker return home from their son James Walker’s in Ainsworth. Edith Bailey leaves for Des Moines to teach math at West Des Moines High School. Earl Moore from Chicago visits family and plans college this year. H A Reed of Brimfield with Andrew Whittaker visit Reed home north of the city.
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Luella Shaw
Congress Hotel
S. A. Walker
James Walker
Ainsworth
Edith Bailey
Jennie Bailey
Des Moines
West Des Moines High School
Earl Moore
Chicago
BP. A. Moore
H. A. Reed
Brimfield, IL
G. W. Reed
Andrew Whittaker
Brimfield
Reed Home
City
S. Joe Brown
Iowa Federation of Colored Women Clubs
Oskaloosa
G. W. Black
Opening Attraction at Opera House Tonight The Cow and The Moon
Local notices report the Opera House opens with a musical comedy The Cow and The Moon. Music events and social arrivals fill the day with guests visiting Washington and surrounding towns.
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Opera House
Robin Hood the Historic Blackguard of Legend
A condensed tale traces Robin Hood from 12th century outlaw life in Sherwood Forest to his feats against the rich. It notes archery prowess, tortuous age law, and legend of his death at a convent with a final wish to be buried where his arrow lands.
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England
Robin Hood
Sherwood Forest
Nottinghamshire
Royal Forests
Stow
Little John
Eves
Robin
Major
Nottingham
John
Still Denied Dibbles Feels Ongoing Disappointments
The fragment notes a character named Dibbles facing a string of letdowns. It recalls a childhood wish for the moon and later desires a musical comedy star, concluding with a yearning vain for a son. The tone suggests continued denial and unfulfilled personal goals.
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Dibbles
Mary De Voe and Homer Smith Wed in Keota Ceremony
Mary De Voe and Homer Smith of Keota were married Tuesday August 27 in Oskaloosa at the Darbsshire home. A picnic supper at Cox Springs followed with Des Moines guests including Harve Busby and Walter Brown. Mary Vorman hosted a gathering for visiting Misses Madeline and Esther Cook from Sigourney with the young ladies sharing fancy work and refreshments by Bessie Dovee and Ophelia Miller.
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Mary de Voe
Homer Smith
Keota
Oskaloosa
Charles Darbsshire
Gladys Warner
Maye ‘Crone
Ruth Knapp
Mabel Brinton
Bnor Hayes
May Cocklin
Nellie Combs
Grace Jones
Edna Rownd
Messrs
Fred Taylor
Nynde Stryker
Marion Brinton
Des Moines
Harve Busby
Lioyd Neiswanger
Walter Brown
Cox Springs
Mary Vorman
North Iown Avenue
Madeline and
Esther Cook
Sigourney
Bessie Dovee
Ophelia Miller
Pleasant Plains Missionary Society to meet at Mrs Gallagher’s
The Pleasant Plains Missionary Society will be entertained at the home of Mrs Ed Gallagher on Wednesday September 4. All members are asked to be present.
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Pleasant Plains Missionary Society
Ed Gallagher
Many Washington Students Headed to Colleges Across Country
A large exodus of Washington youths to colleges has begun with about fifty names gathered of students leaving for study. Twenty schools are represented in cities such as Monmouth Cedar Falls Cedar Rapids Ames Ames Des Moines Chicago Madison and others with students including Mary Gibson Helen Wylie Roy Mayhew and Jeannette Kyle among many.
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Journal
Monmouth
John Simpson
John Acheson
Harvey Matthews
Troy McElhinney
Arnot Wylie
Mary Gibson
Hazel Stewart
Helen Wylie
Lolia Paul
Lucile Miller
Mildred McLaughlin
St. Ambrose
Davenport
Everette Bailey
Martin Whittaker
Frank Casey
State Teachers’ College
Cedar Falls
Clayton Clapper
Edna Rownd
Hattie McConnell
Cedar Rapids
Don Chilcote
Parsons
Fairfield
Ralph Case
Iona Wesleyan
Mt. Pleasant
Roy Mayhew
State College
Ames
Paul Crits
Howard Baxter
Ben Helmick
Rachel Knupp
Charles Barrows
Mary Lemley
Joe Walton
Edgar Mactin
Geneva
Beaver Falls
Earl A Moore
State University
Iowa City
Lynn Baker
Harold Blair
Rose Langenburg
Jeannette Kyle
Mabel Buckley
Musician Drowns While Vacationing in Atlantic
Maquoketa Iowa August 31 telegram reports the drowning of Earl A Beckart a 25 year old music teacher from Maquoketa who drowned yesterday afternoon in the Nishnabotna river near Atlantic Iowa where he was spending a week’s vacation Funeral services and burial will be in Atlantic Beckart had lived in Maquoketa since March
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Maquoketa
John Galuska
Earl A. Beckart
Nishnabotna
Atlantic
Mte
O' Beckhart
No Preaching at the A. M. E. Church This Weekend
Rev. Brown of the A M E church is called to Fairfield for a quarterly service today through Monday so there will be no preaching service at the church tomorrow.
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Rev. Brown
Fairfield
Brown
Quiet backache relief advert from Lemmon's Pharmacy
An advertisement urges relief for a lame back with Chamberlain's Liniment applied twice daily and massaged into the affected areas. It notes availability at Lemmon's Pharmacy.
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Chamberlain’s
Lemmon's Pharmacy
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