Jackson Kendall Arrested in County Jail on Indiana Horse Theft Charge
Clarence Kendall alias Jack Kendall, wanted for horse stealing near Fowler Indiana, was arrested in the city and held in the county jail. Sheriff R H McCarty nabbed him after he arrived from Ottumwa on the Southwest Limited. Kendall faces extradition to Indiana for trial and potential punishment. Lieut Clara Metz of the Salvation Army Rescue Home solicited funds in town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence Kendall
Jack” Kendall
Fowler
Ind
R. H. McCarty
Indiana
Kendall
Washington
Washington County
Ottumwa
Southwest Limited
McCarty
Indianapolis
Clara Metz
Salvation Army Rescue Home
Thanksgiving service at United Presbyterian draws large crowd
Rev Rowe preached a strong sermon to about ninety attendees at the United Presbyterian church. The offering for the Children's Home at Council Bluffs totaled $7.10. On Wednesday night November 29 Rev Everett Campbell of Jhelum India gave an address to about eighty listeners, noting a boyhood friendship with the West Chester pastor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Presbyterian Church
Rowe
Council Bluffs
Everett Campbell
Jhelum
India
Campbell
West Chester United
Rexall 93 Hair Tonic Promises Hair Growth and Guarantee
The Rexall Store offers Rexall 93 Hair Tonic with a money back guarantee if not fully satisfactory. It claims to prevent baldness and dandruff, stimulate hair roots, and grow new hair, available in two sizes for 60 cents and 1 dollar at Cook & Sherman, 8 W. Cor. Square.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rexall
Cook & Sherman
W. Cor. Square
Thanksgiving Dinner News From Washington Society
The Misses Minnie and Etta Conner hosted about a dozen guests at a Thanksgiving noon dinner at their West Jefferson home. Numerous households hosted relatives and friends at dinners across the city including the Berdo and Wright families on North Iowa Avenue, the Phillips in west Washington, and the Otto and Walnitz families in west Washington. Several couples held evening gatherings and dancing at the Commercial club, with out of town guests from Cedar Rapids Sandwich Illinois Columbus Junction Muscatine Letts Richland Oskaloosa Keota and Chicago. A new marriage took place in Brighton with a reception then a large local gathering. The Queen Esther circle plans a December 1st doll social at the M E church to benefit an orphanage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnie
Etta Conner
West Jefferson Street
T. J. Berdo
Joe Wright
Mrs. Berdo
Iowa Avenue
Ralph Schuman
Vera Alberson
West
Washington Street
Gertrude and
Beatrice Klotz
Madison Klotz
Channing Hall
Columbus Junction
Commercial Club
James Cunningham
Henry Steck
City
Hazel Burgess
Cedar Rapids
Ada Robertson
Sandwich, Il
Gertrude Klotz
John Bailey
H. A. Otto
W. W. Walnitz
Wabnite
West Washington
James Coder
Wandalyne
Letts
Alpha Wabnitz
Musecatine
Roy Schiebel
J. A. Boyer
South Second Avenue
T. A. Boyer
Chicago
Mr. Boyer
T. S. McCarty
Richland
George McCarty
Oskaloosa
J. G. Ranous
Ruth
Keota
Richard McCarty
Cathari
Navy
Wesley Porter
Brighton
Clara
Howard Wentworth
Sophe
New Providence
Iowa
Joe Buzzard
John Teeter
Cora
George Clapper
Tina Clapper
Cora Clapper
James McCreedy
Washington
Miss Mayme McCreedy
Homer Birney
Edee Boyee
Mable Brinton
Edna McCarty
Washington County
As A. Birney
Queen Esther Circle
M. FE
Uncle Walt the Poet Philosopher Squash Satire
A humorous verse traces a single squash from farm to market to restaurant, exposing middlemen and pricing in a satirical take by Walt Mason. It follows the squash’s journey through farmers, jobbers, grocers, and freight charges ending with a farmer’s ire at inflated prices.
Closing Out Sale At Washington Coppock Road Farm
Auction notice for rural property and livestock to be sold December 14, 1911 at 10:00 a.m. near Eureka M. E. church, including horses cattle hogs corn hay machinery and implements with terms of 12 months on sums over ten dollars and a meal served by Eureka Ladies Aid Society. Auctioneers listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Eureka M. BE
Washington-Coppock Road
Jersey
D. J
McCormick
Eureka Ladies’ Aid Society
Sidewalk Sketches on William Shakespeare Career Fables
Sidewalk sketches recount a humorous portrait of William Shakespeare as a bus driver turned actor and ghost in a stock company. The piece jests that Lord Bacon wrote many works, and notes a playful, reform spelling epitaph after Shakespeare’s death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illiam Shakespeare
William
Hamlet
Shakespeare
Lord Bacon
Joseph Walter Home praised for child welfare and future branch
Mrs. Ed Kiburz reports satisfaction with the Joseph Walter Home for Children in Kansas City where mothers regain custody after care. A Newton family celebrates three children restored to their mother, with the home emphasizing temporary refuge without adoption to preserve family life and plans for a Oskaloosa branch next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Kiburz
Kansas City
Joseph Walter
Newton, Kansas
Kiburz
Newton
Joseph Walter Home
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Aya
Onouffer, Hughes & Co
Jack Kendall
ING AT
Fowler, Inc
McElhinney
George’s Corn and Bunion Shields
George
West Chester Church
Acee
I Society
J.S. Phillips
Howard MccCleery
Rose Club
East Main Street
Sandwich
al Tomlinson
John Tomlinson
Amos Moore
William Essley
Walt
Walt Mason
George Matthews Adams
A. J. Booth
G. C. Booth
Austin Sutherland
Ralph Dougherty
BY Howard L. Rann
Dren
Caner Music Comp’y
South Side Square
Kentucky Coal
D. A. Chalmers
Iowa Gas & Electric CO
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