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Community Notes From Keota Area Thanksgiving Week
West Chester and Keota items recount Thanksgiving visits and local travel. Reports on Ford cars replacing horses, school events, church activities, crafts sales, and a string of social notes including visits by Meredith Trumbauer and the arrival of a new baby. Also mentions whooping cough cases and local obituaries for FE Singleton and George Dillon.
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West Chester
U. PY
Augustine
Chicago
T. T. Augustine
Howard
John Babcock
Lone Commission Livestock
Noah
Washington
Lee Craig
I. E. Coffey
Fairfield
Mildred Craig
Mr. Gregory
Des Moines
The
Christian Church
Virgil G. Nalley
Drake's Bible College
Keota
Lou Allender
Ottumwa
Hlomer Stephen
Calvin Dunn
Dorothy Mae
FE. A. Singleton
Pleasant Plain
Verne Singleton
East Keota
George Dillon
Eli and
Richard Dillon
Dee
Ord
Marriet Conklin
Ottumwa Hospital