Four Schools Compete in Declama tory Contest at Crawfordsville
The State Preliminary Declamatory contest took place at the Crawfordsville high school auditorium with four schools Olds Ainsworth Brighton and Crawfordsville competing. The program featured Oratorical entries The Crisis in Character Kenneth Ebb Olds Keys to Success LaVerne Graber Crawfordsville So You in the Next War Mary Belle Olinger Ainsworth Modern Harpies Elsie Stout Brighton and Dramatic Withering Heights Mary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Manners
Crawfordsville
Dee
Olds
Ainsworth Brighton
Kenneth Ebb
Dayton Grove Social Notes and Local Visitors
Dayton Grove residents share weekend visits with relatives in Corydon Wellman and nearby towns. Shipped stock to Chicago, quarry work halted by rain. Local entries include various prize winners and a university critic judge session led by Prof. Joseph Free of Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Moore
Dayton Grove
Dee
Wm. Kendell
Billie
Betsy Rae
Corydon
Richard Radeke
Sigourney
Paul Hughes
Irena Oldfield
A. E. Knotts
Car) Oldfield
Lois
Dean
Wilbur Moore
Wim. Kendell
Keith White
Washington
Robert Stephens
Wm. Hambree
Harold Timmons
Raymond Hamanen
J. N. Moore
Harry Dusenberry
Chicago
Prof
Joseph Free
University of Iowa
Iowa City
Honor Lyle Lantz at East Highland birthday party
Mr and Mrs Lyle Lantz and Jetty hosted a Saturday card party in East Highland to celebrate Lyle Lantz birthday on December 4. Guests enjoyed multiple tables of cards with high honors awarded to Joe Liska.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyle Lantz
East Highland
Frank Mineer
Jetty
Lyle
Joe Liska
Low
Social notes from South 76 area families and visitors
The column lists visits and gatherings from December include Mr. and Mrs. John Adams and families in Harper, Walter Fisher guests near West Chester, Warren Davis and family for supper, Prairie Flower school closures, Rex McCarty and Helen Ruth in Waterloo visiting daughter Mrs. Warren Davis, Thanksgiving with Walter Fisher, Will Martin’s woodcutting, Don Davis shipping cattle to Chicago, Frank Greiner naming their daughter Norma, hog shipments to Kalona, Robin Cooney visiting Henry Prymek, Mrs. Ella Marshall learning of her brother Charley’s serious condition, Gail Murdock and Linus Yeegy families visiting, Loyd Wynn and Jim Collins from Carson at Frank Mineer Sr.’s home, and Austin Collins returning to visit relatives in Carson and Council Bluffs, plus Wilma Mineer and Lenore Roth visitors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren Davies
South
John Adams
Frances Linnenkamp
Harper
Howard Harrace
Anna May
Frank V. Griener
Walter Fisher
Charles Harley
West Chester
Warren Davis
Reita
Bobby
Oren Romine
Miss Marten
Prairie Flower School
Rex McCarty
Helen Ruth
Waterloo
Harold Fisher
Des Moines
Bob Fisher
Frank McAvoy
Bert Dunbar
Win Shannon
Will Martin
Don Davis
Chicago
Frank W. Greiner
Norma
Ronald Swaites
Linus Veggy
Gail Murdock
Kalona Market
Robin Cooney
Henry Prymek
Ella Marshall
Charley
Gladwin
Linus Yeruy
Linus Yeegy
John Wieland
Loyd Wynn
Jim Collins
Carson
Frank Mineer
Austin Collins
Council Bluffs
Wilma Mineer
Omer Roth
Lenore
Anna Roth
Ards
John Koehler
Harry Campbell
John
Jennie
Carl Schneider
Omer Wagner
Dale Darbyshire
Tommie
Howard Witting
C. B. Schneider
Robert Koehler
Washington
Lester Pronga
Lester Louis
C. H. Wolfe
Joe Wolf
Mildred Mae Myer
J. W. Meyer
Rex. Smith
Thanksgiving visits and family updates in Grandview
Grandview notes Thanksgiving gatherings with many local families visiting kin in Webster City and Macon Missouri. Residents report health updates, hospital progress, and travel to Chicago for cattle shipments, with members recovering from illness and an extended network of relatives keeping up with one another.
Entertain Guests for Thanksgiving at Koehler Home
Prairie Center residents hosted Thanksgiving at the John Koehler home with guests from Ames Crawfordsville Fairfield and Washington. Co operative family dinner day included the Wylie home guests and several local families sharing a turkey meal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Koehler
Don Wylie
Prairie Center
Loox
John Koehler
Henry Martin
Ames
John Martin
Crawfordaville
Peter Koehler
Hhine Koehler
Mra
Milburn Underwood
Carl Schneider
Omer Wagner
Frank Schneider
Washington
and Mirs
Sam Warran
Rilia
George Howard
Fairfield
Victor Blattner
Clarence Shull
W. M. Montgomery
Ralph Howell
Crawfordsville
J. W. Meyer
Virginia
Theo Meyer
Haskins
Clarence Work
Will Rich
Distances in the West Used the Vara Unit
The western measurement system once used the vara, a Spanish unit equal to 33 inches, reflecting historical surveying practices in the region.
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Klein
Coronado
Klein Klothing Ko
Russia
Heinola
Grandview
Delbert Maxwell
Harry Jahncke
Delbert
Webster City
Elmer Karnes
Merle Enfield
Charles Green
Chas. Green
Dwane Longwell
Donald Smith
Galen Bull
Richard Cray
Floyd Griffith
John Waeamon
Grant Griffith
Macon
Missouri
Leo Gislain
Swank
Klothing Ko
Glover
Stoo
Kaynee
Kaynee Pajamas
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