Christmas Crowd At Club House In Des Moines Area
A Christmas gathering hosted by Judge and Mrs. C. A. Dewey and others was held at the Country Club last evening at five o'clock. The out of town guests included families from Richland Chicago Davenport and Iowa City joining local members for carols and a tree. About fifty attendees enjoyed a festive clubhouse celebration with Santa Claus part of the traditional event.
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Country Club
Santa Claus
St. Nick
C. A. Dewey
Almon
Des Moines
Fred Smith
Richland
Howard McCleery
Harmony Community Club Holds Christmas Exchange
Thirteen members and a guest met at Mrs. Walter Longer’s home on Thursday December 18 for a business meeting followed by games contests and the annual Christmas exchange. Each attendee received a gift and a 200d two course luncheon was served by the hostess and Mrs. Charles Schiebel.
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Harmony Community Club
Walter Longer
Charles Schiebel
Girl Scouts Investiture Service Highlights Local Event
The Girl Scouts held a public investiture at the Y M C A last Thursday with about seventy five parents and friends in attendance. Seven new Scouts received badges from captain Mrs Robt Templeman. A play The Shoemaker and the Elves followed the ceremony with three patrols participating coached by Miss Elizabeth Sherman. Santa Claus handed out homemade candy and extended season greetings.
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Robt. Templeman
Elizabeth Sherman
Santa Claus
H. H. Club Holds Gift Exchange and Elects Officers
Ten members of the H. H. club met Mrs. S. P. Finch Thursday for their annual Christmas gift exchange and to elect officers for the new year. Officers are President Louis Rath, Vice President George Finch, Secretary Glen Green, and Treasurer Fred Weekly.
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H. H. Club
S. P. Finch
Louis Rath
George Finch
Glen Green
Fred
C. Hildebrand
Helen Brown
Roxie Sheafe
W. A Bealer
New Ears
Miss Besse Jones Hosts Christmas Dinner
The Jones and Fields families, eleven people in all, gathered yesterday at Miss Besse Jones home for a Christmas dinner. Out of town guests included Mr and Mrs Paul Hunt of Davenport and Mrs Otto Jones and daughter Mary of Davenport. Miss Jones proved a capable host as the banquet was delicious and the gathering merry.
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Pleasant Hill Church
W. D. Stafford
Jones and Fields
Besse Jones
Paul Hunt
Davenport
Otto Jones
Mary
Miss Jones
Sorosis Club Christmas Party in Ainsworth
Mrs. S. A. Stephens hosted the Sorosis club of Ainsworth for a Christmas afternoon on December 19. The event featured festive decorations, a program including "My Earliest Christmas Memory" and a modern Christmas story, a gift exchange, and a two course luncheon served by the hostess and assistants. The Hearth Side club also held a Christmas gathering at John Keating’s home with an oyster supper and gift exchange. next meeting will be at Miss Tena Gerdes’s home.
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S. A. Stephens
Sorosis Club
Ainsworth
Ifolpall
Harold Lege
John
Margaret
Jennie Keating
Etieine Spenser
Guy Koch
Miss Guishell
Ralph Wehr
Tena Gerdes
Owl Found Crashed In Police Station Cell After False Hold Up
In Pittsburgh a dazed screech owl was found in a police station cell after Thomas Woodward reported a would be robber tried to stop him by throwing an object at his windshield. Police investigated and searched the scene, discovering the injured bird unharmed aside from shock.
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Pittsburgh
Thomas Woodward
McKeesport
Will of Harvey Woodward funds Alabama boys schools plan
The Birmingham capitalist’s will sets up a trust endowment exceeding 7.4 million dollars to launch a group of boys schools in Alabama under a new education plan. First teachers must be men from north of a Cincinnati east west line, with 200 pupils per school and a ten to one teacher ratio. Schools emphasize religious history and unbiased pupil inquiry, under the Alabama Education Foundation as trustee and board of governors.
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Birmingham
Ala
Dee
Harvey
Woodward
Birmingim Capitalist
Cincinnati
Alabama
Ccurriculum
The
Alabama Education Foundation
Social clubs host year end gatherings this week
Mrs Pred Stewart will entertain the Booster club Tuesday Dec 28 at noon for a Christmas exchange for members and children. Please notify hostess is unable to attend. Mr and Mrs Cloxsee Stewart will entertain the Rosemary club Tuesday evening Dec 23.
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Pred Stewart
Booster Club
Community notices list holiday gatherings and meetings
A charity rate event at Ue Washington Cleaners is set for Tuesday afternoon December 23 hosted by the Junior Welfare League with listed organizers. The Westeyan Home Missionary Society meets at 6:30 Monday for a pot luck supper. West Chester Pythian Sisters schedule a 7 pm Christmas party after a Tuesday December 23 temple meeting with a ten cent gift limit and homemade candy. Valley Evangelical church announces a Christmas program on Christmas Eve.
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Ue Washington Cleaners
Junior Welfare League
Jean Moore
Betty Stephens
Doris Clow
Mildred Jane Wicher
Maury Ellen Lytle
Elizabeth Thorne
Ruth Marie Morrison
Virginia Lemley
Charlotte Squires
Ruth Sarter
Jetty Mount
Ruth Boller
Westeyan Home Missionary Society of the
M. E. Church
West Chester
Four Citizens Named in Hurdsfield Bank Robbery Plot Cleared
In North Dakota the Hurdsfield bank robbery plot purportedly involving Sheriff John Gates and deputy Joe Wicks was dismissed after alibis. Judge J L Johnston released Gates and Kenneth MacDonald after testimony placing them in Fort Yates 180 miles away. Bonds set at 5000 dollars. Nord and Wicks granted a one week continuance.
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Fessenden
N. D
State Bank
Ifordsfield
J. L. Johnston
Sioux County
John Gates
Kenneth MacDonald
Fort Yates
Hurdsfield
Joe Wicks
A. R. Nord
Gates
Regular meeting notice of N G 22662
The notice calls a regular meeting on Tuesday evening December 23. Attendees are requested for substantial attendance and work in first degree by order of N G 22662.
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Oo. O. BF
N.G
Hoover signs federal farm board bill for 150 million
President Hoover signed the 150 million dollar federal farm board bill, authorizing operations for the coming year. The Senate had approved the bill Saturday night, bringing total farm board appropriations to 400 million dollars to date.
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Washington
Hoover
Federal Farm Board
Senate
Farm Board
Reformed Bandits to Lecture on College Courses
Chicago December 22. Reformed criminals with polished appearance may teach at the University of Chicago in a new program on crime techniques. An Angiet Vollmer, former Berkeley police chief, will run courses opening January 60 for law officers nationwide to study bootlegging banditry safe cracking payroll robbery and even murder.
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Chicago
University of Chicago
Angiet Vollmer
Berkeley
Calif
Vollmer
Ormerly
Hot Dog Gains Social Status in Paris Nightlife
In Montparnasse a new hot dog saloon attracts stylish after the theatre crowds. Beautifully dressed patrons mingle at steel tables and carpeted rooms while a footman and a red shirted chasseur oversee service. Hot dogs sell for ten francs.
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France
Montpirnasse
Co“Y Jouel
Ritz
Return of Prince Louis to Monaco Amid Disorder
Riots marked Prince Louis II’s return to Monaco as a mob clashed with the army. Police stations were targeted and about 40 constitutionalists were arrested while the ruler, accompanied by his grandson and granddaughter, faced protests over casino directors’ power and public neglect claims.
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Carlo
Monaco
Prince Louis Sr
Principality of
Mon- AU
Mon- Hco
Stone
Prince Louis
Prince Raintier
Antonette
Vtamntier
Principality
Monte Carlo
Noted ecologist Dr Adolph J Griet dies from serpent bite infection
The body of Dr Adolph J Griet noted lecturer on ecological economic and historical subjects was held for funeral arrangements after dying from an infection in his leg caused by venomous snake bites. Dr John Ruddock attended him and relatives could not be located. A daughter and two cousins were in New York while two sons resided in Cuba and the Orient.
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Los Angeles
Adolph J. Griet
Greit
John Ruddock
New York
Cuba
The
Orient
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Lloyd Lytle
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Girl Scouts
Woo
A. B. Schmoeller
Kate Shalla
C. H. Guther
Priscilla
Fostoria
Westphal
Queide
Hearth Side Club
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