Local Notes From West Chester and Surroundings
Local items record residents visiting, traveling or leaving for Des Moines, Iowa City, Lake Forest, and universities. People like J G Burham, M Nicola, S A Sands, Ray Simpson, Miss Dot Keister, Miss Kessie Purvis, Mrs C H Pickens, Miss Accie Clapper, Mrs A M Lovelett, and Miss Flo Purvis are noted with movements between West Chester, Centerville, Crawfordsville, Brighton, Des Moines, and Ames. The Rev Wilber McBirney arrives from Chicago to preach at Covenanter church. Miss Flo Purvis discusses consolidating area country schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Angel
Devils
Vienna
M. Nicola
Columbus Junction
Ms. S. A. Sands
West Chester
Ray Simpson
Centerville
Chas. Clendenning
Flo Purvis
Coal Company Ad Promises Prompt Delivery and Service
If possible put in your coal on pleasant days in winter. Don’t cut up the sod and give us a chance to deliver as you want it. Get clean dry coal and better service, save the men and tie mules. Keep a good supply on hand and call Anderson & Wilson.
Methodist Guild Plans Monday Meeting at Miss Edna Leon Home
The Standard Bearers of the Methodist church meet Monday at 4 15 PM at Miss Edna Leon home. The evening section of the literal department of Panola will also meet with Miss Conner that Monday. Nearby, a birthday party for Calvin Nelson drew immediate friends to his west city home with a social afternoon and a noon dinner. Guests presented a handsome chair to Mr Nelson as a keepsake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methodist Church
Edna Eon
the Paanola
Miss Conner
Calvin Nelson
City
Mr. Nelson
Local Wedding Unites Bessie Noel and Verner Jackson
Miss Bessie Noel and Verner L. Jackson wed at high noon yesterday at the Noel home north of Ainsworth in a ceremony led by Rev. Nicola of Battle Creek Michigan. Blanche Adams played piano as sixty friends witnessed the arch ceremony. a four course dinner followed. The bride, long a local resident, and the groom, a Bardolph Illinois native, will live on a nearby farm about eight miles west of town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlies Noel
Ainsworth
Bessie
Verner L. Jackson
Blanche Adams
Nicola
Battle Creek
Mich
Henrietta
W. Jackson
Bardolph
Ill
Miss Cecil Rogers Hosts A B C Club Gathering
Miss Cecil Rogers presided as hostess for the A B C club gathering last evening. Nearly all members attended and the event featured various entertainments followed by a dainty luncheon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cecil Rogers
Young People Social At McElhinnney Home
The First United Presbyterian youth and friends held a social at Mr. and Mrs. T. J. McElhinnney on South Iowa avenue. Guests wrote letters for an improvised post office, then enjoyed a musical program with solos, a banjo and piano piece, a vocal quartet, and a humorous dialogue featuring Nora Corette and Don Guthrie. Refreshments ended the evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First United Presbyterian Church
T. J. McElhinnney
Iowa Avenue
Mary Clendenning
Hoy McElhinney
Albert Cherry
Lucile Miller
Lloyd Logan
Will Beard
Henry Steck
Twenty Fourth Anniversary PEO Tea Hosted at Stewart Home
The P E O Chapter 1 P E O celebrated its 24th anniversary with a formal tea at Dr. and Mrs. C W Stewart’s West Main street home. Eighty four guests dined on a three course turkey dinner after Miss Wilma Rownder’s vocal performance. Place cards featured water colored marguerites for ladies and goats for gentlemen, crafted by Miss Josephine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. W. Stewart
West Main Street
Wilma Row
Miss Row
Josephine
P. E. O. Toasts and Burlesque at Mrs. Miller's Chapter Gathering
Mrs Ola Miller presided as toastmistress at a P. E. O. gathering attended by chapter members and guests. Toasts by Mort Keeley Frank Sage and B. Dewey drew laughter with humorous verses and a burlesque of Steck's package sale entertained guests including A. R. Miller Kay Bovee and local dignitaries as carnation and yellow white colors adorned Stewart home reflects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steck
A. R. Miller
Kay Bovee
M. W. Keeley
Frank Sage
8. B. Dewey
Stewart Home
Hiner Keck
P. BF
Mary Massey
Denver
Harvey Young
Winfield
Chas. Pauls
Brighton
Cast Iron Sinks Sign Stuns Curious Bohemian Readers
A soggy man at a plumbing shop studies a single sign reading Cast Iron Sinks. He declares the sign obvious to any blank fool, a quip noted in the February Bohemian.
Cure a Cold in One Day Bromine Tablets Claim
Advertisement claims a single day cure for a cold using laxative bromine quinine tablets. Druggists refund money if it fails. Box bears E. W. Grove’s signature and is priced at 25 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. W. Grove
Murder of Clara Rosen Shocks Ottumwa
Clara Rosen daughter of Mr and Mrs Fred Rosen of Ottumwa Iowa was murdered last evening. She was struck on the head with a stone near a bluff and dragged into an old house where her jewelry was stolen. An all night search found her body this morning with the head nearly beaten. Arrests have been made in nearby towns but no crew fixed. She was a soloist in a local church and highly regarded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cial
Evening Journal
Clara Rosen
Fred Rosen
Miss Rosen
Navy Captain Suspended For Intoxication On Duty
Captain Edward F. Qualtrough of the battleship Georgia has been suspended from duty for six months and forfeited ten numbers in rank after being found guilty of conduct prejudicial to the good of the navy while on duty. This action was announced from Gibraltar on February 6 by a Special to The Evening Journal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Captain Qualtrough
Georgia
Gibraltar
Evening Journal
Edward F. Qualtrough
Slow But Sure The Bohemian Mag February
A witty exchange in The Bohemian Magazine notes Poberly’s patience as he chooses lengthy methods. Ashley recalls a fatal incident where he lay on a railroad track to be killed by a freight train, illustrating his deliberate approach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cook
Poberly
Ashley
Bohemian Magazine
Mrs Geo Johnson and Daughter Travel West This Morning
Mrs. Geo Johnson and her young daughter were passengers traveling westward this morning for a day trip. The brief item notes their travel as part of a local social column.
Girl slain and body dropped in cistern in Dayton
Police investigate a murder in Dayton Ohio after the body of Lizzie Fulhart eighteen from Vandalia is found in a rear cistern at a vacant house. Her brother identifies her. bruising and a burlap cover indicate violence. Albert Wilkie, her former sweetheart at Pavis Sewing Machine, is held on suspicion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dayton
Lizzie Fuihart
Vandalia
Samuel Deeters
Adam Fulhart
Albert Wilkie
Pavis
Wilkie
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the Evening Journal
Orville Elder
Washington, Ia
Erring
Astmain
Washington. Mutual
Ooanl
W. G. McCreedy
Journal Office
Jno
Matucha
J. W. Scott
Aisa N
Letts Bros
Iowa
Weather Forecast
Washington, D. C
The
J. G. Burham
Dot Keister
Des Moines
Kessie Purvis
Town City
State University
C. H. Pickens
A. M. Lovelett
W. Stout
Carrie
Fannie Winter
Anaes
Lake Forest
Howard Crozier
Haskins
Waterloo
Thos
Arthur
Sister
Miss Lou
Iowa City
W. Knotts
Fred Carpenter
Wilber McBirney
Chicago
A. 8. Folger
Covenanter Church
Bowman
Anderson & Wilson
Sociefy
Ottumwa
Spe
Eral
Oskaloosa
Albia
Bers
the Sanitary Grocery
West Side
Dayton, C
PTT
Amethyst
H. FF. Steck
Numa
Clendenning Bros
the Kelly
Mason Transfer & Storage Company General Agents
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