Community Notes From Pleasant Plain Area
Local update reports births and illnesses including a baby boy born Feb 138th to Mr and Mrs Adam Zaharfis. Mrs Bern Hook assisting. Mrs Joe Soboski hospitalized in Ottumwa. Mr and Mrs Vince Gevyock visiting new niece with Alex Gevock family. Also Doris Anne Coffin and family at Jim Knox's for dinner. Mrs Clem Benda and daughter Mary Jane to Ft Madison for care. St Josephs club to perform Polishing Papa at Sapalla hall Feb 19. Mrs Soboski dies south of Pleasant Plain leaving four children. funeral from St Josephs church. Community-wide notice ends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pleasant Plain
Adam Zaharfis
Bern Hook
Joe Soboski
Ottumwa Hospital
Vince Gevyock
Brighton
Alex Gevock
Doris Anne
Albert Coffin
Jim Knox
Clem Benda
Mary Jane
Ft. Madison
Papa
Sapalla Hall
Dramatic Club
St. Joseph's Church
Joh Soboski
R. Pleasant Plain
Navestock’s reformer Wolfe faces town resistance and romance
Dr. Wolfe, young assistant to the ineffectual Dr. Threadgold, fights Navestock’s pollution amid local suspicion. He wins wary support from clergyman Flemming and inspires Jess Mascall while Edith Wilks and townsfolk debate his meddling and manners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Wolfe
Montague Threadgold
Navestock
Threadgold
Wolfe
Jess Mascall
Turrell
Robert Flemming
Flemming
Jess
Edith Wilks
Ivanhoe
Miss Wilks
Charlie Chipperton
Chipperton
Darky
Mr. Chipperton
Percy Tangs
Young Garvice
Studleys
Mr. Flemming
Mr. Wolfe
Dr. Threadgold
Father
Miss Caruthers Finds Love in Pennelton South
Marion Caruthers, a young northern teacher, moves to Pennelton to teach at a country high school. She clashes with locals over customs and meals, grows to like the South, and at a banquet confesses her love for Professor Hamilton, who reveals he plans to marry her.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edith Wilks
Jess
Miss Wilks
Wilks
Pennelton
Marion Caruthers
Miss Caruthers
Marion
Thompson
Mrs. Thompson
John Hamilton
Pennelton County
Professor Hamilton
Professor Thompson
South
Youth Prohibition Program Voices Defense and Debate
Speakers at a community program address youth defense against negative press and examine Prohibition enforcement. Topics include The Government Enforcing Prohibition and Will Beer End the Low mood with comparisons to Europe. A funeral and ill health notes close the report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John McNeill
Maurice Maxwell
England
United States
Manda Davis
Lucile Jones
Helen Huston
Alice Sweet
Henry Ord
Smedley Butler
Canrer Poling
Carson Packer
FE. S. Hebner
A. N. Porter
Temperance Rally Noted At Crawfordsville Church Event
Miss Nellie Manerse reports a Friday night service at the Crawfordsville Methodist Church led by Epworth League and Y. M. C. A. youth members. The temperance rally urged support for prohibition laws and featured local youths, Clarence Davis presiding, and combined boys and girls glee clubs under Howard Peterson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methodist
Epworth League
Clarence Davis
Boys and Girls Glee Clubs
Girls Glee Club
Howard Peterson
Manda Davis
Denis Jones
Radium From Great Bear Lake Deposits Planned for 1933
Canadian Radium reports several grams of radium extracted from pitchblende at Great Bear Lake in the Northwest Territories and says it will be available early in 1933.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Canada
Great Bear Lake
Northwest Territories
Nine University Men Elected to Phi Delta Kappa
Boston reporting nine University men joined the Alpha Lambda chapter of Phi Delta Kappa the national honorary education fraternity. Three faculty members were among those elected in the distinguished roll.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Alpa Lambda
Phi Delta Kappa
National
Also Mentioned on This Page
Lame Bode
F.l.sargant
Nahcotta
Ravrcharos
Frank Hawks
E. Pleasant Plain
Alez Gevok
Sfhe Challeng
Warwick Deeping
Robert M. McBride & Co
King Features Syndicate
Las
Jessica
Edith
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
WNN Service
William Supalla
Herman
Fairfield
Bll White
Alice Williams
Burdette
George Yeager
Vera
W. W. Twinam
Merle Twinam
Charles William
Kate Davie
Ralph Rees
Kenneth
Boyd Twinam
Crawfordsville
Nellie Manerse
Bob Roberts
R. I. Williams
Earle Monson
Orchard
Dillavoy
Ivor Davis
Owens
Lisle Anwyl
Ed “Ann
Ann
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