Socials and gatherings fill winter week in West Chester
The Leader class at West Chester Methodist meets at Milton Ross home for a boys social with baked dishes, games, and radio music. The Independent club hosts a luncheon after a stormy afternoon, while Wellston ladies share crafts and plans for an extra meeting. The Knights of Pythias and Pythian Sisters stage a joint social with a dance and readings. A Wakefield birthday toast honors Mr. Win Smouse on his 75th. Various church groups plan bake sales, socials, and showers as winter events continue.
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West Chester Methodist Church
Milton Ross
Ross
Anna
Opal Ramee
Edison
James Chorpening
Ladies Club
Wellston
Eleanor Rehmel
Thureday
Dave
Rosella Hotle
Knights of Pythias
Pythian Sisters
Eigheen
Washington
I-0
Brownsville
Texas
R. B. Craeger
Leonard Smouse
Colorado Springs
C. C. Reeves
Prairie Flower Church
P. M. Phillips
Reeves
Willing Workers
Prairie Flower Sunday School
Mary Ella Scott
Mabel Wiley
Ogle Teets
Phyllis Reeves
Mary Scott
Near
W. A. Phillips
West Washington Street
South Honors Gen. Robert E. Lee With Granite Monument
General Lee’s head emerges in stone on Stone Mountain as granite blocks descend from the platform. Governors and Confederate veterans join Mrs. C Helen Plane in overseeing the unveiling of a monument intended to honor the Confederate dead with a vast panorama of Dixie’s Immortals to follow.
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South
Gen
Robert E. Lee
Associated Press
Atlanta
Robert K. Lee
Stone Mountain
Lee
C. Helen Plane
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Armies
Confederacy
Lincoln Inquiry Now Turns to Brother of Wife in Iowa Town
Cedar Rapids reports reveal Phillip Shoup brother of Warren J. Lincoln's slain wife and her brother Byron Shoup. Phillip received a plea letter signed with Mrs. Lincoln's initials but traced to Lincoln himself asking for 100 dollars for Byron Shoup in Evanston Illinois. Police were notified, and the letter contributed to Lincoln's capture. Phillip Shoup suspects Lincoln killed both victims and burned their bodies after noted quarrels.
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Lincoln
Iowa
Associated Press
Cedar Rapids
Warren J. Lincoln
Aurora
Byron Shoup
Phillip Shoup
Shoup
Evanston
Ill
Michaels
Community notices list weekly meetings and gatherings
Regular meeting announcements for K Pythian Sisters West Chester Knights of Pythias and local clubs scheduled for January 21 22 and related events. The notices urge full or good attendance and include meetings of Queen Esther Walnut Woman's Club and Bible study at Mrs P F L Wilson's residence.
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Pythian Sisters of
West Chester
Knights of Pythias
E. Sigafoose
C. C
Plans For Mexican Rebel Move Through Texas
Washington officials study the Mexican situation focusing on Tampico blockade by rebels. The cruiser Richmond nears Vera Cruz to repatriate Tacoma crew while American guidance may help keep Tampico open to commerce and aid talks with De la Huerta leaders.
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Washington
Tampico
Richmond
Vera Crug
Tacoma
Wood
White House
Coolidge
de la Huerta
Disobeyed Orders But Saved a Train and Lives
Frank Green recalls Jack Keating, locomotive engineer, who defied orders to back up a passenger train to a siding to avoid a deadly collision with a snow plow. The action spared three engines, the crew, and passengers, with only one nearby signal noting the event.
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Jack Keating
East End Street
Dickinson
North Dakota
Frank Green
Missouri Division
N. P. Railway
Northern Pacific Railway
Alf. White
Jack Leonberger
A. I., Nichols
N. C. Lawrence
HL. Dickinson
Vernon K. Green
Ang
France
England
Ireland
Knife River
Freigh
Richardson
Paul Munn
Gladstone
Taylor
Keating
Lozig
Phillips
No. 1
Washington
Dickinson Press
Witout
Met
Iever
Teddy Roosevelt
Richardton
Frank Grapene
Young Vanderbilt Takes $8 a Week Job
William H Vanderbilt heir to a $20 million fortune begins work as a messenger at Lee Higginson and Company in Boston earning eight dollars weekly. He mixes with the firm’s clerks during the day while returning to his Beacon Hill home at night with his wife Emily ONeill Davis and a large household. He aims to learn banking from the bottom rung and appears at the office each morning ready to begin work.
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Associated Press
Boston
Mass
Wm. H. Vanderbilt
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
Lee, Higginson and Company
Vanderbilt
Louisburg Square
Beacon Hill
Emily O'Neill Davis
Modern Moses in a World of Change and Leadership
A lecture argues that nations seek a modern Moses to deliver them from economic and social wrongs. It compares Moses’ training in Egypt and solitude in the fields, urging leaders to combine vision, humility, self sacrifice, and practical experience to confront organized power and moral battles such as child labor and prohibition.
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Moses
Lenine
Ghandi
Mussolinni
B. C
Egypt
Hfe
Pharaoh
Israel
God
Despondent man commits suicide in Waterloo
James Hearn, 45, despondent over incurable illness, shot himself last night in Waterloo. Tuberculosis listed as the cause. He leaves a widow and two children.
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Waterloo
James Hearn
Art Department meeting set for Tuesday afternoon
The Art Department will meet Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. Frank Appleby and requests full attendance. The notice also lists the American Legion Auxiliary meeting Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in Legion rooms for installation of officers with hostesses Mrs. John Wilson and Mrs. Harold Tolander.
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Esther
Edith Otto
Bible Study Department
PF. L. Wilson
Art Department
Frank Appleby
Noticon
American Legion Auxiliary
Legion
John Wilson
Harold Tolander
Cold spell to continue in Iowa through Sunday
Des Moines dispatch reports continued cold weather across Iowa with a chance of moderation Monday. Thermometers may fall to five below zero tonight in central Iowa as noon readings show 12 degrees and warmer conditions to the east. No lasting warm-up expected before Monday per the weather bureau.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Weather Bureau
Fortnightly Music Dept to Meet Monday Evening
Notice from the Fortnightly club invites the music department meeting on Monday evening with Mrs. Hugh McCleery.
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Hugh McCleery
Evening Social Highlights At Club Dinner
Members met for a congenial indoor gathering with warm fellowship and ample servings of chicken and all, as a community dinner followed by a social afternoon. The lively event emphasized generous helpings and a relaxed, friendly atmosphere.
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WHS
McAdoo Campaign Sets Independent Wisconsin Ticket
Wisconsin manager L O Connell repudiates the state Democratic advisory convention and its Springfield ticket. He says McAdoo forces will submit a distinct complete ticket to Democrats at the spring primaries.
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Associated Press
Chicago
L. O'Connell
Springfield
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