Local social notes recount gatherings at Briley home and family events
The Christian Church ladies met at the Briley home on South 2nd avenue for a planning session and bake sale on the east side of the square next Saturday the 21st. The White Way club hosted a day at Mr and Mrs W O Ralston with meals, games, music, and a luncheon invitation for January 24. A school board event featured Miss Edna Tobin and D D Stevens at a gym gathering with a two course lunch and musicians. Miss Alma Karel was surprised by Iowa Southern Utilities guests, and Mr and Mrs Frank McCulley hosted a noonday dinner for old neighbors. The Fortnightly Art department met at the Chilcote library with talks on Lowestoft porcelain and an Offize Gallery travel talk. A Methodist parsonage wedding united Alta Fetters and Harod Beenblossom with a single ring ceremony, a six o’clock chicken dinner, and travel plans for the newlyweds.]
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian Church
Briley
South 2Nd Avenue
White Way Club
W. O. Ralston
Floyd Crayne
W. O Ralston
Fred Foriash
Francis Carlson
Ainsworth
Edna Tobin
D. D. Stevens
Dunlap
Virginia Moore
Alma Karel
Glen Baumgarten
Iowa City
Iowa Southern Utilities Company
Chilcote Library
Mary Simons
Lowestoft
Carl Keck
Florence
Methodist
Alta Fetters
G. L. Fetters
Harod Beenblossom
Mack Beenblossom
W. W. Bowers
Leslie Beenblossom
Childd
South Ith Avenue
Miss Fetters
The
Community Club and Lodge Announcements
The Just Us club meets at C. B. Yard’s home Wednesday after noon. The M K E Ladies Aid holds its second quarterly social Friday January 20th with a pot luck luncheon at 1 pm. Rebekah regular meeting Friday evening at 7 30. Washington Lodge No 26 A B and A M works second degree Thursday at 8. Christian church Ladies Aid hosts an eatable sale Saturday morning at Bidwells east side of square. Friendly Thrashers club meets with Mr and Mrs Norman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Just Us
C. B. Yard
M. KE. Ladies Aid
Washington Lodge No
A.B
A.M
Ladies Aid of the Christian Church
Bidwells
Community church and club notices for January events
Bean hosts Friday supper at seven. The Woman's Relief Corps meets Saturday January 21 at 2 30 PM. The Woman's Missionary Society meets with Mrs C J Roberts at 3 30 PM Friday for election of officers. B Y P U members invited to January 20 calendar party at 7 30 PM.
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Bean
Woman's Relief Corps
Woman's Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church
C. J. Roberts
Historians Debate Sinai and Horeb Mountains
Historians differ on which peaks are Sinai and Horeb in the Old Testament. They agree the mountains lie in the Sinai peninsula between the Red Sea gulfs of Suez and Akaba, with Jebel Musa and Jebel al Mir proposed as the two peaks or as alternate names for a single summit.
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Mount Sinai
Mount Horeb
Sinai Peninsula
Red Sea
Gulf of Suez
Heaven or paving pile punchline
A London Tit Bits gag features a resident protesting a pile of broken paving outside his gate. He asks where it should be taken and a workman names a place. The Irishman Paddy quips that he would rather take it to heaven, prompting a sharp retort about the distance.
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Paddy
Heaven
London
Bead Trade Tale at Fort Mink Foreshadows Caution
A young Englishman trading glass beads for furs at Fort Mink encounters Toofus the fort guide who warns that bead value has changed. He explains beads serve only to trim tourists, as Indians now barter shrewdly rather than accept old exchanges.
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Toofus
Fort Mink
Captain Marryat
Louisville Courier-Journal
Proof Positive Cheese Case Goes Off In Deadpan Fashion
A manufacturer avoids special car charges by packing 200 pounds of limburger in a rough oblong box and treating it as a corpse. At the first stop he checks the baggage car, stands by the box in a mournful pose, and the baggage man, thinking it a relative, learns the twist.
Victor records and local notices appear in LOCAJ column
Special: four Victor needle packages offered for 25 cents. Various locals report travel to Eldon Fairfield Warsaw and West Chester for visits and business. Advertisements ask for seed corn buyers and taxi services. The Child Welfare Bureau seeks homes for Iowa children, urging foster care for boys 5 to 13 with address for inquiries.
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Edwin H. Sands
Sup’t
Child Welfare Bureau
State House
Des Moines
Iowa
Political Announcement for County Auditor Candidate
J T Matthews announces candidacy for a second term as County Auditor subject to June Republican primaries. He states the decision reflects the will of Republican voters.
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J.T. Matthews
Braden Correspondent Notes Local Movements and Visits
Mrs C M Maxwell reports on a string of family and neighbor travels. Braden and nearby residents travel to Peoria Des Moines Davenport Muscatine and Mediapolis for visits meetings and social events. Multiple kinship ties surface as families host and relocate within Iowa and Illinois communities.
Local News From Ainsworth And Surrounds
Mrs E W Spessard and family left for Akron Ohio for an extended visit. A E Sands son Neal and Milburn Spessard attended a basketball game in Iowa City. Mrs Emma Long visiting Lexington to see her mother Mrs Mary Stewart who is not recovering well. High school students with above ninety average exempt from finals. Declamatory contest at High School auditorium on Wednesday February 1 at eight. Encourage the young speakers.
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Ainsworth
Delaney
Akron
Ohio
A. E. Sands
Neal
Milburn Spessard
Iowa City
Emma Long
Lexington
Mary Stewart
Stewart
Verna Palmer
Helen Acheson
Mildred Edmondson
Martha House
Wilma Pearson
Chas Rademaker
Ruth Rabenold
Alice Wolfe
Hien Boyd
Margaret Acheson
Paulie Clegg
Howard Pearson
Alcidine Spencer
Keith Lord
Janior McConnell
Agnes Lopshire
Standings for Y Class A and B Boys Teams
Class A results show No 2 over No 1 18 to 10 and No 3 over No 4 18 to 14. Standings list No 1 Junior Boice 1.500 captain, No 2 Jack Lytle 1.000 captain, No 3 Edsel Brown .500 captain, No 4 Wm Stewart captain. Class B results: No 4 beat No 1 11 to 0, No 2 beat No 4 7 to 4, No 5 beat No 3 4 to 3. Standings: No 1 Robert Roe .220 captain, No 2 Jimmie Wells .750 captain, No 3 Willis Jones .000 captain, No 4 Francis Crone 1.000 captain.
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Junior Boice
Jack Lytle
Edsel Brown
Wm. Stewart
Robert Roe
Jimmie Wells
Willis Jones
Francis Crone
Triv Jones Captain Details and Saturday Schedule
The note lists Triv Jones as captain and Bob Sorrell with a .506 stat. It outlines a Saturday schedule with class 1 versus 4 and 2 versus 3, followed by class B matchups 1 vs 3, 2 vs 5, and 4 vs 6.
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Triv ‘Jones
Bob Sorrell
Aunt's blunt toast overshadows engagement scene
A young woman introduces her fiancé to a fearsome aunt who never minces words. On departure the aunt quips that she would rather have him for lunch than for life, delivering a biting, memorable line. Scientists now propose using poisonous gas to kill mosquitoes.
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Karei
Frank McCulley
Dorothy
John Warnock
Will Mayhew
Bacilla
E. M. Bridges & Co
Milfinery
Rebekah
Thrashers Club
Mrs. Norman
LOCAJ
Victor
al Johnson
Eldon
Maurice Wicks
R. BE Thomas
Fairfield
Sam Leeper
Warsaw
Ill
Duffy & Booth
Charles Schulty
West Chester
McNamaras
C. W. Stewart
J.R. Kruser
Kansas City
Tock Island
Anderson
A. E. Ambrose
Rock Island
Sherman Gingerich
Baraboo
Wis
Ralph Dougherty
Winfield Smouse
California
Jake W. Hendrickson
Aucetioneer
Green
Child, Welfare Bureau
Board of Control of State
Towa
Braden
John Fredrenson
Olds
Peoria, Jr
Henry
Decatur
Chicago
Ralph Orr
Cotter
Earl Berkshire
William Shelton
Kansas
George Booth
Latimer Davis
Mary Twinam Place
Elmer Mason
John Adams
C. M. Maxwell
California Grain & Lbr. CO
California Junction, Iowa
Onner’s Orner
Conner
Nice
Conner’s Grocery
Rothschild’s
Women’s Union Suits
Mentor
M”’ Union
Etter
Orig
Knox
Klein Klothing Kompany
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