Social events and engagements fill a community week
The Monday Bridge club hosted twelve guests for a luncheon as officers were elected. The Busy Bee club planned a year’s program with demonstrations on clothes care. A shower and dance honored Miss Helen Allbaugh and Bernard Walker ahead of their wedding. A Methodist class banquet featured a ball game toast and socializing, while the Art Department met for a Japanese and Chinese art program. The Odd Fellows and Rebekahs shared a luncheon after a lodge event. A dinner in honor of visiting relatives James Rauthgauss and Mrs. W. C. Mayberry closed the week.
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Peter Berdo
Joe Wright
Harry Ward
Busy’ Bee Club
Lewis Duke
Bernadine Grosseup
Bernadine Moran
Clennie Jones
Columbus Junction
Helen Allbaugh
Bernard Walker
Highland Orchestra
Miss. Allbaugh
F. L. Wilson
Diepley
N. M. Speidel
Carl Roberts
Frank Appleby
Hollingsworth
Rebekahs
Ralph Kellay
Des Moines House Seat To Be Won By Lot Draw
Des Moines January 24 Ralph Rumley Republican and M F Springer Democrat both of Leon Iowas Decatur county will draw slips from a box to decide who sits as representative after a tied contest The committee found the two candidates tied Springer had a nine vote majority certificate Rumley seeks exclusion of a precinct with six more votes than voters If the report stands the house will hear the draw in its presence unprecedented in Iowa legislative history.
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Des Moines
Ralph Rumley
M. F. Springer
Leon
Decatur County
House
Springer
Rumley
Springer and Rumley
Iowa
Community church notices and upcoming events
Presbyterian choir rehearsal Thursday at 7 00 PM prayer meeting 7 15 to 8 00 PM Baptist ladies tea Friday 2 30 PM at the church ALC KB League play Friday January 26 Wellston Farmers Union supper Bethel church Friday January 26 Queen Esthers oyster supper Tuesday January 20 BP B E Chapter 1 meeting Thursday with Mrs C J Roberts Brighton Encampment 58 regular meeting Friday 7 30 PM First U P choir attendance remains. social postponed Womans Baptist tea postponed W Co T U called meeting all day Thursday at Mrs George Alexander bring scissors lunch Rebekah club all day meeting Thursday sew towels requested
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Wellston
Farmers Union
Bethel Church
Ladies League of the Baptist Church
George Alexander
Rebekah Club
Wellston Farmers Union and Shipping Association
Bethel Methodist Church
Epiphany Celebration in Tarpon Springs Highlighted by Cross Dive
Dr. Ray H. Dean reports from Tarpon Springs Florida on the Epiphany festival, detailing the three hour church service, water procession, and cross toss. A boy diver wins the cross earning a college education, with others receiving gifts from Greek attendees.
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K. H. Dean
Tarpon Springs
Fla
Dean
Tampa
Greece
Florida
Spring Bayou
United States
Constantinople
Old Mill Wins Court Battle Over River Dam
A Des Moines court ruling restrains the Iowa Falls Electric company from maintaining its dam at a height that would interfere with J A Harp’s 1857 old mill operation a half mile upstream on the Iowa River. The case began in 1920 with extensive expert testimony on river flow and head.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Iowa
Supreme Court
Iowa Falls Electric Company
J. A. Harp
Iowa Falls
Harp
Electric Company
Hardin County District Court
Orris Couple Move to Farm Near Olds
John Carter, once ill for a week, died at his home south of Crawfordsville. Rev G W Hanna and L H Mc Farland visited in Washington. Will Cochran of Cappock was a town visitor yesterday. Arthur Orris and wife moved yesterday to a farm near Olds.
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Crawfordsville
Arthur Orris
Olds
G. W. Hanna
L. H. McFarland
Washington
Will Cochran
Cappock
John Carter
Harmony club wives host oyster supper for members
The Harmony club wives entertain the ladies at the James Swift home Friday evening with an oyster supper. All ladies asked to arrive by 6 30. Other notices list meetings for the Women’s Home Missionary Society, Masonic lodge, White Shrine, Fannie Coppin Mile society, and a Farmers Union gathering with supper at Bethel Methodist church.
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The
Harmony Club
James Swift
Womens Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Church
A. L. Griffith
Washington Street
Ab Anderson
Lesson
Supreme Court Rules River Power Shared With Old Will
The Supreme Court held the old will entitled to river power equally with the electric company. It noted little cost to the electric company to rearrange its machinery and dam to obtain the needed power without hindering the river or harming the mill, thus upholding the lower court.
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Electric Company
Supreme
Supreme Court
Mechanical jargon drives car safety into focus
A quoted snippet from Scientific American notes a detail overlooked in auto design. Detroit Motor News contrasts it with a car that seems to manage nearly all functions except taking charge of the driver’s body.
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Scientific American
Detroit Motor News
Hudson Bay Rising Land Heads Toward Vanishing Bay
Scientists report the shoreline around Hudson Bay is rising rapidly as beaches lift seventy feet above water. In centuries this uplifting may erase the bay its historic explorer Alendrick Hudson was set adrift on uncharted waters and never seen again.
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Hudson Bay
Great Bay
Alendrick Hudson
Affluent Mendicants Debate Charity Standards
In a Birmingham Age Herald column a speaker named Mr Grumpson argues that aiding a distressed brother is proper but fears a beggar with a motor car may harm him at night, expressing hesitation about giving money. The piece satirizes charitable impulse and urban danger.
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Mr. Grumpson
Moral Strength From Clean Habits and Readiness
A quoted reflection on how practical cleanliness and neat appearance supply moral strength in emergencies. It cites a line from Phelps about a well pressed collar or fresh glove aiding a man when a wrinkle or a tip could fail him.
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Phelps
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B. E. B. Lass
Methodist A Day School
L. F. Henderson
Dr. Bowers
N. D. Anderson
James Rauthgauss
W. C. Mayberry
New Castle
Pennsylvania
Legislative Committee
Cides
Presbyterian Choir
ALC. KB. League of the A. Meb. Church
Queen Esthers
M. BE. Church
BP. B. E
C. J. Roberts
Brighton
U.P
Ray H. Dean
Lyon’s
High Court
OLD Mill
Rere
Aco
forlOhesterfield Cigarettes
C. M. Lodge
Highland Four Orchestra
White Shrine
Commercial Club
Fannie Coppin Mile Society
Cecil Euler
L. A. P. Jones
C. P. Jones
Affluent Mendicants
East End
Washington, Iowa
Nese
Lindebaker
O. K
A. G. Long
H. L. Carr
Wellman Savings Bank
Johnson’s Grocery
Campbell
Johnson
Takhoma Biscuit
Dr. Kings
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