Brighton Social News includes visits from relatives and travelers
Brighton notes list residents and guests visiting from Chicago, Denver, Marblehead, Kingston and Keokuk plus trips to Lawrence Kansas Lamar Colorado Muscatine Mt. Pleasant and Dublin. The column also mentions a Koch family reunion at Saunders Park and a missionary society mite-box opening at the Methodist church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellen Parks
Betsie Mullen
Arthur Flitner
Greyoull
Wyoming
Lawrence
Kansas
Lamar
Colo
W. T. Brinton
Thomas
Phyllis
Denver
Addie Brinton
Albert Thurston
Kenneth
DeKalb
K. M. Elmore
J. N. Irwin
Fred Kohl
Marblehead Mass
Rohl. Laughrnge
Bobby Joe
Keokuk
Cleo Trier
Dublin
Jake Koch
Leland Horton
Janet
Roberta
Lorne McNeese
Koch
Saunders Park
Mt. Pleasant
G. C
Maurice Libe
Dale Crandall
Washington
Picken
Women's Foreign Missionary Society
Metho
Light Bearers Visit at Dist Church Meeting
A group of Standard Bearers led by Mrs Hellner gave an engaging demonstration at the church Friday afternoon. The Little Light Bearers were guests of the society, and after the program refreshments were served.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dist
Hellner
SIRINGTOWN NOTES OF COMMUNITY EVENTS
SIRINGTOWN July 19 reports visits by Bob Brooks of Cedar Rapids to his uncle Ethan Brooks and family. Elmer Freyenberger and family visited near Havre. Mrs Edna Widmer and children spent Sunday with Henry Yoder. Rennie Schantz and mother Mrs F R Schantz welcomed visitors Viola. Noah Widmer and Norma visited Clarence Boshart near Washington to see his unwell father Rapp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. J. Rich
Stringtown
Bobby Brooks
Cedar Rapids
Ethan Brooks
Elmer Freyenberger
Wm. Freyenberger
Havre
Edna Widmer
Henry Yoders
Rennie Schantz Apent
F. R. Schantz
Viola
Noah Widmer
Rides on tongue during Runaway
An accident at a farm near Living Lake left Oscar Davis unhurt aside from a cut leg after a side-delivery bolt ignited panic in the mules. He was thrown between the mules as the load dragged and the back-end iron seat broke. Neighbors freed him and straightened the harness. one mule sustained some cuts and the wagon suffered damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rennie Dawson
Living Lake
Oscar Davis
Oscar
Richard Birney
Bernard Hermann
Gotlings
Lyman Cook
Flint
Michigan
John Simmering
Donald
Charles
Burlington
Dee Moines
Chicago
Navy Service
Maud
Ethel McCreedy
Ames
Vince Marek
Homer Birney
Fred Herman
Phyllis Brown
Alice
Dorothy Walker
Europe Demanded Sugar First Agricultural Concession
The text notes sugar as the initial agricultural commodity Europe pressed for from American enemies, signaling negotiating leverage in early postwar economic talks. It highlights sugar's prominence in trade discussions between Europe and the United States and implies broader wartime or postwar economic strategy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
SHILOH Social Roundup and Italian Bergamo Travel Note
SHILOH community notes report Mr and Mrs H J Schoonover entertaining at the Edd Showalter home near Gladwin and multiple visits among local families including the Beenblossoms Warwick Pratt Caldwell and Sigafoose. A brief Italy travel aside describes Bergamo’s three level town with funicular railways and commuter movement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Inez Schoonover
Shiloh
H. J. Schoonover
Joan
Edd Showalter
Gladwin
Mack Beenblossom
Harold Beenblossom
Paul
Donald
Hattie Warwick
Montezuma
Margaret Pratt
William Caldwell
Charles Swift
Billy Caldwell
Orville Caldwell
Lake McBride
Sam Marsh
James
L. F
Howard Sigafoose
Lawrence Swift
W. H. Sigafoose
Bergamo
Italy
Rainbows in Western Sky Explained by Halo Phenomenon
The Weather Bureau states that rainbows do not appear in the western sky in the afternoon. With proper atmospheric conditions a sun halo forms, a colored ring around the sun, which is frequently mistaken for a rainbow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Weather Bureau
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