Community Notes From Eureka Village Visits and Farm Work
Miss Esther Perry of Verdi neighborhood visited her uncle Sam Perry over Sunday. Glenn Beenblossom helps U D Beenblossom with hay as threshing may start early next week with W D Hesseltine doing the threshing. Mr and Mrs Wilbur Beenblossom and Ed Miller family traveled to Ft Madison Denmark and Wever via Oakland Mills. The corn looks poor from Oakland Mills to Ft Madison but Washington county shows the best on the trip. Next Sunday features a regular preaching service with Sunday school at 2 pm and preaching at 3 by Pastor Wm H Slock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eureka
Esther Perry
Verdi
Sam Perry
Glenn Beenblossom
U. D
Oakland Mills
Ft. Madison
Washington County
Wm. H. Slock
Kephart Family Visits Highlight Rural Route Four News
Rural Route Four notes guests visiting in Washington and Coneville area. Mr and Mrs Robert Kephart and family spent a week at Charlie Kephart and Ed Simmering home. Various Kephart relatives and friends visited, and mourners attended the funeral of Mrs Geo Jarrard in Coneville.
Local Harvest Notes and Social Visits in Titus
Will Sheetz, Tom Carris, Chas Johnson and Glen Anderson shipped hogs from Chester Tuesday morning. Claudia Davis stayed at the Carl Vorhees home. H T Carris spent Monday in Davenport. Roy and Verne Dawson aided Art with oats. Andy Augustine and family hosted at Glen Anderson home. Claude Davis attends Republican convention in Des Moines this week. Vivian Lemley visited home over Sunday. Leo Glecian finishes work for L O Beenblossom and will work for John Zimmering this fall. Glen Anderson helps Verne Dawson harvest. Glen Beenblossom cut oats for L O Beenblossom. Chas Lemley was a neighborhood business caller last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Titus Titus
L. O
Chas. Lemley
Grace Hill and Haskins Local News Briefs
Community notes from Grace Hill and Haskins with visits, funerals, medical updates, a near-accident, threshing preparations, hospital surgeries, and residents traveling to Muscatine Washington and Iowa City. Mentioned are the Griffiths family, Engel family, Wes Engel home, and local farms near Grace Hill. The period includes several minor illnesses, a birth day club gathering, and travel to Riverside Exelsior Springs Cedar Rapids and Clinton.
Seven fall from vehicle injures several at Grace Hill visit
None were seriously hurt but bruised and shaken. Miss Helen Hanley and her sister suffered cuts. The Richardson group was en route to Grace Hill cemetery for Joseph Engel's interment with Mamie Mikseh and Mrs John Hanley and three daughters. Vivian Lemley visited from J E Lemley's home as other families spent Sunday at the parental house. Harvesting winds down as threshing begins. Mayhew family farewell picnic planned in Sunset Park to send Helen Mayhew to California to teach next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Hanley
Richardson
Mamie Mikseh
John Hanley
Grace Hill
Joseph Engel
Vivian Lemley
J. E. Lemley
Tom Carris
Lester Reenblossom
Joe Schlatter
Winifred Carris
Clement Griffith
Sunset Park
Washington
Mayhew
Helen Mayhew
California
Berry Halden Visit From Albia At Gray Home
Berry Halden wife and baby of Albia are visitors at the C. K. Gray home. Miss Martha McBride of Olwein came Friday for a visit with relatives and friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ainsworth
Berry Halden
Albia
C. K. Gray
Martha McBride
Olwein
Queen Esther bake sale set for July 24 in Co operative store
Ainsworth reports a Queen Esther bake sale at the Co operative store on Saturday July 24 starting at 2 p m. All ladies invited to contribute and patronize. Mrs Ethel Henderson is chairman. Also notes Rev and Mrs A W McBlain lost a tire returning from Davenport and found it nearby by chance. Mr and Mrs N V Luellen from Fid on Iowa visited their former pastor near Monday. Ainsworth King’s Heralds meet Sunday July 25 with many new members added.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ainsworth
Co-operative
Ethel Henderson
A. W. McBlain
Davenport
N. V. Luellen
Fidon
Iowa
Marion
Itowa
Ainsworth King's Heralds
Funeral of Mrs Geo Jarrard near Cone
Mr and Mrs Cloyce Benson attended the funeral of Mrs Geo Jarrard cousin to Mrs Benson near Cone on Tuesday afternoon Then Cole traveled to Washington Wednesday to spend a week with grandmother Mrs Ellen Wallace Mrs G L Gimmel and daughter Beulah who had been visiting at the Wm Beardsley home to return Friday to Jackson Michigan with Miss Ollie Beardsley They spent Wednesday in Washington Ralph Leffler and family visited relatives here Sunday and Monday before returning to Davenport on Tuesday
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph MccCreedy
Fairfield
Ralph
Illinois
Cloyce Benson
Ainsworth
P. H. Boyd
Iowa City
Clara Binney
Mode Harbison
Arthur Moberly
Excelsior Springs
Wm. Roberts
Kota Welliver
Washington
Sands
Grandpa Ebner
Grandma
M. R. Ebners
W. F. Welliver
Will Acheson
Sherm Benson
Lucile
Haskins
Cloyce Benson's
Vivian
Hazel Booth
Lola Welliver
Geo. Jarrard
Cone
Cole
Ellen Wallace
G. L. Gimmel
Beulah
Wm. Beardsley
Jackson
Mich
Ollie Beardsley
Ralph Leffler
Davenport
Many Masons Preparations For Muscatine Temple Cornerstone
Preliminaries for laying the corner stone of Muscatine's new Masonic temple set for 2 PM next Monday. An expected 500 visiting Masons, including Iowa grand officers, will attend with Grand Master West and Dr. J. B. Rendall as principal speakers. A 50-voice choir and 25-piece Muscatine concert band will provide music as delegations from fifteen nearby towns arrive. A brief lodge session at 1 PM precedes a 1:36 PM parade along Sycamore and Front streets to the temple at Third and Walnut.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muscatine
Iowa
No. 2
F. H. Little
Masonic Hall
Betting on ball game spurs calls for new law
Des Moines reports a Sunday train carried Estherville fans to Buffalo Center for a 1–0 Buffalo Center win. A prominent Buffalo Center resident claims bettors won more than 5000 dollars, prompting organizers to push a bill criminalizing betting on baseball at the next legislature session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Estherville
Buffalo Center
Merle Hay Road Endures Hard Service From Des Moines
The state highway commission says the Merle Hay paved road from Des Moines to Camp Dodge, eleven miles, has endured the hardest service in the state. In nearly three years it has carried thousands of army trucks and daily traffic with minimal upkeep. The brick surface sits on a concrete base and remains in good condition aside from a few cracks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Highway Commission
Merle Hay
Des Moines
Camp Dodge
Fort Madison Battles Swarm of Mormon Bugs at Dusk
Fort Madison endures a nightly invasion from what locals call Mormon bugs or buffalo flies. Since the Keokuk dam created Cooper lake, the pests have thrived in the lake’s waters. In the evening they cover porches. though harmless in small numbers, their million strong presence forces residents to sweep up countless invaders each morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Madison
Mississippi River
Keokuk
Cooper Lake
Voting machines face cost and clutter critique
Reports from rural districts deem voting machines an expensive luxury to store for two years and costly to deploy and dismantle. While useful in congested city precincts they are seen as impractical for rural areas, with the War Department urged to curb the nuisance using chemicals as in Panama.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Department
Panama Canal Zone
Salvation Army aids missing person locating effort
The Salvation Army, active in every community and state, positions itself as a vast international detective network for locating missing people. An officer from Camp Dix who vanished after discharge was traced from Iowa to Kansas City, Milwaukee, Detroit, Canada, and finally Tifton, Georgia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salvation Army
Union
Camp Dix
Barnes City
Iowa
Kansas City
Milwaukee
Detroit
Canada
United States
Tifton
Grocers Association Faces FTC Action Over Boycott Tactics
An Iowa Nebraska Minnesota wholesale grocers association runs afoul of the federal trade commission for alleged boycotts of nonmember firms to push higher prices. The charge centers on unfair competition as member firms seek to exclude others or sell on harsher terms. The report notes the group had aided earlier DOJ actions against big packing firms. Greek national Emanuel Stavroulakis, now a naturalized American, was recently decorated at a Des Moines army recruiting station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Justice
Washington
Iowa
Nebraska
Minnesota
Emanuel Stavroulakis
Des
Stavroulakis Receives Distinguished Service Cross
Corporal Stavroulakis earned the Distinguished Service Cross for leading a patrol against a machine position south of Soissons, France, on July 1, 1918, after his leader was killed and later earned an oak leaf cluster for extraordinary heroism on July 19, 1918. He carried a vital message under heavy fire and again led a patrol in an attack on an enemy gun nest despite wounds in both legs, with the machine gun nests ultimately captured.
Fourteenth Cavalry to Move to Fort Des Moines Command
The Fourteenth cavalry, now on the Mexican border, will transfer to Fort Des Moines once facilities are ready. Col. Robert A. Brown to command. Fort Des Moines became U S Government Hospital No 26 during World War I, serving thousands of wounded soldiers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fourteenth Cavalry
Fort Des Moines
Robert A. Brown
U. S. Government Hospital
Rebuilding Starts After Hospital Demolition in France
Direct from France reports the former hospital site must be undone with dances held in the building. A Red Cross building a YMCA hut and a Knights of Columbus hut were erected. It is unclear if they will remain. About 1000 horsemen will reinstate the new cavalry division.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Aring
Red Cross
Knights of Columbus
Government aid to aliens for naturalization papers
Government agents are commissioned to assist soldiers who are aliens in obtaining naturalization papers. The act waives restrictions for veterans of the late war, allowing a single process without the five year residence period. Soldiers must present discharge papers and bring two reliable witnesses.
Hydrographers Map Seas and Chart Inland Waters
A hydrographer, a professional who prescribes sea routes for steamers, makes maps and charts of the sea and other waters. He determines and reports navigable conditions, charts areas and rivers, measures depths, analyzes bottom quality, tidal effects, and currents.
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Robert Kephart
Charlie Kephart
Ed Simmering
Howard Hopping
Walter Gardner
Tony Simmering
Elmer Kephart
Roy Kephart
Bryant
Little Child
New Mexico
T. L. Dodds
Chas. Kephart
Frank Kephart
Velma
Karl Kephart
Silas Caldwell
Geo Jarrard
Coneville
Homer Kephart
Paul
Donald
Peter Schowalter
Wayland
Will Fisher
Mamie Fisher
Laura James
Wes Engel
Brighton
Wesley Engel
Geok
Presbyterian Church of
Grace Hill Cemetery
Wesley Mikschel
Ed Libe
Roy Libe
Lloyd Hayes
Sam Miller
Paul Harvey
W. J. Taylor
Clem Richardson
Ira Miksch
Chas. McKinstry
Haskins Haskins
Wilson Welliver
Wanda Nieswanger
Ernoon
Sycamore Street
Front
Third Streets
Front Street
Towa Avenue
Third Street
Masonic Temple
Third
Walnut Streets
Henry County Farms
Winfield, Wyman and
Mt. Union
Winfield
Oldson Red Ball
Yarmouth
A. W. Shearer
Winfield, Iowa
Goodyear
North Marion Ave
Washington, IA
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