Season Tickets On Sale Soon For Washington Chautauqua
An order for season tickets to the Washington chautauqua is with the printer, so sales start early next week. Prices remain at two dollars for adults with half price for children under fifteen. Single admissions for Kryl's band ex Vice President Marshall and Strickland Gillilan are 1.50, with ten day access priced at an extra fifty cents.
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Washington
Kryl
Marshall
Strickland Gillilan
Rebekahs Plan Big Bake Sale Saturday
The Rebekah Lodge schedules a bake sale in the vacant south room of the square next Saturday. Proceeds fund the lodge's annual gift to the Odd Fellows Home at Mason City. Members solicit help. ladies cook while men attend and buy generously.
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Rebekah Lodge
Odd Fellow
Mason City
Assembly ticket pledges and season sales target set
The report notes four individual programs under one admission, with a season ticket price covering twenty five sessions. About one thousand season tickets have been pledged for the year and all subscribers will be asked to redeem. Officials expect higher actual sales and aim for 1,200 tickets to ensure financial success, matching last year's figure.
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Assembly
County School Population Report Shows 4831 Enrolled
Washington county records for the past year reveal 4841 pupils in the county schools with 3971 average daily attendance. The report lists 441 out of school children seven to sixteen, 271 men and 219 women teachers with varying salaries, and a total district tax income of 346,560.68. Four consolidated districts exist in Ainsworth Crawfordsville Noble and West Chester alongside three parochial schools in Richmond Riverside and Washington. There are 22 intellectually disabled or visually impaired children in the county.
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Washington County
Clara Wallace
Pp. B. McClenahan
Washington
Crawfordsville
Daytonville
Ainsworth
Noble
West Chester
Richmond
Riverside
Brighton
Wellman
Rubio
Kalona
Tents Ordered for Chautauqua by Grounds Committee
The grounds committee led by chairman Frank Stewart approves immediate tents for the chautauqua. The tent company will receive the ordered quantity on Tuesday August 1 and only the spoken number will be placed.
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Frank Stewart
Capital versus Labor In Ball Game Today
A baseball game is set for today at five o'clock between the bankers team and a railway section gangs team. Rodney Arnold booked a Washington team for Kalona on August 6 and expects a strong lineup. A large Washington delegation watched Sigourney defeat Keota 6 to 3 in the latest clash between the two clubs.
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Bankers
Rodney Arnold
Washington
Kalona
Arnold
Kalonaites
Keota
Sigourney
Chal Ford Elected to High Office in E. P.
Harvey Young reports from Mason City that J. P. Ford of Washington was elected grand keeper of the exchequer by the Iowa Knights of Pythias. Ford has long been a prominent member of the local lodge and county chapters and has not yet returned home.
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Harvey Young
Mason City
Knights of Pythias
J. P. Ford
Washington
Iowa
Supervisors Reach Compromise on Pearson Road Land Case
The county board settled a road takings dispute with Cal Pearson by paying 360 dollars per acre and agreeing to move the fence for a new road east of Ainsworth. Pearson may file damage claims within five years if his grove is harmed. The event followed prior offers and appraiser adjustments.
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County Board of Supervisors
Cal Pearson
Ainsworth
Pearson
Mr Pearson
Diamond Electric Supply Named In Scatty Rhyme Mention
A humorous verse questions a man named Broadgate about bodily terms and functions. The speaker ends by suggesting Diamond Electric Supply as a reliable source for his needs. The piece plays on puns about parts of the body and everyday objects.
Books on Radio at Chilcote Library
Community interest grows as Chilcote Library expands wireless and radio material. Library patrons can read How to Make a Wireless Set from Popular Mechanics and subscribe to Wireless Age or Radio News, with readers to choose which periodical to keep after January.
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Chilcote
Popular Mechanics
Radio
Robinson
Charles B. Hayward
Alfred N. Goldsmith
Francis A. Collins
Charles H. Sewell
Elmer E. Buckner
prose and verse mix column from Albany and New York World
A fragment from the Albany Kickerbbocker Press recalls playful verses about crafted devotion while reporting a naval gun explosion and sailor testimony. The New York World notes Italy’s hydro electric capacity rising to 2 821 500 horsepower as central stations finish, doubling from five years prior.
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Italy
Open Offices for Grand Army Reunion in Des Moines
Executive national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic to be held in Des Moines from September 24 to 28 was opened today in the Polk County courthouse. George E. Hamilton secretary of the local committee will run a registration bureau and headquarters in room 208 through September 28. One hundred registrations were received today from the Veterans of Shiloh requesting separate reunion facilities.
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Des Moines
Grand Army of the Republic
Polk County Court House
George E. Hamilton
Committee On Arrangements
Veterans of
No disorders in Iowa strike zone reported
Des Moines July 27 no further request for troops was received by Governor Kendall after his refusal to send soldiers to Oelwein. No threats or violence were reported from any point with railroad men and miners on strike. Four Fayette county officials assured peaceful conditions at Oelwein and Sioux City, Corneil Bluffs. The railroad commission postponed four rate hearings due to the strike. English farm apprentice program seeks boys 15 to 18 in South Australia with weekly pay and future state treasury credit.
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Des Moines
Kendall
Oelwein
Fayette County
Sioux City
Corneil Bluffs
Railroad Commission
Midway Coal Company, Et al
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Green Bay Lumber Company
Atlantic Northern
Chicago
Rock Island and Pacific
Milwaukee & S1. Paul
South Australia
League of Nations votes haunt retiring Wilson Democrats
Washington, July 27. The defeat of Senator Culberson of Texas retires another Wilson Democrat who voted for the league. He joins eight other pro league Democrats and one Republican recalled by voters since the league’s rejection. Culberson, a long-serving senator since 1899, is among the longest-tenured lawmakers. Other retiring pro league Democrats include Chamberlain Henderson Johnson Kirby Nugent Phelan and Smith Arizona and Smith Maryland. Porter McCumber the lone Republican who backed the league without reservations faces retirement next May.
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Charles A. Culberson
Texas
Wilson Democrats
League of Nations
Culberson
Wilson
United States
League
Senate
Culberson Tate
Chamberlain
Oregon
Henderson
Nevada
Johnson
South Dakota
Kirby
Arkansas
Nugent
Phelan
California
Smith
Arizona
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Lodge
Warren
Nelson
Roger Q. Mills
John Sharp Williams
Mississippi
Henry B. Myers
Montana
Ashurst
Gerry
Rhode Anland
Hitchcock
Nebraska
Jones
New Mexico
Kendrick
Wyoming
King
Utah
McKeller
Tennessee
Pittman
Pomerene
Obio
Swanson
Virginia
Tramwell
Florida
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