Pleasant Hill Community Visits and Local Work
Pleasant Hill residents visited family homes in Washington and nearby areas on Sundays and weekdays. The notes mention Earl and Kephart families, Baker family gatherings, Chalupa and Snider households, and threshing assistance for Golia Miller. A machine shed and garage are being built for Howard Baker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pleasant Hill
Earl Kephart
Howard Baker
Lewis Baker
Washington
Will Miller
Ballard
Pleasant Plain
George Chalupa
Frank Snider
Roy Kephart
Edgar Myers
Eli Jackson
Peter Wittiig
Howard Wittiig
Knoxville college glee club pleases Crawfordsville audience
J C Mitchell visited Washington on business. Mrs D M Davis and family joined JK Beal and daughters of Ainsworth at a Knoxville college glee club concert in the United Presbyterian church. The audience praised the performance as one of the best seen on lecture or chautauqua programs. Rev J Kelly Giffen, president of the college, accompanied the group and is linked to local residents. The crowd hopes for another glee club visit within twenty years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crawfordsville
J. C. Mitchell
Washington
D. M. Davis
JK. Beal
Ainsworth
Knoxville College Glee Club
United Presbyterian Church
J. Kelly Giffen
J. 8. McCleary
Neighborhood News and Visiting Folks This Week
Threshing consumes most neighbors time as Mrs Nicholson visits the Herman Twinam home. Doris Maxwell stays with Nellie Richard in Ainsworth. Mrs Jesse Thomas visits relatives at Mt Pipagan this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Braden
Mrs. Nicholson
Herman Twinam
Doris Maxwell
Nellie Richard
Ainsworth
Jesse Thomas
Mt. Pipagant Iis
Blackberry Winter Crops Rise as July Drought Bites
Rolling Green notes a strong cata crop despite June dryness and a good blackberry yield aided by cool days. Mrs. Lawarnee Conrad visited with her Sigourney family bringing home apricots. Arthur Lambert’s family visited north of Keota. A general call for boaters and divers followed a drowning near the Skunk River on July 14, signaling a local search effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawarnee Conrad
Conrad Aller
Sigourney
Conrad
Arthur Lambert
Art Stoutner
Keota
Skunk
Threshing and visits pepper route twenty one notes
BRIGHTON ROUTE ONE reports a visit by Meme Grer of Oskaloosa to the George Marshall home and several family visits including the Waterhouse and Woodford households. The piece mentions threshing in full swing, oats yields, cattle transport, dairy cows from Henry county, and travels to Kenilworth and Richland with various relatives and neighbors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brighton
Oskaloosa
George Marshall
Glen Waterhouse
Ovvumwa
Belle Waterhouse
Mary Ellen Woodford
Laithly
Ralph Woodford
Anson Woodford
Robert McCaleb
Waterhouse
Grinnell
Maehalltown
Iowa
Richland
John Mann
Stannard
Laird Woodford
Chase Woodford and Son
Old Town
Woodford
Ray
Singmaster
Aleo
Henry County
R. C. Balderson
Wilfred
Wayne Savage
Washington
Local social notes and farming updates from Havre area
Havre and Noble residents enjoyed visits from Will Staf ford and Edna Frey family. Keota visitors joined John Koeh’s household while farmers report active threshing with oats and wheat yielding strong 80 bushels per acre in one field. Three carloads of livestock were shipped to Chicago with John Caldwell, John Wagner, and Charley Wot aboard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havre Havre
Will Stafford
Frey
Noble
Edna Frey
Clarence Benson
Coppock
Grubb
Keota
John Koeh
Wes Meyers
John Caldwell
John Wagner
Charley Wot
Chi- Caro
Des Moines Cars Ready for Fair Transit Service
Des Moines July 27 The City Railway company told the state board that transportation will not be disrupted during fair week this year. Expect unusually thorough service between the business district and fair grounds as in past years. The company says it has sufficient coal to run well past the fair period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
City Railway Company
State Board
Fair Board
Building records broken last month in Des Moines Iowa
Des Moines and Iowa set a record in construction with $10,764,100 in state building contracts awarded in June. Public works and utilities led at 45 percent, followed by business buildings at 20 percent and residential at 17 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
Advertising Club Meet Set for Mason City Aug 29 30
The annual Associated Advertising Clubs of Iowa meeting will be held in Mason City on Tuesday and Wednesday August 29 and 30. A short course in advertising designed to boost returns will be offered with topics like cooperation between publisher and advertiser comparative price advertising and advertising as viewed by farmers. Notable executives will speak and round tables will follow. The fish fry at Clear Lake and a dance at the White Pier are among the entertainment highlights with programs planned to entertain attendees and their spouses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mason City
Associated Advertising Clubs of Iowa
Iowa
America
Clear Lake
White Pier
Iowa City to Toughen Traffic Law Enforcement
Iowa City police chief John J. Lorack announces stricter enforcement of traffic laws effective immediately with jail sentences for flagrant offenders. He vows action against jay-walking and stresses that the chief will be a strong, active leader after a 30 day vacancy plus council assurance of backbone in the administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
John J. Lorack
Emma Harvat
Lorack
Mrs Holloway and granddaughter visit Downey kin
Mrs Mary Holloway and her granddaughter Freda Cameron of Downey Iowa are visiting at the home of D G Gates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Holloway
Freda Cameron
Downey, Iowa
D. G. Gates
Hall’s Catarrh Medicine Advertisement History
For over forty years Hall’s Catarrh Medicine is shown as a treatise on relieving catarrh. It describes an ointment for local relief and an internal tonic acting through the blood to reduce mucous surface inflammation. Sold by old druggists F Cheney and Co of Toledo Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Halls
Hall
F . Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Indefinite Delay in Grain Rate Hearing In Iowa
Des Moines July 27 The Iowa State Railroad Commission postponed indefinitely the grain rate reduction hearings at the request of railroads pressed by coal and rail strikes. Shippers support the delay. The case, urged by Western Grain Dealers Association and Greater Des Moines Committee, targets intrastate grain shipments to Sioux City Council Bluffs and Des Moines and compares Iowa rates with Minnesota. No date set until strikes end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Commission
Des Moines
State Railroad Commission
Dwight Lewis
Western Grain Dealers Association
Greater Des Moines
Iowa
Sioux City
Council Bluffs
Minnesota
Omaha
Kansas City
Lewis
Midnight Dance Proposal Sparks Local Complaint
Waterloo Indiana residents oppose a plan to continue dancing one minute after midnight at a local amusement resort. After midnight dancing is unlikely to become popular as Sunday night dances were prohibited. The first late dance was held last night, drawing complaints about disturbed slumbers and likely stoppage of the innovation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
Camp Dodge Opens New Pool in Des Moines
The Camp Dodge swimming pool, costing 33102, opened Tuesday for public use from 4 until during National Guard duties. The 150 foot wide pool reaches 9% feet deep at one end and 2% feet at the shallow end. A $25741 pavilion connects to the pool, making it the second largest reinforced concrete pool in the United States. Further camp improvements are planned funded by salvage money from property bought after the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Camp Dodge
National Guard
United States
Bis Camp
Reid
Substitutes for coal pressed in Des Moines report
Des Moines July 27 report notes a coal famine and high prices. Commissioner Webster says coke and oil burners are rising, wood use will grow, and fuel shortages threaten camps, plants, and rail shippers amid ongoing strikes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Charles Webster
Iowa
Minnesota
Dakotas
Webster
Battleship Maine to be scrapped for plow shares
The battleship Maine, built to replace the one sunk at Havana, will be scrapped and turned into plow shares. A Philadelphia firm reportedly bought the warship for under $100,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Havana
Philadelphia
Democrats Rally In Des Moines To Boost Independent Voters
Des Moines Democrats invite outside speakers to energize the party and win independent voters. Mrs. Thornton L. Brown tours the country and addresses a noon luncheon and an evening banquet. Cordell Hull will visit Des Moines next week to aid party efforts aiming at 1924 victory amid national backlash against the current administration. The Iowa scene shows two-ticket state races with no prohibition ticket this year, and socialist candidates shrinking since 1920.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Wells
Wella
Omaha
Geo. Srows
Guy Frown
Washington
A. T. Brown
T. Rickey
St Paul
Minn
Woodruff
Oscar Axtheim
Searle
West Chester
Jake Conrad
Chas Conrad
Pete Adrian
Lawrence Conrad
Keota
Des Moines
Democrats
Towa
Thornton L. Brown
The
Cordell Hull
National Democrat
Iowa
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Columbus Junction
Burl Pringle
Donald McLaughlin
Donald
Chicago
John Koch
Carl Nicholson
Grace Heeseltine
Will Bride
Miam Edgar
Bryan Swift
Will Caldwell
Ed Chalupa
F. Miller
Golia Miller's
Ellis Jones
Little Son
Tacoma
Laird Woodsford
Kenilworth
Frank Chaffee
Borski
Pat Beighard
Iowa Advertising Clube
Planters
N. Clark ST
Madison Se
North Dakota
Iowa National Guard
Lasher
Kentucky
Pennsylvania Railroad
Mie
Sea Lown
Lowa
Central District
Bec Smith
Kendall
Nova Scotia
Goodyear
Goodyear Cro
Tucker & Eicher
Washington, Iowa
Wehrle Auto CO
Wellman, Iowa
Kalona Motor CO
Kalona, Iowa
Ked
Buick Garage
Kalona
E. G. Kock & Son
W. F. Jacobs & Son
Eden Bros
Riverside Motor CO
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Fletcher & Huston
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