Ghosts and a Midnight Heist at Harmon Farm
In a village, Nadine Harmon flirts with Harry Shagrue while her father John Harmon, a retired farmer turned bank owner, guards a hidden past. A midnight doorway clash and a staged robbery trigger a chain of theft and secretly stored wealth, ending with a careful accounting of money, tickets, and a mysterious future.
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Jobn Harmon
Knox
Harmon
Pid Inter
Nadine
Shagrue
Father
Harry Shagrue
Harry
Dante
Harre Dear
Marville
Decoration Day services bring town together in Clay
The town observed Decoration Day with Rev W W Bow ers of Washington delivering the address. Rev O J Fox of Richland presided. Brighton legionaires led by Commander Woodford aided at the cemetery as locals and visitors from Independence Centerville Richland Lan caster Fairfield Rock Island Monmouth and others attended. A community social followed with readings music talks and a planned July picnic discussed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brighton Legionairs
Woodford
Clay
J. M. McKain
Independence
M. L. Dargent
Centerville
W. W. Stephens
Fix
Richland
Violet Garrett
Lancater
J. M. Dickinson
Fairfield
Wm. Mahoney
Rock Island
Ill
G. A. Howard
Monmouth
Phyllis Woodford
Kankakee
Roy Robinson
Virginia
Lloyd Luers
Harold
Guthrie Center
A. C. Robinson
Geneva Woodford
Fred Reid
Washington
Eugene Morgan
Oskaloosa
Penn College
JL. H. Johnson
Coppock
Dot Meacham
Vera Woodford
J. J. Gaseaway
Co. Bridge
Guy Bridges
Long
Merle Fleig
Bernice Bridges
Reading
Lara Bridges
Mary Robinson
A. J. Morgan
G. A. Stannard
Nellie Torrence
W. T. Maakestead
Frances Meacham
Plymouth County
Ray Woodford
Lorraine Stannard
Clarence Woolcott
Golden hatched wonder in the thunder storm tale
In a vivid vignette a two and a half year old girl wakes during a fierce thunderstorm. She asks about thunder and lightning and comments on the explosion’s noise. She wonders why the sun seems to jump as elements rage, then rests as the storm continues outside.
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Funder
Local notes from Glendale and surrounding farms
Glendale residents host relatives from Des Moines and neighbors socialize at a John Gerdes home. A Scotch collie wanders in, a dance event is reported, and farm news notes cream handling tips, rain impacts, oats, and a forecast of a reduced strawberry crop.
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Glendale
Tom Nicholson
Des Moines
Harve Wilson
Wayne Norman
Raymond Gerdes
John Gerdes
Clark Hopping
Virginia
Martin Koehler
Tom Gerdes
Murry Smylie
Will Flemming
Leta Glenn
Ulrich Glenn
Charlie Wylie
Philip Gerdes
Ainsworth
David Kleese
Elwood
Titus
Thomas Gerdes
Ray Redlinger
Redlinger Brothers
Brighton News Roundup of Local Visits and Events
A Brighton bulletin details a live tarantula found in a box after dropping from bananas, insurance payouts for a stolen Essex coach, tomato plant shipments to replace freeze losses, and family visits. It notes Lucile Reynolds and Verne Coulter’s marriage in Oskaloosa, travel notes, Camp Fire Girls leadership change, upcoming band concerts, and various local travels and visits across towns including Wellman Ottumwa Des Moines Lucas Seattle Plankinton Yuma and Kansas City.
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Brighton
E. A. Hornet
the Insurance Co
Essex
Kirksville
Brighton Canning Company
Topeka
Kan
Charlie Hoover
Cobb
Wisconsin
Frank Hoover
Mary Wikoff
Wellman
L. E B. Bidwell
Oskaloosa Herald
Lucile Reynolds
Verne M. Culter
Indianola
Miss Reynolds
Brighton High School
Coulter
Lucas
Culter
Tracy
Ottumwa
Hortons
Woodfords
Seattle
Will Atha
Robi
Plankinton
S. D
Dave Irwin
Blanche McCarty
Camp Fire Girls
Veldhuizen
H. W. Helmick
Chicago
Nell Humble
Washington
Brighton Boys
Ida Berry
Raymond Gemley
Des Moines
Carrie Lemley
Boyd’ Hick
Baby
Fairfield
Eletha Hicks
Olive Tenanity
Yuma
Colo
Jim Shafer
Maude Brinton
Paola
Kansas
Billy Brinton
Kansas City
Funeral Services for John C Hull Held in Columbus Junction
John C Hull died Wednesday at age 92. Funeral services were held at his daughter in law Nellie Hulls home, with Interment in Columbus City cemetery. He was born in Pittsfield Massachusetts and came to Columbus over 50 years ago. His son J C Hull, a motor car dealer, died last November. Two other children preceded him.
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Columbus Junction
John C. Hull
Inlaw
Nellie Hull
Columbus City Cemetery
Mr. Hull
Pittsfield
Mass
Columbus
J. C. Hull
The
Junction
Twyla Shipmen
the Junction
Cornell College
Mount Vernon
Shipman
Woman's Nature Study Club
Cedar Rapids
John T. Aiken
Helen Orr
Ertha Smylie
Bessie Hall
Pauline Johnston
James Hall
Farr Smylie
Young People’s Christian Union of the
Reo
Rawfordsville
Frida
Miss Smylie
Columbus City
Miss Hall
Miss Orr
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Short Story Pub. Co
Bob
Betty Polly
Father Harmon
Chief Halpin
Johnny Scholes
Billy
Johnny
Central Trust
John Harmon
John Darwen
Routh
Shayrue
Harry ‘Shayre
H. I
Let Live
van Camp
Pet
Pine
Queen Olives
Naptha P
Minn
Ohio
Price
Barclay’s
Cash Grocery
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