Brighton Local News Briefs and Obituary Notes
Correspondents from Journal send in news from Brighton. Mrs. Ben Brier and Mrs. J. R. Werner left for Nebraska to visit relatives. Frank Smith called to Illinois due to his father's illness. Mrs. Charles Truelock seeks treatment in Kirksville. Mrs. Anna Crandall visits Gladwin. Funeral held for Mrs. Ed Deeds. Lucinda Deeds died aged 84. Surviving children listed. burial at Hill Crest.
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Brighton
Ben Brier
J. R. Werner
Nebraska
Garland
Lincoln
Frank Smith
Ilinois
Charles Truelock
Kirksville
William Dey
Mt. Pleasant
Anna Crandall
Gladwin
Cora Lowery
Junia van Gent
Des Moines
Charlie
Addison Deeds
Ottumwa
Geo. Luellan
Sigourney
Ed Deeds
Lucinda Deeds
Lucinda Luellen
Ohio
E. Deeds
Carroll
William
Washington
Charles
Addison
West
George Luellen
Cook
The
Presbyterian Church
Hill Crest Cemetery
Community notes from Young America and surroundings
Local tidbits report visits sales and gatherings in Young America near north Washington. Names include J B Spencer Edgar Porter Kellman nurse chautauqua at Keota family reunions and a Rural Women’s club meeting. Mentions deaths and travels to Burlington Winfield and Humeston with brief social details.
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Young America
J. B. Spencer
North Washington
Ben Briley
Edgar Porter
J. N. Phillips
Edna Flynn
Burlington
Miss Kellman
Frank Pringle
Keota
Robert Rhodes
Lloyd Humston
E. L. Barthelow
Sam Day
Brighton
Frank Bandy, Sr
Edward
Frank Bandy
Edward and
Frank, Jr
Frank Dittmer
Clint McGee
H. B. Porter
Elmer Cherry
James Young
Humeston
Claude Rhodebeck
Charles Cherry
Ernest Carlson
Will Marie
Charles Rhodebeck
Ora
Tressa ‘Phillips
Winfield
Mable Desing Heads to California for Summer Break
Miss Mable Desing leaves for California next week to spend the summer vacation. Lane Coffy of West Chester is mentioned in connection with the brief item.
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Wellman Wellman
Mable Desing
California
Lane Coffy
West Chester
Local Notes and Visits From Kan sas City to Kalona
Friday itinerary lists J J and family visits and relatives in Washington Des Moines Sigourney Muscatine and Iowa City. The Wellman Telephone Co. nears completion with half cabling. various residents move offices travel to Des Moines and Cedar Falls. airship sighting noted. local sales include Jersey Shorthorn cow auction. new doctor and births and societal events reported.
Man Heads to Chicago After Purchasing Seven Fords
A man prepares to take a train to Chicago where he has bought seven Ford cars. The detail highlights a surprising vehicle investment tied to travel plans.
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Chicago
Local residents visit relatives and return home
Crawfordsville notes June 11 report multiple residents returning from visits with relatives in Pennsylvania Sumner Iowa Monmouth Mt Pleasant Iowa City and Champaign Illinois. Families including Skinner Robertson Crooks Anwyl Huston Lease and Pennington are mentioned visiting and traveling for extended periods.
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Crawfordsville
Thorne Skinner
Peabody
Kansas
Farm and residence sales couple Ainsworth week
The Alex Clegg estate farm sold to Earl Edmonson and Fred Moore sold his town residence to Clayton Richardson. Dr. Watson and family moved to De Witt Indiana and reported nearly losing their car to fire. The O E S held initiation, with two new members. Ronald Lewis visited family from Iowa City. Mrs. Sadie Van Horn’s funeral was Friday afternoon with interment in Ainsworth cemetery.
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Nelswanger
Ronald Lewis
Iowa City
W. L. Alcorn
Sadie van Horn
Ainsworth Cemetery
Local residents return from colleges and events in Iowa
CRAWFORDSVILLE June 12 Ralph Moorhead arrived home yesterday from Grinnell where he has been attending college the past year Velma Orris Vera Yeager and Eva Gormly went to Iowa City Thursday returning home yesterday and bringing Hazel Orris home with them Lucile Sipe Irene Holmes and Rhue Strain came home yesterday from Iowa City having completed their years work in college there Miss Mary Barnett arrived home last evening from Cedar Rapids where she has taught the past year Mr and Mrs W G Robertson Mrs H C Hull and Miss Elizabeth Van Horn attended the funeral of Mrs P Van Horn near Cotter yesterday afternoon Miss Clara Wood has returned home from a visit in Ames.
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J. J
Harrison McGugin
Washington
Keota
Wellman Telephone Co
Lena Anderson
Ike Lindsey
Hugh Great
Des Moines
George Foster
Southern Iowa
Will Foster
John Manney
Woman's Federation of Clubs
Retta Chapman
Sigourney
Jim Bidwell
Shirley Bidwell
Muscatine
van Sant
Frank Mellicker
Wilton Junction
Kabaker
Zohr
Chicago
J. Rothschild
Ricard
SC. Palmer
Iowa County
Richard Freel
A. L. Braden
John Downing
Brereton
Will Emde
Wes Perrin
Floyd Weidline
Palisade
Colorado
Misa Willson
Guy Weidline
N. B. Jessen
Nebraska
T. D. Adams
Iowa City
Finley Rickey
Riverside
Ainsworth
Fuller
Wellman
H. L. Karr
Walter Harvey
Joe Albin
Jeanette Dawson
Henry Dungar
Bruce Gardner
Chas
Singleman
Charles
Cedar Falls
Marcella
Link Shaver
Wm. Liebe
John Palmer
Moth
Grandpa
Grandma H. G. Moore
Kansas City
L. L. Godlove
Gibbs
Missouri
Stotts
Everett Curl
Hilma Dodds
Jake Hicks
Kalona
Ruegesseger
Eardley Bell, Jr
Montrose
Iowa
Warren Pulse
West Liberty
Sherman Henderson
Herbert Doud
George Struble
W. G. Robertson
Margaret
Pennsylvania
Mabel Crooks
Monmouth
Jay Lease
Hiram Lease
Mattie Pennington
Sumner
Lease
Oma Strain
Rhue
Mazel Anwyl
Mt. Pleasant
Jee Huston
Champaign
E. L. Davis
J. P. Jones
Crawfordsville
Ralph Moorhead
Grinnell
Velma Orris
Vera Yeager
Eva Gormly
Hazel Orris
Lucile Sipe
Irene Holmes
Rhue Strain
Mary Barnett
Cedar Rapids
H. C. Hull
Elizabeth van Horn
P. van Horn
Cotter
Clara Wood
Ames
Rockefeller Gives Grinnell $500000 Endowment Boost
A Rockefeller Foundation committee visited Grinnell College and announced a $500000 addition to the endowment fund, contingent on raising $1000000 more. Grinnell seeks a $3500000 endowment with a goal to complete by July 1 as campaign leaders express confidence.
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Rockefeller Foundation
Grinnell
Grinnell College
Rockefeller
Pickford Buys Reno Home To Aid Annulment Case
Mary Pickford plans a Nevada residence to offset annulment proceedings by the Nevada attorney general following her divorce from Owen Moore and marriage to Douglas Fairbanks. Attorney P A McCarran, counsel for Miss Pickford, bought the Gibbons home for about 50000 dollars, believed to be for the couple, as Nevada lawyers say the move could simplify preserving the decree.
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Mary
Reno
Nev
Mary Pickford
Nevada
Fowler
Owen Moore
Cinden
Douglas Fairbanks
Los Angeles
P. A. McCarran
Miss Pickford
Gibbons
Iowas Oldest Mason Attends Grand Lodge
Fort Dodge June 12 The grand lodge of Iowa Masons hosts Nathan Scofield Pocahontas 92 who has been a member sixty six years and is the only survivor of seventy who attended the 1858 grand lodge. He recalls early masonry in Iowa while mingling with members. The 1858 session met in Des Moines and Scofield traveled by boat down the Des Moines river to Keokuk then up the Mississippi to Dubuque.
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Fort Dodge
Grand Lodge of Iowa Masons
Nathan Scofield
Pocahontas
Grand Lodge
Scofield
Iowa
Des Moines
Iowa City
Dubuque
Keokuk
Mississippi
Family Has Bad Luck It Doesn’t Come Singly
Newton June 12. Little Veda Virginia Hanke, 19 months, was severely scalded on an arm and leg when she pulled the cork from a hot washing machine Monday. Richard Hawke, 3, brother of Veda Virginia, suffers a broken collar bone from a fall from the Hawke residence porch last Thursday. He rode a kiddie car pushed by a playmate, fell, and the bone has broken three times since. Medical hopes say the bone is knitting and no further trouble is expected.
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Newton
Veda
Virginia Hanke
Raymond Hanke
Richard Hawke
Virginia
Hawke
Explosion kills three in Dubuque residence
Three persons died when a gasoline stove exploded in a Dubuque residence early this morning trapping them inside. Mrs. Charles Thurston, 35, clutched her six month old baby at the front door and was found by firemen. Isabelle Thurston, rescued from the second story, died at a hospital after two hours of burns and suffocation.
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Dubuque
Charles Thurston
Isabelle Thurston
Public School Objective Debate Raises Equity View
A quoted maxim argues public schools are misorganized if they focus on college readiness. It contends schooling should benefit the many rather than the few, urging broader educational aims.
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Phillips
China's Grand Canal Fact Sheet
The Grand Canal of China is the world’s longest canal, stretching about 1000 miles from Hungchow to Tientsin. It crosses two major rivers, the Hwang and the Yangtze, connecting northern and southern regions.
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China
Hungchow
Tientsin
Hwang
Yangtze
Curtiss in Cabinet If Gov Lowden Wins
Chicago reports support the view that Charles F Curtiss dean of Ames College of Agriculture would be ideal as secretary of agriculture if Frank O Lowden becomes president. Iowa ties with Lowden and Curtiss deepen in agriculture policy while history favors an Iowa secretary role.
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Des Moines
Chicago
Charles F. Curtise
College of Agriculture
Ames
Frank O. Lowden
Illinois
United States
Curtiss
Lowden
Dean Curtiss
Iowa
Ilinois
Jim Wilson
Washington
Edwin T. Meredith
Tilt Cove Women Sail Sealing Win Over Men
In Tilt Cove a group of women and their daughters caught and killed a large seal ahead of the men who failed in the season. The season’s ice ran along the northern coast as the Gull Island light keeper’s wife spotted signs of the herd and alerted the Tilt Cove women.
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Bay OF Exploits
N. F
Tilt Cove
Gull Island
Harsh Arctic Seal Hunt Ends at Nightfall
The party marshalled by sealing crews paddled in boats with elaubs and gaffs over ice cakes to round up seals. They found a main patch and hunted until exhaustion, capturing or killing one hundred seals. Women aided in the work before day ended and men stripped pelts and rendered oil.
Wheat Crop Forecast Dampens 1940s Harvest Outlook
Washington reports total wheat production for the year at about 781 million bushels based on June 1 crop conditions. Last year yielded 941 million. Spring wheat is projected at 277,000,600 bushels, 69 million more than last year and 18 million above the five year average.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
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USL Batteries
China’s Grand Canal
USL Service
South Side Square
Chicago Coliseum
Coliseum
Wabash Avenue
Newark
N. J
Wm. M. Deneau
New York Bay
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