From Our Exchanges Big talk fades as gossip spans towns
A collage of local notes reports on a man predicting $100 land, a mother and babe hit by a car in Washington with the mother dying, property purchases, a Washington airplane sighting, Kalona and Washington social visits, burglaries in Kalona, Rainbow band concerts, varying rain, Sam Knaus visiting Wellman, Christian church fundraising for Rev. Warren, and Humphrey Richards’ Washington visit with plans for a housewarming and a political gathering.
Local Notables Travel and Health News
Barclay Miller recently returned from overseas visited with his father J C Miller at the Safeguard office. Mr Miller went to Washington Saturday evening and spent Sunday at his home there. Bowman and John Bidwell with Mrs Bowman accompanied Mrs Bowman to Hershey hospital in Muscatine Thursday for an operation, which was successful Friday. Channing Hall grew a pronounced mustache in France altering his appearance, raising questions about its reception among local admirers.
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France
Community plans fall celebration for returning soldiers
Townsfolk discuss a big fall event to honor soldiers returning from overseas with a lively, wild celebration once the group comes home.
Counties approve road funding plan for paving driveways
Black Hawk Sioux and Palo Alto counties vote to pay for primary road system. Johnson county will vote June 25. The plan uses automobile license funds and state aid to cover 75 percent of paving costs with the remaining 25 percent from adjacent property owners.
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Black Hawk
Sioux
Palo Alto
Johnson County
Brighton Enterprise
Three Kurtz Brothers Return From France
Boice Kurtz of Washington visited Wayland Tuesday and ordered the Weyland News sent to his father. He returned from France in late April. Brothers Max and Paul Kurtz also served overseas and are at home. Mr. and Mrs. Kurtz are proud of their three soldier sons.
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Washington
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Wayland
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France
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Scott county votes for hard roads and bonds in Iowa
Davenport area voters approve 73 miles of paving and 2 million dollars in bonds in a statewide rural and city win for hard surfacing. The Rural districts backed both measures, marking a first for local farmers and town residents alike. Riverside Good Roads Club meets next week to plan hosting officials from the Red Cross and Pershing Highway groups and to renew Red Ball route markings through Washington county.
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Kalona News
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Riverside
Blood sweating behemoths join Big George in shows
Features on the touring circus highlight George the hippo Geevee worth $17,000, joined by riders and a rare girl acrobat. Two Washington performances set for Wednesday June 25 with gates at 1 and 7 PM ahead of the main tent show.
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Drowning Attempt to Save Team Ends in Tragedy
June 21 Des Moines river tragedy in Fort Dodge where Ben H. Booker a 33 year old Black horse owner drowned trying to save a team of blind horses that plunged into the Des Moines river while watered. Booker held the reins to pull the horses back but was overwhelmed and all were carried downstream.
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Printer James Bowles Dies After Long Career
James T. Bowles, 71, spent fifty eight years in printing and editing before his death at Le Mars on June 21. Born in Jacksonville Illinois in 1848, he moved to Ottumwa Iowa as a youth and apprenticed in printing. He ran a shop there forty years and later worked with the Le Mars Globe Post. Survived by sons H J Bowles Sioux City, Arthur Bowles Cedar Rapids, S W Bowles serving aboard a transport.
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Sioux City
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Cedar Rapids
W. Bowles
France two daughtersy Carrie Oden hin Mot Sioux City
Mrs Carrie Oden of Sioux City and Mrs Will Franks of Keokuk are named in a fragmentary report mentioning France and two daughters.
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France
Carrie Oden Hin
Sioux City
Will Franks
Keokukla
Coal shortage warned for next winter across Iowa railroads
Des Moines reports Railroad Commissioner Charles Webster warns of a winter coal shortage due to consumer indifference and railroads not buying in quantity. He notes past storage failures, the Armistice impact, mild winters, and predicts prices likely to stay high. A separate note says a 40 year old man swam the Mississippi and disappeared after reaching an island.
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Charles Webster
Webster
Mississippi
Body Found After River Swim in Dubuque
In Dubuque on June 21 the body of Robert Fenero was recovered after an apparent river swim. Investigators initiated routine procedures, and foul play was not immediately suspected.
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Dubuque
Robert Fenero
General H A Allen Home From France to Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids welcomes General H A Allen home after years abroad. The 36th brigade of the 28th division commander says all his men are back among their folk and plans to stay, amid cheers at the Chamber of Commerce. He looks forward to no further wars, hoping peace endures.
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Le Mars Abstract Wins Silver Cup at Iowa Convention
Le Mars Plymouth County Abstract Co won the Silver Cup for best abstract of title at the Iowa Abstracters Association meeting in Des Moines. The winning file traced 1856 land grants, multiple transfers, foreclosures, suits to quiet title, and tax sales on the Le Mars tract, which changed hands 39 times. A five-member committee was to study land title guaranty in Iowa next year.
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State Commission Refuses Change in Great Western Schedule
The Iowa State Railroad Commission refuses to alter passenger train times on the Great Western from Oelwein to Minneapolis. Citizens from New Hampton Devon Boyd Riceville Alta Vista and Fredericksburg urged changes to improve connections in Minneapolis and Chicago. The commission cites low earnings and cites that 93 percent of federal control rail earnings go to operating costs for the first quarter, up from 69 percent in 1916.
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Calibre 88 Today A Tenderfoot Fights A Western Gang
A young man faces a gang of western crooks who murder his father and underestimate him. He uses fists feet and a sharp mind to dismantle the criminal outfit while a beautiful ally aids and they marry as the story unfolds in a dramatic photoplay tone.
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