Local and Personal News Roundup
Joan Swisher went to Fairfield on business this morning. J A Carden left for Grover Colorado for a month. Harrie McGnagin returned from Keota. The New York Store advertises $1.25 gowns shirts and waists. Ida Carria Jett travels to Muscatine for a visit with Winnie Elliott. RK Bond returns to Des Moines for university duties after weekend visit. Lora Martin arrives from West Chester for a stay with Mrs Cavender. Mary Mingo arrives from Cedar Rapids for a visit with Wiebrigje Brewer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
RK. K. Bond
New Moines
Big Games Highlight Baseball Thursday and Friday
Local notes report Thursday and Friday baseball showdowns as the main event with other items including visits to New York state and Colorado by readers, jail lightning damages, shopping sales at the New York store, and various travel updates. The letter from M. O Loughlin describes a pleasant Lake George trip with his daughters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. O'Loughlin
Journal
New York State
Lake George
What Cheer and Washington clash Thursday and Friday
Local notes list multiple visits and travels including What Cheer versus Washington on Thursday and Friday. Several residents such as Mrs D L Baird Miss Nora Curran and Miss Julia McDonald are mentioned in visits and moves around Keota Bloomfield Muscatine Sigourney and Keota with relatives and work details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Weddings and society notes fill Fairfield and Washington pages
Philip Crail and Henry Steck attend the Miss Beasie McGregor and Oscar Swan wedding in Fairfield this evening. The Brotherhood of American Yeomen hosts ice cream and cake after a meeting, with Mrs. Stevenson and Mrs. St Rothschild notable guests. A second wedding at Burlington joins Winifred Wolfert and Homer Dee Cooley, with the couple soon moving to a Washington cottage. A courtly reception for Mr and Mrs Harold Shaw in East Orange highlights the local wedding season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philip Crail
Henry Steck
Fairfield
Beasie McGregor
Oscar Swanson
Des Moines
Alexander McGregor
Brotherhood of American Yeomen
Stevenson
Henry Wolfert
Burlington
Iona
Winifred Wolfert
Homer Dee Cooley
Sast
Washington Street
McElhinney Drug Company
Washington
Harold Shaw
Laverne
Minnesota
Joseph N. Shaw
North Seventeenth Street
East Orange
New Jersey
Shaw
Wilma Row
Seventeenth Street
East
Oringe
J. N. Shaw
Mr. Shaw
Deaware, Lackawana and
Western R. I
New York City
Corn Exchange Bank
Pleasant Hill church ice cream social announced Wednesday
Notices list several church and society gatherings inviting all. An ice cream social is set for Wednesday evening at Pleasant Hill church. The Decree of Honor calls a meeting Thursday night, and Home Steadsters meet tonight. Chaplains and sewing circle groups plan Thursday events, plus a Junior Christian Endeavor outing Friday at Sunset Park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pleasant Hill
St. James
Junior Christian Endeavor Society of the Presbyterian Church
Sunset Park
Woman's Relief Corps Ten Cent Social Planned
The Woman's Relief Corps hosts a ten cent social on the lawn of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Griffith Thursday evening June 29. Ice cream and cake will be served. The event invites all, ladies and gentlemen, to support a worthy cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman's Relief Corps
City Bus Line Call Up Service by Frank Rogers
Call up phone number 589 to arrange bus line service withFrank Rogers. Leave orders with street address and number for prompt handling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Rogers
Undertaker Services Expanded at McNamara and Son
McNamara and Son announce a new experienced undertaker will head their department. They have refurnished the parlors at 212 South Marion Avenue with new stock and modern equipment. Charles L. Brainard, now appointed manager, brings years of experience from Kansas City and Bethany Missouri and will relocate his family on July 15.
Strickland Office Praised by Western Union Official
Nortel W. D. Shearer receives a note from A. L. B. Cowan Western Union district commercial superintendent praising the local office for its strong report. The traffic superintendent commends management, steady growth, prompt courteous delivery, and overall excellent conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. D. Shearer
A. L B. Cowan
Western Union Telegraph Company
Cowan
Shearer
Public Library Reopening Notice and Endorsements
The Jane A. Chilcote Free City library will reopen for the public on Wednesday and Thursday, June 28 and 29, 1911 in the afternoon and evening. Afterward the library will resume normal hours for return and loan of books. Also included are endorsements from local officials and Meritol Digestive Tonic advertisements by Lemmon's Pharmacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jane A. Chilcote Free City Library
City of
Washington
American Drug & Press Asociation
Lemmon’s Pharmacy
Provincial Mayor Candor Draws Press Audience
A provincial mayor, seeking popularity, invites reporters to sit and be treated as gentlemen, illustrating a cordial, old fashioned press relations moment captured by Punch.
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Joan Swisher
W. T. Trotter
Ainsworth
Ross’ Drug Store
J. A. Carden
Grover, Colo
Harrie McGnagin
Keota
New York
Ralph Junkin
Howard McCleery
Hert Dixon
Dew Moines
Ida Carria Jett
Muscatine
Winnie Eliott
Lora Martin
West Chester
Julia Cavender
Mary Mingo
Cedar Rapids
Wiebrigje Brewer
The
S K. Starter
Colorado
McCarty
George Dempsey
Davenport
Jean Wuysmane
A. York
Rome
Iowa
Janes Page
Aon
Donald
Column Junction
Helen Morton
Haines
W. Guy
Ogden, Utal
Misa Leila Wallace
Delano, Minn
M. Y. Wallace
Dudley Crone
JM Crone
Joanna Kyle
State University
Wellman Public Schools
Mra
Nate McKee
Horace
Francis
Armaworth
Phoenix
Arizona
Mra McKee
Misa Faith Adams
J. W. Dunham
Rock Island
Ralph Minick
Dale
Clinton
Mia. J. M. Cadwallader
Master Maxie
Millersburg
C. Ling
Georgia Jones
Wellman
AS. Folger
Sigourney
H. S Atchison
Minneola
Kan
Columbus City
A. J. Dawson
Jank Skubal
Maxwell
Smith & Gibson
Barry Oxfords
J. A. Warwood & Son
Tabby
Mer Kitten
Calli
Evelyn
Jack
Father
Toboy
Sheppie
Patby
Dinah
Daddy
Weill
Lota
Tab
Mrs. Gray Bird
Kodaks
W. OH. Jackson
D. L. Baird
Charles Hebner
Martin Scranton
Bloomfield
Miss Eva Putman
Nora Curran
Oberlin
Ohio
Jerry Curran
Thidieity
W. J. Southwell
William, Jr
Inez Holden
Lewis Anderson
Albert Simpson
Brighton
Julia McDonald
Kansas City
W. E. Chilcote
Norman Hall
Colfax
J. A. Young
M. Wilkin
Mary and
Cecil Griffith
Carlina Litowich
Salina Kan
Mrs. J. Rothschild
Florence Babb
Chicago
Mr. Holden
Iowa Avenue
Buick
Chalmers
B. F. Dixon & Co
Winifred Geisler
Ruth Wilson
Helen Gray
Keokuk
Madeline
Esther Cook
Genevieve Madden
Lester Hanlon
Bruce Cowden
Force
Cambridge
Harvard University
Frank Bergquist
Bruce
Newport
Norfolk
Niagara Falls
Washington D.C
R. D. Daugherty
Mt. Pleasant
Iowa Wesleyan College
Jennie Smith
Miss Wilna
Kleese Hartman
H. CC. Hull
Dif Hull
Wooston
Mass
Carl Hedges
Harmon
East Main Street
Jack Westphal
Ott
West Main Street
Mrs. Hedges
Mills Seed Company
Louis Baird
Ats Society
Mrs. St. Rothschild
Salina
Kansas
Jeannette Rothschild
Miss Jeannette
Corinne Rothschild
Old Mother Hubbard
R. Stuart & Son
Mutual
Decree of
J. PL
Elow
Hattie Wilson
W. RC. Soctal
Stein-Bloch and
Kuppenheimer
Stein-Bloch and Kuppenheimer
Sol. Rich & Co
McNamara & Son
Dxais Asczlley
Ladies
Oxfords
Atchison & Finney
HM. A. Burrell
A. H. Wallace
Cordelia Ross Marsh
W. Bailey
Chas. H. Keck
W. C. Fisher
Albert C. Fuller, Jr. Schuyler
W. Livingston
Harriet
Wilson
Him
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