Community Notes and Local Elections in Mt Pleasant
Miss Hayme Lee Evans visits Mt Pleasant for weekend with Mrs Jessie O Neille. Cal Cooper elected school board secretary replacing resigned J G Heacock. Carl Thomas of Chicago in town for business. A benefit performance The Minister's Wife's New Bonnet draws praise and funds toward the M E ladies aid and building fund. PFEO officers elected for the coming year. Mrs Luella Taylor president and others named. Mrs Ora Burnett seeks knee treatment in Iowa City hospital. Funeral for Mrs Adam Crile held at Germanville Lutheran. Home talent cast dines at Brier's. Community meeting at Commun ity Mercantile Co. Mildred Burris returns from Washington. Baptist Missionary society and M K E Foreign Missionary society meet. Reuben finds a house, Nedger moves in, Frank Trotter relocates.
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Sans Dee
iHayme Lee Evans
Mt. Pleasant
Jessie O'Neille
Cal Cooper
J. G. Heacock
Carl Thomas
Chicago
M. E. Ladies Aid
P. FE. O's
Luella Taylor
Besse Heacock
Misa Nelle Engle
Ora Burnett
Iowa City Hospital
Harvey Mullikin
Brighton
Adam Crile
Fairfield Hospital
Germanville Luthern
R. Reichen
Brier's
Community Mercantile Co
Mildred Burris
Washington
Nrew
Ainaworth
Baptist Missionary Society
J. A. Marsh
M. KE
Foreign Missionary Society
H. G. Crawford
Reuben
Mr Leffler
Pleasant Nedger
Jas Morrison
Frank Trotter
Stephen Hayden
Ainsworth Briefs Include Visits and Local Changes
March notes report Cedar Rapids singer visiting Ainsworth and funeral attendance for Leonard in Washington. C E B Riddington will convert the old electric shop into a print house for the Ainsworthian and Splashes with Norris as printer. The W C T U meeting is postponed for the Father and Son banquet. Rev C E Riddington and wife welcome a 9 pound girl.
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Ainsworth Ainsworth
E. EB
Singer
Cedar Rapids
Ands. AE. Sands
John Sands
J. Fitzgerald
EF. W. Spessard
Leonard
Washington
C. EB. Riddington
Ainsworthian
Mr. Norris
Lone Tree
Norris
Thresa Caril
Jerry
Miss Ames Swift
Ainsworth High School
Fairfield
Railsbach
Chas. McConnell
Howard White
Victor Cook
Emer Young
James Fitzgerald
Daryl Boner
Randolph Kelsey
C. E. Riddington
Dr. Clawson
Indianapolis
Ind
Elizabeth McBlain
Forest Cause
Kansas City
Tom Will
Milburn Spessard
Davenport
Rock Island
Evangelist Rev. L. R. Peacock to lead May meetings
Crawfordsville reports a new evangelistic series by Rev. L R Peacock of Houston Pennsylvania beginning May 22 under the Methodist and United Presbyterian churches. Peacock formerly assisted Billy Sunday and is highly recommended. In other news Mrs Marion Neal’s residence caught fire noon yesterday. firefighters saved the home but sustained fire and water damage.
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Crawfordsville
T. H. Barnes
G. W. Hanna
Clara Wood
Hattie Cherryholmes
Washington
Ainsworth
Houston
Pennsylvania
Methodist
United Presbyterian Churches
Peacock
Billy Sunday
Marion Neal
Neal
Iowa Tree Census Shows Native Forests and Fruit Crops
Describes Iowa forest reserves totaling 14 316.13 acres native forests and 468 artificial. Lists common native oaks and streamside species, notes catalpa and coffee trees as introduced, and cites 1920 fruit crop value of 273 46 per acre. Mentions grape regions and laws on forest reservations and farm-structure exclusions.
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Des Moines
Iowa
State Board of Horticulture
Norway
Carolina
Perry Packing Plant Demonstrates Community Achievement
Des Moines area report notes Perry in Dallas county expanding local meat business via Hausserman Packing Company. It provides hog and cattle markets to about 75 towns along rail lines and Interurban, supporting local farmers and consumers against packing-house dominance.
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Des Moines
Perry
Dallas County
Hausserman Packing Company
Hausserman
Milwaukee Railway
Towa
Packing House Trust
Auto Owners Seek Part Revenue With Wrecking Shift
The ad notes low junk prices for metals and shifts to parts revenue. It lists junk values for iron aluminum brass and radiator brass, outlines costs to wreck a car, and promotes new and used tires, parts, and services for Ford vehicles. It invites readers to write details of old part cars for purchase.
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A. Ford
Clam Digging Restrictions Sought as Rivers Threaten Fisheries
The item notes a push to close clam digging in Storm Lake for five years to protect fish and shellfish while cedar Falls reports heavy Cedar River activity hurting local fishing. It also covers nurses seeking a statewide Nurses Board to regulate training, examinations, and schools, with a full time inspector and credentials requiring two years of training plus high school.
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Muscatine
Cedar Falls
Cedar River
Storm Lake
Nurses’ Association
State Board of Health
Training Path Change for Nurses and High School Study
The article proposes reform requiring three years of nursing training while currently only one year of high school work is mandated. It discusses adapting education to meet professional standards and outlines potential impacts on curricula and student progression.
Lee County man convicted for overdrawn bank account
A Lee County district court convict ed a man for drawing on an overdrawn bank account with fraudulent intent. The sustained ruling cited the statute punishing writing checks without sufficient funds with a maximum $100 fine or up to 30 days in jail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
District Court of
Lee County
Iowa Tops Nation in Farm Bureau Cooperative Women Roles
Iowa leads states in cooperative Farm Bureau work with 28 counties organized for both men and women and 262 township groups. The state plan places a township chair, secretary, and nine cooperators in each district, totaling 2553 women in official leadership across Iowa.
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Iowa
National Farm Bureau
Indianapolis
Waterloo sportsmen move to buy lake near Ruthven Iowa
Waterloo sportsmen back a plan to purchase a small lake near Ruthven Iowa for duck hunting. The deal aims to include fifty men with a majority from Waterloo and invitations planned for Cedar Rapids Des Moines Marshalltown and Sioux City groups.
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Waterloo
Ruthven
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Des Moines
Marshalltown
Sioux
New California Lake Site Aims At Duck Hunters Paradise
Descriptions depict land bought to encircle a lake with facilities for duck hunting enthusiasts. The shallow three feet deep lake fringed by reeds promises a favorable habitat for birds and a comfortable hunt. A Des Moines inventor presents a calcium arsenate sprayer for cotton to control boll weevil, approved by the U.S. Bureau of Entomology station in Tallulah La, seen as a major farming aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clayton W. Graham
Des Moines
Mr. Graham
United States Bureau of Entomology
Tallulah
Farm Wage Scale Proposed by Kossuth County Bureau
Kossuth county farm bureau outlines a wage scale likely to be adopted by neighboring counties in Iowa. Top wage set at 50 dollars monthly with board lodging and laundry. Members expect hired men to be obtained for 40 to 45 dollars this year. wages remain above pre war levels though crop prices hover near them. County agent reports in scattered sections suggest no labor shortage this season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farm Bureau
Kossuth
Iowa
Iowa dairymen urged to protest butter branding bill
W. A. Wentworth secretary of the Iowa Creamery Secretaries and Managers association sent an appeal to Iowa dairymen urging protest against a proposed federal bill requiring butter branding ten days after manufacture as cold storage butter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Congress
W. A. Wentworth
Iowa Creamery Secretaries’ and Managers’ Association
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