Gracehill Notes on Sunday School and Local Visits
Gracehill reports a return to good roads and a Sunday school gathering after a pause. Ladies Aid enjoyed a day with Mr and Mrs Paul Harvey including a pot luck lunch and a quilt project. Residents visit relatives, plan moves to Austin Texas, and farm work resumes at Sumner quarry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna Williams
Gracehill
Mar
Ladies Aid
Paul Harvey
Nelson Woodford
Anson Woodford
Brighton
Lester Small
Allen Schaeffer
Wellston
Raymond Sankey
Austin
Texas
Dan Boone
Lyle Hayes
Christ
Old Mohawk Medicine Offered For Constipation Relief
A local ad promotes Old Mohawk Medicine as a cleansing remedy for waste buildup and constipation. It offers two family bottles for 98 cents or single bottles for 49 cents, claiming relief from arm and back pain, stiffness, swelling, gas, indigestion, and headaches after several doses. Sold exclusively at McDaniel Drug Store in Washington, ta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McDaniel Dreg
Washington
45 New Books At City Library Add To Shelves
Washington public library announces 45 new books added recently. Twenty one are fiction including Escape a Story of Nazi Germany by Vance Moment in Pekin by Lin Yu Tang and Portrait of Jenny by Robert Nathan. Seven stories are for the youngest readers and seventeen are for young people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Public Library
Germany
Tthel Vance
Pekin
Lin Yu Tang
Robert Nathan
Jenny
Taylor Caldwell
A. D. Ficke
Morton
Mexico
Iola Fuller
Susan Glaspeil
Zsolt de Harsanyl
Jalaleo
Jackson Gregory
L. J. Hauek
Deborah
Robert Henriques
Aris
G. L
Ainsworth Notes on Visitors and Music Contest
Ainsworth residents visit Mrs. Fannie Rowan who is ill as Maresh and Thompson families stop by. Agnes Ferguson of Chicago visits sister Mary Chthak and relatives. Spring music contest held at the high school auditorium Tuesday evening April 6 with Milo Soerden directing the band concert. Read the Want-ads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Norris
Ainsworth
Maresh
Merle Thompson
Heatley Thompson
Gail
Kenneth
Fannie Rowan
Agnes Ferguson
Chicaco
Mary Chthak
Milo Soerden
Washington
Pleasant Ridge Social News Recaps A Busy Weekend
Harold Steele visited his sister Mrs Wilmer Kaufman while the Ray Steele family from Columbus Junction and the Ben Bruegge family celebrated St Patrick s Day with the Anton Kaufman and Kaufman clan. The Underwood family hosted Good Friday dinner for nephew and wife Mr and Mrs Wm Ogg of Sterling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pat
Kamp
Evelyn
Keota
Henry Underwood
Gladys Stalder
Richmond
Pat Swift
Milton Smith
Swift
Smiths
Kaufman
Clyde Emery
Dale
Katherine Nebel
Washington
James Stalder
Anton Kaufman
Frank
Jacob Schaad
John Renoux
Davis
Homer Ernest
Little Edna Renoux
Graveside Service for Simon the Hillsboro Farmer
Funeral services were held at Mt Olivet cemetery Riverside for Lawrence Simon who died by hanging at his Hillsboro area farm. Monsignor Bernard Jacoksmeier presided with casket bearers named. Surviving family includes widow Caroline and four daughters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Rotenburger
Floyd Fisher
Oran
Lloyd Thompson
August Schmidt
Ferdinand Simon
Lawrence Simon
Riverside
Joseph
Lena
Doll) Simon
St. Mary's School
Marie Lantz
Mary Katherine
Caroline Rotenburger
Here
Hillsboro
Iowa
Dorothy
Maxine
Delores
Joseph Simon
Adam Simon
West Liberty
Mary Thomann
John Soukup
Albert Erbe
Iowa City
BE. Rosene
Moline
Ill
Elizabeth Kiefer
Twendolyn Marner
American Institute of Commerce
Davenport
R. J. Marner
Mildred Dawn
Albert
West Chester School News High School Tournament Recap
West Chester reports the annual high school tourney results with seniors topping juniors in finals 17 to 14 after junior sophomores games earlier that week. The PTA meeting featured a sophomores play by Roberta Luers, talks by patrolmen from Ottumwa, and music submissions for the Sub District contest in Wellman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High School News
West Chester
Mar
Roberta Luers
Taylor
Aldershoff
Ottumwa
Wellman
Washington
Francis Porter
Mary Elizabeth Wells
Lois Wright
Riverside visit notes from Cedar Rapids and Davenport kin
Dawn, southwest of Riverside, Mrs Anna Kern returns home from Cedar Rapids visit with sister Mrs Mary Duncan. Harold and William Dautremont of Davenport visit Riverside at Miss Rose and Ray mond Dautremont's home, escorted by William Dautremont Sr who had spent two weeks in Davenport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dawn
Riverside
Anna Kern
Mary Duncan
Cedar Rapids
Harold
William Dautremont, Jr
Davenport
Miss Rose
Raymond Dautremont
William Dautremont, Sr
Britt Muskrat Trapper Sentenced for New Violations
George Kloster of Britt received 30 more days in jail after pleading guilty to two similar charges of illegal muskrat pelts. He later faced Justice J. C. Ford in Garner and earned 60 days parole after additional game law violations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britt George Kloster
Britt
D. BE. Williams
J. C. Ford
Garner
Kloster
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Spring Byington
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Gale Sondergaard
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Jessie Ralph
Helen Ericson
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Russell Hicks
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Little Hercules
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A. G. Hall
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R. H. Barbour
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J. B. Egan
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Mr. Stone
A. S&s
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Sally
H. J. Wrester
Highgate
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R. M. Varble
Julia Ann
W. N. Anderson
M. M
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Beata S Reed
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West Chester School News
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Ellen Cochran
America
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Janet Reif
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Betty Griggs
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Elizabeth Harras
Marvin Sprague
Jeanam Cherry
Sir Henry Rachurn
Wangold
Swift's Milk
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Pekoe
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