Woman's Home Missionary Society Meeting Highlights
West Chester Methodist group held its regular meeting with Mrs. A T Auststine in charge. Members discussed lessons from the study book, read readings, and collected a Lenten offering.Secretary presided as the recolor meeting of Baker Relief Corps No 200 met March 28 with twenty members. Donations to the Soldiers Home at Marshalltown and to the flag fund were approved and Emma Starkhampton’s charter draped.
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Woman's Home Missionary Society
West Chester Methodist Church
A. T. Auststine
Re. Coffey
Hough
Lindenmeyer
Baker Relie? Corps No
West Chester
Mareshalltown
Iowa
Ōiso
Emma Starkhampton
Cecile Robertson
Sadie V. Hollinger
Guy
Washington Corps
Village society notes and social event reports
The article describes a church society meeting with a scripture reading and devotionals, a Wednesday gathering at Mrs. Ed Libe’s home for a tribute to Mrs. Carl Miller, and a Saturday dinner party hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Orville Elder on South Iowa Avenue. Guests included Alta Fetters Elizabeth Freding Maude Randall Gladys Mace Kathryn Bostwick Blanche Gordon Mabel Morton Victoria Freding and Allee Klippel.
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Sident
Ed Libe
Carl Miller
Journal Force
Orville Elder
South
Iowa Avenue
Eld
Alta Fetters
Elizabeth Freding
Maude Randall
Gladys Mace
Kathryn Bostwick
Blanche Gordon
Mabel Morton
Victoria Freding
Allee Klippe
Community Notices and Meetings From Local Churches
Announcements list events for 1926 starting with the Missionary cycle opening at 7:30 Monday in the auditorium social in the Social Hall. V Public invited with no admission. Other items include postponed meeting for Young Women's Home Missionary Society, box supper at Ainsworth Methodist church, sewing class by YWCA group, social at West Chester Baptist Kensington, a Country club party, a T.O.S. E.E. Club time change, and the Presbyterian church annual dinner with meeting to follow.
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Methodist Church
Local Ladies’ Meetings Announced for April 1
Notices list multiple community gatherings including the Cub meeting at John Kephart’s home 3713 M W A hall delegates to County Convention April 1 at 10 30 with named delegates and alternates. Bethel Presbyterian Missionary society meets Wednesday at two. Susan Coffey Auxiliary of M E church West Chester meets Friday at 2 with Mrs Haker. Red Brick Show District Ladies meet Thursday with Mrs Nejswanger for Ames Extension Course. Pleasant Plains Missionary society to hold all day meeting at 417 E Main St with Mrs Jas Zeck on April 1.
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Ladies Al@ Society of the
Grace Hill
Ka Mikech
Esther Millers
Curl “Miller
Engle
West Chester
Kensington
M. W. A. Hall
J. W. Javidson
W. P. Moriarty
D. J. Corbaugh
C. Sloat
FE. V. Simons
H. A. Otto
I. E. Glick
J. G. Moriarty
A. J. Vetereon
M. D. Lee
B. G. Fox
Veter Optenburg
Bethel Presbyterian Missionary Society
Eli Applegate
Susan Coffey
M. E. Church
Pleasant Plains Missionary Society
Jas. Zeck
E. Main St
Fortnightly Club Child's Study Depart Meeting
Notice states the Fortnightly Club Child's Study Department will meet Wednesday afternoon at 2 20 with Mrs Ralph Thompson. Electi
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T. Os. EE. Club
A. B. Schmoeller
Ralph * Thompson
Elec
Hawarden County investigation follows Iowa shooting
Hawarden County Attorney Ha ven opened an inquiry into a shooting near here that slightly wounded Dessa Dunlap and Charles Dawson both high school students. In Des Moines Dutch, James, 39, a miner, died from slate fall at the Dallas Coal Mine near Madrid. A Boy Scout patrol saved farm buildings from a spreading grass fire. George Robinson, 45, farmer, hanged himself in his barn. Delegates at the Des Moines Evangelical conference pledged 2000 dollars for retired ministers. Police dragged the Raccoon River for a man found floating after a note signed R Schupp claimed he would be found floating down the river.
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Hawarden County
Haven
Dessa Dunlap
Charles Dawson
Des Moines
James Dutch
Dallas
Madrid
Des Moineer
R. Schupp
Diner Confrontation Sparks Stir Over Missing Order
A heated scene erupts at a local eatery as a diner and waiter clash over a disputed meal. Witnesses say the argument began when a customer argued about a kitchen mistake and demanded resolution. Police were not called.
Roosevelt Hunters Seek Rare Asian Beasts for Museum
The Field Museum plans an expedition led by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Kermit Roosevelt and George K Cherrie to Central Asia in April. They will travel from India through Bombay to the Himalayas and Pamir region seeking Marco Polo sheep the snow leopard the Kashmir stag and other famed mammals for display.
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Chicago
Field Museum
Theodore
Kermit Roosevelt
George K. Cherrie
James Simpson-Roosevelt
Central Asia
James Simpson
Marshall, Field & Co
New York
India
Bombay
Himalayan
Serinagar
Pamir Region
D. C. Navies
Marco Polo
W. H. Oscood
Europe
Cathay
Kashmir
Rio Carnival Sees Record Spenders and Cleanups
Rio de Janeiro ends a three day four night carnival with banks closed and streets littered in paper. Confetti and serpentine use soared with 100 tons of confetti and 250 tons of serpentines tossed by crowds. The city estimates carnival expenses at 600000 dollars as masks were avoided due to political disturbances.
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Rio
Rio DE Janeiro
Venturesome Barkentine Narwhal to End Days in Movers
The Narwhal, a San Francisco built barkentine launched in 1883, famed on the Pacific coast for four decades in whaling and fast cruises, faces conversion into a motion picture ship as its era closes.
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San Francisco
South Seas
Corded
South Sea
San Pedro
Los Angeles
University of Chicago Plans 2000-Seat Gothic Chapel
The University of Chicago announces a new Great Gothic chapel, designed by Bertram Goodhue and approved by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, to seat 2000. Part of a 1925 building program funded by a $17.5 million alumni campaign and Rockefeller legacy, it will be 262 feet long with a 209 foot tower and ensure all 2000 can see and hear.
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University of Chicago
John D. Rockefeller
Bertram Goodhue
Giles Gilbert Scott
England
Liverpool
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