Community News From Havre and Surrounding Areas
Correspondents report social visits and family updates across Havre la Washington Wellston Crawfordsville and Murray including kin visits to Miller Putnam Meyers Gardner and Chalupa households. Several local residents attend the 04th anniversary of the Odd Fellows in Washington and others travel for family and health updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havre
Reede
Golia Millar
B F. Miller
Odd Fellows
Washington
Will Miller
Baby
Ballard
Pleasant Plain
Taylor
Paul Harry
Grace Hill
Wes Meyers
Edgar Meyers
Sista
Wilson
Murray, la
Will McBride
Oscar Gardner
Wellston
B. F. Miller
Golia
Will Easter
Charley Cunningham
Arlene
John Cunningham
Crawfordsville
Crawfordsville High Students Visit Ft Madison Penitentiary
The Sociology class led by Supt Harold Ross visited the Ft Madison penitentiary by invitation of the warden. Attendees included Dennis Jones Clive Huston Everette Huston Paul Witting Claire Twinam Hayden Huston Alice Gookin Margaret Davidson Mary Borders Genevieve Davis Ethel Edgar and others. A separate note reports Evelyn Kongable visiting relatives and a knee infection requiring hospital treatment and surgery. Other local residents visited in Washington and Fairfield areas and William Owen of Columbus Junction visited at the Huston home.
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Crawfordsville
Harold Ross
Ft. Madison
Mr. Ross
Dennis Jones
Clive
Everette Huston
Paul Witting
Claire Twinam
Hayden Huston
Alice Gookin
Margaret Davidson
Mary Borders
Genevieve Davis
Ethel Edgar
G. W. Hanna
Hoffman
Keota
Evelyn Kongable
Ellis Kongable
Winfield
J. C. Huston
G. G. McElroy
Hope Huston
Marian Davidson
Wilbert Rose
Mirs Katharine Williams
W. Huston
Washington
W. J. Brown
Maurine
Fairfield
William Owen
Columbus Junction
Crawfordsville High Loses to Wyman 12 8 in Baseball
Miss Mabel Crooks visited in Crawfordsville with her father J H Crooks. Local baseball team lost 12 to 8 to Wyman after school at Wyman. Mac and Songer homered for Wyman. Mr and Mrs Lee Mak and child returned from a week with relatives near Sioux City and Iowa City. Lee Lease returned from Davenport after serving on the federal jury. Presbyterian youth enjoyed a weiner roast at Whip-poor-will park.
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Crawfordsville
Mabel Crooks
Iowa City
J. H Crooks
Wyman
Presbyterian Church
Whip-poor-will Park
Definite Purpose Amid Shifting World Paths
Fragmentary prose reflects on someone named Haven and the world’s indifference to a man astray. Notes that obstacles exist not in the world but in the individual’s wandering path and focus.
Suuffed Shoes and the Sticky Sea Mears
A bizarre note describes shoes softened by sea water and salt, peeling away and leaving a white residue that supposedly acts as paste, mending broken planks rather than feet.
Training Grade Teachers as The Editor
Dean W F Barr of Drake University argues that schools emphasize showy buildings over core teaching. He cites Iowa’s limited elementary training, calls for more elementary teachers with strong professional prep, and urges focus on teacher and child over facilities.
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W. F. Barr
Drake University
Track Meet Draws 20 Iowa High Schools to Fairfield
Fairfield notes strong Southern Iowa turnout for the fifteenth to state track and field meet at Parsons College field May 12. Washington seeks third straight team title as Fort Madison and Ottumwa return. events include sprints hurdles jumps relays and throws with medals for top four in each event.
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Fairfield
Parsons College Field
Glen Devine
Southern Iowa
Washington
Winer
Fort Madison
Ottumwa
Keokuk
Burlington
Chariton
Winfield
Ainsworth
Eldon
Mount Pleasant
Devine
Pocahontas the Indian Princess or Matoaka
E H Leech of Greenwich argues Pocahontas was a nickname for Matoaka or Matoaka meaning little tomboy. He cites Sturachey records and de Passe painting as sources claiming her real name Matoaka and that Pocahontas was a familiar name used by Powhatan.
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New York
John Smith
Pocahontas
E. H. Leech
Greenwich
Conn
America
London
William Stuarchey
Virginia
Delaware
Matoaka
Powhatan
Rolfe
British Doctor Declares Smoking Harmless To Health
London May 1. Dr E P Roger says nicotine poisoning risk to smokers is almost negligible. He reports experiments burning tobacco and collecting smoke, concluding combustion destroys nicotine and forms substances that irritate yet act as antiseptics. He claims tobacco may be good for health.
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London
E. P. Roger
America
Roger
Triumphal Entry into England 1916 Reference
The fragment notes John Rolfe’s wife Matoaka alias Rebecca as the baptismal name of Powhatan’s daughter, described as daughter of the powerful prince Powhatan Emperor of the Virginias, referenced in a 1916 entry.
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England
John Rolfe
Matoaka
Rebecca
Powhatan
Virginias
Billion in Women’s Clothing Made in 1921
Washington May 1 reports that more than a billion dollars worth of women s clothing was manufactured in 1921, with 1919 and 1914 totals also given. The census Bureau notes include girls and children s wear but exclude millinery, lace, corsets, and knit goods. Total values use manufacturers prices, not retail prices.
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Washington, D. C
Western Athletes at Drake Beat Records Made at Penn
Western athletes dominated the Drake games with ten wins to the Penn eastern teams two. Dehart Hubbard of Michigan won the Penn running broad jump and the running hop step jump, while Milton Angier of Illinois set an American javelin mark at Drake. Penn State set a world record in the two mile relay, and Illinois and Iowa claimed possible world intercollegiate marks in relays. Teams eye upcoming dual meets and late spring intercollegiates.
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Western University
Dehart Hubbard
Michigan
Hebard
Michithe
Graham
Kansas Aggies
Tom Lied
Notre Dame
Platt
Danver
Des Moines
Brooker
Philadelphia
Dean Brownell
Illinois
Norton
Kansas
Brown
Dartmouth
Penn State
Gan
Hlinois
Iowa
Mlinois
Milton Angier
Drake
Hubbard
West beats East in Penn and Drake relays recap
The report compares Penn relay games at Franklin field with Drake meet in Des Moines last Saturday. It notes the West winning ten of twelve events in common and records set in both meets, with Des Moines conditions aiding performances. The piece mentions Mrs Barkly Miller of Chicago praising Tanlac for relief after surgery and fatigue, including an ad for Tanlac and Tanlac Pills.
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Franklin Field
Drake University
Des Moines
Barkly Miller
West 51St Place
Chicago
Pedigreed Stock Sent to Canada From Prince of Wales Ranch
Professor We Carlyle, manager of the Prince of Wales' Alberta ranch, visits Stoke Climsi and Cornwall to select pedigree cattle for Canada. Among the selections is the son of the prize winning shorthorn bull Christian King, noted for his show distinctions in England last year.
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We Carlyle
Prince of Wales’ Alberta
Stoke Climsi
Cornwall
Canada
England
Germany waives freight on new church bells to replace war losses
Berlin April 11 by Mail The republican government will show appreciation to churches by waiving freight charges on shipments of all new bells bought to replace bells surrendered during the late war.
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Berlin
Germany
Coal Discoveries Expand Below Old Spitzberzen Mine
Reports indicate deeper coal deposits found below what was believed to be the mine bottom at Spitzberzen. Explorers describe extensive reposts of coal extending beyond prior measurements.
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Coatin
Ab Olf
Spitzberzen
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Dean Barr
The
Des Moines Register
State College
Geat State Teachers’ College
United States
General Assembly
Middle West
Kendall
Senate
Penn
Mrs. Miller
Taniac
Tanlac
Nature
A. E. Atchison
Journal
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