Walnut logs lure Kansas City factory contractor
A contractor for a Kansas City furniture factory is securing walnut logs from Frank Kuhm and directing crews at other sites. Walnut supplies are tightening as the firm offers good prices. Local notes record social visits, school plans, and various travels around Eureka and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eureka Eureka
Kansas City
Frank Kuhm
I. B. Hoxworth
Gray
Frank Mechnie
Eureka
Eureka Sunday
Otio Jarrard
Emma Hesseltine
Marjorie Petratz
Lawrence McKune
Treas
George Hopping
Merle Hesseltine
Hazel Conrad
Bessie Snider
Minnie Jarrard
Wilber Beenblossom
Highland News Briefs Include Local Visits and Sales
May 2 report from Highland Nebraska notes Roy Steele's Washington visitors on Saturday. Lloyd Harrison bought a horse at Griffin sale Saturday. Roy and H Steele plus spouses visited I C Steele home Sunday. Mrs Spreacker and Roy Steele attended church at Ainsworth. Mryl Steele saw talent play in Ainsworth Friday. M M Steele operates a tractor for Chas McMillan on a road project. A J Steele and family called on Riverside Monday evening.
Pleasant Plain Social Notes and Family Visits
Pleasant Plain, In May 2 reported a number of family visits including Mr. and Mrs. Frank Leeper and family at the Farrers, Mr. and Mrs. Will Miller and baby with Mrs. Frances Lauderdale and grandson Francis, and Mrs. Willard Farrier visiting. Measles illness of Austin Emry noted and a burn incident injured Mrs. Henry Ballard mildly. Class seniors practice for a play as week ends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Ballard
Fairfield
Tom Emry
Morgan
Dave Farrier
T. I. Farrier
Chas Farrier
Alvin Hole
T. I Farrier
Austin Emry
Jess Pickering
Vergil Smith
Brighton High School Banquet Features Holland Garden Theme
The 1923 Brighton high school Junior-Senior banquet was held in the gym with a Holland garden aesthetic. Decor included a purple and white Dutch windmill centerpiece, green dykes with crimson tulips, and purple and white streamers. Seventy-six attendees enjoyed a multi course menu and a toast program with student performances led by Florence Owens and Lucille Tracy. Community members visited or traveled, including Mrs. F. M. Waitman of Trenton and Roy Edwards traveling to Iowa City for carpentry work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brighton
Brighton High School
Amal
Parkerhouse
Demi Tasse
Florence Owens
Holland
Lucille Tracy
Market Place
Mrs. Prizer
Caroline Graft
Charles Wood
Jaanita Prizer
Bernice Cassady
Edwin Vanerus
J. E Miller
Miss McLaughlin
F. M. Waitman
Trenton
Hooker
Roy Edwards
Iowa City
W. H. Lloyd
Georgia
Herman Spohn
Chicago
Clifford Savage
Ottumwa
Funeral services held for Mrs Flossie Shearer in Ainsworth
Funeral services were conducted Tuesday at the M E church in Ainsworth for Mrs Flossie Shearer with Rev J F Rex and Rev D M Davis officiating. Pallbearers included R L Marr and H G Crawford. Interment followed at Elm Grove cemetery in Washington. Attending mourners included Mr and Mrs James Trotter and Mr and Mrs Lo J Trotter of Des Moines and Mr and Mrs Groy Neiswanger of Harvey Iowa. S C Pearson is reported poorly with bronchitis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ainsworth
Flossie Shearer
M. E. Church
J. F. Rex
D. M. Davis
R. L. Marr
H. G. Crawford
A. P. Jeffery
W. L. Alcorn
Karl Edmonson
John Clegg
Malinda Vanhorn
Merle Simpkins
A. Stephens
H. H. Vanhorn
O. KE. S
Elm Grove Cemetery
Washington
James Trotter
And
Lo J. Trotter
Des Lantoines
Groy Neiswanger
Harvey, Iowa
May Breakfast Ends School Year Meals Service
Crawfordsville Iowa May 2 the home economics class wrapped a year of meals with a May breakfast at 7 30 a m in the model dining room Miriam Sipe and Ethel Edgar were hosts yellow and white color scheme centered by a May pole candy doll favors Edna Eisele and Lucile Andrew painted place cards Rachel Hanna Alice Bower and Hope Huston wore white and served a menu including grape fruit baskets waffles with syrup creamed chicken in timbale cups butterfly salad peach fluff drop cakes Marguerite King Cottee and a King Cottee note A large crowd attended a Lanoue family concert last night in the opera house with Rev Lanone giving half the proceeds to the local band Mr and Mrs Marshall Gannon returned from Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crawfordsville
Miriam Sipe
Ethel Edgar
May
Edna Eisele
Lucile Andrew
Rachel Hanna
Alice Bower
Hope Huston
Marguerite King Cottee
Opera House
Lanoue
Rev Lanone
Marshall Gannon
Ohio
Harding praised as steady guiding light for nation
The article extols President Harding as a calm, practical leader who steadies the country, reduces unemployment, and inspires trust without fanfare. It compares him to McKinley, notes his cautious, consultative approach, and suggests he dominates public life with a confident, constructive course into 1924.
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Harding
White House
United States of America
McKinley
Wilson
Ed Eicher's Sister Dies in Nebraska
Clayton Noble, sister to Ed C Bieber, dies in Crete Nebraska after years of illness. Born Elizabeth Eicher in the Noble family, she taught school and sang locally, later moving with husband George Clayton Noble to Nebraska farms before retirement in Crete. Funeral plans pending at the old Eicher churchyard.
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Clayton Noble
Ed. C. Bieber
Crete
Nebraska
West
California
New Mexico
Los Angeles
Benjamin Eich
Noble Community
Elizabeth Eicher
George Clayton Noble
Onge
Noble
Mr. Noble
Doane College
Mennonite
Congregational Church
Eicher
George Clayton
Wayland
Help 1100 Convicts Back to Citizenship
Chicago based Central Howard Association reports 1100 men discharged from prisons in 1922 with $98,044 earned, average daily over $4, aiding 2454 men and boys overall. Founder F Emay Lyon notes eight dollars bridges prison release to self supporting citizenship, with 8% of paroles earned good credit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated
Central Howard Association
F. Emay Lyon
Lyon
Nuggets Found by Chance at Piet Wil Bowlder
In En Dorado county a man sitting on a bowlder at Piet Wil while whittling with a small hammer noticed a glint of gold. The stone yielded 38,000 in gold.
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California
Piet Wil
En Dorado County
When Knighthood Was in Flower at Fox Theatre
An All American Achievement film portrays Henry VIII in life like form as part of a historically accurate epic. The Fox Theatre presents the motion picture with exhaustive consultation from English and French authorities to deliver a stage worthy of Tudor drama.
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America
Columbus
New Spain
Elizabeth
Henry VIII
England
France
Fox Theatre
Samuel the Upright Judge and True Prophet Lesson
Lesson outlines Samuel the boy who served in God’s house and heard God’s call. It covers his life from childhood to old age as judge and prophet, his farewell address, and his plea for faithful obedience to God. The text emphasizes devotion, integrity, intercession, and national blessing conditioned on obedience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel
Eli
Tabernacle
Saul
Tle
God
Moses
Kear
Paganism and the soul yet neglects the body
W L Watkinson argues that worry over carnal matters is pagan and that spiritual works for the soul do not starve the body. The concise treatise links self discipline to physical care, urging balance between body and spirit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W, L, Watkinson
Letting Go and Trust in the Creator
A reflective meditation on shedding attachments and trusting the divine, questioning whether clinging to possessions hinders spiritual growth and acknowledging the limits of human understanding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emerson
When We Build Too Low They Bwild Stars Young
A fragmented line references construction and stars with unclear context. The readable portion hints at a misquoted or stylized phrase about building or aims tied to youth and stars. No clear events, places, or names emerge to confirm a concrete item.
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Sade Savage
Clarence Locke
Guy Teeters
Fred Wanerus
Louise McClintie
Carpenter
Copock
Leslie Newman
Fod
Floyd Arnold
Lorne Bidwell
Shirley
Wellman
Ida Bidwell
Mac Morgan
Toy, Morgan
Claire Conrad
Ann Woodworth
Egeer
Lyceum Bureau
Legion Boys
Elizabeth Elmore
Alkire
Pickin
Laura Shafit
Gilbert Goff
H. L. Gordon
Kirksville
Ed Crile
Cedar Rapids
Tracy Fenner
Brim
J. W. Stickley
Alice Jeffers
Davenport
Eden Bros
Ft. Madison
ED Eicher
United States
Pottsville
Nebr
Jon Clark Justio
Madison St
Hicago
HOTEL
Planters
Wenzel
Ing
Nal Office
P. B. Fitzwater
Moody Bible Institute of Chicago
Western Newspaper Union
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