News Notes from Eureka and Nearby Communities
Eureka notes record visits from Mr and Mrs Austin from Worcester Ohio and Ea Kuhn from Texas to the John Kuhn home. Win Snider and family visited Mrs Snider last Sunday. A Baker medicine man from Washington called on customers in the area. Charley Edwards sawing lumber for Lester Wagner. Mrs D G Been blossom and son Richard visited Grandma Stewart at Ainsworth on the 18th. Dr and Mrs Dicken were callers in the Eureka area one day last week. The Stout brothers sprayed their big orchards this week using seven trucks. George Ditmer and helper sheared sheep for neighborhood sheep men. the task took three minutes with a gas engine driving the clippers.
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Eureka
Mrs. Austin
Wocester
Ohio
Ea Kuhn
Texas
John Kuhn
Win. Snider
Weather, people, and plans from West Chester diary notes
On May Day in West Chester the writer enjoys farm life hopes for a good Iowa crop and reports small town happenings. A Hedrick visitor jokes about oil land and a broom seller shares his craft. Alex Miller and the Davenport Democrat feature in local papers while a Jersey cow, 300 hens, and a 12 geese brood amuse. The mayor is a woman and radios are praised as world changing.
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West Chester
Iowa
Hedrick
Arkansas
McFarlanes
Washington
Alex Miller
Alex
Davenport Democrat
Davenport
Chicago
Journal
Evening Journal
Democrat
Lot Dyarman
Ed Gliders
Andy Pimmies
Pimmie
Pleasant Riverside visit to cheer bedridden Mr Maas
On April 25 relatives gathered at Fred Maas home in Riverside to cheer Mr Maas who could not leave the house due to illness. Families from Casey Iowa, Kalona, Hills, Wellman and Riverside attended a midday dinner at 12:30.
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Riverside
Fred Maas
Maas Wis
John Maas
Casey, Towa
Albert
Milton Maas
B. A. Holmes
Kalona
Alice Maas
Hills
Peter Gerot
Maas
al Kepler
Kelona
Charles Maple
Wellman
Kiowa Lodge celebrates 106th anniversary with guest Emerald Rebekah
Keota reports a T O O F 106th anniversary program with Lois Ochs piano solos Carrie Palmer readings Marjorie Russell Thomas Morris and Victor Hess monologue Virginia Droz cornet Kieth Mound and A J Morgan address Dist Dept band master from Richland Mrs A J Morgan attends Ottumwa Assembly Refreshments for about 150. social time ends. Local updates include Mrs A Ludwig improving and a dairy separator mishap in Keota with milk and cream spraying everywhere.
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A. J. Morgan
Ottumwa
A. S. Ludwig
Bert Dill
Everett Smith
A. Beenblossom
John Kirkpa
Pageant at Pleasant Plain prompts repeated showing
Brighton May 1 s Den son and deputy Sweet led callers Thursday for the pageant At Dawning to be repeated at the Friends church Pleasant Plain next Sunday due to the large turnout. Mrs Joe Frain called to Pleasant Plain by the death of sister Mrs Roce Talbert who died after an intestinal illness. Talbert and family had moved from Pleasant Plain recently. She is survived by husband and nine siblings and parents Mr and Mrs Elmore. Other local items include visitors Chauncey Stone and family from Oska loosa, Flood Dayton relatives from Des Moines, and W F M S April meeting notes with thirty five ladies. A former Brighton resident Seneca Beach of Los Angeles visited briefly.
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Brighton
S den Son
Sweet
Friends Church
Pleasant Plain
Joe Frain
Ness
Roce Talbert
Talbert
Wm.lmore
Elizabeth Frain
Kenneth Elmore
L W
Christina Elmayre
Fred
Floris
Raymond
Burl
Cedar Rapids
Beecher
New York
Golden Out West
Cha
Pearl Frain
Robert Edwards
Faris
Fairfield
Imogene Shv
Nadine
Winfield
Ida Seeley Wentworths
Harry
Boston Hospital
Miss Allen
Yeo
Seneca C. Beach
Los Angeles
Sparks and cream dust in home accident injures woman
Friction from a loosened bowl caused a fire spark medley that filled the room. Mrs Nyeom escaped with a bruised arm. Elisa Herr returns home after winter with her son Forest Herr. Van R. Brother, recently dead in a ty accident, was married to Fred Dayton’s adopted daughter in Keota.
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Nyeom
Elisa Herr
Forest Herr
van R
Prichton
Fred Dayton
Wwe
Keota
Sunday school rally in Muscatine at 1st Presbyterian
Representatives from Sunday schools in Muscatine county gathered for the fifth rally in a series at the 1st Presbyterian church in Muscatine on Wednesday evening. Miss Jessie Foster spoke on Looking Into the Future and Cecil Schlichting played piano solos as Mrs. Dan Stratton traveled to Kahoka Missouri.
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Columbus Junction
Muscatine
Social notes from J. L. Stratton home and Junction visits
Mrs Arthur Springer of Wapello visits Junction relatives after a brief Cairo stop. Paul Liseher of Douglas Arizona visits Wapello friends then stays Thursday. Mrs Walter Marsden returns from Davenport visit with sister Mrs Bert Dunlap. Charles Dyche marries Elizabeth Blean in Muscatine with Rev T J Leahy officiating. Dyche to run a Muscatine garage. Elva Drake of Cedar Rapids visits her ailing father Geo Drake. Dr J L Steiner of Riverside stays with James Reynolds. Wm T Cuthamp and daughter Genevieve visit the Fred Outkamp home in Wapello. Mrs Howard Crozier of Washington spends Thursday. Columbus Junction band led by Glenn Ayers to give first street concert next Wednesday. Band members listed by instrument.
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J. L. Stratton
Cairo
Arthur Springer
Wapello
Junction
Paul Liseher
Douglas Arizona
Walter Marsden
Bert Dunlap
Davenport
Charles Dyche
Columbus City
Muscatine
Elizabeth Blean
T. J. Leahy
St. Mathias
Dyche
Elva Drake
Cedar Rapids
Geo Drake
J. L. Steiner
Riverside
James Reynolds
T. Cuthamp
Genevieve
Fred Outkamp
Howard Crozier
Washington
Columbus Junction Band
Glenn Ayers
Arthur Williams
Frantz Ruusenberger
Carl Giffey
Stanley Lantz
Dewey Jones
Lyrle Stuston
Jim Allen
Levi Gentzler
Roe Hawkins
William Furoas
Ilenny Nott
Don Darrow
Dean Carlisle
Hal Reister
L. E. Parsons
Jack Marton
Jesse Marshall
Curley Davi
Louisa County Memorial Highway Committee Appointments
The highway commission names A. W. Hinderman of Wapello as Louisa county chairman and selects ushers for the committee including Howard Richards Cotter Mrs H L Mc Roberts Miss Lucer farkington Letts Mrs Elmer Carter Grandview Edwin Hicklin Roy Sallaby Oakville and Mrs Wunnenberg Morning Sun Muscatine visitors Friday included Mrs E W Kelly Mary Solomon and Misses Gertrude Gardner and Louisa Johnston Miss Flora Latta traveled from Muscatine to spend the weekend at her home.
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Lussel Reece
Throwa
Gold Star Memorial Highway Commission
A. W. Hinderman
Wapello
Louisa County
Shis
Howard Richards
Cotter
H. L. McRoberts
Columbus Fet
Lucre Farkington
Letts
Elmer
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