May Social News Highlights From Riverside to West Chester
A string of society notes from Riverside and surrounding towns covers the May parties and club meetings. Mrs. Irve Lambert hosts a Friendship party with prize winners Mrs Limerman and Mrs Lambert. other clubs meet on North Avenue and at the Navajo club with luncheon and crafts. A wedding surprise features Miss Edna B. Hopping and Oscar Gerot at Wapello. The Younger Set Dancing Club hosts a grand May Party at the commercial club with 72 couples, Bentley's orchestra, thorn tree décor, and the May Basket Dance finale. Out-of-town guests attend, including Keokuk and Cincinnati friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irve Lambert
Friendship Club
Limerman
Miss Shaw
Nellie Davis
Brown
Methodist Church of
West Chester
Mildred Fuhr
Viola Fuhr
Opal West
Edna B. Hopping
Oscar Gerot
Wapello
Mr. Winters
Mildred H Brinning
Washington
Frank Stalla
Riverside
Geret
Mary Ellen Lytle
Betty Jones
Frank Carter
Tracy Phillips
Betty Hollingsworth
Mesdames H. L. McCleery
Clarence Hollingsworth
W. G. Stewart
Phillip Crail
Church and Club Announcements from Local Societies
Notices list choir rehearsals meetings and social events from Baptist, M E, Presbyterian, and Union groups. Includes dates Friday May 4 and Monday 14 plus times 7 30 8 00 and 230 with leaders Mrs Beal Miss Ella Montgomery Letha Dayton and Mrs Sage among others.
Eighth Grade Examinations Across Washington County
About 150 boys and girls from rural Washington county schools take the eighth grade exams today. Nearly a hundred sit tests in the courthouse courtroom while Judge Hamilton holds court in a rear room. Around forty write exams in Kalona with others at Brighton and Riverside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington County
Hamilton
Court House
Kalona
Brighton
Riverside
Former Methodist minister killed in factory elevator shaft
The Rev. William B. Cox, 70, longtime Des Moines Methodist, and recently pastor at Camanche Iowa, was found dead at the bottom of an elevator shaft in a local candy factory where he worked as night watchman. The incident occurred in Clinton Iowa on May 3. Detectives are investigating the death.
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Associated Press
Clinton, Ln
William B. Cox
Des Moines
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Methodist Church
Camanche
Iowa
Body of Drowned Boy Found in River near Cedar Rapids
The body of nine year old Russel Fisher, son of Mr and Mrs Ed Fisher of Troy Mills, was found under the Wapsie river mill bridge after a search party formed following his disappearance. He likely fell from the bridge while playing. This marks the second drowning in the river this year after Louis Denison drowned Tuesday night.
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Cedar Rapids
Russel Fisher
Ed Fisher
Troy Mills
Here
Mill Bridge
Wapsie River
Louis Denison
Community Interest on Lending Among Friends
A concise reflection notes that taking money from friends for any service strains social bonds. Thoreau implies ethical limits on lending and suggests broader lessons on how all people should relate.
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Tloreau
Gould Condition Deteriorates At Mentone Home
George J. Gould, the American financier, worsened suddenly today at his Mentone home in France. The Associated Press reports a sharp decline in his health as daily condition worsened with little improvement noted.
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Mentone
France
Geo. J. Gould
Here
Japanese Jiu Jitsu Experts
Some of Japan's jiu jitsu experts master anatomy and nerve points to incapacitate opponents, wielding deep knowledge of arteries bones and nerves for control and restraint.
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Japan
Brookhart Sails to Europe for Co operative Society Congresses
United States Senator Smith W. Brookhart of Iowa sails from New York aboard the steamship President Monroe bound for Europe. He will attend congresses of European cooperative societies as a representative of American organizations and intends to study cooperative plans for farmers and workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New York
United States
Smith W. Brookhart
Iowa
Europe
Brookhart
President Monroe
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ed Geret
Just Us Club
John Chadwick
North Avenue B
J. A. Porter
M. D
W. A. Gibson
B. B. Club
Wm. Powell
Chas Donelson
Florence Petratz
Wesley Brannen
Baptist Choir
Rebekahs
M. E. Choir
C.D
K. C. Hall
Ainsworth
Moose Lodge
Mustany Highland Four
Spafford
Buds of Promise
the Baptist Church
Ladies Missionary Society
First United Presbyterian
Woman's Missionary Society of the Second United Presbyterian
W. M. Beal
Mike Lewis
Ladies Aid Society of the Christian Church
Baptist Ladies Missionary Society
Frank Sage
Union Choir
Washington Lodge
A. F
A. M
W. T. Carson
Presbyterian Church
Baptist Missionary Society
King’s Heralds
M. E. Church
Letha Dayton
Shalom
Ethel Atkinson
First United Presby
Terian
Ella Montgomery
Women's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Church
Carl Hedges
H. R. Brinning
Journal
Gust Bramer
East Side Square
Raymond Osborne Hanson
George J. Gould
Union
Grahams
Sam
Treasury Savings
United States Government Savings System
Treasury Department
Washington, D. C
Stawe
Misses Kozy Union
Athletic Union
Childrens
Rubens
Men’s Athletic Union
Boys Athletic Union
Grahams Dept
Shere
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