Wellman Social Notes and Local Updates
Mrs Jay White keeps over six hundred chicks. Pete Ehimen received more than five hundred baby chicks from an Iowa City hatchery. George Barretts visited Glen Romine Walter Furman and families and attended Cora Evans birthday. Will Hradek now drives a Paige car. Hanley Fisher meetings in Wellman draw large crowds with the slogan Better Wellman. Lew Fordyce is critically ill at his Wellman home. Geo Cave and family Jim Hanley and families visited Charles Rowe home.
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NIRA
Jay White
Geo. Barrett
Glen Romine
Walter Furman
Will McClelland
Cora Evans
Geo. Cave
Jim Hanley
Chas. Rowe
Will Hradek
Paige
Hanley-Fisher
Wellman
Local Socials and Visits Highlight Lexington Scene
In Lexington on Sunday Miss Helen Cook and Miss June Cook were entertained at the Will Flynn home. Miss Marie Stewart visited at home over the weekend. Eighth grade exams were taken in Washington by Le Vera Stewart Hilda Thom and Clifford Campbell. Several families joined gatherings at the Jim Seculty home and many neighbors attended meetings at Wellman. Dr. Gardner works on home remodeling and George Bishop made a business visit to Wellman Saturday.
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Lexington
Helen
June Cook
Will Flynn
Marie Stewart
le Vera Stewart
Hilda Thom
Clifford Campbell
Washington
Wil Wallace
H. Benn
Frank Wilson
Jim Seculty
Wellman
Gardner
George Bishop
Sunday preaching canceled in New Haven due to death
New Haven report notes Rev. Nash missed Sunday services as he attended a relative's death. He will preach next Sunday May 14 at 3 p.m. and conduct Sunday school at 2 p.m. Mrs. Geo Frain was operated on earlier.
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New Haven
New Haven la
Nash
Geo. Frain
Memorial Day Plans and Local Social Roundup
Committees were formed for Memorial Day May 30 with Woodford Ira Waterhouse and Warren Morgan to speak. Miss Francis Meachem Mrs Clare Dickinson and Miss Vera Woodford will work with children. Mother's Day sermon planned with hopeful crowd and special music. Families visit neighbors and residents attend church and local events. seeds and preparations noted for community members.
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Brighton
A. Horkoski
Washington
Sadie Savage
Halbert
Carleton Jones
Batavia
Clay
Wade Gardner
Co. W. Porter
Local Happenings At Home And Around West Chester
Last Friday at the county hospital a patient is recovering from tumor removal. Mr. and Mrs. Royal Robertson welcome a baby daughter born Tuesday morning. Mrs. Mamie Squires cares for them while Mr. Geo Hesseltine of Washington visits his daughter Mrs. A R Strum. Mrs. Mert Stattler and Mrs. Marion Smith with their daughters spend the day with Mrs. Addison Beker near West Chester. S J Stattler and son delivered six ro as to Augustine and son at West Chester Tuesday and Monday Mrs. Tomlogan called on Mrs. Frank Smith Tuesday p m and exchanged eggs for hatching. Nicholson girls visited Mrs Florence Smith and daughter and Mrs Gus Strum with Mrs Merle Stattler last Thursday afternoon.
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Royal Robertson
Mamie Squires
Geo. Hesseltine
Washington
A. R. Strum
Mert Stattler
Marion Smith
Addison Beker
West Chester
S. J. Stattler and
Local notes on seed bed prep and social visits
The passage mentions Reid's Improved Yellow Dent corn seed and describes recent rains as beneficial for seed bed preparation. It notes the Ladies' Aid society meeting with Mrs. Viola Morgan and Florence Kasosky visiting Cedar Rapids, staying at her father Adam Kasosky's home.
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Dersen
Reid
Ladies’ Aid Society
Viola Morgan
Florence Kasosky
Cedar Rapids
Adam Kasosky
Coppock community notices and family gatherings
The Coppock school closed with a Friday picnic. Mr. MeKune and family hosted Sunday dinners with the MeKune and Edwards households. Mrs. Edwards remains ill. Several locals, including Lyons, Edwards, and Carpenter families, spent Sundays with relatives. A fine rain occurred Monday morning.
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Coppock
Mr. MeKune
John MeKune
Emanuel MeKune
Alice MeKune
Sarah Anna
Marjorie Lyons
Bonnie Edwards
Rownald
Fred Edwards
Claud Carpenter
Ruth Maning
Clarence Sinn
Merl Heseltine
Banker Flays Bonus Loans Proposal Draws Cash Burden
White Sulphur Springs May 13 Hundreds of millions of dollars required in normal trade channels would be fed into the economy for three years if the soldier bonus bill becomes law, warned Thomas B. McAdams president of the American Bankers Association. He told the executive council of the organization that the bill now passed by the House would place the financing burden on banks for cash advances they would have to provide.
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White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
Thomas B. McAdams
American Bankers’ Ausociatie
McAdams
Goldstein Withdraws Nomination For Internal Revenue Collector
Nat Goldstein, nominated by President Marding for St Louis internal revenue collector, telegraphed the President from St Louis asking withdrawal of the nomination. His withdrawal ends fur ther airing of the seat idea tied to admits to receiving 2000 from Governor Lowden's managers to back his Chicago convention bid.
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Washington
Nat Goldstein
Marding
Internal Revenue
St Louis
St. Louis
Senate
Goldstein
Govenor Lowden
Chicago
Wu Still Pursues Chang Tesolin in China
Chang Tesolin, the defeated Manchurian general, is reported to have fled to Dotrev. Observers say his troops hold three lines of trenches near Loanchow on the Micden railway south of the great wall but will fight only if Wu Peim's forces press them hard. Wu's troops remain in pursuit.
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Tientsin
China
Tesolin
Dotrev
Loanchow
Micden
Great Wall
Wu Peim
Government to pay up to five million in Krupp patent claims
The United States faces royalties potentially totaling five million dollars to the Krupp firm under a revived German patent treaty. Officials note at least eight German patents since 1919 cover mobile artillery embodying American railroad artillery concepts.
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Washington
Tre
Germany
Krupp
Thomae W. Miller Allen
Miller
War Department
Twelve Jurors Sworn in High Profile Conspiracy Trial
Twelve jurors were accepted and sworn in Lake County Circuit Court to hear the case of Governor Len Snail charged with conspiracy to defraud the state of 22 million. The indictment accuses him of schemes to divert state funds.
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Waukegan, I
Len Snail
Lake County
Mexican Train Bandits Taken Near San Pablo Del Monte
Federal soldiers in Mexico City capture 17 Jodians after an hour of fighting near San Pablo del Monte. They are suspected of taking part in a jalopy train robbery last week that left several people dead and wounded.
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Mexico City
San Pablo del Monte
Cash for Two Commissions At Arms Conference
Washington May 11 Provisions for American representation on two international commissions are included in the annual appropriations bill for the State and Justice departments. House conferees adopted Senate amendments funding American delegates to commissions on Chinese tariff revision and on the Chinese judicial system including gradual ending of extraterritorial rights. A Senate amendment also funds 20 000 for the allied debt funding commission.
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Washington
Senate
House
Allied Debt Funding Commission
House Votes Liberia Loan Approval
The House passed the Fordney resolution authorizing a 5 million dollar loan to Liberia by a 148 to 189 vote. The bill now goes to the Senate.
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Fordney
Senate
Washington
House
Liberia
Uncle Eben's Philosophy
A humorous saying from Uncle Eben about working alone, noting he does better without a helper unless there is enough for the helper to do to keep him from thinking he is an audience.
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Uncle Eben
Charcoal Eph’s Philosophy in a Rambled Ad
A fragment from the Richmond Times Dispatch quotes Charcoal Eph denouncing whining and defining roles for men and women in a rumination. The note ends with the playful line Eat a prune Mistat Jackson, tied to a want ad selling the idea.
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Charcoal Eph
Jackson
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Three Big War Fraud Prosecutions Set for Court
The Justice Department will bring three major war fraud cases to trial. The Chemical Foundation case involves German dye patents seized and sold to the Chemical Foundation. The Wright-Martin Aircraft case covers overpayments on aircraft contracts exceeding $5,000,000. The Bosch Magneto case concerns seizure of Bosch Magneto properties and sale to Martin R. Kern, alleged enemy alien and ex convict.
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Department of Justice
Chemical Foundation
Wright-Martin Aircraft Corporation
American-Bosch Magneto Company
Thies
Wright-Martin Aircraft
Bosch Magneto
Bosch Magneto Company
Martin R. Kern
Cardinal Mezzo Funtli Mastered 114 Languages
A famed cardinal reputedly spoke 114 languages or dialects. The claim places Cardinal Mezzo Funtli (1774-1840) as a legendary linguist with exceptional polyglot abilities, though details remain part of lore.
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Cardinal
Cardinal Mezzofuntli
Foley Kidney Pills Advertisement Highlight
A Hudson New York reader praises Foley Kidney Pills as effective for kidney and bladder troubles and rheumatic pain. The ad claims relief for earache backache sore muscles and a general stream of water imagery and urges readers to buy from their druggist.
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McMillen
Hudson, N. Y
Advt
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