Local notices and errands fill town day
Mrs Leonard Hogan visits from Williamsburg with her parents the Dicken family. Miss Almeda McKee of Davenport visits friend Miss Gertrude Beatty. Mrs I K Ames of Ainsworth and daughter Mrs Moore of Eldon shop in Washington. Gypsy Rover seats at Philips Drug Store admission 35 cents. Willard Wylie and W W Bowers exchange pulpits next Sunday morning. Judge Charles A Dewey travels to Sigourney. Sheaffer’s pens and pencils promoted at Phillips Drug Store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonard Hogan
Williamsburg
Mrs. M. BE. Dicken
Almeda McKee
Davenport
Gertrude Beatty
Philips Drug Store
Sutton Family Arrives to Lead Mission at Church of Christ
Reverend F. W. Sutton and his wife plus children travel from Elliot Iowa to assume the ministerial post at the Church of Christ in this city. They will stay briefly with Mr. and Mrs. Lawn on South Marion Avenue as church members prepare the parsonage. Mrs. Shockey and daughter Martha Marie visit Buffalo Iowa with Mrs. Charles A. King. A walnut table decades old is repaired at the wood shop and offered while Mrs. D. W. McClure returns home from visit with her mother in Wyman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. W. Sutton
Elliot
Iowa
Sutton
Church of Christ
Mra. Lawn
South Marion Avenue
C. Shockey
Martha Marie
Buffalo
Charles A. King
D. W. McClure
Wyman
Patterson
Mr. Smith
Local residents travel and visits populate Washington scene
Kalona businessman W B Davis visits town while Mrs. T A Lind stays with sister Mrs A J Peterson in North Washington before returning to Galesburg Illinois. Miss Budah Eichelberger heads to Rock Island. Glee clubs from the high school travel to Ames for the state contest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. A. Lind
A. J. Peterson
Washington
Galesburg
Illinois
Budah Eichelberger
Rock Island
Bertha Hay
Helen Wilson
Lloyd M. Edgar
Ames
Local notes from Keota area feature visits and events
Residents report arrivals and departures including Mia Guthrie Miller in town for a few days with a sprained ankle. Local social items note theatre ads at the Gypsy Rover and Eye O Shell poultry grit promotion. Family news covers visits to Keota and marriage license activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mia
Hiendhe Guthrie’ Miller
Chicago
Bryan Bryan Bryan to defend Scopes evolution trial
In Dayton Tennessee J T Scopes faces charges of teaching evolution in public schools. William Jennings Bryan accepted to represent the World Christian Fundamental Association, while Scopes defense supporters plan a campaign to raise funds for the appellate fight to the Supreme Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis
Tenn
J. T. Scopes
Dayton
Tennessee
William Jennings Bryan
Pittsburgh
Christian Fundamental Association
Scopes
Supreme Court
Free Speech Imperative Quote by Henry Ward Beecher
A notable Beecher maxim compares free speech to winds that cleanse societies, arguing that without it disease and death follow. The quotation frames free expression as essential to public health and vitality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Ward Beecher
Sellers Kitchen Cabinet Promises Practical Ideas for Homes
The Sellers Company touts a new kitchen cabinet with many practical ideas gained from years of experience. They claim the Sellers Cabinet is the best servant in the home and offer a forecast of showers tonight followed by cooler tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sellers
Sellers Company
A Sellers
Church Press Debate Says Newspapers Best For Advertising Gospel
Rev John T Brabner Smith of Chicago urges church use of newspapers to spread the gospel and reach all readers. He cites a survey of editors on church news, crime coverage, and press cooperation, urging real live news and a church editor to guide coverage.
American Legion Plans Public Golf Course in Mason City
Clausen Worden post announces a new 18 hole golf course on an 5 acre tract on the city outskirts to be financed by $10 memberships raising $3,750. The project, supervised by Legion directors, aims to become a city public course and boost local golf, with nine holes opening soon and full completion within a year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mason City
Clausen- Worden
American Uwgion
Secon Service
Legion Convention
Legion
W. Earl Hall
Era
Harold Campbell
Reed Nelson
Kh. KE. Wiley
Middle West
Church publicity fund urged for steady newspaper advertising
Mr. Smith called for every church to establish a fund for regular, systematic, and sensible advertising in the newspaper and for a committee on church publicity to oversee efforts.
Walter Drish Leaves for Los Angeles After Illness
Walter Drish departed this morning over the Rock Island bound for Los Angeles California. He has been staying with his sister Mrs Joe Melinski and family for three or four weeks while recovering from injuries that kept him out of professional baseball. He has improved but still limps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Drish
Rock Island
Los Angeles
California
Walter
Joe Melinski
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Cupid
Rockbottom
Willard Wylie
W. W. Bowers
Rev. Wylie
Methodists
Dr. Bowers
Second United Presbyterian Congregation
Charles A. Dewey
Sigourney
Sheaffer
Phillips Drug Store
The
Triangle
Tate
Mies
Warren's Seed Store
Mary Fields
Marshalltown
D. A. Rover
Julius Enslin
St Louisa
Mae Wehr
Cotter
the Junction
Carl W. Klein
Keokuk
Conference of Evangelical Minister
Warren
Harry Duncan
Ainsworth
Ella Montgomery
Mansfield
Ohio
T. L. Montgomery
Althea
Ethel Stone
Marguerite Dean
McElhinney Drug Co
Louis
A. E. Atchison
North Side Square
Washington, Ia
Toowen's
John D. Kern
Des Moines
J. M. Larimer
Peoria
P. B. Chaney
Louie
A. Jones
J. R. Balmer
Miss Stella
Ralph Palmer
Keota
Flugh Arthur
Harry Arthur
Minerva Ohio
Elmer McArtor
Marle May Howard
Kalona
Bryan
Methodist M*nistEen
American Legion
Polar Ice Company
Washington Cleaners
Massachusetts
Mutual Life Insuori
Carl Lebuhn
A.J. Thomas
Mgr
Shirley A. Clark
Owen McGovern
North Seventh Ave
John Shields & Sons
Col. Stutsman
Col. Mace
Breese
Krouth
Washington National Bank
Washington County
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