Memorial Day Observance Promotes Patriot Education
Memorial Day events in the city will honor the heroic dead and the Grand Army of the Republic with school involvement. State Supt. Henry Sabin issued a pamphlet Echoes of War and Songs of Peace and urged teachers to instill American citizenship and patriotic action in students beyond remembrance.
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William Cullen Bryant
G. A. R. Post
Supt. of Public Instruction
Henry Sabin
Grand Army of the Republic
Sabin
Last lecture on Chicago Under the Gaslight by Holt
Col C J Holt closed a week long lecture series with Chicago Under the Gaslight a vivid night life portrait. Students from Presbyterian to Christian church performed a well attended drill and the aim was temperance education to guard youth against intemperance and to educate them on dangers of losing interest in temperance causes.
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C. J. Holt
Chicago
Presbyterian Church
Christian Church
Holt
Hallie Bardo
Washington
Alma Brindley
Helen McCleery
Daisy Hull
Verra van Sickle
Dollie Buckley
Messrs
Mell Shields
Roy Raguet
Charley Hise
Willie Walton
Eddie Nichols
Mr. Holt
W. G. Montgomery
Drokc-Clean
Myrtle Kerr
John Montgomery
Col. Holt
Hannah Mcklroy
Crawfordsville
R. T. McCall
Thomas Maxwell
Auld
McElroy
McCall
Anderson
Maxwell
Temperature swings threaten crops in Des Moines region
May 14 1895 report notes a week of extreme temperatures from 94 degrees to frost. Frosts on the twelfth damaged garden crops including potatoes fruits and vines. Corn planting is nearly complete and fields show good stand while fodder crops advance. sheriff treasurer and school board offices to be filled with few building lots in Ashby’s addition for sale by F J McKay.
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Ashby’s Addition
F. J. McKay
Teachers and Red Men organize in Keota county gathering
The Keokuk and Washington counties joint education meeting held in Keota on May 11 drew 34 Keokuk teachers led by Superintendent Potts and 33 Washington teachers under Superintendent Swisher. Papers on Educational Association Literature and County School needs were presented by Swindler Wilson Smiley and Thornburn with extensive discussion and music by Keota High School.
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Keota
Washington
Joint County Association
Keokuk
A. Potts
Keokuk County
Swisher
Washington County
Educational Association
Daniel Swindler
Wright
W. J. Gemmil
Fannie Wilson
Sigourney
Cora Smiley
Bessie Hamilton
Blanche Stewart
Keola
A. S. Thornburn
A. EK. Anton
Mell Logan
Logan
Keota High School
Prohibitionists of Washington County Convene in Salvat ion Army Hall
The Prohibitionists of Washington County meet at Salvation Army Hall Washington four doors south of McCartney's grocery on Wednesday May 22 at 10 am and 1 30 pm to elect delegates county ticket central committee and transact business State Chairman B F Wright and others will attend All invited An evening session will follow.
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Washington County
Salvation Army Hall
Washington
McCartney
B. FB. Wright
Con. Com
Rh. M. Dine
Cure Deafness Claims and Telegraphs Prices Listed
By local applications there is only one cure for deafness a constitutional remedy. The ad claims Hall s Catarrh Cure can restore the Eustachian tube and hearing and offers one hundred dollars for any case cured by catarrh. The piece also reports wheat and corn prices and receipts with limited market figures.
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Hall
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