Local Notes from Titus Wash ington County Briefs
Comings and goings include Winifred Carris visiting the Fuhr sisters and George Frank visiting his sister Mrs Churchill. Dan Gline sells his farm to Dempsey Heal Estate Co and buys Annie Dawson’s. Franklin Center closes Friday with a woods picnic. The Masons lay the foundation for John Johnson’s new house. Glen Hayes delivered a Hampshire son to Tom Carris Monday.
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Titus
Winifred Carris
Mii
Viola Fuhr
Dan Gline
Dempsey Heal
George
Sim Miller
Franklin Center School
Edith
Frances Kleere
Winifred Carria
Mouna Lemsey
Edna Mae Hays
J. E. Lemsey
Grace Hill
Masons
John Johnson
Glen Hayes
Hampshire
Tom Carris
Dublin Family Visitation Highlights Local Social
Mrs. Bidney Smith and children visited in Washington over Sunday at the McColles home. Charlie Augustine and family, T. Avanstine and wife, and Cale and wife were guests at the W. Augustine home. Joe McElhinney also brought out a guest.
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Dublin
Bidney Smith
Washington
MccColles
Charlie Augustine
T. Avanstine
Cale
W. Augustine
Joe McElhinney
Local notices on daily chores and deliveries
McNamare and Son delivered a Buck Gray stone stove to Mrs. W. E. Augustine Monday evening. A piano was left at the Art Conrad home Tuesday morning. Farmers benefit from this weather with corn planting in full swing. Mrs. BE. D. Smash visited her sister Mrs. W. KE. Augustine yesterday afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Art Conrad
McNamare & Son
W. E. Augustine
BE. D. Smash
W. KE. Augustine
Senior class play delights Richland crowd
The senior class play at the opera house drew a parked house last night and will be repeated tonight. Mary Jane Bona died at her daughter's home after a lingering illness. she was eight and was buried in Friends cemetery with services by Rev. Ashby. The Woman's club enjoyed a luncheon at Mrs Frank Chacey's country home. Ezra Mendenhall of Wichita is visiting Clara Johnson. Mary Hutchins is seriously ill at her son Joel Hutchins' home. Miss Lewis of Moulton visits Ira Walker's family. Leonard Cox, a soldier, has returned from abroad and is in poor health.
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Richland
Opera House
Mary Jane Bona
Sarah Rudolph
Friends Cemetery
Ashby
Frank Chacey
Ezra Mendenhall
Wichita
Kansas
Clara Johnson
Mary Hutchins
Joel Tiutchins
Miss Lewis
Moulton
Ira Walker
Leonard Cox
Local notices from Crawfordsville May Day social visitors
Crawfordsville residents report visitors from Washington including Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Davis and Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Davis with daughter Ada. Marshall Gannon joined FE B Franklin in town. J. F Buxbaum and J. T. Matthews visited from Burlington and Washington respectively. Lyle Maxwell and Alice Maxwell visited Mt. Pleasant. Clarence Walker now back from France visits the W. J. Kelper home. Ella Prondfit of Washington stayed overnight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crawfordsville
R. E. Davis
A. BE. Davis
Ada
Washington
Marshall Gannon
FE. B. Franklin
J. F Buxbaum
Burlington
J. T. Matthews
J. A. Hawthorne
Lyle Maxwell
Alice Maxwell
Mt. Pleasant
Clarence Walker
Ainsworth
France
W. J Kelper
Mra Ella Prondfit
Absent minded dentist warns of pain with car tool
A humor piece describes a dentist using a car tool on a vehicle while promising mild pain as he says this will hurt just a little, illustrating eccentricity in a comic light.
Mae McNamara Gives Dramatic Recital at Mount St Josephs
Miss Mae McNamara daughter of Mr and Mrs J F McNamara and a Mt St Josephs College student in Dubuque recently presented a final public program at the college. The Dubuque Telegraph Herlad praised her artistic interpretation in a program featuring The Pipes of Pan and Browning Melodramas. She completes the four year course in June and will receive her diploma from Mount St Joseph Conservatory. She has taught in city schools during the past year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mae McNamara
J. F. McNamara
Mt. St. Joseph's College
Dubuque
Program Maintains High Standard of Mr Kames Work
The program keeps a high standard combining musical education with an enjoyable set of classics across ancient and modern works under Mr Kames.
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Kames
Mrs Ernest Norton Dies at Waterloo
Mrs. Ernest Norton aged 69 died after a long illness at her Waterloo home. She formerly lived in Washington and moved seven years ago to Waterloo with paralysis the cause of death. She was Miss Mary Long daughter of John Long and sister-in-law to Mrs. Edw Knapp and Mrs. Cora Mernaugh. Funeral set for tomorrow afternoon in Waterloo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Norton
Waterloo
Norton
Washington
Mary Long
John Long
Edw. Knapp
Cora Mernaugh
Food rule out of market signals end of flour purchases
The United States food administration announced that after the relief program ends no further purchases of straight wheat flour will be made from the current crop. Limited buying of durum straight flour will continue as it exports freely without disturbing prices, with the last purchase on June 8 for shipment by June 10.
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New York
United States Food Administration
Philadelphia Honors Yanks Home Parade
The Twenty-eighth division composed largely of former Pennsylvania National Guardsmen under Maj. Gen. Charles F. Muir marched 8.5 miles through Philadelphia. Flags festooned the streets as 97 000 Iron division troops paraded amid grandstands and cheering crowds. An estimated 2 000 00 spectators packed the route with high enthusiasm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Twenty-eighth Division
Lairgely
Pennsylvania
Murderer of Baby Denies Wile's Guilt
Orville Reynolds testifies in Fort Madison Iowa denying Fern Reynolds' involvement in the baby murder. He details marriage in 1918 to Fern Southerland and the events surrounding the infant's birth and death, claiming she knew nothing of the crime. Reynolds, already serving a life sentence, recalls the night and his actions with dispassion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Madison
Orville Reynolds
Fern Reynolds
Reynolds
Reynold
Fern Southerland
Galesburg
Connect
Sudden Memory Lapse During County Attorney Hamilton Exam
The report notes a sudden memory lapse that persisted after County Attorney Hamilton testified for cross examination, affecting the proceedings and witness questioning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamilton
General Wood At Capital Visits Fort Des Moines
General Wood inspected Fort Des Moines and Camp Dodge on a trip May 16. He hinted the fort may return to cavalry use after reconstruction ends, but no changes occur until all soldiers are discharged. He spoke at the Iowa Business Congress on America's Duty and the need to continue training camps.
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Drs Moines
Fort Des Moines
Altho
Wood
Camp Dodge
Evan H. Humphrey
Central Department
Landon Thomas
Vocational Engineering Education Aids Disabled Soldiers
Washington May 16 The Federal Board for Vocational Education reports 178 students enrolled in engineering divisions offered to disabled soldiers. This counters the belief that vocational training for disabled personnel is limited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D.C
Federal Board For Vocational Education
Students Pursuing Engineering Fields At Various Institutions
The class distribution shows six pursuing architectural engineering, two chemical engineers, and eighty civil engineers. Electric, general, mechanical, mining, and steam engineering numbers are listed, with education at Harvard, MIT, Franklin Union, Boston, Hawley, New Bedford, Saunders Trade, NY Electrical, Mechanics, Pratt, Rensselaer, Columbia, Heffley, Lawrenceville, Carnegie, Penn State, Johns Hopkins, Georgia Tech, and Colorado School of Mines.
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Harvard University
Massachusetts School of Technology
Franklin Union
Boston
Hawley School of Engineering
New Bedford Industrial
Sebel
Saunders
New York
Electrical School
Mechanics Institute
Pratt Institute of Brooklyn
Rensselaer Polytechnic School
Columbia University
Heffley Institute
Lawrenceville
Carnegie Institute
Pennsylvania State College
Johns Hopkins University
Georgia School of Technology
Colorado State School of Mines
Iowa Prisons Deemed As Good As Any By Visitor
W. D. Sheehan, after touring Ohio, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Jersey penitentiaries, says Iowa state facilities at Fort Madison and other prisons are as good as any in the country. He studied convict auto license tag production and notes Iowa may start plate manufacturing in state institutions. In Connecticut he met former Anamosa warden C. D. McClaughry, now Connecticut's prison head.
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Sheehan
C. D. McClaughry
Anamosa
McClaughry
Connecticut Penitentiary
Size of the Foot and Forearm Length Measure
The text explains a measurement rule in which the length of the foot equals the length from the wrist to the elbow, aligning with the nina or chief forearm bone. It sets a standard by comparing foot size to forearm length for proportion.
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Wash
Ington
Dubuque School
Moszkowski
Lucia
Cadman
Browning
Geoy
Howe Jones
Mendelsaohry
Pan
Ceril
Mt. St. Joseph's
Cosmopolitan School of Music
Chicago
Tih
Miss Minnie Wolfe
Smith
Mporium
Comm'cial Savings Bank
YANKS
Iron Division
Baby
Wile
Mannhardt Bros
Washington, Iowa
General Wood
Disabled
Diers
Fureda Vecuum Cleaner Company
Iowa
Fureka Vacuum Cleaners
Eureka
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