Legion Carnival Returns Four Hundred From Event Funds
Leon Beatty reports American Legion post netted 400 from last week’s S. W. Brundage carnival. Ninety dollars goes to county license, leaving about 310 for a Legion building fund now totaling 600, boosted by 300 from the Ladies Auxiliary. Weather reduced crowds but shows were clean and well managed with no police trouble.
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S. W. Brundage
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Women's Auxiliary of the Legion
Washington
Brundage
Wayland Graduation Honors Diverse Notables
Rev. W. R. Keesey delivered the commencement address before the Wayland graduating class and was highly pleased the audience. Miss Verda Rich gave the salutatory. Ruth Rittler Irene Conrad and Doris Bergh sang a trio. Ruth Rittler, daughter of Dr. E. G. Rutter, was valedictorian and honor student, making the event highly successful.
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Wayland
Verda Rich
Ruth Rittler
Irene Conrad
Doris Bergh
E. G. Rutter
Special Service at First Church Focuses on Congregational Efficiency
With Rev. J Reade McCrory attending his father’s funeral in Pittsburgh, congregants deliver brief talks on making the congregation efficient. Speakers cover Sabbath school praise service liberal giving missionary activity young people’s work and mid week prayer service.
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Pittsburgh
J. T. McCrory
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Ralph Livingston
Ross van Nostrand
Ella Montgomery
Clarence Logan
J. Palmer
W. E. Anderson
John A. Stewart
J. M. Godfrey
W. M. Matthews
Carolyn Hamilton
Hugh McCleery
Mothers' Day Joy At Keith Home
Mrs John Keith enjoyed a perfect Mothers Day as family friends filled her Wayland home with tasteful decor and a bountiful dining table. Children and grandchildren hosted a cheerful gathering with spring flowers and ample food. The only debate centers on whether John Keith smoked his small pipe that evening.
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Wayland News
John Keith
John
Winfield Builds New School Across From Current Site
The Winfield school board secures a four acre athletic field opposite the present school, aiding a replacement for the burned building and providing equipment befitting Winfield’s standing and importance.
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Winfield
Decoration Day Program Outlined With Speakers Named
Chairman J D Glasgow releases the full Decoration day program for Washington observances. The parade forms near Washington boulevard and Avenue D with schoolchildren in Central park at 9 30 a m. The route runs to Woodlawn and Elm Grove cemeteries with sections for G A R W R C D A R Legion Auxiliary and veterans. Services will be held at gravesites with Dr J C Spokes presiding at Woodlawn.
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American Legion
Cedar Rapids Wins State Track Meet
Cedar Rapids high school captured the state track title at Ames with 25 points to Fort Madison's 25. Fort Dodge and West Des Moines tied for third with 11, while Sioux City and Eagle Grove had ten. Anson? Sands finished third in high hurdles for Ainsworth, and Washington entrants Boice Rice Waymack did not medal. Dalby of West Des Moines won pole vault at ten feet eleven inches same as Rice’s past mark.
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Decoration Day Observances Planned with Services
In Elm Grove the program includes invocations by Rev J Reade Mc Crory and Rev M R Regan, addresses by Marah W Bailey and Hon D W Hamilton, and music by the committee. Afternoon services are set for 2 30 at the Graham Opera House with a noon bells toll to honor soldiers dead. Mrs Stella Shockley and sisters express thanks for assistance and flowers after loss of their husband and brother.
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M. Hollinger
D. W. Hamilton
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Stella Shockley
Said Washington Butter to mention business attention
Washington Butter urged focus on business matters in a concise message. The note emphasizes prioritizing commerce and economic issues over other topics.
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Washington
Reverend Oates Delivers High School Class Sermon
Rev. A R Oates of the First United Presbyterian church preached a bac calaureate sermon to Washington high school’s graduating class. He urged self discipline focus ambition service and high but reachable ideals citing Pauls press toward the mark and Edith Cavells example. The service at the auditorium drew a full house with eighty six graduates and district officials in attendance.
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Methodist Church
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Illard Wylie
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Fire at Means Laundry on South Fourth Avenue
A late Saturday night fire at the Means laundry on South Fourth Avenue was extinguished with about twenty five dollars estimated damage. An unattended electric iron left on caused the blaze around one o clock. Ed Arnold spotted it and alerted Roy Means, enabling quick control before the fire department arrived. Two to three tables and a floor hole plus a partition were damaged. Mr Means cautioned that a few more minutes could have worsened the blaze.
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South Fourth Avenue
Ed Arnold
Roy Means
Governor Kendall Bettér Returns Home After Illness
Des Moines reports Governor Kendall Bettér, previously ill in a hospital, was moved to his home yesterday. Officials say his condition has considerably improved and he is recovering at home.
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