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Local tidbits and social notes from Walnut and Wayne
Walnuts and Wayne residents share health updates, social events, and community happenings. A note on Leland McGill’s slow recovery follows mentions of Myrtle Buntenbach and Cliff Shoemaker, church attendance, fund offerings for the singers, a train accident involving A. B. Carr girls, a coal delivery, a masquerade at the Kort home, a teachers convention in Des Moines, and local crime inquiries in Des Moines and Cherokee.
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Walnut
Leland McGill
Myrtle Buntenbach
Cliffford Shoemaker
Tet Cupid
First United Presbyterian Church
Muscatine
Fred Palmer
B. F. Tucker
A. B. Carr
B. F. Tucker's