County News Briefs Highlight Local Events and Crops
The column collates small town notes from Ainsworth Keota and nearby areas. It reports a possum capture near Nira as humor, county apple and plum crops estimated by the State Horticultural Society, social teas in Crawfordsville, a Buffington creek coon hunt yielding three possums, football interest in Ainsworth, a local marriage near South English, and visits from residents to family homes and specialists.
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Wellman
Gosnell
Nira
Hess
Texas
Washington County
State Horticultural Society
L.B. Latta
Keck
Washington
Crawfordsville
W. McLaughlin
Buffington Creek
W. A. Anderson
Ainsworth Sports
Morrison
Ainsworth
Rural Mail Service Expands as Mail Volume Doubles
Government rural delivery experiments show routes double or triple mail volume while costing no more than city routes. Two hundred routes operate with high success and expansion likely. Also notes a campus social: Juniors host a faculty and senior class event with games, refreshments, photos, slip prizes, and matching couples. Names include Bert Dixon and Grace Speer among many.
Thanksgiving Day sermons and holiday observance notes
Thanksgiving Day is set for Nov 30 with church worship and business closures to honor the divine gospel gift. James Dawson urges ministers and generous support for the poor as a nation’s strength. A Baptist church social featuring Rev Arthur Fowler is reported as a pleasant event. Cedar Rapids Route playing cards offered by BC R&N Ry agents at 15c. Edward Ritchie of Keota arrives on the train at Perry.
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James Dawson
The
Baptist Church
Arthur Fowler
Muscatine
Cedar Rapids
BC R & N Ry
General Passenger Department
BC R&wn Ry
Iowa
Karl's Clover Root Tea Promised Absolute Cure
Muddy complexions and nauseating breath linked to chronic constipation. Karl's Clover Root Tea is advertised as an absolute cure with a 50 year guarantee. Priced 25 cents and 50 cents, sold at J. H. Stewart's druggist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Karl
J. H. Stewart’s
Post Office to Close Tomorrow Afternoon in Honor of Hobart
The post office will close from two to four PM tomorrow to honor the late vice president Garrett A. Hobart. A single request to ask for Okamo is noted with no other changes. Best regards from the marines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garrett A. Hobart
Okamo
Mergar
Missing Logan Geyer Sought by Father Near Eureka
Logan Geyer, a short, regular man in his early 20s, disappeared while working with a pile driver crew near Chicago. His father Jacob Geyer left Eureka to search, believing a recent pay receipt and lack of letters suggest misfortune. family and crew earlier reported no contact for six weeks.
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Logan Geyer
Jacob Geyer
Eureka
Mr. Geyer
Clark’s Station
Chicago
Missing Son Returns to Dawn at Nar row Gauge
A Journal reporter at Nar row Gauge station saw Logan Geyer step from a train and report he had been missing. He described a Chicago venture, work in Hammond Indiana for nearly a hundred dollars pay, and an assault en route home where he lost 85 dollars, kept 8. His father is in Chicago searching, and the piece notes the family’s perplexing situation and a church gathering at the parsonage. Mrs Horace McMillan arrives in the city aboard the Firefly and stays with L McGugin on East Main Street.
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Journal
Logan Geyer
Chicago
Hammond
Indiana
Polk Street
Clark Street
Horace McMillan
Cedar Rapids
City
L. McGugin
East Main Street
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Mercer & Chilcote
Ulster
Sol. Rich & Co
Sishby & Ocieola House Furnishers
Queensware
Biest
Steel Goods
Price
Ashby
Nicola
the County News
Wellman News
Keota
Keota Eagle
Butler Schreckergast
J.C. Clarke
Schofield
Hammes Corner
D Oarris, Jr
Lulu Bray
Levi Bray
Flory
South English
Hagle
Seth Carris
V W. Carris
Guy
Carris
Dublin
Ainsworth News
Myrtle Stewart
W.T. Trotter
Killa Hooper
Solon
Fred Jackson
Rural Mail Service
Academy Social
Academy
Literary Societies
Magnet Hall
MccCreedy
Rankin
Wesco and Coon
Bert Dixon
Kodak
Smiley
Grumbling
Shearer
Alpheus Grumbling
Grace
Birdie Rankin
Ethel McCreedy
Mame Samson
Martha Dil
Emma Wonderly
Anna Harvey
Ollive
Singmaster
Lizzie Like
Della Tomlinson
Ekdon Godfrey
Nancy Stapp
Helen Grumbling
Pauline Nelson
H McConnaughey
Linson Fisher
Clyde Hillhouse
Fred Wesco
Joseph Neal
Wm Holms
Herbert Pool Clayton Eckerman
Bert Scofield
J. Lindley Coon
Frank Gallaway
J. W. Love
Kansas
James A. Turbott
James Strain, Jr
Iowa City
Joseph Maxwell
Eral
Baptist Social
Edward Ritchie
Father
DeSterger, Fallon & Co
Fine Furriers
Detroit
Michigan
A. M. E. Church
A Seabrooks
J. A. Harwood
South Line
Anderson & Burroughs
Battenburg
Point Lace
Honiton
Valenciennes
West Side Square
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