Crawfordsville News Highlights Local Visits and Contests
Miss Mary McCill visited Washington yesterday while Harold Ross attended a school superintendents meeting in Iowa City. Rev. J I Frederick, recently from Tacoma, has accepted a call to United Presbyterian church. Velma Twinam visits Iowa City. Mr and Mrs Lee Lease traveled to Columbus Junction, then Waterloo and Cedar Rapids for a week. Hope Huston, Grinnell College, named for a glee club. Local readers attended the Eisteddfod in Columbus Junction with Edna Lane placing second in a children’s piano solo and Louise Barnes first in a under sixteen category. The high school orchestra won its section led by Miss Reaney. Myrtle Orby tied for first in soprano solos and John Hughes won in tenor solos.
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Crawfordsville
Mary McCill
Washingston
Harold Ross
Lows City
J. I. Frederick
Tacoma
Washington
Mitton White
United Presbyterian Church
Grinnell
Velma Twinam
Iowa City
Lee Lease
Columbus Junction
Waterloo
Cedar Rapids
Hope Huston
Edna Lane
Louise Barnes
Miss Reaney
Local Methodist officers elected. town notes and a flood of updates
The Home Missionary department in Columbus Junction elected S. M. Overholt as president with W. Hannan as vice president and Ray Sinclair as recording secretary. Other posts include Mrs. Nora Hill as corresponsive secretary and Mrs. R. J. Reaney as evangelism secretary. Mrs. Myrtle M. Blair of the University of Kansas spoke on the high school teacher training course. New births are noted for Fay Cverwinker and Glen Green. Rev. Roy Johnson starts a second year at Garrison Methodist Church, and Rev. W. A. Stockwell moves to Bethel and Cotter churches. Eben Williams and family welcomed a daughter born Sept. 28. A Washington Junction band concert is planned at Chautauqua Park, weather permitting. Local visits include Mrs. Margaret Stone and Della Hill hosting and entertaining mentions of Keota town life and road conditions affecting school transport amid rain and mud.
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Columbus Junction
Eadets
Methodist Chuch
S. M. Overholt
W. Hannan
Ray Sinclair
Secre
F. L. Darrow
Nora Hill
R. J. Reaney
Myrtle M. Blair
University of Kansas
Fay Cverwinker
Glen Green
J. H. Att
el Paso
Texas
W. A. Carr
C. A. Williams
Verne
Centterville
Roy Johnson
Methodist Church
Garrison
Council Bluffs
Cotter
Eben Williams
White Way
Washington and Junction
Chautauqua Park
Margaret Stone
Atlantic
G. H. Bomford
Della Hill
Lenty Mize
Venice
Calif
Local reflections on progress and a mix of personal notes
A letter from West Chester Iowa on October 2 laments slow progress and nostalgia for past days while musing on modern life. The writer recounts a rock party at A T Augustine, a near miss with a wedding misidentification, and contrasts horse and washboard era with airplanes and tractors. Mrs W H Dillon of Ottumwa visits.
Local Farm Bureau Notes and Social Visits in Crawfordsville
Rose Stanley Fishburn helped vaccinate calves with Frank laden on Tuesday. Funeral attendance for a relative at an airfield. P P Graber visited Mt Pleasant on Thursday. Mr RC Welle saw sister Maude Murphy on Wednesday. John Jones family traveled to Columbus Junction for the Risteddfod Friday. The next Farm Bureau ladies meeting west of Crawfordsville is Thursday afternoon October 8 at Mrs RC Wells's home. All invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crawfordsville
Rose Stanley Fishburn
Frank
Fred Spangler
Airfield
P. P. Graber
Mt. Pleasant
RC Welle
Maude Murphy
John Jones
Columbus Junction
Farm Bureau
Crawfordsvire
RC. Wells
Nobel Prizes Total Four Million To 125 Winners
Stockholm reports the Nobel Foundation will award about 4 000 000 to 125 winners at year end marking its 25th prize year. Foundation funds exceed 8 000 000 with each prize at 118 165 kroner about 31 000 dollars. Five prizes from 1924 remain and three new awards in physics chemistry and peace join the 1925 prizes.
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Stockholm
Nobel Foundation
International awards tally and Japanese political rights clash
America and seven to Sweden top the prize list with 26 awards, France 21, England 14 as of the tally. In Tokyo, religious workers protest alleged political discrimination, noting the new hood law allows voting but bans priests from party participation. It is reported over 20,000 religious workers may send two representatives to the Diet in the next general election.
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America
Sweden
Germany
France
England
Tokyo
Japan
Diet
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