Wellman Loses Season Opener To Williamsburg
Wellman fell 7 to 6 to Williamsburg in a hard fought football opener. The Wellman team showed speed but Williamsburg proved larger in size and kept the score close with a late drive.
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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1923
Page
7
Wellman fell 7 to 6 to Williamsburg in a hard fought football opener. The Wellman team showed speed but Williamsburg proved larger in size and kept the score close with a late drive.
Riverside residents hosted and visited relatives this week. Cedar Rapids guests included Mr and Mrs Clement Schnoebelen and family while Mrs Claude McCoy and daughter Mary Frances visited Mrs Joseph Quinn. Rev John Walsh attended Sis ter Mary Fulgentias golden anniversary and spent time with the Walsh families. Mrs Louis Knebel of Lone Tree visited relatives. Frank Truxan traveled from Odell Nebraska to visit M W Truxan and Mrs John Shradel Sr. Mee C W Dau fremont hosted a Social Cinch club party with high five games. Prizes went to Mrs E E Blythe, Mrs C F Heaton and Mrs Albert Hahn. refreshments were served.
Wayne Wayne October 6 Tom Milter and Glen Wert cut walnut logs in the locality and spent the weekend at their Kingston home to Lawrence Krantz who has been working near Galesburg the past two days.
Mr and Mrs Sam VanSyce and daughter Mamie visit Ethan Brooks home. Kenneth Goff buys calves at Bert Martins sale in Winfield. Clark Zickefoose helps fill a 15 ft by 60 ft silo while Sam Musser uses a Reeves engine. Zickefoose ships cattle to Chicago, Rex and Ethan Brooks visit John Corey home, Shem Swartzendruber sells lumber, and several families host dinners and gatherings around Stringtown and nearby Wayland.
In Hampton Court on October 8, C. J. LeValley former cashier of the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Sheffield and former Iowa House member faces fraud charges. C. C. Storck Sheffield mayor and assistant cashier also charged. Trial set with venue issues. witnesses Roy and Ole Koenigsberg testified of misappropriated funds. LeValley rose from bootblack to bank manager before the collapse.
Readers debate whether the remark about mahogany signals a deeper issue or a simple linguistic quirk, prompting local reflection on language and local press history in Louisville.
The Wapello Township Annual Meeting held October 5 at the Wapello Junior High auditorium elected Lee Dotson president for 1924, Mrs. C. M. Herrick vice president, and Fred Wehmeyer secretary. The session covered the 1924 program of work and included a Farm Bureau Movies and musical selections by local performers.
The Iowa Monthly Crop Report warns of large declines in medium red clover acreage and output across key states, with Iowa seed about one third of last fall's supply. Alsike and medium red crops fall to 70 and 45 percent of 1922 and last year respectively, urging March purchases over importing inferior seed. Local home grown seed is urged if available.
Oscar Kemper and Chester Schaper entered two Chester White litters in a ten litter club contest. Kemper's 9 pigs weighed 1800 pounds after 180 days of full corn and oats plus 5 gallons milk daily and tankage, with bluegrass pasture access. Schaper's 11 pigs weighed 1843 pounds and received less corn, yielding slower gains.
Pigs raised by Schaper received the same care as other hogs in the feed lot with full corn feed, oats slop twice daily, small amounts of skim milk, and bluegrass pasture.
A statistical note observes sofas became about three times longer than prior to the advent of the automobile, reflecting shifting design trends and consumer preferences in home furnishings.
Vieto alternates between praising Aristotle as his school’s genius and mocking his bookish truth seeking. The speaker notes a playful disdain for reading, calling the reader’s house a place where texts endure beyond lifespan.
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