Washington Gears Up for Tough Road Game at Winfield
Washington high school football travels to Winfield this Saturday to face one of the strongest local teams. Winfield has crushed Fort Madison 92 to 0 recently while Fairfield is also strong. Coach Dickinson drills the squad hard with new formations as a large Washington crowd plans to travel if weather and roads permit.
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Washington
Winfield
Davenport
Fairfield
Fort Madison
Prison City Boys
Dickinson
District Sunday School Meet Planned at Grace Hill Church
The fifth annual district Sunday school convention for Franklin Dutch Creek and Seventy-six townships will be held at Grace Hill church on Sunday October 24 starting at two oclock in the afternoon. Programs include devotional service by Rev C W Klein messages from junior and adult departments, an election of officers, and talks on Sunday school as an educational and evangelizing institution with limited addresses of twenty minutes.
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Franklin
Dutch Creek
Grace Hill Church
C. W. Klein
Valley School
H. C. Druse
A. J. McConnell Basi
M. R. Regan
W. W. Bowers
B. Drebert
Giant pumpkin dominates lobby display at bank
A six foot circumference pumpkin weighing about sixty pounds sits in the lobby of the Farmers and Merchants State Bank. The huge gourd, cald as the season’s largest, was grown by James Thompson who also tends several other sizable pumpkins nearby.
Missing Sheriff and Marshal in Wellman Case
Railroad dispatches report the disappearance of Lyman Bradford a longtime Wellman marshal last week. His automobile was found in Iowa City and authorities say the sheriff for the township is missing as well as the marshal.
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Brailroad
SUI
Ore
Wellman Yesterd
Lyman Bradford
Jows City
Ace Nas
Tribute to Friends and Family of Wal Cherryholmes
The family thanks friends for sympathy and floral offerings after the death of husband and father Wal Cherryholmes. Wallace Cherryholmes and Children, D. Cherryholmes, J. H. Cherryholmes express appreciation. An economist notes postwar rise in French smokers.
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Dides
Wal Cherryholmes
Wallace Cherryholmes
D. Cherryholmes
J. H. Cherryholmes
France
Halloween and club notices fill Bethlehem flier
A sequence of October events and meetings from Bethlehem includes two Order of the Temple candidates at Bethlehem Commandery No. 45, Rural Woman’s Club reports on Mediapolis, Havre Social Club gathering with Mrs. Putnam, Lexington Ladies Aid entertainment, Jet U. VP sales in South Iowa Avenue, Pleasant schoolhouse box social, Hallowe’en entertainment and box supper at Lexington, Ladies Aid Methodist social, Afternoon Bridge club invite, Young Women’s Missionary sewing session, PL BL 0. meeting, Presbyterian Missionary tea, Kings Heralds pumpkin pies for sale, Halloween party invitations by Rural Woman’s Club committee at C. W. Jackson’s.
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Rural Woman’s Club
Frank Pringle
Lloyd Humston
Frank Dittmar
C. W. Jackson
Box Social at Moose Hall at Oct 21
Moose Hall hosts a box social on Thursday evening October 21. Members and their ladies are welcome. D C Russell is secretary.
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BOX Social
Moose Hall
First Birds Class Laughs At Test Moments
In a Springfield Union item, nervous schoolchildren discuss tough questions during tests. A small girl gleefully notes she answered her first question correctly after spotting a bird chart, while her mother asks how she knows. The moment reveals a humorous side of testing anxiety.
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Mother
Springfield Union
American Legion to Present Play at Washington High
Leon Beatty post of the American Legion will stage My Uncle From Japan at Washington high school auditorium on October 29 and 30. A professional actor and director will lead rehearsals with a strong local cast. Proceeds will support Legion rent, furnishings, and community work.
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Leon Beatty
The
American Legion
Washington High School
Japan
the Legion
Washington
American Legion Post
Legion
Des Moines Red Cross Meeting Reports Roll Call Plans
Miss Lydia Bieher and Miss Effie Haines attended the state regional Red Cross conference in Des Moines. Delegates discussed the fourth annual roll call from November 11 to November 25 and Dr. Livingston Farrand urged continued aid for European children while Iowa plans a five year social work program.
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Lydia Bieher
Effie Haines
Des Moines
American Red Cross
Livingston Farrand
The
American Nations Red Cross
Europe
Farrand
Red Cross
Towa
Iowa
West Chester Telephone Exchange Urges Subscribers to Pay
To the patrons of West Chester Telephone Exchange of West Chester Iowa. All subscribers are requested to callate and settle accounts, must have money to do business. Accounts are payable per month. S. A. BCABERY secretary-treasurer. 204tt
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West Chester Telephone Exchange
West Chester
Iowa
Think Before You Act A Worded Rallying Poem
A reflective poem urges daily thought before work or play. It warns that lack of thinking leads to trouble and jail and advises considering those who wish you well and those who have treated you fairly. It ends noting higher prices for begs and poultry today.
Hallowe'en Socials and Weddings in Local Homes
Mrs Wise Long and Mrs Ed Gray hosted a Halloween afternoon for 35 guests at 227 East Jefferson honoring Mrs William A Kiesey. A village social included music, a three course luncheon, and thanks from attendees from Des Moines to Davenport.
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C. A. Pratt
Fred Ferguson
Floyd Harvey
Des Moines
Grinnell
Oskaloosa
Burlington
Davenport
Washington Friends Attend McCorkle Beardties Wedding
Mrs Eliza Beard welcomes aWashington groom’s family circle at a Des Moines home after the marriage of Miss Anna Sophia McCorkle to Mr William Cloyce Beard in Indianapolis Indiana on October nineteenth The groom, a Washington native and Monmouth college graduate, trained as an architect in the East and has long been popular among friends.
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W. W. Bowers
Ethel Marguerite Moody
Keota
Joe Myers
Kinross
Dr. Bowers
Alex Moody
Charles Myers
Cedar Rapids
Washington
David McCorkle
Anna Sophia McCorkle
Wiliam Cloyce Beard
Indianapolis
Indiana
Beard
Nineteenth Street
Des Moines
Eliza Beard
Washington High School
Monmouth College
Des Moines Residents Celebrate Shared Congratulations
A Des Moines man and his friends extend warm congratulations and best wishes, celebrating a notable achievement and community support.
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Des Moines
Chile Builds Navy With Four New English Ships
Chile adds four ships purchased from England, shifting regional balance of power in South America. Brazil Argentina and Peru reportedly brace to bolster fleets to aid world peace.
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England
South America
Brazil
Argentine
Peru
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