Kalona Anew Arrives as Community Gathers for Legion Day
Kalona residents report a new girl at the Jake Ayers home and many attend the County Home picnic. Elijah Hasty and Lee Boyer return from a northern state trip while moving updates and hospital news spread through town. American Legion day on Sept. 4 draws strong local planning and social notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kalona Kalona
Jake Ayers
Kalona
Elijah Hasty
Lee Boyer
Oramel Stoner
Conrad
Maxwell
Orval Bel
Reynolds
Sigourney
Jake Snider
South Dakota
American Legion
M. EK
D. (. Miller
Iowa City Park
Donald Thompson
Dayton Grove Social Newslet: Sunday visits and local travel
The report notes numerous family visits including Dusenberry and Beatty at Embree and Ferguson homes. Ola Knotts visited her sister, and Embree and Beatty couples planned a Wisconsin trip. A Sunset Park picnic hosted by West Chester Baptist class drew many attendees. Roy Foss and Jeff Dayton begin bus duties for East and West Dayton Grove pupils.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dayton Grove
Harry Dusenberry
Harry Beatty
Embree
Ferguson
Mart Casey
Asa Miller
Ola Knotts
Oldfield
Will Embree
Wisconsin
Sunset Park
West Chester Baptist Sunshine
Dayton
Roy Foss
East Dayton Grove
Jeff Dayton
Lyle Moore
Rural Route 5 Sunday Visitors and Local Happenings
Rural Route 5 notes a series of Sunday visits as M B Jones and family spent time at Will Palmer's home while Glen Davis and family picnicked at Cone. The McCaleb household hosted Mrs. Bell Waterhouse and her sons Ira and Lin, plus two young boys, and J B McCaleb with son James, and the Craiz family called upon J L Mayer and family tended Betty. Nearby, Frank Mayer his wife and John Rudolph attended the Des Moines fair. J L Mayer cared for Betty and a barn project advances as Jake Hotle's children visited. Banks families join in fair attendance with Blate fair ongoing this week. A RK Conrad and family spent Monday evening at Valley, while news comes of poor condition to Mr. Kolesick's little boy. Cloyce Conrad visited Hazel and Bessie Conrad, and Wilma and Josephine Brinhing last Friday.
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Glen Davis
Cone
R. L. McCaleb
J.L. Banks
Earl Burroughs
David
Gladys Banks
Hazel Engle
Alvin Strum
Curtis Snider
A. RK. Conrad
Valley
Mr. Kolesick
Cloyce Conrad
Hazel
Bessie Conrad
Wilma
Josephine Brinhing
Dale Atkinson
James Marsh
Washington
Marsh
Hee Knox
Grant
Ira Miller
Tom
Ollie
Emil Fink
John Atkinson
Bill
Eleanor Augustine
Glen Anderson
Bill Conrad
Will Knox
O. A. Strohm
Lester Beenblossom
J. B. Leinley
Clement Griffith
Harvey Kleese
Little Paul
Donald Griffith
J. L. Johnson
Ira Mikach
Martha Blick
Local Families Attend Washington County Home Picnic
The Washington County Home picnic drew residents including Mr and Mrs Jack Riley Cecil Mr and Mrs Earl Amrine Mrs AE Lyons and Robert and Dale Henry Alter Adelaide Alter Ruth Maning Lavina Christner and Mr and Mrs Earl Nicola who welcomed a fine baby boy at Washington hospital.
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Washington County
Jack Riley
Cecil
Earl Amrine
A. E. Lyons
Robert and Dale
Henry Alter
Adelaid Alter
Ruth Maning
Lavina Christner
Earl Nicola
Washington Hospital
Clara Hay es at state fair. town notes update
Sept 1 dispatch from Titus Titus records Clara Hay es visiting the state fair this week. Local farm activity includes hay baling by Elmer Horning and straw baling by Emil Pink and Tom Carrig. Franklin Center school opens Sept 4 with Nel lie Kluse teaching. several newborns join fall rolls. Various residents visit relatives in Washington and attend picnics and home events.
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Titus
Clara Hayes
Howard Hopping
Jake Mayer
Glen Anderson
Baby
Andy Augustine
Alvie Nebergall
Bessie
California
Joe Nebergall
Elmer Horning
Emil Pink
Tom Carrig
Franklin Center School
Nellie Kluse
Verdi News Roundup: Cattle Trades and Local Openings
Karl Deal went to Burlington to work in the shops. Karl Libe bought ten head of full blood Jersey cows from James Baird. Frank Leeper sold 200 bushels of oats to James Baird for 26 cents a bushel. Ed Miller is erecting a new water supply tank. James Baird unloaded a car load of full blood Jersey cows at Verdi. Mrs. H J Schnoover has been in the hospital the past week.
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Verdi
Karl Deal
Burlington
Karl Libe
Jersey
James Baird
Frank Leeper
Ed Miller
Local Families Return From Visits Across Towns
GRAGE HIDL GRACE HILL Sept 1 Mr and Mrs James Chorpening and children and Mrs Helen Chorpening returned Tuesday from a two week visit at their old home at Pinckneyville. Mr and Mrs Harlo Engel and son and Miss Katharine Buxbaum spent a few days at Bethany Miss visiting at the Berg Romig home. They returned Monday. Howard A Strohm of Elgin Tl visited over Saturday and Sunday at
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Grage Hidl
Grace Hill
James Chorpening
Helen Chorpening
Pinckneyville
Harlo Engel
Katharine Buxbaum
Bethany
Berg Romig
Howard A. Strohm
Elgin
Community Notices From Haskins Area Include Visits and Birth
Arnet Mathers and Daryl Mathers visit relatives in Mason City Illinois after returning from a trip not ending in Ohio. Daryl arrives from St Louis for a brief vacation. Local families Mr and Mrs Roberts and T C Mather with Gregory children tour Crawfordsville. Faye Cherwinker IH Horak go to Des Moines for state fair. Birth announced for Ralph and Mrs McCreedy a girl. SS picnic at T M Stones grove invites all residents with baskets. Frank Henderson remodeling with furnace install. Senior students go to Washington to register for school.
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Haskins
Arnet Mathers
Ohio
Mason City
Ill
Dary! Mathers
St. Louis
Mrs. Roberts
Iowa City
T. C. Mather
Robert Gregory
Crawfordsville
Ralph McCreedy
Fine & Pound
Ralph Stafford
Washington
Frank Henderson
T. M. Stone's Grove
Crawfordsville Notes and Local Movements
T J Long of Sumner Iowa visits relatives in town. Will Lease and son from Muscatine spend day with Mrs Mary Lease. Mrs J F Buxbaum visits Harlow Engel home. J H Crooks moves goods to Iowa City for year while Mabel attends university. Harold Ross family moves into J H Crooks residence. McCall families and Porters visit J H Lease and Hustons Wednesday evening.
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Crawfordsville
T. J. Long
Sumner
Iowa
Will Lease
Muscatine
Mary Lease
J. F. Buxbaum
Harlow Engel
Grace Hill
J. H. Crooks
Miss Mabel
Iowa City
Maxwell reunion and school staff list highlight local notes
The piece notes the Maxwell family reunion with ninety four attendees at the Lee Hanna home and lists teachers for the new school term including Supt. Rogs and staff handling various subjects. It also details out of town attendees, visiting relatives and several local teachers bound for colleges or assignments elsewhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Rogs
Mania
Lee Huston
Packer
Lois Bauer
Leota Adams
Lillis Griffith
Gladys Strothman
Bessie Bush
Lois Davidson
Eva Spanier
Training Travels List Spread Across Colleges
A reader compiled a list of individuals and their associated colleges and cities including Oma Strain Elwyn David son Lueile Sipe Mabel Crookes at Iowa City and others such as William and Frances Ficher Parsons College Fairfield Velma Twinam Grace Hesseltine Muskingum New Concord Ohio Leila Edgar Grove City Pa Opal White Chicago Miss Daura Barnett Bruce Lease Doris McNeil Leonard Graber Ames Irene Yard Henry Frederickson Lincoln Neb Dana Barnes Monmouth College Monmouth Iowa.
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Oma Strain
Elwyn Davidson
Lueile Sipe
Mabel Crookes
Iowa City
Leland Maxwell
Talma Sipe
Aletha Holmes
Cedar Falle
William and Frances Ficher
Parsons College
Fairfield
Velma Twinam
Grace Hesseltine
Muskingum = college
New Concord
Ohio
Leila Edgar
Grove City
Pennsylvania
Opal White
Chicago Conservatory of Music
Chicago
Daura Barnett
Voice Culture
New
Doctor Dies While Crossing Mississippi River at Comanche
Aug 31 Dr. John W. Cunningham drowned in the Mississippi eight miles below Clinton while attempting to swim to the Iowa shore from a sunken small boat. Four men were in the craft. three could not swim and used life preservers. Cunningham, a strong swimmer, sank under heavy clothing. His son and two companions were saved by Charles Hugunin who launched a boat to pull them from the river. The body was not recovered.
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Clinton
John W. Cunningham
Mississippi River
Comanche
Lowa
Harold Tingleff
Elmer Hanson
Dr. Cunningham
Charles Hugunin
Henry Ford Did Well Last Year
Henry Ford and Company shows a profit and loss surplus of 240.48 million in the year ended April 30 1922. Cash and receivables total 148.62 million, inventories 45.21 million, and payables decline from 48.89 million to 33.09 million compared with 1921.
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New York
Ford Motor Company
Massachusetts’ Commissioner of Corporations
Financial
Immensity of Mammoth Cave Avenues Described in Kentucky
A lone excerpt notes Mammoth Cave in Kentucky contains about 150 miles of passages and avenues, highlighting its vast underground network and teaching readers of its extraordinary scale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mammoth Cave
Kentucky
High standard of morality touted by circus staff
The Gollmar Bros and Yankee Robinson Combined circus promotes strict discipline and wholesome conduct. Drunkenness is forbidden, impropriety is punished, and workers pledge courtesy, church attendance, and helper roles for patrons while a 750-person team aims to root out bad actors and value polite, hard work.
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Gollmar Bros
Yankee Robinson
Washington
Yankee Robinson Combined Circus
Eveat
Largest man in Montgomery County dies at 61 near Red Oak
James Babb who weighed 328 pounds and was long tied to the county’s history died at his home five miles northeast of Red Oak. He was never married, born in Monroe County Iowa, came with his parents in 1871, and lived on the family farm in Frankfort township where his sister Catherine survives. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Grover C. Flannery.
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Red Oak
James Babb
Montgomery County
Mr. Babb
Monroe County
Iowa
Old Home Place
Frankfort Township
Catherine
Grover C. Flannery
Feeding on Dead Animalcules in Deep Ocean Depths
In the plantless depths of the ocean animals rely on a constant rain of dead animalcules that sink through miles of dark cold water providing sustenance.
Can't Be Done Until Mayr's Remedy Proves Itself
A patient recounts losing faith in doctors and medicines until a friend urged Mayr's Wonderful Remedy. After trying it, acute indigestion and gas disappeared. The ad claims a simple preparation clears catarrhal mucus and inflammation causing stomach and intestinal ailments. One dose convinces or money refunded. Lemmon's Pharmacy and leading druggists.
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Mayr
Lemmon’s
Advt
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Virginia Holt
Anna Long
Marjorie Lyons
M. B. Jones
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H. J. Schnoover
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Hope
G. G. McElroy
W. EB. Anwyl
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Lee Hanna
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Mary Maxwell
Mraxye
J. G. Maxwell
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Gerald Rhea
Lois Hanna
This
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G. W. Wanna
Fred /Palmer
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Kenyon
Minn
Artie McCullough
Kansas
J. C. Duncan
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Rob Johnson
Columbus City
John Rickey
Lillian Holmes
Waterloo
Irene Holmes
Cotter
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Vera Yeager
Jefferson
Lois Edgar
Cherokee
Alice Maxwell
Cedar Falls
Mina McCleary
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Leonora Whalen
Mabel Anderson
West Chester
Nina Spangler
Martinsburg
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Cairo
Egypt
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Escalon
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Yarmouth
Jeanette Wooley
Eva Spangler
Col
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Prighton Diamond
Peroni
Ing Man
Stearns
Marge Ent
Marquette Cement
Marquette Cement Manufacturing Co
Marquette Building
John Shields & Sons
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