Richland Deaths and Community News Hit Park Events
Richland notices recount Bert Paxton dying after a long fall related illness at 47 leaving a wife and six children. Funeral held at Friends church, large turnout. Also Rawson Wallrick dies after hospital operation. funeral at Hope Well church. Community mingles as Reed family reunion draws nearly 150 relatives. School set to begin with large enrollment anticipated and a list of local events and prizes for a town fair.
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Richland Richland
Bert Paxton
Jim
Friends Church
Richland
Rawson Wallrick
Ottumwa Hospital
Hope Well Church
Tressa Vastine
Washington
Alice Vastine
Reed
S. G. Elton
Clara Howard
A. H. Hyzer
Bishop
Libertyville
Moraine
Isabelle
Prudence Bishop
Brighton Social Notes Highlight Local Visits and Events
Brighton residents and relatives visit and travel news include Mrs Verne Gray and daughter Helen from Ottumwa visiting kin, Charles Helmick returning from Ft Snelling, and the Bridwells returning to Keota after Battle Creek treatment. Community events feature Brighton's Barbecue and Booster Day on September 8 with a Washington Hindu Band concert and street races.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brighton
Verne Gray
Helen of
Ottumwa
Gray
Verne Hefflefinger
Ben Hefflefinger
Charles Helmick
Ft. Snelling
M. E
Gardner
Chicago
Saie Davis
Port Huron
Michigan
H. L. Gordon
Dana Goble
Wichita
Kansas
George McCoy
al Mormon
Karl Friend
Skunk River
Ed Thomas
Shack
Frank Christie
Wapello
Des Moines
Leona Davison
S. H. Frazier
Marjorie Funston
Washington Huzzar
Chautauqua progress and local notes from Ainsworth
Ainsworth reports a thriving chautauqua with a full tent for The Bubble play. School opens Sept 4 with one half day for Labor Day. local remarks include patients and injuries, a cow incident causing a lacerated ear, and family visits to Fairfield Davenport and Letts.
Rural Route No St Mr and Mrs Emil Fink Visit
Sunday dinners shared by rural families including Mr and Mrs Emil Fink and Ernest of Titus with the Lang and Bell families. Community events note P J Booth illness and a county home picnic with quilting bees and a large dinner at the Bishop home. Grandma Rittenhouse, 77, highlighted for busy sewing. Miss Eunice Scott to greet pupils at Prairie Flower Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emil Fink
Ernest
Titus
Ray Bell
John Lang
P. J. Booth
J. J. Green
Ellen
Jess Radda
Washington
Ernest Fisher
Henry Rerdo
Joe Booth
Johnson
Arthur Wiley
Grandma Rittenhouse
Grandma
Eunice Scott
Prairie Flower
Lily of the Valley Names Reflect Its Popularity
The lily of the valley is praised by many names. The best known "lad der to heaven" signals purity and humility. French call it Muaguet de Mai and Geronins term Mai Blame.
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Offers Relief for Deafness
Catarrhal deafness stems from an inflamed Eustachian tube and mucous lining. Hall's Catarrh Medicine claims to treat catarrh and deafness, noting over forty years of success. Sold by all druggists. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Social and wedding notices from Washington society scene
Miss Dorothy Libe hosts a Skunk River picnic with relatives at the Miller home. various clubs met for meetings and plans, including Baptist Missionary women, Rebekahs, and church societies. Hilda Browns birthday party and Gladys Clark bridal events entertained many local families with meals, games, and varied decorations. The Parker Crail wedding in Washington was a quiet ceremony, with travel plans after, and Miss Marguerite MacGugin hosted the Covered Dish Club’s orderly dinner gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy Libe
Skunk River
Charles Brown
Iowa Avenue
Hilda Brown
Hainty
Delicious
Hilda
Marguerite Parker
Cincinnatii
Ohio
Phillip Crail
Washington
Patterson
West Main Street
A. R. Oates
Presbyterian Church
A. L. Parker
Cincinnatti
Miss Parker
Chicago
Marguerite MacGugin
East Main Street
Mrs. I. Rothschild
Iowa City
Hippopotamus Little Vic to Feature in Washington Circus
The Gollmar Bros and Yankee Robinson combined circus will tour Washington on Tuesday September 5 with Little Vic the hippopotamus as a special feature. The baby hippo recently arrived from the WA S government zoo and will parade in the hippodrome tank, drawing public interest as a missing link in natural history understanding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gollmar Bros
Yankee Robinson
WA. S
Washington, D. C
Little Vic
Circus
Ous
Monkey
Jreus
Washington
Little Vie
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City Park
Sigourney Va
Dell Neal
Lydia Madden
Carrie Kikhoff
Pleasant Plains
Mary Wikoff
Lake View View
Opal Townsley
L. E. Bidwell
Wellman
Frank Bridwell
Keota
Battle Creek Sanitarium
Bridwell
Mrs Claypool
Davenport
Emma Brim
Lloyd Prizer
Reet
Ainsworth
Hugh Hazelett
Hugh
J. P. Davis
Ida Belle
Davis
Fairfield
Lily of the Valley
Ernest Miller
Miller
Baptist
J. W. Baker
China
Rebekahs
Sunset Park
Myrtle Morrow
Hannah Jones
Gladys Clark
Miss Clark
Clark
Cleo Coulter Williamson
Pleasant Hill Aid Society
Will Saville
Sadie Miller
Myrtle Meyer
Edna Gardner
Minnie Elger
Sadie Sagile
Delia Miller
Nannie Meyer
Lulu Kephart
Mary Putnam
Maud Anderson
Gram
Doll Caldwell
Naomi Kephart
Ada Pratt
Stella Beenblossom
Mida, Caldwell
May Telford
Laura Kephart
Flower
Woman's Missionary Society of the Second United Presbyterian Church
Lem Cherry
George Alexander
W. A. Carson
George Fulton
Margaret Duff
M. McCleery
Edna Palmer
Palmer
Grace Hill
Jesse Phillips
Frank H. Bartholomew
Long Beach
California
J. O. Beatty
Mrs. Beatty
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Church
C. W. Busby
Cora Simpson
Magaw
Foochow
Miss Simpson
E. E. Stutsman
Harry Kracaw
Department of Children’s Work
N. M. Speidel
Waterloo
Eyestone
Veda Stryker
W. W. Bowers
Sironcha
India
Dodd
Ethel Atkinson
W. M. Keeley
Mra
G. W. Stockhart
T. F. Barker
Chas. Atkinson
Mra. Bambrick
Cor
Emma Anderson
Treas
W. Hedges
King’s Teralds
Little Light Bearers
H. Kracaw
Muscatine
Ashville
North Carolina
The
Missionary Society of the
Methodist Episcopal Church
Carl Roberts
Hi. Forman
L.S. Patterson
Jessie Kerr
Jessie
Oberammersau
Munich
Oberammergau
Smouse
Lang
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