Ferguson and Huston Reunions Highlight Crawfordsville Notes
Crawfordsville reports the Ferguson reunion at the R Ferguson home with attendees from local families. The Huston reunion at the W A Huston home east of Wyman drew a good crowd with music by the Huston orchestra and a speech by A W Shearer. Next year’s reunion is planned near Olds with Basil Huston as president and Hope Huston as secretary.
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Crawfordsville
Ferguson
R. ©. Ferguson
West Chester
J. C. Mitchell
Eleanor
Guy Mitchell
Eli White
Alice
J. A. Moorhead
Frank McCoy
Joseph Arthur
Huston
W. A. Huston
Wyman
Clive
Everette
Hayden
Marshal
Hope
A. W. Shearer
Winfield
Basil Huston
Hope Huston
Paul Huston
Olds
Austin
Arthur Bower
Burlington
Hazel Anwyl
Iown City
Fremont
Harold Ross
Lee Prewitt
Mary Packer
Zelda Blake
Leota Adams
Miss Biklen
Gladys Strothman
Greiner
Eva Spangler
Nine Spangler
Marshal Gannon
Jeanette Wooly
Lincoln School
Washington
Edwin Chrissinger
Battle Creek
Michigan
Vera Yeager
Jefferson
Mabel Crooks
Lucile Sipé
Oma Strain
Milton Davidson
Iowa City
Misa Velma Twiman
Muskingum College
Alice Maxwell
Doris
Leland Maxwell
Prudence Johna
Cedar Rapids
Rachel Hanna
St. Clairsville
Ohio
Pearl Hamil
Business College
Ft. Madison
Everette Mitchell
Vernor White
Chillicothe
Dana Barnes
Monmouth College
Monmouth
Iona Wesleyan
Mt. Pleasant
Lela Edgar
Geneva College
Grove City
Lela Sigur
Beaver Falls
Grove Lease
Brighton
Clint Rhea
Robert Rhea
Myrtle Lee
Columbus Junction
Doris Maxwell
Lloyd McCormick
West Liberty Area Community News Highlights
Charles Bartholow attended the West Liberty Fair. Families visited relatives, shared picnics, and toured in Iowa. Students prepare for school with new teachers and upcoming enrollments. A large County Home picnic occurred despite rain.
Chautauqua closes as Imperial Players perform
Ainsworth Alnaworth Sept 3 Chautauqua closed Saturday night with the Imperial Players presenting a varied program featuring violin solos and other numbers performed by the touring company.
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Alnaworth
Chautauqua
Imperial Players
Chautauqua closes strong. new year sign-up slow
Murrell Poor praised performers in five night chautauqua run. Community did not commit to Walter Co for next year. Belle Marsden of Washington visits. Local school to begin Monday with Supt. Robertson and listed teachers. classes run forenoon only Monday then resume Thursday for teachers meeting in Washington. Ora Henderson visits. Mrs McKesell of Mason City visits W T Trotter.
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Murrell
Walter Co
Belle Marsden
Washington
W. G. Robertson
Wm. Berger
Grace Applegate
Helen Winn
Miss Lewis
Miss Copeland
Miss Gregory
Miss Taylor
Miss Frame
Dorothy Sands
Helena Tobin
Ora Henderson
A. P
A. P. Jeffery Home, Mrs. McKesell
Mason City
W. T. Trotter
Washington Route 4 Rural Social Notes
Mrs Bryan Swift and children spent Thursday night and Friday with her parents Will Caldwells Mia Sam Baker and children visited relatives in Washington Ed Simmering and son Charles Edward returned from Illinois after a week visiting Mediapolis and Washington guests attended the Ferguson reunion in West Chester Ferguson home John Simmering Sr and family hosted visitors T L Dodds Flora and George Dodds visited Muscatine earlier in the week
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Young America Young America
Charles Bartholow
West Liberty
Lloyd Humston
Burlington
Raymond
Dorothy
Carson Wilson
Near Wellman
Ben Briley's
Borland
Vinton
Frank Heinzman
Mary Brook
Chicago
Miss Brown
Monmouth
Donald McLaughlin
Maynard Kallous
E. L. Bartholow
Ernest Carlson
J. N. Phillips
Lloyd's
Ainsworth
Mary Hunter
Cornell College
Harriet Phillips
Ames
White Lee
Leonard Marie
Harold Briley
Young America
Helen Ditmer
Charles Cherry
Johanna Meyers
Zion City
Merle Eckles
Riverside
Iowa City
Bryan Swift
Will Caldwell
Mia
Sam Baker
Washington
Ed Simmering
Charles Edward
Illinois
Frank Sickles
Roy Sickles
Mediapolis
Iowa
J. BK. McGuire
Edna May Tunely
Kephart
Walter Gardner
Chas Kephart
Ferguson
Rob Ferguson
West Chester
John Simmering Sr
T. L. Dodds
Flora
George
Muscatine
Keota Social NOTES Seemingly Quiet Sept 3
Zeno Times and family left for a visit with relatives in western Iowa. Rosco Robertson and family spent Thursday in Riverside. Perry Deal has been under a physician’s care. Mr and Mrs W C Hotle hosted relatives Friday at noon with a chicken dinner served by Mrs Horner Mayer and Lucille and Allee Hotle.
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Keota
Zeno Times
Rosco Robertson
Riverside
Perry Deal
W. C. Hotle
Local Residents Attend Sunday Dinner Gatherings
Mrs W L Carkuff and daughter of Miltonvale Kansas join Mr and Mrs Ira Hogg and two children of Lawrence Kansas, Mr and Mrs Will Dunbar and family of Brighton, Mr and Mrs Reid Libe and family, and Mr and Mrs Homer Mayer for a social event. Arthur Leacox and wife and daughter depart for Cedar Rapids to plan their future home. Grandpa Leacox and daughter Mammie will care for the farm in the interim.
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W L. Carkuff
Miltonvale
Kans
Ira Hogg
Lawrence, Kans
Will Dunbar
Brighton
Reid Libe
Homer Mayer
H. A. Engle
Arthur Leacox
Cedar Rapids
Grandpa Leacox
Ter Mammie
London Woman deserts society for the jungle expedition
Mrs Diana Strickland, a noted society figure, plans a Central Africa expedition lasting about 12 months. The party includes two women and four men with 300 native porters, starting from Boma and trekking through unexplored Bahuni country to Ituri Forest and into Kenya.
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London
Diana Strickland
Central Africa
Boma
Africa
Bahuni
Ituri Forest
Congo
Lake Edward
Kenya
New York Zoological Gardens
William C. Olander Scheduled for Hanging at Fort Madison
William C. Olander is slated to be hanged at Fort Madison state penitentiary next Friday at 6 30 am for the 1921 murder of Berthold Halfpap. After exhaustive appeals to higher courts and a governor’s refusal, his long legal saga ends with the execution date set by officials.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
William C. Olander
State Penitentiary
Fort Madison
Berthold Halfpap
Fort Dodge Grocer
Iowa
District Court of Webster
State Supreme Court
United States Supreme Court
Federal District Court
Federal Circuit Court
Olander
Mike Healey
Fort Dodge
N. E. Kendall
Stiol
Federal District
Circuit Courts
Kendall
Georges. Bassett
Webster County
G. D. Thompson
Verne Gabrielson
Publicity Hunter Quoted About Mis Quotes
A whimsy about a publicity seeker who enjoys being misquoted and then clarifies his remarks, reflecting the cycle of misattribution in media. The quotation captures a media scuffle typical of press culture and public attention.
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Pittsburgh Gargette Times
Y M C A Opens Refugee Training in Sofia Bulgaria
In Sofia in August 1919 the Y M C A announced a new October course in house building electrical engineering and agriculture for Russian and Bulgarian refugees. The program offers free instruction lodging and board with a nominal 1000 leva fee to cover equipment upkeep.
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Bofta Sofia
Bulgaria
Sofia
Laundry Firms Seek Methods to Do Without Starch
Laundry proprietors have enlisted scientists to find a way to operate without using starch in their processes.
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Rock, Pa
W. H. McCall
Pleasant Mound
Chas. Johnson
Wellman
P. Abe
Huber
H. P. Huber
Western
H. L. Karr
London Woman Deserts Society For the Jungle
Blue Ribbon
Washington Oil Co
Agee Tey
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