Brighton Friends Attend Dave Werner Funeral
Brighton and Mt. Pleasant residents attended the funeral for Dave Werner who died Friday at age 72. Werner, a former Brighton resident, was buried in Mt. Pleasant after his wife died in 1927. Survivors include three daughters in Chicago and Mt. Pleasant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rhua Helmick
Brighton
Dave Werner
Mt. Pleasant
Werner
Addie Redman
Chicago
Delia van Dorn
Pearl Huston
Fragmentary note on music names and notes
A garbled OCR fragment lists composers such as Martini Debussy Dudley Buck RimskyKorsakov with scattered letters and stray phrases. No clear event or context is readable. The text appears as a half legible archive snippet with no identifiable people, places, or dates.
Local families share Labor Day visits and reunions
Families and relatives travel between LeRoy Washington Lone Tree Des Moines Pulaski Davenport and Rock Island for reunions visits and to attend a Rural Letter Carriers meeting. Norman White begins studies at Davenport American Institute of Commerce. Diana McNeese returns home after visiting the Noland home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lillian
H. W. Helmick
Charles
LeRoy
Harry Buffum
Roy Fleak
Centerville
Laban Freak
Leland Horton
Prody Borkoski
Lone Tree
Rural Letter Carriers’ Association
Harry Hohenbaum
Des Moines
Hines
Sunset Park
Washington
Homer Brinton
Wilbur Day
Homer Rotzinger
Ad Parcell
Leonard Pickard
Belle Brinton
Ben Brinton
A. H. Brinton
W. H. Lloyd
Lester Ingham
Ed Cady
Sarah Cady
Mary Day
A. H. McCarty
Nellie Black
Eugene
Leo Deutsch
Howard Shaffer
Benda
Norman White
American Institute of Commerce
Davenport
Lorne McNeese
Lorne McNeese Spent Sunday At the Rev. Wm. Noland Home In Pulaski
McNeese
Diana
Noland
Ralph Parks
Marion
Ellen Parks
Orie DeWolf
Rock Island
Labor Day
T. B. Davison
Deloras
Pleasant Hill News Highlights First Year Scholar Carolyn Bruegge
Pleasant Hill begins classes with Carolyn Bruegge as the sole beginner. Edgar Eckey ill. Vera Foss substitutes. Eckey to board at Howard Benn home. Local families and students share weekend activities and Labor Day races attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carolyn Bruegge
Pleasant Hill
Earl Kephart
Edgar Eckey
Vera Foss
Eckey
Howard Benn
Clark Miller
Dale Caldwell
Harold Disney
Pat Swift
H. L. Witting
Raymond
Kalona
Juanita Miller
Betty Caldwell
Lucille Christner
Kenneth Farrier
Lloyd Dickinson
Leo Moran
Leland
Marilyn
Rock Island
John Erlenbush
Washington
Cloyce Benson
Virginia
Edith Marie
Local social notes include many Kephart and Lewis visits
Community members attend gatherings and visits across Washington and Keswick areas. Names mentioned include Witting, Kephart, Chalupa, Lewis, Swift, Bruegge, Sigafoose, Stout, Dickinson, Hopping, Baker, Moore, Gamon, Darbyshire, Anderson, and Erlenbush. Events feature birthdays, dinners, a pot luck, a garden silo help, and a minor accident from potato digging. Mrs Chalupa recovering from an operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben Bruegge
Sam _ Sigafoose
Jake Ernest
Bar Kephart
Bertha
Miles Stout
A. K. Kephart
Frank Kephart
Clyde Lambert
Ross van Nostrand
George Chalupa
Omaha
Nebr
Susie Hopping
Washington
Earl Kephart
Lewis Baker
Glenn Pratt
H. L. Wittings
Dale Darbyshire
Lee Hesseltine
Vincent Beliel
W. R. Gamon
John Gamon
Danger in Mines Alarmed by Modern Machinery
French deputy M. Petru Faure reports in a Paris survey that mine dangers have grown with mechanization. He notes that past cracking noises warned workers, while today the sound of drills belts and locomotives removes that security.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Petrus Faure
Paris
Notice to Bidders for Truck by State Car Dispatcher
Notice to bidders by the State Car Dispatcher at the Iowa State Highway Commission Ames for one 1 ton truck deadline 3:00 PM Sept 18 1939. Used International pickup license 2390 to be traded. Preference to Iowa grown products coal produced per statute. Sealed bids by George W Hesalroad Sept 6-13.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa Stat Highway Commission
Ames
Iowa
R. A. Frink
Washington
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Joy Edward Beatser
Angel
B. B
Warner
Denny & B
Clive
C. D. Cooper
Jake Koch
Art Koch
Elmer Koch
Forest Henry
St. Louis
Vivian Neienhouse
Carl Kirchner
Ed Crissinger
Winfield
Chris Jensen
Wanda Smith
Lowery
Carolyn Hamilton
George Masson, JR
David Pearson
Trombonist
George Masson, SR
United Presbyterian Church
Celia
Lois Humble
India
Reel Strickland Higgins Worth
Clay Smith
Martini Debussy
Dudley Buck
Rimsky-Korsakov
Colette
Penn Logan
Signature Refinance Furniture Auto
Ray T. Palmer
Barclays
Dixie Dugan
By Striebel & Mevoy
Miss Dugan
Huh
Neught Syndicate
Thas
Vdi
Gig Tea Laan, ME
Bay Cate
Garland CU le
Matinee
Wapello
John Erlenbushs
Fred Heck
Roy Kephart
Helen
Hazel Amering
Free’ Wenhart
WI LA
George W. Hesalroad
Grahams Department Stores
America
Montgomery Ward
Ivory
Montgomer South Side
Mery
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