Local notices and visits fill Washington county pages
Local items note Fox and Dewey shoe shop and H F Funk piano tuning in town on Sept 17. Des Moines N F Kirkpatrick visits briefly. W J Southwell of Luse Land & Development leaves for Saskatchewan with several locals. Crop conditions numbered 1 with no crop damage while threshing continues. Numerous residents travel for land deals and education. Marriage licenses issued to Kropf Waite and Fritz Whetstine. A Washington critic proposes Sidna Allen be spared and lectured at the chautauqua.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. J. Southwell
Luse Land & Development Co
Saskatchewan
Iowa
Washington County
The School Bell Heard The Next Day
A bedtime tale tells of a kindly old school bell that watches children leave and worries they dislike it. The clapper breaks and the bell stops ringing causing lateness until a repair restores the bell’s friendship with the students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack
Evelyn
Daddy
Johnny
Mary
Recital by Miss Laurene Moore in Crawfordsville
Last Friday evening at 8 o'clock Miss Laurene Moore held a pupil recital at the Harm Rodemakers home eight miles northeast of the city. About fifty attended including pupils, parents and guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laurene Moore
Crawfordsville
Harm Rodemaker
Cate Ates
Hazel Anderson
Olive Hazen
Ruth Hazen
Nellie Anderson
Bone TiwGnee
Annie Laurie
Viola Rodemaker
Kentucky
Presbyterian ladies announce all day church meeting
All day meeting of the Presbyterian ladies at the church on Sept 20 with a program from 10:00 to 12:00 followed by luncheon at 1:30. Miss Jennie Smith will present committee reports and music. a study class may be organized and fruit baskets are requested for hospital donations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Presbyterian Ladies
York
Jennie Smith
China
Mary Donaldson
Fresh faces and travels noted around Osceola
The column records a flurry of local movements including D Rittenhouse and wife heading to a Dunkards district meeting in Osceola, Miss Veda Hanna visiting Danville, and various residents like Roy Mayhew and Miss May Pearson departing for Mt Pleasant and West Chester.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. Rittenhouse
Katona
Osceola
The
Dunkards
Veda Hanna
Danville
Frank Hemmings
Farson
May Pearson
West Chester
First American Newspapers and Pioneering Women
The era from 1704 to 1788 saw 78 newspapers published in America. Sixteen were led by women and fourteen championed liberty and equal rights.
Masson Delays Postgraduate Course To Focus On Office Renovation
Dr H F Masson announces postponement of his proposed post graduate course. He states that once the remodeling of his office rooms is completed, he will resume serving the public as before.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luella Shaw
H. F. Masson
M. D
Great Year for Church Alterations in Washington
Washington sees a wave of church building changes with major projects. The Methodist church tops spending at over sixty thousand dollars, Baptists add five thousand, Catholics near twenty thousand, and other denominations invest in interiors, basements, and organs as they modernize.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
New Methodist
Second
United Presbyterian
Presbyterians
Also Mentioned on This Page
H. F. Funk
Hraight’s
Black
N. F. Kirkpatrick
Des Moines
W. R. Sawhill
Vienna
Frank Snyder
Henry Apitz
Luse Land Co
Harley J. McCreedy
Lyric
Mabel Stevenson
Keota
Manhattan
Kan
State Agricultural College
Paul Peiffer
City
Matt Redlinger
S.wickland
West Side Square
Helen
Oberlin
Ohio
Oberlin College
Mabel Brinton
Stella Meek
Deg Moines
Drake University
EBT
Dankwardt
Burlington
James Nelson
Los Angeles
Calif
Fred Knecht
Davenport
H. A. Hammond
Galesburg, Lll
J. W. Seamster
Blanche Bowen
Rogers, Ark
W. M. Thompson
Galesburg
Star Tonight
Don Sherman
St. Louis
Rexall
Frank Votruba
J. C. Moothart
Guy Eckerman
Anamosa
Mrs. Sidney Smith
Henry Sheetz
Kansas
J. JD. Yoder
Kalona
Thomas, Okla
Mary Hunter
Winnefred Anderson
Ottumwe
Mrs. J. A. Ferguson
Oscar W. Kropf
Arapahoe
Nebr
Iva P. Waite
Wellman
Charles R. Fritz
Georgia KE. Whetstine
Virginia
Sidna Allen
Wagner
Lytle Bros
the Royal
Sociefy
Claire Anderson
Clara Wallace
Down By the Old Mill Stream
Beth
Lela Wilson Norwood
Alma Wallace
Cedar Brook
Edd Henry
Post Dispatch
Wallace Orchestra
Jessie Hazen
Francis Wilson
Taein
Edd Henry My Mamma
Helen Wilson
Fern Valley Schottiche
Reer Eer
Treeeed Wallace
Edd
Henry Long
Lela Wilson
Home Sweet Home
Vance
P. FE. O
A. S. Smith
W. I. C. Society
Chas. Hayes
Ilda Harmon
Haat Main Sree
S. Wickland
West Side
W. Stewart
Roy Mayhew
Mt. Pleasant
E G. Fisher
J. T. Matthews
D. A. Barclay
Omaha
Moline
Roy Hayes
Ferne Randall
Ainsworth
Robert Carlin
James Matthews
Ralph Shannon
Pueblo, Colo
J. A. Harwood
J. L. Snow
Snow Dressmaking College
Blanche McFarland
Havre
W. C. Mayhew
Mrs. Brewer
Muscatine
Dick Embree
L. A. Lyman
Winfield
Geo. Fetters
Ralph Fetters
Verdi
J. A. Harwood & Son “the Shoers
South Side
Dren
Thomson
First Presbyterian Church
Associate Q
Shropshire
J. F. H. Taylor
Main St
Bridges & Company
South Side Square
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