News From New Haven And Nearby Areas
Correspondents from New Haven report on family travels to Galesburg Illinois for a death in the family. Local trade includes Marion Smith delivering hogs to the Farmers Union in West Chester, with Alvin Strum assisting. An ill infant of Clarence Rathmel is not improving, while Mrs Rathmel and the baby stay with her sister in Washington. Dr Tom Downing treated a sick mule at the Seymore Stattler place, which died. Visitors include Mrs Bert McKinstry and son from Kansas, Eva Plummer from Olathe visiting Mr John McKinstry and Charley, and Mrs Della Neal visiting her aunt Mrs Smith. Multiple local families share Sunday gatherings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haven
Gus Strum
Galesburg
Ill
Marion Smith
Farmer's Union
West Chester
Alvin Strum
Clarence Rathmel
Rathmel
Babe
Washington
Art Rathmel
Tom Downing
Seymore Stattler Place
Bert McKinstry
Orville
Kansas
McKinstry
Eva Plummer
Olathe
John McKinstry
Charley
Della Neal
Smith
Walter Sheets
Caroline
James Combs
Frank Smith
Valley News Briefs From Lley Va Area
Fern Hartnell spent Friday with Myrtie Black. Louise Wallace is seriously ill but improving. Local families, picnics, and Sunday visits fill the weekend as bridges weathered by rain are noted. Mission day at Valley church with basket dinner planned for Sept 25.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lley VA Valley
Fern Hartnell
Myrtie Black
Louise Wallace
Fred Sheetz
Josephine
Chas, Augustine
A. Beller
Blanche Conrad
Richard Sheetz
C. L. Wallace
George Frank
Alvin Wallace
A. R. Conrad
Will Conrad
Sie Farrier
Howard Leacox
Boyd Berdo
Hollingsworth
Boyd Blattner
T. R. Feltz
Valley
The
Valley Church
J. E. Deal
Washington
Sheetz Picniec
Geo. Breitenbach
Virginia
Faye Freshwaters
Breitenbach
Addie Wallace
Myrtle Frank
Olive
Nellie Pfeifer
J. K. Deal
Otto Pfeifer
Lile Pfeifer
Eva Ballard
Ballard
Wayland
Mrs. Chas. Churchill
H. V. Frank
Brighton Route One Community Notes and Visits
Local column reviews social visits and movements along Route One Brighton. Mentions include Mrs Kate Blakely meeting the Young Ladies club, Amy Hosick Carmichael visiting relatives in Olds Iowa, J A Lemley leaving business for health, choir gathering at the parsonage, and various regional residents visiting Marshalltown Fairfield and Sunset Park Farm Bureau picnic rainout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brighton
Adam Kansky
Chicago
Kate Blakely
Phillis Woodford
Amy Hosick Carmichael
Oklahoma
Cox
Clay
Olds
Iowa
J. A. Lemley
Brighton high school lecture course faces poor turnout
The article notes Mrs. Belle Waterhouse departed Monday to serve on jury this term. Ralph Woodford recently moved a load of corn with a team of horses. One speaker doubts the method of feeding as none died. Attendance at the first Brighton high school lecture course appears unlikely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belle Waterhouse
Ralph Woodford
Brighton High School
Community News from Wellston Area Gathers Rain Delays Farm Picnic
Rain kept the Farm Bureau picnic crowd away in Wellston on Monday. Local events include visits among Brinning, McClelland, Stattler and Barnes families, vaccination efforts for hogs amid cholera concerns, and a damaged horse rescue after getting mired in a ditch.
Tenants and Moves Reported in Nira Area
Roy Frain is constructing a tenant house for the Emery Burkett family who will soon move in. Glen Romine and family have moved back to Nira from Bayfield. Roy Rowe was in What Cheer Sunday. Mrs. Chas Bekhart of Wellman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nira
Roy Frain
Emery Burkett
Glen Romine
Bayfield
Roy Rowe
Rural Iowa notes and local events in Clay and Richland
A roundup of small town life reports from Clay and Richland includes visits from Cedar Rapids, a football game between Richland and New London, jury duty for C D Robinson, American Legion Day events, and local social gatherings at Effie Porter’s home. Mentions of weather impacts on Clover Halling and river flooding appear alongside numerous family and community updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clover
English River
Old Man Creek
Margaret LeVelle
Cedar Rapids
T. J.verell Curts
Amish Mennonite Meet At Dear Creek Church
A sizable group from the Amish Mennonite church attended the Mennonite conference held last week at the Dear Creek church in Johnson County. L. H. Rinner conducted a sale on Tuesday nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stringtown
Dear Creek
Johnson County
L. H. Rinner
Carris Manufacturing Co Increases Directors to Seven
Notice states Carris Manufacturing Company of Washington Iowa amends Articles to raise directors from five to seven in Article Five. Two new directors K W Carris and D H McLaughlin appointed until the next annual stockholders meeting. Signed August 10 1951 by E C Carris president and L D Carris secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carris Manufacturing Company
Washington
Iowa
K. W. Carris
D. H. McLaughlin
Tenancy Share of U S Farms Shrinks as Managers Rise
Figures show 25 percent of U S farms were tenant operated in 1880 rising to 38.1 percent by January 1, 1920. In ten years farms run by managers grew 17.9 percent, a development viewed as easing tenant evils and signaling a shift in farming administration and social effects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Advertising not high price cause Chicago remark
A Northwestern University analyst argues advertising costs do not drive clothing prices higher. Prof Horace Secrist cites a three year retail survey from 36 states, 569 sales, showing only 2.07 dollars of 100 spent on ads and 1.59 on newspaper ads with other costs like rent and wages. He spoke in Rochester at a retailers meeting. The piece also comments on women's discernment and matrimonial strategy as they age.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Horace Secrist
Bureau of Business Research
Northwestern University
Secrist
Rochester
N. Y
National Association of Retail Clothiers
Women Over Thirty In Marriage License Claims
Our chief dispenser of marriage licenses alleges only 10 percent of applicants are over 30 years old. He notes the figure rests on candidates’ statements, which may be memory influenced by current circumstances.
Cooperation Necessity of Today
Fragmentary passage argues for cooperation and mutual understanding among people. It reflects on social divides and the need for shared effort to improve the country. Notes suggest that people rarely know how others live and call for more empathy and collaboration.
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Roman Borkorki
Fairfield
Chas. Robinson
Pastor Grinnell
Inlaw
Marshalltown
Cunninghams
Ray Woodford
Claude Waterhouse
Max Waterhouse
Ira Waterhouse
A. G. Woodford
Donald
Cecil
Hugh Gassaway
Farm Bureau
Sunset Park
Llston
Wellston
J. W. McClelland
Heil
Joe Durst
Cooperative Association
M. B. Jones
Richland
Leb Barnes
Keath
Ed Stattler
Perle Bennett
C. H. Brinning
Wash Stattler
Wellman
Jessie
Will Augustine
W. Augustine
R. E. Brinning
Fred Garret
Andy Brinning
Chas. Bekhart of
Effie Porter
Mary Miksch
Bessie Harvey
Elsie Moore
Mina Jones
L. B. Reed
Gertrude
Ruth Morgan
Nelson
Allen Woodford
J. J. Rich
Joe T. Wenger
Frances Eicher
L Parsons College
Joe Wittmer
San Francisco
Cal
Ethan Brooks
Rex Swan
Marian
P. R. Sehants Home
E. C. Carris
Pres. Carris Manufacturing Co
L. D. Carris
Sherman Brothers
Chapeaux
E. M. Bridges & Co
South Side Square
Aeeeee Shoe Store
Vicinity
Lee
Marion Ave
Cé& YO
Sherman’s Drug Store
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