Evangelical Church Camp Meeting Opens in Cedar Falls
The Iowa Evangelical church conference begins its thirty-fifth annual assembly with opening at 2 p m Thursday under Rev F R Blakley. Attendance is expected high after the Iowa Des Moines merger. Daily services start 6 30 p m with Rev R E Kerney handling press and Rev A S Beckman daily bulletin.
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Cedar Falls
Assembly of Iowa Evangelical Church Conference
F. R. Blakley
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Des Moines
R. H. Aurand
LeMars
Choirister
Girls' Kittenball Game Set At Readlyn Sunday
Readlyn P S girls to play kittenball with Fairbank girls Sunday at the local baseball diamond. In other notes, 4-11 Go Getter club held a picnic supper near the river and met at Irene Kehe's home. Rev Rumph christened a child named Glennis Dorothy Raether at the local church.
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Courier
Readlyn
Auto Crash Injures Seven Near Hampton Iowa
A large sedan skidded off Highway 65 half a mile south of Hampton injuring seven people. Mrs. A A Cook and Edna Zorn Edna Simmons Mason City occupants suffered serious injuries. Richard Cook Mrs C J Gray and Mrs Gale Thraan sustained minor bruises. Mrs Gray was driving when a tire blew out causing the crash. All victims treated at Lutheran hospital Des Moines.
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Hampton, Ja
Highway 65
Cty
A. A. Cook
Edna Zorn
Alice Simmons
Mason City
Richard Cook
C. J. Gray
Gale Thraan
Des Moines
Wayne Strayer Buys Hudson Repair Shop in Iowa
Wayne D. Strayer purchased the harness and shoe repair shop from T. W. Strayer in Hudson Iowa and will add auto tops and extra machinery to the business. The item notes other local news including a bank dividend payment totaling 128000 dollars and upcoming piano recital by Miss Marvena Sweitzer.
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Hudson Repair — Shop
Wayne Strayer
Courier Special Service
Hudson
Wayne D. Strayer
T. W. Strayer
Local Merchants Defrauded By Forged Swift & Co Checks
Iowa Falls and Osage merchants report a string of forged Swift & Co cream checks passed by a middle aged man posing as a farmer. Serial 2100 checks sized about 11 to 12 dollars, different payees per case, forged after being accepted locally. Fourteen Osage businesses paid out about 20 dollars on counterfeit Harris signed drafts and the suspect, W L Harris, fled the town.
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Iowa Falls
Swift& Co
Swift's
Osage
W. L. Harris
James A. Robinson
Harris
Osage Farmer's National Bank
Roads in Buchanan Are Being Improved
Roads around Brandon are being improved this week under county supervisor R. L. Bordner. The crew has gravelled highways in Fairbank and North Perry townships and the Shady Grove road in Westbury after a month of work. Community events include a 50th birthday gathering for Mrs. Mary Burrell and farewell visits for visiting relatives from Elmyra and Hazelton. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Hinderliter in Athena, Mich, and Frances Allen underwent appendicitis surgery at St Francis hospital Waterloo, with good recovery. Mrs. L. B. Kascht is receiving care at St. Francis hospital.
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Jesup
Brandon
R. L. Bordner
Fairbank
North Perry
Shady Grove
Westbury
Mary Burrell
Eber Parker
Raymond Summerman
Elmyra
Ark
Hazelton
Essie
Kathryn
Ida Short
Roscoe Short
Hazelma
B. F. Hinderliter
Athena
Mich
Frances
R. W. Allen
St Francis Hospital
Waterloo
L. B. Kascht
St. Francis Hospital
Osage native creates luxury Hollywood hotel style
Mrs. Winnie Tuttle Raab of Balboa California, daughter of Mrs. M. O. Tuttle of Pasadena formerly from Osage and Mason City, has completed a large expensive apartment hotel in Hollywood named Chateau de Flyers. The show place features thorough furnishing and a manager with French hotel experience.
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TOWAN
California
Osage
Winnie Tuttle Raab
Balboa
Cal
M. O. Tuttle
Pasadena
Mason City
Hollywood
Chateau de Flyers
France
Charles City to Celebrate When Pavement Opens
Charles City gathers business leaders and professionals to plan a Labor Day event marking the opening of the Charles City Nashua road pavement. Other items report a 1928 license plate shipment to Floyd county and local obituaries, marriages, and incidents.
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Charles City
Knoll Reunion to Be Annual Affair in Dumont
Knoll family reunion held at Theodore Ahrens home in Dumont drew 135 attendees. Immediate family included four sisters and four brothers with spouses and grandchildren. Out of town guests came from Chicago Monterey Minn. Cedar Falls and Mason City among others. plan to make it an annual event on the second Sunday in August. A separate report notes travels of Brown Sinclair and Chapman families visiting Dakota trip routes and returning through Iowa cities.
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Chicago
J. A. Butz
Monterey
Minn
Philip Pfaltzgraff
Clyde Smith
Mason City
Arthur Polk
Delos. Polk
Cedar Falls
Waterloo
Belle Plaine
Clear Lake
Nora Springs
Independence
Hampton
North Dakota
George Brown
Esther
Robert Sinclair
Huron
N. D
Brown
Sinclair
Black Hills
Dakota
Alva Chapman
Spooner
Sioux City
Oskaloosa
Iowa
Elgin
Traer Firm Holds State Agency for Mattress Factory
Aug 16 in Traer Tama county reports Boettcher & Sons Furniture Co. has received the largest single mattress shipment in the county. The Traer firm acts as wholesale jobber and distributor for a major manufacturer, shipping all Iowa mattresses from Traer to Des Moines Cedar Rapids and other cities, with an average of one carload per month.
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Courier
Traer
Tama County
Boettcher & Sons Furiture Co
Boettcher Company
Iowa
Des Moines
Cedar Rapids
Waterloo
Traer to Host Tama County Sunday School Convention
Traer Iowa aims to entertain the Tama County Sunday School Convention on October 3. The Traer church council has begun preliminary arrangements and is arranging funds for the expense of a teacher and books for Bible instruction to be provided in Traer schools this coming year, as before.
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Tama County
Traer
Traer Church Council
Tracr
Charles Helferich Funeral to be Held in Delmar
Short services for Charles Helferich who died Sunday at his sister’s home will be held Wednesday morning at 9 oclock, then the body will go to Delmar for final services and burial Thursday. Helferich was 77. his wife and one son live in Waterloo, two sons in South Dakota, one in Winona Minnesota.
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Ladies’ ‘Aid
First Methodist
Episcopal
Church of
van ‘Saun
Samuel
A. van Saun
Cedar. Falls
Otranto
S. J. Sine
Courier
Charles City
Charles City Business Men's Association
Nashua
C. H. Jermy
Park Hospital
Mason City
Jewett
Charles, Jr
Thomas Andrews
Christ Church
New Zealand
Jermy
Hart-Parr Company
Hazel Thompson
Robert Fraser Hutton
Santa Anna
Cal
McFarland
The
Presbyterian Church
California
Dayton Avenue
Los Angeles
C.M. Loomer
M. B
Wis
Lehrbach
Coral Maebe
Lloyd Maebe
Oelwein
Charles Helferich
Josie Murray
Delmar
Waterloo
South Dakota
Winona
Minn
Iowa Falls to Expand Central States Electric Plant
Expansion of the Central States Electric plant in Iowa Falls to four times its current capacity will add a 3,500 kilowatt turbine housed in a new 50 by 200 foot power building on a 99 year leased site. The project aims to energize lines to Cedar Rapids Eldora Boone Marshalltown and Iowa Falls, linking to existing plants and boosting the dam powered facility to one of the state’s largest electric generators.
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Courier Special Service
Iowa Falls
Central States Electric Company
Cedar’ Rapids
Eldora
Boone
Marshalltown
Cream Haulers of Jesup Stage Free Community Event
The Jesup creamery hosts a second annual free entertainment evening on Aug. 18. Brandon school band performs at 7 p.m. followed by boxing bouts, two dances, a cup bout, and orchestral sets at Grand theatre and Colonial hall. Velma Meffert headlines as the dancing queen. Buttermilk from the creamery will be served gratis by the Girls' Sunshine club.
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Jesup
Brandon School
Grand Theatre
Colonial Hall
Velma, Meffert
Winthrop
Sunshine Club
Family gathering honors guests in Waterloo and area
In La Porte Iowa on August 16 guests including David King and family from Stockton Missouri and the King family of Wisconsin were honored at a Cedar River park reunion in Waterloo. Pastors, families, and locals from Kansas City, Brookings, Minneapolis, Council Bluffs, Marshalltown, and Cedar Rapids visited or hosted, with social events, bridge games, and a golf caddy tournament noted.
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la Porte
Courier
la Porte City
David King
George
Stockton
Clarence King
Wisconsin
Cedar River Park
Waterloo
O. A. Miles
Ralph
Daugther
John Beverley
Kansas City
P. M. Gott
Lois
A. M. Baker
Irwin
Nabholz Family Fifth Reunion Held at Walker Home
The fifth annual Nabholz reunion of descendants of Matthew, David and Paul Nabholz met at Mrs Mina Gilchrist's home near Walker with ninety eight attendees. Paul Nabholz of Shellsburg is the last surviving original member. Local participants included B F Nabholz family and Franklyn Nabholz, with plans announced to hold next year’s reunion in Independence. A separate gathering at Ben Turner home honored Mrs Turner on her upcoming birthday. A barn fire damaged the Charles Jewel lot barn, used as a garage, with unknown cause and occupants away at the time.
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Brandon
Matthew, David
Paul Nabholz
Mina. Gilchrist
Walker
Shellsburg
Franklyn Nabholz
Weldon Smouse
Vinton
E. C. Winsor
Independence
B. F. Nabholz
Franklyn
J. D. Nabholz
Millard
F. J. Albert
Elmer Nabholz
Ward Stainbrook
P. D Stevenson
Ward Nabholz
Charles Jewel
Jewel
Danish Lutheran Young People Meet in Cedar Falls
Annual convention of the Young People's Society of the Danish Lutheran Church of Iowa opens in Cedar Falls Friday, with over 100 delegates expected. Speakers include Rev S D Rodholm of Grandview College Des Moines and Prof Alfred Nielsen of Minneapolis among others. the event concludes with a Bethlehem church choir concert featuring Miss Signer Holst and Harold Holst.
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Cedar Falls
Young People’s Society of the Danish
Lutheran Church of Iowa
Grandview College
Des . Moines
Enoch
Mortensen
Des Moines
Alfred “Nielsen
Minneapolis
O. ©. Olsen
Omaha
Neb
Holger Strandskov
Marquette
Ottar Jorgensen
Bethlehem Church
Signer Holst
Harold Holst
Hazleton Bands to Fill Engagements in Other Towns
Hazleton Iowa news notes band schedules with performances in New Hampton Oelwein park Winthrop and fairs in Hazleton Aurora Proceeds fund music instruments Comforting social events include a birthday party for Mrs Ange line Hayes attended by forty five relatives from several towns and Arkansas.
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Hazleton
Courier
New Hampton
Oelwein Park
Winthrop
Hazleton Fair
Aurora Fair
County Issues 15 Auto Licenses As Numbers Climb
Hawkeye county treasurer’s office issued 15 licenses yesterday pushing the high plate number to 15 295. The motor license department reports 200 more numbers requested from the state and 100 added, lifting county totals to 15 800 with plates running to 15 500. If vehicle registrations continue, all numbers may be sold in coming months.
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Hawk County
Department
State Department
Red White and Blue Cats Worth 500 Dollars
Palestine Texas August 12 Five hundred dollars seems a high price for four cats yet that is what J Hiser wants for four of his aristocratic Persian kittens Their representation of American ism is the cause of the value put on them For two are white one is red and the other is blue The mother of the Independence kittens is pure white the father is blue and the paternal grandfather is red.
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Palestine
Tex
Charge of Knife Attack at Hampton
Guy L Moore of Hampton filed a complaint against John Perkins of Bradford alleging assault with intent to do great bodily harm after Perkins attacked Moore while Moore stood in defense of his brother-in-law during a poultry dispute. Hearing set for Friday morning in Justice J J Sharp's office.
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Hampton
Guy L. Moore
John Perkins
Bradford
Moore
Perkins
Perkin
J. J. Sharpe
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Ilinois
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Ruth
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Shannon Davis
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Indianapolis
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Methodist Episcopal District Conference
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Willog
Maytag Company
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Charles City Grundy Center
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Manchester
Marble Rock
Carstens Brothers Walton Maytag
Cohrt & Guthrie
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Swan Leytze Furn
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A. E. Thompson
Darling Maytag Co
Charles City Maytag Co
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Cerie
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Morf Hardware Medal
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