Donations Boost Colored Boys Camp Fund
Two donations to the YMCA colored boys camp fund were received, including a $10 check from contractor S. A. Cohagan and director C. W. Kirkpatrick and a $5 contribution from a local elderly gentleman. The gifts support sending a poor boy to camp, separate from regular funds. Rev H C Boyd expresses heartfelt thanks for making camp access possible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S.A. Cohagan
da C. W. Kirkpatrick
Association
H. C. Boyd
Shriners Caravan Heads To Union Bridge Picnic
The Waterloo Shrine club caravan with many nobles and families left Washington park at 1 30 p m for Union Bridge park where the first annual picnic of the organization is set this afternoon Weather was sunny Mark Mart in pathfinder reported the roads excellent A program features basket dinner swimming trapshooting and field events including dashes races tug of war and golf putting with F G Whittemore as entertainment chair and various races for children and adults
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Waterloo
F. G. Whittemore
Teddy Bears
Sioux City Woman Shared Another's Man on a 50 50 Basis
Nellie Phillips, 25, a former Sioux City girl, named in a bigamy case in Denver authorities. She alleges Seeree Stoffel maintained two residences and that she and his legal wife shared his time equally for four years. Stoffel is under arrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
Nellie Phillips
Denver
Miss Phillips
Seeree Stoffel
Stoffel
Overwork Cited as Cause of Insanity in Iowa Woman
Sigourney Iowa Aug 18 Over work is said to have caused the mental breakdown of Miss Edith Kudart of What Cheer who was declared insane by the commission of insanity last week and removed to Mount Pleasant She taught in What Cheer last year and attended summer school at Cedar Falls this summer
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Sigourney, In
Edith Kudart
What Cheer
Mount Pleasant
Cedar Falls
Pioneer Andrew Walker 91 Dies in Muscatine Iowa
Andrew Walker 91, longtime resident who witnessed Muscatine's first habitation near Island B in the Mississippi River, died at his home. Civil War veteran, arrived with parents at age two, contributed to early Bloomington settlement narrative. He lived in Rock Island County before moving to Island B with his son Hugh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muscatine
Andrew Walker
Island “B
Mississippi River
Walker
Sec
Davenport
Bloomington
Thirty-fifth
Iowa Infantry
Rock Island County
Hugh Walker
Dreams Foil Burglar in Sioux City Home
In Sioux City Iowa on August 18 Fern Dirks woke from a dream of a robbery and found $120 missing from his trousers beneath the pillow. He investigated and returned to sleep as his father-in-law Orin Morris also suffered a nightmare of a robbery, delaying his own actions.
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Dirks
Sioux City
Fern Dirks
Market Street
Mr. Dirks
Orin Morris
Best in State Scouts Tout Camp Ingachooc Near Brandon
Camp Ingachooc hosts 56 Boy Scouts near Brandon with Paul Davis visiting to hand out camping gear and praise from Edward Northey. Northey calls the camp well situated and the best scout camp in the state as scouts express strong enjoyment and satisfaction with activities and outdoor equipment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ingachooc
Brandon
Paul Davis
OWA Drops Best in 11 States Says Alverson
D L Alverson of Chicago special adjuster for Aetna Life Insurance, visiting the central west, reports corn crop prospects are large in 11 states including Iowa, which he says shows the best conditions in his territory. He left on June 27 on the trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D.L. Alverson
Chicago
Aetna Life Insurance Company
Iowa
Oelwein Air Meet Opens Auspiciously
Oelwein Ia Aug 18 aviation meet opens with bold claims of future aviation greatness. The event draws attention as planes and pilots promise rapid travel across terrain unseen in earlier eras. Local residents admire the spectacle and the town’s embrace of flight amid celebrations and crowd enthusiasm.
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Oelwein
Rome
Caesar
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Union Bridge
Welem Oo
Thomas L. Wells
Mr. Davis
Blair Wood
Robert Mayer
Wendell Webb
Johnny Clinton
Deeks
Viquet Ray
Seigel
Harter
B. Hull
Tonse Brothers Motor Cars
OWA
Alverson
Shippy-Harma
Margaret A. Harms
Russell F. Shippy
W. T. Walker
Fifth Avenue West
Sacred Heart Church
Dubuque
Hay Thompson
Ryder
N. D
Central School
Ralph Jenney
Towm
J. J. Shadle
J. W. Shadle
John Poggenklass
Tuscon
Arizona
Perry Chase
LaPorte City
Wayman
D. W. Auten
Cedar Rapids
ML Ve McMillan
Worth
New York
Rom Worth
Oxfords
Feading
Oxford
Muldoon Shoe DO
East Fourth Street
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