Colonial Tea and Society Gatherings Highlight Highland Event
Mrs. F. L. Benedict and Mrs. J. R. Macartney host a colonial tea with the Woman's Club at Mrs. E. T. Alford's Highland home. Attendees wear Martha Washington era costumes, with a colonial program directed by Mrs. J. O'Keefe and performances by Mrs. H. B. Kelly, Mrs. B. E. Magee, and others. A silver offering is collected, and tea follows.
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F. L. Benedict
J. R. Macartney
Woman’s Club
Fine Arts Department
E. T. Alford
Highland
Martha Washington
J. O'Keefe
H. B
J. Alexander
Lore Alford
Social clubs host meetings and reader events across town
P O P club and guests including Mrs Fox Mrs Yetter and Mrs Brown attended a gathering where five hundred was played with Mrs Charles Lewis as club host and Mrs Brown as guest server. Yetter and Brown were admitted to membership. A note from Mrs Merrisan, visiting in South Dakota, was read. Additional club activities covered needlework, refreshments, and surprise calls at members’ homes. A youth event features Miss Juanita Thomas attending a Sleeping Beauty reception at Sacred Heart hall with plans for a motion picture audition and a juvenile players’ reception. Community volunteers from Waterloo Woman’s club and local high school students will assist at the event. A large tally shows twenty four charwomen assisted at the castle of the former Kaiser in Dodra Holland.
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P.O. P. Club
Mmes
Fox
A. Yetter
M. D. Brown
C. H. Brown
Charles Lewis
Brown
Yetter
Mrs. Brown
Dave Merrisan
South Dakota
E. L. Hosteter
X. X Club
J. E. Dempster
S. J. Lichty
Bertha Fisher
A. B. Nauman
New Century Club
Robert Ingersoll
Juanita Thomas
Jesup
Sacred Heart School Hall
Miss Thomas
J. B. Ridenour
Maude Knoop
Josephine Naumen
West High School
Jalvis Johnson
Walter Lee
East High
Princess Alice's Escape Part II Sealed Wedding Night
The witch's son tells Alice they will marry at midnight. She orders no one to enter her room until the wedding hour, as she plans to escape the suitor and secure her fate in Pare II of The Sandman Story by Mrs F A Walerr.
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Palace
Alice
King's Palace
Smallpox Reported at Wartburg Dormitories
Smallpox in light form is reported from Wartburg college dormitories in Waverly Indiana. Two rooms in the boys dormitory and one in the girls dormitory are quarantined. Doctors say the disease is well in hand and unlikely to spread.
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Wartburg
Waverly
Wartburg College
Federal income tax expert to visit city mid February
J. A. Fessleman, a federal income tax expert, will be in the city from February 14 to March 15. He will hold office on the second floor of the government building, offering assistance as arranged through M. H. Kelly, head of the youthmasters program.
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J. A. Fessleman
M. H. Kelly
Bill to boost high cost of loving beat en in the house
Des Moines reports the Iowa House voted 62 to 50 against raising the marriage license fee from 1 to 5 dollars to fund county revenue. Westervelt Knickerbocker led the bill with a 2 dollar compromise after a spirited debate led by J. H. Anderson of Winnebago with opponents arguing against profiting from matrimony.
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Bill
Des Moines
Jovns
House of Representatives
Weetervelt and
Knickerbocker
J. H. Anderson
Winnebago County
A .O. Hauge
Polk County
Mayne
Palo Alto
Harrison
Pottawattamie County
Justice
Shelby County
Parsons
Calhoun County
Hauge
Westervelt
Knickerbacker
Ramsay
Butler Coma
Campaign for Acreage and Sugar Factory Prospects
The article notes the grand secretary's office will run the coming season and confirms ongoing acreage campaigns. It highlights Waverly's sugar factory as a major employer, attracting families and distributing substantial wages to workers.
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Wedland
Waverly
Dubuque Placed Among 10 Cities for Elks Grand HQ
Dubuque Iowa emerges as a potential site for the Elks Grand Lodge headquarters among ten cities. Grand Secretary Fred C. Robinson announced the bid while confirming Elks officers will visit to assess Dubuque as a possible home for the organization. Other candidate cities include San Francisco Chicago Boston New York Baltimore Philadelphia Pittsburgh Detroit and Minneapolis.
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Dubuaque
Dubuqué
Mag. Bee
B. P
Elks
America
Elks’ Lodge
Grand Lodge
Fred C. Robinson
The
Elis
Dubuque
San Francisco
Chicago
Boston
New York
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Detroit
Minneapolis
Grand Lodge of Elks
Elke
Prin
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Society News
C. M. Young
Mildred Hoffman
Commercial Department
H. A. Sharpe
Cornelius Stratton Parker
Raymond Folk
Younger Jones
Stephen Leacock
Me. Dowell
Schubert
Oliver Stevenson
B. W. Sehuneman
First Baptist—Women's Society
Zane Grey
George Pettis
Seewheel
G. J. Mack
C. N. Rowley
E. Weasing
L. H. Turner
500
Somerset
John Briden Revef Corps
Parkersburg
B. J. Merlein
Elklets
Elks Slubrooms
Beauty
Edna Kent Forbes
Dotty
Dimple
Forbes
Questeo
Charworen Arsem
Kaiser
Dodra
Holland
Sandman
F. A. Walerr
Ces
Western Grocer CO
Wilson
Margarine
Iowa
Waterloo
Fashion Department
Evening Courinr
Ling Waemaken
Oriental Designs
Plains of Persia
Hall-Ekfest CO
Park Avenue and
Lafayette Street
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