Hawking Avoids Friday's Hoodoo in Sentencing
Sheriff Wagner will escort 23 year old Joseph Hawkins to the Amamosa reform school after Judge H B Boies imposes a 15 year maximum for uttering a forged instrument dated July 1 1920. Hawkins begged not to start serving time on Friday and was described as a model prisoner with good conduct in Kansas City prior to capture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherif H. T. Wagner
Joseph Hawkins
H. B. Boies
Reformatory
Amamosa
Anamosa
H. H. Young
Hawking
Ted
Wagner
Sixpress Company
Hawkins
American Railway Express Company
Kansas City
Tokin
Boys chained to a tree by parents near Edgewood
David Hammond and Floyd Bailey, two boys found chained to a tree near Edgewood by Grand Mound Boy Scouts, were rescued by Edgewood authorities. Their parents face trial in Elkader. the boys had no food or water and were exposed from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Vernon
Edgewood
David Hammond
Floyd Bailey
Grand Mound
Elkader
Hammond
Missionary Band Heads to Point Barrow Hospital
Information from local Presbyterians reports a band of medical missionaries and nurses left New York last week for Point Barrow Alaska to take charge of the hospital recently completed under the direction of Dr Frank Spence medical missionary.
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Spence
Waterloo
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Point Barrow
James HR. Condit
New York
San Francisco
Condit
Alaska
Frank Spence
Seizure of Elderberry Wine in La Porte City Raid
In La Porte City, officers led by Constable E H Abel and Deputy Joseph Holker searched the Evans home under a mayoral warrant and seized elderberry wine including a 10 gallon keg and three one gallon jugs. Curtis Evans and his brother were arrested for liquor law violations.
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Curtis Evans
Rock Island
Clarks
la Porte City
D. M
Curtis ‘Evans
M. H. Ashley
E. H. Abel
Joseph Holker
Catherine Chambers
Evans Brothers
Jed
Cleveland
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England
Missionary Band
Electric Park Athletic Show
Jack Leonard
Harold. Jenkins
Tony Gentle
Young Reed
Gotch Auto Supply CO
Mulberry Street
Library
Percy R. Wood
Leavitt & Johnson
Bank
Iowa
Davidsons ’ Mone Furnishers
Tower Street
Waterloos Center
Rose Lisle
Golden Eagle Marsh-Place
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