Washington ward school closes successful year with gains
The Washington school reports a large enrollment and low failures across grades. Tests in arithmetic basics spurred rivalry and shown improvement under new drills. Ward boys excelled at the Y M C A track meet placing first in east section. An Elton art exhibit and May program funded eleven photo gravures, carbon photos, and a permanent card index system.
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Washington
Kline
Awthorne
Emerson
Elton
Readlyn News Roundup and Local Notices
Readlyn reports pastors Rev Moas and Rev Yockey attending a Fort Dodge convention this week. F Ratz is ill, and typhoid fever cases have halted with no new illnesses. Dora Kormann returned home near Sumner. School closed for summer. Miss Danels the teacher returned home. Local social visits include Biere, Moeller, and Berger households. Bertha Mohlis completed a northeast Readlyn school program. Mrs Will Booth and child visited from Canada. Wang Miller Shoe Co advertises Palm Beach and White Oxfords.
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Readlyn
Moas
Yockey
Fort Dodge
F. Ratz
Blosberg
Will Judas
Dora
Kormann
Sumner
Danels
Biere
Hy Moeller
Waterloo
F. L. Biere
Independence
Moist Doughnuts with Potato for Freshness
A home baking tip explains adding a small amount of potato to the sponge keeps doughnuts moist for several days. It promotes KC double acting baking powder as ideal for large batches fried in portions. Ingredients include Shoups flour two eggs sugar four teaspoons baking powder salt mace and mashed potato with milk as needed.
Old Resident Murray Dies Near Falls
Funeral services for Cyrus W. Murray will be held at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon from St. Paul's Methodist church, in charge of Rev. F. Q. Brown and Rev. J. E. Johnson. Murray had worked sixteen years for Citizens Gas and Electric before moving to a Cedar Falls area farm where he died yesterday of pneumonia. Born June 8, 1866 in Ohis, he moved to Iowa with his mother after his father's 1861 death. He married M. A. Taylor in 1878, three of their nine children live in Colorado and Minnesota, with others in Waterloo, Janesville, and at home. His first wife died in 1902. he married Ioix Boomkower nine years later, who survives, along with a sister and several half-siblings in nearby towns.
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Altho
Margaret Meyers
Ul. Mertens
Reinbeck
Harold Bancroft
Cedar Falls
J. M. Slusher
I. O
F. Hall
Odd Fellows and Rebekahs
Blaine Shirley
Helen
Irancis
Chicago
J. Raber
Savannah
Henry Meyers
Iifford Shimer
Iowa City
Carl Mastain
Dike
Brethren Ladies’ Aid Society
Cyrus W. ‘Murray
St. Paul's Methodis
F. Q. Brown
J. BE. Johnson
Murray
Citizens Gas and Electric Company
Decedent
Ohis
May Zerkle
Waterloo
Mrnvst
Janesville
James
Jone
Colorado
Ioix Boomkower
Mra
George Ohl
Jeanp
Chas. Ohl
Fairbank
George Clark
Henry Thompson
Foida
Mre
Fona Reed
Missouri
Little and White Girl to the Kaiser
Berlin dispatch reports a humble petition sent to the German Kaiser. Gretchen Hyer writes from Muellhausen asking that Gretchen be allowed to leave for Switzerland if WWI front item Gratchon Goots is sent there. The family learns Gretchen will be permitted to depart after official news from Berlin.
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Maels Lausen
Alster
Jer
Corlde
le Radney
Switzerland
Gratchon
Wintersthur
Latve
Gretchen
Bugsi
Gretchen Hyer
Muelhausen, PY. S
Pene
Wheditthe Birladolier
Conmsina Gretelen
Muylhatgen
Frank Newell's Body Discovered Near Waverly
In Waverly Louisiana on June 4 the body of Frank Newell was found at a farmer's building site along the river three miles southeast of town. He vanished seventeen days earlier and relatives bore the searches before his body was identified by papers in his coat pocket.
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Waverly
Lfrank Newell
Farners
Wlify Newell
Man Killed in Accident at Dundec Repair Yard
A worker returning from the ihict job at the Chicago Great Western Dundec yard was missing after an accidental run involving a repair project. He had long served the city electric light plant. Survived by widow, mother, and three brothers Walter George Jede ward. Listing of advertised letters follows with numerous names and organizations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Great Western
City Electric Light Plant
Walter
George
Jedewarde
Mr. Newell
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Julius Steger
Jaca
Ethel Clayton
Betty Ellangs
Wilson
Ethel Grandin
Waterloo Photo
Grandin
Tolay
the Grand
Majestic
Johnson and Crane
Jay Monde
Raymond Ortez
the Courier
Palm Beach
White Oxfords
Wang & Filler Shoe Co
Washington School
Della Ross
Frances Hefferman
State Teachers’ College
Grace Brainard
Columbia University
GO. W. Fauber
Department of Education
Iowa State University
Kirk
Hudson
Wang & Miller Shoe Co
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Baking School Fame
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Little
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Kaiser
Frank Newell
Bungalow
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Shepherd
Bon Ton
Royal Worcester
Mime
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Joo
Lizze Burke
Mise
Eva Christingen
Adnan Cane
Helen Dickens
Agies Eyteson
Jia Graves
Mishel Hangaslofer
Genevera Hawking
Miriam Klunt
Miss Jennings
Ron
Lee Rorter
Man Shorter
Denide Swan
Misa
Bernice Washburn
Mra. Welch
C. B. Anderson
Fr. W. Asher
P. J. Barry
O. T. Batley
F. P. Beacom
D. le Hol
C. J. Bolstad
W. C. Bratt
Balus Brody
John Brock
W. M. Bramover
Walter Cutrns
Erving Carpenter
Joy Crow
W. Cutter
DW. Doee
Jobo Delssey
Peter Economy
W. J. Edwards
A. M. Fawn
W. Fisher
Fred Fuhr
A.L. Goldsburger
James Grubbs
A. E. Hansen
A. M. Hogan
J. Leonnon
S. Ldan
Hall McArthur
Charley McCumphrey
Win. McKevitt
Jens Mutton
C. O. Ott
Ezra Prangly
Frank Riddle
Clay Roas
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Rimme
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