Dunkerton Postmaster Resigns After Long Service
Canfield quits in tenth year as postmaster at Dunkerton Iowa at age 69 and plans to move to California. Four of seven applicants, including several women, seek appointment. current term ends June 27. Canfield, longtime merchant and civic leader, ran Canfield’s General Store before becoming postmaster and may relocate after property sales. He aims to leave in the fall with relatives for Long Beach for a temporary stay.
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Canfield
California
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W. D. Emery
Long Beach
Re Elect Social Service Director
Charles City reports Lu elle Bruner has been re elected social secretary for the Social Service league for next year. She received a gift from the board in appreciation of her services during the last year.
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Luelle Bruner
Social Service League
Belly Street
Rotary Club
Dally Press
Nora Springs W
Mrs Susan Allison Ill At La Porte
Mrs Susan Allison who has been in poor health for many months has been bedridden for the past few days and her condition shows improvement. Brunetta Williams Leola Craft Colene Curdie Leona Vorel Virginia Boyd and Blanche Yarrow of 4 H clubs left for Ames to attend the state 4 H club meeting this week.
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LaPorte City
Susan Allison
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Spring Creek
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Leona Vorel
Virginia Boyd
Blanche Yarrow
Big Creek Roosters
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Funeral for Mrs Earl Breune Held at Gladbrook
The funeral of Mrs Earl Breune who died at her Gladbrook home aged td years was held at the German M E church with Rev Edward T Assing and two visiting ministers assisting. A son Adolph died April 20 and survivors include her husband two sons and seven daughters. Interment in Gethman cemetery Hepfords to Prove Here. Other local items note quarantine on Marian Breune home scarlet fever and travels of John Mohr and friends to New York and Germany.
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Ore
Lloyd Putnam
Postwille
Elizabeth Breune
Los Angeles
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Roy Koester
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Frank Klink
Bob Murray
New York
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Germany
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Chicago
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Bristow Church to Have Revival
Gospel meetings begin at Bristow U B church on June 14 with Rev Karl Lundh of Davenport to preach Friday night. Rev Barnett of Wesleyan Methodist and Rev J J Gough of Dumont assist. Miss Elizabeth Knauss of Davenport will speak on The Menace of Bolshevism Sunday morning at 11 00. West Point youths Faun Fabr and Mabel Harms to attend 4 H club meeting at Ames this week. Misses Gertrude Irene Hobson to represent Frontier areas in Des Moines summer days. Donald White to report for AT T in Chicago this summer. Lyla Morford covers Butler county for Marshall Hughes Co selling ency clopecias.
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Des Moines
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Chicago
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Butler ‘County
Marshall Hughes Company
Independence 10. Remodel Parks and Buildings Progress
Independence Kansas June 11 C B Raffauf lands contract for seating and masonry in city parks as remodeling nears completion. Fronts of Masonic building Buchanan Tithe and Loan East Main and IT C Plane on Second Avenue NE near finish. Masonic front from old bank building praised. Buchanan County Title and Loan to move offices. Also noting 30th wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs T J Bettle. Bulk station manager change at Mid-Continent Oil with Chesmore replacing Brintnall. Pitcher Michreels of Winthrop Independence hospital release after head injury.
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Masonic
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Brother of Cedar Falls rector dies in England
Rev. Georges J. Boisster, 72, rector of Rothwell parish in Lincolnshire England, died May 25. He was the brother of Rev. A O Boissier of St Luke's Cedar Falls. The report arrives as Cedar Falls residents also learn of their Danish grandfather's death. Other items note speeders fined in Cedar Falls court, a Fort Madison midget band concert, commencement plans for William H Merner and Lillian, and Cedar Falls graduates at Ames.
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Peter Jensen
Copenhagen
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Danish Lutheran convention delegates return to Cedar Falls
Attendees of the annual Danish Evangelical Lutheran church convention in Racine Wisconsin have returned to Cedar Falls, with the Fredaville church delegation also back. W N Hostrop of this place was reelected treasurer of the national church society. Funeral services for Mrs Brevans will be held in Charles City after her Los Angeles period, and Mrs Willard Terweek of Mineral Point will visit Rev and Mrs Nolte as they mark their Golden Wedding on June 12.
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Mineral Point
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Waterloo Man Very is at Parkersburg
Parkersburg Iowa June 11 War ren Somers of Waterloo is seriously ill with septic throat and pneumonia at the home of his wife's parents Mr and Mrs C J Rothmeyer. He was stricken Sunday while visiting with his family. Mr and Mrs E B Schrack have gone to Fort Dodge where Mrs Schrack will be a delegate from the local W R G to the state convention.
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Parkersburg
Warren Somers
Waterloo
C. J. Rothmeyer
EB. Schrack
Fort Dodge
Wife of Pastor Dies in Dumont at 57
Dumont IA June 11 Mrs D C Perry 57 wife of the Methodist minister here died Monday evening. Daughter of Minister W L Skinner she was active in foreign missionary work and superintendent of junior foreign missions for Des Moines branch. Surviving are her husband three children Corrine Oley Harold her mother two brothers Carl Oklahoma City Frank Minneapolis and a sister Mrs Harry Kles. Funeral Wednesday 2 pm at the Methodist church body in state an hour. Interment in Dumont cemetery.
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W. Il. Skinner
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Minneapolis
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Youth Injured Loading Horse at George Roose Farm
Harold Bettesworth about 18, employed by J. B. Weires, was severely injured Monday at the George Roose farm while helping load a horse onto a truck. A rope caught his foot, dragging him around the barnyard and into the orchard, causing extensive bruises. The accident occurred in Allison, Ta.
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Harold Bettesworth
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Bettesworth
J. B. Weires
Births Reported in Charles City
Charles City births announced for Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Guthart a son born June 8 and for Mr. and Mrs. John Adams a son born June 9.
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Ernest Guthart
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Postmistress Lydia Tesch Dies After 25 Years Service
Lydia Tesch, postmistress at Mitchell for 25 years, died Sunday at her daughter’s home in St Paul after two months’ illness. She resigned before leaving Mitchell. Funeral set for Community church. Tesch active in local clubs and church work as a reader. August Myers, aged about 89, died at home. Mr. and Mrs. G H Parkhurst hosted dinner for 40th wedding anniversary of the Parkhursts and W F Boynton’s 84th birthday.
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Brother of Iowa Woman Sent by U S to Geneva Meeting
Parkersburg Iowa June 11 Mrs Henry Johnson learns her brother Major J B Anderson has been appointed by President Hoover to attend the conference to revise the Geneva convention of the.
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U.S
Geneva
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Parkersburg
Henry Johnson
J. B. Anderson
Hoover
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