McGorison to resign from two church pastorates
Rev J K McGorison Jr, pastor of the Congregational church in Nashua and of Little Brown Church in the Vale, plans to resign. His term ends September 1, after a Friday business meeting. the resignation will be read again at Sunday services. He has served nearly three years, succeeding Rev George T Hanna now at Oberlin Ohio.
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Courier
Nashua
J. Kl, McGorison, Jr
Congregational Church
Little Brown Church
the Vale
Iowa
Mr. McComson
George T. Hanna
Oberlin
State music festival honors for Osage Hazleton bands
Iowa City May 5. After three days of music about 3 000 students returned to 91 schools. Mason City won class A band and will represent Iowa at the national contest in Denver. Osage captured class B with Ida Grove Sigourney and Ames following. Hazleton won class C with Hartley Treer and Stanwood among top finishers.
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Iowa City
INSI
Mason City
Iowa
Denver
Abraham Lincoln High School
Council Bluffs
Margaret. Brower
East High
Sioux City
Mary Charlotte McGonigle
Mary Iremain
Eagle Grove
Veldsa Reinhart
Cole
Thomas Jefferson
Burlington
Sand Washington
Hirh
Cedar Rapids
Osage
Ida Grove
Sigourney
Ames
Hartley
Hazleton
Treer
Stanwond
Annual Business Meeting at Lawn City Baptist Church
Cedar Falls May 6 First Baptist Church founded 1858 held its annual meeting. Reports show 300 members last year missions contributions 500 current expenses 3900 Sunday school budget 384.93. Officers elected for the coming year include trustee deacons Andrew Frandsen George Van Loh and A W Bundy deaconess Mrs David McDonald P H Van Deest treasurer Dr G C Mentzer benevolence secretary treasurer E E VanderVeer clerk Pearl McCaffree music chair Mrs R H Corning bulletin editor Miss Marian Woods auditor B F H Van Deest chief usher James Sineien.
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Courier
Cedar Falls
First Baptist Church
Andrew’ Frandsen
George van Loh
A. W.,bundy
Oleson Dies at Farm Home West of New Hartford
N P Oleson age 79 died at his farm home west of New Hartford Sunday afternoon. Funeral will be Tuesday at 2 p m at the residence with Rev J D Winding of Danish Baptist Cedar Falls officiating. Survived by widow two sons William Newhall Jesse New Hartford and two daughters Mrs Louis Nielson and Mrs Alfred Nielson Dike.
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New Hartford
N. P. Oleson
J. D. Winding
Danish Baptist Church
Cedar Falls
Oleson
William
Newhall
Jesse
Louis Nielson
Alfred Nielson
Dike
Paving to Oelwein resumes on No 16 route this week
Paving operations on No 16 extending from Strawberry Point to Oelwein, suspended last fall, will resume this week if weather permits. Mr and Mrs Thomas Hardy return from Ocean Springs Miss after a 1250 mile five day trip, reporting good roads to Independence.
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Courier
Oelwein
No. 10
Strawberry Point
Thomas Hardy
Ocean Springs
Mus
Independence
Clara Borland Dies at Oelwein Age 61
Clara Borland 61 died at her home 221 A 1 2 Street northeast Oelwein Iowa Sunday. Funeral services set for 2 30 p m Wednesday at Ridler funeral home with burial in Fairview cemetery. She survived by five sons Guy Eugene Forest Glenn and Harley. her husband died a year ago.
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Courter Sperval Servier
Oelwein
Clara Borland
Ridler Funeral Home
Fairview Cemetery
Borland
Guy
Eugene
Forest
Glenn
Harley
Hess Sells Interest in La Porte City Firm
J P Hess disposes of his share in Farmers' Supply to partner L G Hamm of Jesup. The couple will stay in town until June 1 and then move to Eau Claire Wisconsin to spend the summer with relatives. Clifford Williams will manage the business for Hamm. W G T U notes and events follow with a church supper, a funeral, and school staff changes.
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la Porte City
J. P. Hess
T the Farmers’ Supply Company
L. G. Hamm
Jesup
New Hampton Prepares For 1928 Graduation Week
Forty six students will graduate from New Hampton High School this month with commencement activities starting May 15. The class play A Lucky Break will be staged May 15 and 16 at the Firemen's theatre. Other events include a junior-senior banquet May 18, grade-work exhibits May 17, baccalaureate address by Rev W D Spiker May 19, class day May 22 featuring Oscar L Olson of Luther College, and graduation exercises May 23 at Firemen's theatre. The 1929 class is smaller than 1928 which had 63 graduates. Dorothy Corning and Elmer Carpenter will conduct concerts May 9 at Firemen's theatre, awarding honor emblems for state contest participation.
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Courier Special Service
New Hampton
New Hampton High School
Congregational Church
W. D. Spiker
Oscar L. Olson
Luther College
Firemen's Theatre
Dorothy Corning
Elmer Carpenter
Glee Club
Woman Pioneer of Delaware Dies at 75 in Manchester
Dr Hattie E Griffin longtime resident of Manchester Delaware marked her seventy fifth birthday at her grandson Francis Gosling's home. Born near Delhi May 4 1454 she witnessed Delaware county s only execution in 1866 and later married Cashus Griffin in Delhi before moving to Manchester where she lived for 44 years. Surviving are seven sons and one daughter along with five grandchildren and four great grandchildren. She is a United Brethren church member and veteran of pioneer life with a repaired leg in her later years.
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Itoarter Speriad
Manchester
Hattie E. Griffin
Eit
Francis G. Gosling
Franklin Street
Griffin
Delhi
John Ellis
Delaware County
Griffiths
Griffin Sul
Eddy
Delaware
Dubuque
Andrew Ostland
W. A. Johnson
Anson Shelden
Shubaee Pierce
Joseph Long
G. W. Davis
T. M. Williams
Martin Lanning
N. B. Talmage
L. P. Baldwin
E H. Hutton
N. B. Gleason
C. W. Hobbs
Sannel M. Slauson
Wilson
Johnson
Court House Square
Iman
Cashus Griffin
Charles City
South Fifth Street
United Brethren Church and Women’s Relief Corps
Ramsdell Dies At Farm Near Greene After Illness
James W. Ramsdell died Saturday evening at a farm northeast of Greene where he was born on March 27 1877. He married Eva Austin on October 18 1898. Survived by wife two sons Verle and Bert his mother Mrs Eliza Ramsdell and four grandchildren. Funeral plans to be announced.
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Speier Greene
James WN. Ramsdell
Racm
Eva Austin
Verle
Greene
Bert
Ponra Cir
Okla
Eliza Ramsdell
Inipy Ramsdot
Ponra City
Mothers learn value of Phillips Milk of Magnesia
An advertisement promotes Phillips Milk of Magnesia as a mild laxative for babies and children to relieve symptoms from souring foods. It highlights gentle action, claims about stool normalization, and invites mothers to request a free informative booklet from Phillips. The copy urges ensuring genuine Philips product by warning against imitators.
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Phillips Mille
Tackman Funeral Held in Clarksville for Christopher Tackman
The Clarksville service is Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Lutheran church with burial in Lynwood cemetery. Christopher Tackman died after about a year of creeping paralysis. Survivors include his widow, a son, an adopted son and daughter in law from Minneapolis, and several stepchildren.
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Courter
Stephen A Bonn Pioneer Farmer Dies at 71 in Cedar Falls
Services for Stephen A Bonn 71 who died Saturday at his Cedar Falls home 913 Twelfth Street West will be at St Patricks Catholic Church at 9:30 a m Tuesday with Rev J O Wieneke officiating. Interment in St Bernard's cemetery He came from Illinois and the Bonn family were early settlers in the area Survivors include widow two daughters Gertrude and Mary Cedar Falls and a son Robert all of Cedar Falls He had been in declining health all winter
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Elmina Edsill
W. W. Cooper
Pearl Williams
Amy Bonnell
Cedar Falls
Robert
Dysart
Claude
Ida
Presbyterian Church
Mite Society
Courier
Stephen A. Bonn
Twelfth Street West
St. Patricks Catholic Church
J. 0. Wieneke
St. Bernard’s Cemetery
Bonn
Gertrude
Mary
Illnois
Freeport
Ill
H. 5. Buftum
Fenner
Almer W. Fenner
First Christian Church
R. W. Fillmore
Allee Dowden
Dalton Johnson
Wendell Bragonler
Gwendolyn Kern
Lucile Conger
Edward Kern
Richard Sucher
Marion Bancroft
Mary Lou Brown
Naomi Jewell
Dorothea Groesse
Robert Sucher
Grandview to Restore Edifice Damaged by Fire
Cedar Falls May 6 Wilbur WN Hostrop travels to Des Moines to attend Grand View college board meeting to arrange funding for repairs after last Friday fire. Harold Madsen reported first spotting flames and alerting others enabling student evacuation.
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Courier
Cedar Falls
Wilbur WN. Hostrop
Des Moines
Grand View College
Harold Madsen
Soren H. Madsen
Franklin
Island Park
GL. W. Slutts
Jacob Wild
Buchanan County Supervisors Bay Garage Building
Buchanan county supervisors bought the M I Perry cement block ice house on the Wapsipinicon river bank to use as a garage and storage for county machinery in Quasqueton on May 6.
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Buchanan County Supervisors Bay
Courier Special Service
Quasqueton
Buchanan County Supervisors
M. I. Perry
Wapsipinicon River
Five Day Weeks Return in Oelwein Shops
Gelwein Ta May 6 reports Great Western shops have moved back to a five day work week. Funeral services for Mrs. Louisa Dibble were held at the Methodist Episcopal church in Oelwein with burial at Woodlawn cemetery. Three local banks were closed for a bankers convention while Mayor T N Garpall issued notices enforcing traffic laws including parking time and double parking.
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Courier
Gelwein
Great Western
Louisa Dibble
Vernon Dibble
Oelwein
Methodist Episcopal Church
Woodlawn
Dubuque
T. N. Garpall
GUEST SPEAKERS AT THREE CEDAR FALLS CHURCHES
In Cedar Falls on May 6 representatives of the Town Anti-Saloon League spoke at the Methodist Presbyterian and Christian churches. Rev J A Haehlen led the final Quarterly session at First Evangelical Church. Dr Carl S Patten of Chicago Seminary spoke on The Dominant Mood and Is Religion Too Easy at First Congregational and later at the vesper service. An Acapella chorus from Warburg Seminary performed at St John s English Lutheran. A reception for confirmation class members occurred at Danish Nazareth Lutheran.
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Gaurier
Cedar Falls
League
J. A. Haehlen
Ceder Falls
Evangelical Church
First Evangelical Church
First Congregational Church
State ‘Teachers College
Carl S. Patten
Chicago Seminary
St. John's
English Lutheran
Tremont Street
Acapella
Warburg Seminary
Dubuque
First Methodist Church
O. R. Latham
College advisory board meeting and PEO breakfast
The college campus advisory board and retiring cabinet met with the cabinet-elect of the Young Woman's Christian Association present. Thirty five attended the annual May breakfast at Bartlett hall dining room. I. D. Corning, longtime clerk of the local Modern Woodmen camp, is one of four delegates from the Third district to the national meeting in Chicago on June 4. The other delegates are E. M. Thompson of Independence, C. B. Scheer of Dubuque, and Thomas W. Purcell of Hampton.
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College
Young Woman's Christian . Association
Bartlett Hall
I. D.corning
Modern
Woodmen of America
The
Order
Chicago
E. M. Thompson
Independence
C. B. Scheer
Dubuque
Thomas W. Purcell
Hampton
Denison woman credits Lydia E Pinkham remedies
Mrs Emus Greac of Denison Texas says Lydia E Pinkham medicines relieved nervousness constipation and fatigue enabling her to do any kind of work again She praises the Vegetable Compound and supports the products by inviting letters for inquiries about their effects in her testimonial from Route 1 Box 153 Denison Texas.
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Denison
Texas
Lydia
Pinkham
Emus Greac
Route A
Box 153
Denison, Texas
Ten Years Of Illness Ended By Konjola
The Konjola Man at Wangler Bros. drug store 229 East Fourth Street Waterloo explains a new medicine claimed to help long standing ailments. Mrs Minnie Gipe of Route No 4 Waterloo reports ten years of stomach trouble relieved after three doses, with improved digestion headaches and regular bowels, praising Konjola. The ad urges sufferers to visit daily and learn more about the medicine.
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Konjola
Konjala
Wangler Bros. Drug Store
East Fourth Street
Konjfala
Wangler Bros. Ding
Minnie Gipe
Route No 4
Waterloo
Kanjola
Moniain
Koninin
Koniola
Last Fourth Street
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Little Brown
McGorison
GLOBE
Chickasaw
Lawn City Baptist Church
Plainfield
James Shipp
Waverly
Shipp
Church of God
E. E. Heltcridle
Grundy Gealer
Servce
J.P. Hess
Pauline Smelser
Board of Education
Nielsen
T. M. Nielsen
St. Luke’s Hospital
China
Saralen
County
J.N. Ramsdell
Phillips Co
Ffudson St
New York
U.S
Chas
H. Philips Chemical Co
Tackman
Clarksville
UN OF Pioneers
Iesato
Falls
St. Patrick’s
Grandview
W. N. Hostrop
Teachers College
Edward F. Kurtz
Frederick Schmidt
Jeanette Dersaut
Janet. Little
Dorothea Speakman
Lawton
Anti-Saloon League
J.c.penney
East Fourth St
Ry Ris A
Lydia FE. Pinkham
Lind-Camimack Studio
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