Nashua Congregationalists Refuse Pastor McComson Release
Nashua Congregationalists vote to refuse the resignation of Rev. J. L. McComson Jr. as pastor, with Brown Church at Bradford also not accepting his resignation. He has served both parishes about three years and officiated many marriages at the Little Brown Church.
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Nashua
Congregational Church
J. L. McCorlson
Brown
McCorlson
Lite Brown
Bradford
Little ‘Brown
Banquets and Graduations Highlight Iowa Towns
Marble Rock reports junior senior banquet at town hall with an ice palace theme and toastmaster Gerald Chukker. Greene High School honors graduates at Hotel Kessler with aurora borealis decor. Frederika holds diploma exercises May 17 with Rev. Bacon speaker. Stanley hosts junior senior banquet with several student toasts. Allison presents a senior class play Hurry Hurry Hurry at Legion hall.
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Marble Rock
Town Hall
Gere Greene
Greene High School
Hotel Kessler
Tone Woodling
Robert Drew
Ray Pringle
J. C. Iverson
L. H. Davis
Frederike
Frederika, In
Frederika High School
C. C. Bacon
Waverly
Mark Mother's Day at Charles City
Mother's Day observances occurred across Charles City churches with sermons on Christianity and womanhood, honoring mothers, and religion at home. Epworth League staged a lighthouse feature about youth influence, and local groups discussed future plans for a cottage at Amerheddist game grounds. Salvation Army on Clerk Street hosted musical readings and talks.
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Courter
Charles City
Thomes Anderson
Congregational Church
Baptist
L. W. Inman
Mr. Gough
M. E
Methodist ‘Church
Epworth League
Epworth League Institute
Clear Lake
Ioeal League
Salvation Army
Clerk Street
Dunkerton Faculty Dinner Set Amid Rain Delays in Waterloo
Dunkerton faculty members will dine tonight at a Waterloo hotel. The postponed Friday showing of the play Mother Mine will occur this evening due to rain. The Parent Teacher association plans a program with a band concert by Randalls and Stanley schools directed by John Jenney. Charles Magee is ill with rheumatism and Ezra Lamb has kidney disease.
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Dunkerton
Orbers
Prunkerton
Hate
Prent
Waterloo
Franci
Parent
Randalls
Stanley Mgn
John Jenney
Charles Magee
Ezra Lamb
A. J. Magee
Woman Injured In Gasoline Engine Making Recovery
Mrs Emer Danielson remains hospitalized at Lutheran hospital after a lawn washing accident left her leg torn and hip broken when she was caught in a wheel. Attendants report she is expected to make a complete recovery. Hampton Ta May 13.
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Hampton
Emer Danielson
Lutheran Hospital
Hardin County’s Oldest Resident Granted Title
Milton John Perrington, born April 7 1828 in Atwater Ohio, is named Hardin County’s oldest resident. A Civil War veteran with Co G Twenty Ninth Wisconsin, he lives near Alden with his daughter Mrs Ene Ruth McClintock and six living children. Other locals aged 88 to 92 are noted in the Guand Army post records.
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Eldora
Milton John Perrington
Alden
Hardin County
Atwater
Portage County
Ohio
Co. G
Twenty -Ninth
Wisconsin Infantry
Guand
David Allen
Amariah Chandler
John Dutton
William Smith
Knute Olsen
Nelson W. Adams
Nate Whitman
Ele
Ene Ruth McClintock
Missions to be topic of confab of M E women
Cedar Falls May 13 The forty sixth annual meeting of the Woman's Home Missionary society of the Upper Iowa conference of the Methodist Episcopal church opens Tuesday. Registration and guest assignments start the day with a morning executive session and a 1 30 p m devotional led by Miss Betha Wise. Talks will be given by Dr E J Lockwood Miss Helen Biber and Rev C Boatman. Mrs Earle Baker of Mt Vernon will preside. a dinner follows at the Evangelical church. A principal address by Miss Bither of Chicago is scheduled for 8 p m with a Queen Esther Rainbow playlet by the Gedar Falls Queen Esther unit. Wesleyan Board Meeting at College Hill foundation house With Bishop Leete presiding the board discusses issues at Iowa City Ames and Cedar Falls. This marks the annual meeting.
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Cedar Falls
Woman's Home Missionary Society of
Upper Iowa
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Baker
Betha Wise
E. J. Lockwood
Waterloo
Helen Biber
Chicago
C. Boatman
Des Moines
Earle Baker
Mt Vernon
Cedar Rapids
Evangelical Church
Ladies' Association of the Church
Miss Bither
Queen Esther
Gedar Falls
Wesleyan Board
Wesleyan Foundation
Methodist Church of
Chester Bowen
Chester H. Bowen
East Vinton
Mr. Bowen
Ohio
Benton County
Vinton
Lizzie Peters
Mary E. McHugh
College For the Blind
Wiliam Stottler
Garrison
Republican Party
A. Raymond Grant
Methodist Church
East
Werner Strippel
George Gale
Washington, D. C
Lions Club
Family Gathering at William Sawyer Home in La Porte
May 13 La Porte Indiana reports a family gathering at the William Sawyer home with relatives visiting from Pasadena Dysart Waterloo and Chicago to attend the 1928 class commencement for Carl Sawyer. Others visit Detroit and farm living as May events unfold with local society activities noted.
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la Porte City
Clea Sawyer
Pasadena
Cal
William Sawyer
Claude Sawyer
Dysart
Vernon Ayers
Waterloo
Sawyer
Carl
Baird
Detroit
Roy Baird
Maxine
Mich
Harold Johnson
Marian Baird
George Wilson
Iowa Dentists Honor Convention Reporter at Cedar Rapids
Charles City Ta May Men Spe. The annual Iowa state convention of dentists was bestowing honors on Jay Judge G Yo Andy, who for 23 years has reported the event. A banquet toast and a gold purse tied with a ribbon celebrated his service. Dr CG McKen neady of Des Moines presented the tribute, honoring the long time reporter. Mr Binks will depart Sunday for Lincoln Nebraska to cover the Nebraska state convention, a assignment he has carried for 20 years.
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Charles City
Iowa
Nebraska
Dentisis
Marriage Licenses Issued Recently in Various Towns
Special report lists licenses: Wrecr We Roberts 28 of Clarkswile and Lenni He Wilson 21 of Hamilton Charles City. Carrie Tann 21. Eni Van Elvin 19 of Aplington and Etta Miners 18 of Ape Hugton.
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Allison
Ollows
Wrecr We Roberts
Clarkswile
Lenni He Wilson
Howard
Hamilton
Charles Clty
Carrie Tann
Charies City
Eni van Elvin
Aplington
Etta Miners
Ape Hugton
Cedar Falls Woman's Club ends year with May events
Two departments wrap up the year with meetings on Franklin street and Riverview park for a picnic supper. The Child Welfare department hosts a May 25 city park party for members’ children. Talks of forming a garden department emerge amid plans for a PBO sisterhood convention in Newton. Clergy from Cedar Falls head to Des Moines for the Evangelical conference with lay delegates joining. A Michigan City driver quarantined for smallpox in Cedar Falls prompts health attention. Personal notes include travels to Los Angeles and Washington, with residents returning from Chicago and business trips.
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Cedar
Cedar Falls Woman's Club
Al's
Tim Bancroft
Franklin Street
Rose Seltenrich
Business Woman‘s Department
Riverview Park
Child Welfare Department
A A. Rbhonah
Clay Street
J. B. Newman
C. S. Coddington
Mirs
Louis Bregeman
Jef
Newton
P. B. O. Sisterhood
Glenn F. Leacox
Snenandosh
J. W. Leavitt
Washington Street
Ernest Nolte
Evangelical Conference of Town
Cedar Falls
Des Moines
R. H. Miller
Audson Family Picnic Marks Mother's Day
Audson family units gathered at Cedar Falls tourist park in Hudson Iowa to celebrate Mother's Day. Attending were BR Eighmey and Lethy Eighmey with James, R C Hollis and five children, Elizabeth Highmey, P C Baldwin and family, Rodney Baldwin of Chicago, among others. A surprise party honored Mrs F C Baldwin on Friday with card games. Dale Holmes and wife welcomed a son, Cecil Edward, born May 1.
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Hudson
Eighmey
Cedar Falls
BR. L. Eighmey
Logan Avenue
Lethy Eighmey
James
Fourth Street
Waterloo
R. C. Hollis
Orange Township
Elizabeth Highmey
P. C. Baldwin
Rodney Baldwin
Chicago
F. C. Baldwin
Dale Holmes
Cecil Edward
Man Gored to Death by Bull in Barnyard Accident
Charles City Iowa May 13 Lee Shannon Storm Lake 27 died after being gored by a Holstein bull Saturday morning as he went to milk the animal His brother killed the bull with a shotgun to save him A friend of the Shannon family arrived for a week’s stay and related the accident
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Charles City
Lee
Shannon
Storm Lake
Passure
Tom the Cate
Unie
Thin Brothers Due
Oelwein Picked as Concentration Point for Packing Plants
Near Sport cervical Oniwell to May 6. Gelavein agency outlines Oelwein concentration for Armour, Baler lines. Representatives say shipments will go to Oets win for unloading sorting grading and reload for shipment. Chicago Union stockyards likely to begin by week of May 9 as packing firms plan local yards and rail access. Brother of Ole Jones dies in Aredale funeral held in Dumont with burial at Horton cemetery.
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Oniwell
Patot
Armour& Co
Baler & GO
Hage
Iowa
Chicago
Western
Mie Businness Dee Velotieff
Aredale
Allison
Ole Jones
Almins Jones
Near
Dumont
Harton Cemetery
Mesquakie Tribe Elects Seven Men for Council Terms
The Mesquakie tribe elected seven men to four year terms on the tribal council by a May 13 ballot. Named to serve are Frank Shawata Peter Morgan John Tatapash Young Bear Jack Old Bear Percy Bear and Harrison Kapayou. About 100 men and women voted, up 14 from the primary. A Mesquakie junior baseball team is forming under Robert Young Bear who also belongs to the Legion. The adult Indian team opened the season with Ferguson, losing 10 to 0 due to errors in the sixth and ninth innings.
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Tama
Mesquakie
Mesquakle Boys
Robert Young Bear
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Legion
Ferguson
Vintons Juniors Dinner Opens Commencement Week
The junior senior banquet at the Presbyterian church kicked off Vinton high school commencement activities with Rene Whipple welcoming seniors and Robert Mossman giving a senior class toast. Prof Eber Palmer spoke as closing remarks amid musical numbers. Class day follows Friday.
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Caurier
Vinton
Presbyterian Church
Rene Whipple
Robert Mossman
Eber Palmer
TWO LICENSES TO WED ISSUED IN CHICKASAW CO
Two couples obtained marriage licenses from Ray R Sisson Chickasaw county district court clerk Saturday Walter E Bellis and Francis Olson both of Osage Glenn A Joyal and Nellie K Campbell both of Osage Death of Bremer farmer Frederika Indiana May 13 August Westendorf died Saturday at his farm home from a stroke in his forty eighth year survived by seven sons and daughters four brothers and four sisters
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New Hampton
Ray R. Sisson
Chickasaw County
Satuday
Walter E. Bellis
Francis
Olson
Osage
Glenn A. Joyal
Nellie K. Campbell
Bremer
Frederika
August Westendorf
August Gelhaug Funeral in Charles City
Funeral services were held at 1408 East Clark Street for August Gelhaug 81 who died Saturday after months of illness. Survivors include his widow and several children. Rev W F Belling officiated. burial at Flood Creek Cemetery. Also noted are Davos funeral rites in Newton and interment Riverside. Two divorces granted. a double wedding at the Catholic church and City Improvement association fund drive results reported. Bryant and Obermier plan summer clam work in Louisiana.
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Charles City
East Clark Street
August Gellaus
W. F., Belling
Gentral
M. E
Burlel
Flood Creek
Davos
John Davos
Newton
Lutheran Church
GC. G. Prottengeler
Riverside
W. F. Schmoldt
C. H. Kelley
Mabel R. Daggett
Daniel R. Daggett
Oscar G. Horgen
Mabel Horgen
Gertrude Meyer
Charles Duggan
Zieta Meyer
Kenneth Jung
Dean Convery
City Improvement Association
Park Triangles
Park Street
Alfred Burnham
First Ward
W. E. Taylor
George Buckman
Edward Togstad
Charles Bryant
Charles Obermier
Loulislane
Lang Blew club honors Krumm at Grand avenue party
Mr and Mrs Krumm were honored at a Y party hosted by Mr and Mrs Albert Schnider on Grand avenue. Lang Blew club members attended and Mrs Krumm was a member. The Krummes left for Canton South Dakota where he has been transferred as depot agent for the C M St P.
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Charles
Hrimm
Albert Schnider
Grand ' Avenue
Lang Blew Club
Krumm
Hardin County Expands Road System by 177 Miles
Eldora Iowa May 3 Hardin county adds 177 miles to its county road system boosting total to 301 miles The move accompanies consideration of a 1 500 000 bond issue for traveling county and paving primary roads voters may decide June 12 and 14 Objections to expansion will be heard later this month boosters say paving may occur this year if bonds pass
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Eldora
Hardin County
Oelwein Woman to Deliver Memorial Talk in Hazleton
Hazleton Iowa May 14 Mrs G R Hillis of Oelwein will speak at the Memorial day program in the M K E church with American Legion members from Oelwein taking part. Three surviving G W Nelson post members are Charles Morey 92 George Fish 88 and Jacob Elefer 87. EB Prindle and FH McCurdy died recently. Hazleton cemetery holds 66 Civil War graves one Mexican War veteran and four World War II graves.
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Hazleton
G. &. Hillis
Oelwein
M. KE
American Legion
G. W. Nelson Post
Charles Morey
George Fish
Jacob Elefer
EB. R. Prindle
FH. E. McCurdy
Kensington Raiser Nets 14 Dollars for Aid Society
In Clarksville Iowa on May 13 a Kensington and supper at Mrs Mary Goodnow home raised fourteen dollars for a division of the Methodist Ladies Aid society.
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Kensington Raises
Clarksville
Kensington
Mary Goodnow
Methodist Ladies’ Aid Society
Builders Busy in Cedar Falls on Many Projects
In Cedar Falls on May 13, excavation nears completion for the Seow addition basement at Western Old People's Home. James O Romme’s State Street apartment house ready to finish this week with concrete crew to follow. Herman Tostlebe’s new home in Theimer addition near Riverview park will next week see framing start. Three Tremont street houses to rise by week’s end. Pred Hoffman to build homes for William Eickelberg and M F Heiselman on Tremont, on Mills and Boss sites.
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Cedar Fells
Seow
James O. Romme
State Street
Herman Tostlebe
Theimer
Riverview Park
J James Gaffney
Olive Street
Tremont Street
Hoffman
William Eickelberg
Mills
M. F. Heiselman
Edward Ross
Boss
A. R. Baxter
John Henning
Robert H. Corning
Eighth Street
Holger Harum
West
Eleventh Street
Indict Youth for Manslaughter in Hardin County
Hildera Curtin a 19 year old from Iowa Falls has been indicted for manslaughter in Hardin County in connection with the death of Si Higgins 61 allegedly from injuries after a drunken quarrel. Both youths were arrested and held in jail after Higgins died from a skull fracture following treatment for facial bruises.
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Hildera
Will ‘Curtin
Iowa
Falls
Si Higgins
Curtin
Hoth Imen
Higgins
Jali
Robin's Nest at Clarksville Noted for Odd Placement
In Clarksville Iowa on May 13 four baby robins occupy a nest built on a clothesline post between two homes. The nest sits exposed with no wind or rain protection and lies within five feet of a pump shared by nearby residents. The mother robin braved strong winds to tend the brood.
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Clarksville
Mrs Granger sells Nashua house to Mrs Bannell
Mrs Mary Granger Fonds sells the Nashua Illinois residence of her father the late Frank West to Mrs George Bannell for a consideration of $2,000.
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Nashua House
Nashua
Inn
Mary Granger
Fonds
Frank West
George Bannell
Shultz Home Hosts Compliment for Mrs Mary Granger
Nashua May 13. Mr and Mrs William Shultz entertained a small Greenwood gathering Saturday evening in compliment to Mrs Mary Granger of Fonda. The event honored Mrs Granger with a social at their residence.
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Nashua
William Shultz
Greenwood
Mary Granger
Fonda
Konjola Promises Quick Relief for Stomach Trouble
The Konjola Man tours Wangler Brothers Drug Store at 229 Earth Fourth Street to explain a medicine claimed to attack the cause of stomach trouble. Endorsements from users like Mrs May Lightfield of Waterloo are cited, detailing relief from pain, improved appetite, and regulated bowels after two bottles.
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Wangler Brothers
Earth Fourth Street
Lear
May Lightfield
Ash Street
Waterloo
Konjola
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Celestial Telescope
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