Farmers Picnic At Gedar Fall Draws Hundreds
Cedar Falls May 20. Hundreds of children and adults attended Cedar Valley fairgrounds for the first big farmers community frolic. 150 school children entered the sports. winners in each class earned top honors. A rural school pageant featuring 200 scholars highlighted the afternoon. Delayed speaker J. Nordheausen spoke later, with P Rehmeier in charge of the athletic program.
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Cedar Falls
Cedar Valley Fairgrounds
Katherine Kelly
Mildred Ryan
Melba Stout
Bart Lyon
Herschel Heickel
J. & Nordheausen
Manson
Farm Bureau
Tenth District
P. Rehmeier
F. B. Fuller
H. C. Moeller
Black Hawk
Retailers to visit Adams Paper display week of May 30
From 300 to 500 retailers are expected to visit the Adams Paper display at Hotel Russell Lamson during the week beginning May 30. An innovation called welcome week brings buyers from northern Iowa and southern Minnesota and a large sales force will greet the trade. The display includes the 1921 holiday line, school supplies, automobile accessories, and an extensive line of nations. FD Adams, president, notes prices will be lower than wartime wholesale levels with reductions of 50 to 75 percent.
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Adams Paper Company
Hotel Russell Lamson
Artsp Law
AlOy
Iowa
Minnesota
Mahomet
FD. Adams
New York City
Adams
East High Girls Set State Swimming Records
East High girls set state high school records at the annual swimming meet. Louise Fowler led wins in breast and back strokes and 20 yard dashes, with Elme Becker and Maimi Harned also posting top times. The event featured 30 competitors, a candlelit W formation, and demonstrations in diving.
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East High
East High School
East High Pool
Anna M. Johnson
Louise Fowler
Elme
Becker
Maimi Harned
Mat Harned
Florence Howard l
Junior Hick
Yrard Dash
Mary Jerguson
Lacy Courtney
Aide
New Telephone Directory For Northwestern Area
A new Northwestern Telephone directory will be distributed tomorrow with 9700 Waterloo names and about 3000 Cedar Falls names. The book adds 800 new listings and 606 number changes and goes into service at 7 am. R J Hopely is the local manager succeeding A C Fosselman and directs the distribution.
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Northwestern Telephone Company
R. J. Hopely
Local Exchange
Waterloo
Cedar Falls
Northwestern Company
Iowa Ball Telephone Company
BR. J. Hopely
A. C. Fosselman
Elks Organize Record Transcontinental Rail Trip
The Santa Fe plans one of the era’s heaviest passenger movements with 16 Elks trains from the east to Los Angeles for the annual meeting. Trains depart Chicago and Kansas City July 5 and 4 via Grand Canyon, with extra cars attached. total mileage exceeds 36000, 133 engines needed, and about 22000 dining meals prepared by Fred Harvey in four days.
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Santa Fe
Elka
Chicagoland
Kansas City
Grand Canyon
Los Angeles
Bizs
Fred Harvey
Santa Fe Teo
Chicago
Los An
Convention Travel Plans Across Cities Highlight 1920s Meetings
Travel notices list the National Association of Credit Men in San Francisco, the National Association of Builders and Managers in Portland Oregon, and the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance convention in Los Angeles. A Santa Fe special train from Chicago to Colfeeree Springs is planned for July 7 for the talking machine jobbers convention.
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Geles
Grand Capyon
National Association of Credit Men
San Francisco
National Association of Builders and Managers
Portland
Ore
Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Convention
Los Angeles
Santa Fe
Chicago
Colfereee Springs
Pythian Medal Essay Contest Awards Planned
Eighth grade boys from east and west schools compete for Americanism essays. Helmet lodge Knights of Pythias offers six medals, two gold two silver and two bronze. Twenty four essays were written today and will be judged by a later committee. Six winners will read their essays at a public meeting in the K P assembly hall probably June 6.
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Helmet Lodge
Knights of Pythias
K. P. Assembly Hall
Lodge
Funeral services for Mrs. Elmer M Lichty
Funeral services will be held Sunday at 1 a m at the Orange township church with Rev A P Blough in charge. Burial will be in the adjoining cemetery. The body may be viewed at Peterson Bros memorial parlors until Sunday morning when it will be taken to the church.
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Elmer M. Lichty
Orange Township
A. P. Blough
Peterson Bros.' Under
Scout Leaders Start Test Hike From Lincoln Park Tomorrow
Waterloo Boy Scouts and leaders begin a series of bikes and overnight camps for older scouts. They depart Lincoln Park at 11 15 a m for Hik Run with outdoor tests and teaching methods emphasized. Return to the city late tomorrow afternoon. Marriage licenses list Lyle Steinhaus and Elizabeth MacMillan.
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Waterloo
Lincoln Park
Hik Run
Local Grocery Advertisement Bargain List
A fragmented ad lists prices for sugar beans tomatoes cereal and canned goods. It mentions various milks coffee soap Calumet baking powder and meats including round steak veal and beef roasts with several weights and unit prices.
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Welch
Logan Ave
Campbell Soups
State House Coffee
Blackstone Coffee
Yap and Jap rhyme debate shocks Websterians
Pittsburgh column muses on Yap versus Jap pronunciation arguing Yap should rhyme with map not Jap. It cites Webster’s dictionary vowels and William Henry Furness III on Yap meaning land in native tongue, noting the distinction may confuse readers.
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Pittsburgh
Gazetteer of
Webster's New International Dictionary
William Henry Furness III
Stone Money
Island
Bermuda heir by dice replaced with paper lots
In Hamilton Bermuda Richard Darrell won the Norwood estate by drawing lots after his uncle Henry Darrell could not decide among three nephews. Miss Harriett Darrell held a life interest at Norwood. after her death in January arrangements used shuffled paper slips as substitute for dice.
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Hamilton
Bermuda
Richard’ Darrell
Lfe
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