Plan to Arouse Public Interest in Construction
Washington news notes plans by the Associated General Contractors of America to push a nationwide construction program to relieve unemployment. Officials will visit 16 cities in 30 days to organize local conference boards, regulate public work contracts, and press for legislation aiding highway and power development.
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Washington News Bureau
Waterloo
Avening Courier
Washington, D. C
Owa
Associated General Contractors of America
Iowa
Des Moines
W. O. Winston
Minneapolis
Associated Contractors
Secretary of Commerce
Hoover
Winston
National Organization of Contractors
Kings
National Conference
Evgery
Burgderfer Delights Big Audience With His Humor
Clarence L. Burgderfer opened East High's season lecture and entertainment course to a capacity crowd. The humorist offered wit and character sketches including The Widow on the Train to Chicago and Silly Sam. His barnyard and instrument imitations drew the biggest cheers as the program wrapped with audience singing.
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Clarence L. Burgderfer
East High Auditorium
Chicago
Indiana
Sam
Burederfer
Burgderfer
America
Transferred Rev H C Boyd to Sioux City Post
At the annual meeting of the fourth Episcopal district of the Northwestern African Methodist Episcopal conference in Minneapolis, Rev H C Boyd pastor of Bethel church Waterloo was transferred to Sioux City. Rev PM Lewis named pastor of Waterloo church. Rev N B Jones to Fort Dodge. Oelwein pastorate to be supplied. Waterloo in St Paul district. presiding elder Rev Thomas B Stoval of Minneapolis. Boyd’s transfer is a promotion. he came to Waterloo in 1916 and funded a $5,000 church edifice and debt liquidation. Attendees included A Wilbur Johnson, C Williams, W H Majors, J S Woods, H Jones, G F Woodson, and Bishop L J Copping. Other Iowa appointments listed.
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Fourth Episcopal District
Minpeapolis
H. C. Boyd
Bethel Church
Sioux City
PM. Lewis
Waterloo
N. B. Jones
Fort Dodge
Oelwein
St. Paul
Thomas B. Stoval
Minneapolis
Boyd
Muscatine
G. F. Woodson
Wilberforce
L. J. Copping
Philadelphia
Iowa
A. W. Hackley
Des Moines
St. Paul's Des Moines
N. H. Griffin
East Chrach
HC. Claybrook
Newton
J. D. Peterson
Marshalltown
Ames
J. W. Norris
Washington
A. EB. W. Johnson
Fairfield
McPherson
C. P. Jones
Ottumwa
E. R Edwards
Delaware’s Last War Casualty Is Buried Sunday
Dale Mattice, 20, last Delaware county World War I casualty, was buried Sunday at the Methodist Episcopal church in Manchester after a solemn service. He enlisted at 19, served in Co A, 14th Machine Gun Battalion, Fifth Division, and was cited for bravery before his death at the Meuse on November 10, 1918. The service honored his courage with American Legion rites. about 75 ex-service members attended. he is survived by his parents and a brother.
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Manchester
Dale Mattha
Methodist Episcopal Church
Richland
Eimer Mattice
Dubuque
Co. A. Four
Wilson
United States
Poincare
France
General Pershing
W. W. Carlton
Methodist Church
F. B. Wilson
Dale Mattice
Meuse
Fre
Gerald
Richlands Township
Delaware County
Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin Endorsed for Safe Constipation Care
Anadvertisement extols Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a mild safe remedy for constipation suitable for children and babies. It claims low cost about a cent per dose and no narcotics, with the formula and ingredients backed by the U.S. Pharmacopoeia and the bottle cover.
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U.S
Gift to Churches in death by own action's Will
Atlantic Iowa October 18 Two Congregational colleges and the board of foreign missions of that denomination receive a quarter section. Kansas farm goes to those colleges through the will of Charles W Curtis Cass county pioneer who died by drowning himself in a cistern at his home. The residue of the Curtis estate goes to his four children under the will. Curtis, 80, had brooded over his wife’s death several months earlier.
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Atlantic
Board of Foreign Missions
Kansas Farm
Charles W. Curtis
Cass County
Cur
Tabor Et
Tabor
Knox
Galesburg
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