Boy Scouts Plan Camp At Bell's Mill June 14 19
Enthusiastic crowd at Wednesday meeting backs the annual Boy Scout camping expedition set for June 14 to 19 at Bell's mill. Scoutmaster Murray McMurray leads about forty boys with eight tent leaders named: Gerald Weise Gale Leonard Harold Clifton Herbert Arthur Chas Morean Leonard Busing Chas Mason Glenn Olmstead. A field meet with sixteen events promises prizes and a silk badge for winners.
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Dbell’s Mill
Murray McMurray
Bell’a Mill
McMurray
Gerald Weise
Gale Leonard
Harold Clifton
Herbert Arthur
Chas
Morean
Leonard Busing
Mason
Glenn Olmstead
Personal moves and visits across Iowa and neighboring states
A string of brief society items notes Paul Carr and Carl Pinkele departing for Halbright Sask Canada to farm on land owned by Pinkele’s mother. Others travel to Manila Sioux City Armstrong Des Moines and Grinnell for family visits weddings conventions and vacations with several returning home.
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Paul Carr
Carl Pinkele
Halbright, Sask
Can
M. Sabin
W. A. Rankin
Wilson Walton
Armstrong
Walton
Williams
James Rankin
Miss Helen Whitacre Plans Nursing Training Move
Miss Helen Whitacre of St Marys hospital Rochester Minnesota is home on vacation with her grandmother and aunt Mrs B F Snook and Mrs Ella Burleson. She will return to Rochester June 9 and then join a class for an eight month course at City and County hospital Saint Paul focused on contagious diseases and other medical work before returning for four more months of study.
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Helen Whitacre
St. Mary's Hospital
Rochester
Minn
B. F. Snook
Ella Burleson
Whitacre
St. Paul
C and C
City and County
Wedding Announced for Ray Wyckoff and Miss Ima Lola Ruby
Announcements report the wedding of Ray 8 Wyckoff and Miss Ima Lola Ruby on Sunday June 8 at the bride’s parents home in Indianola. Wyckoff, formerly Webster City high school science teacher and coach, studied medicine at Iowa City and plans to enter third year this fall. The couple will reside in Iowa City after September 10.
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Ray
Wyckoff
Ima Lola Ruby
Ruby
Indianola
Webster City
Simpson College
Diagonal
Mr. Wyckoff
State University
Towa City
F. A. Young
Homer
Blanche
Glen C. Beebe
Lyle Beebe
Ferne Beebe
Clyde Naylor
Bartha Vegers
T. J. Reese
Pella
Iowa
Homer Baptist Church
State Teachers' College
Cedar Falls
Iowa to disburse federal aid for rural road upgrades
Des Moines Register reports Iowa will share a $2,192,540.36 federal highway fund over five years with counties allocated by area. Shoshon county gets about 35,034.70 and Pottawattamie 37,409.90. each county to select a single substantial project from 2,000 to 6,000 miles of rural post roads, to be funded with both federal and county money, with contracts set after federal approval.
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Des Moines Register
Iowa
State Highway Commission
Shosguth County
Pottawattamie
Livery County
Highway Commission
Commission
Federal
Register
Hamilton County
Illinois Central Men to France in World War Service
Three Illinois Central railroad workers from Fort Dodge recently passed through the city en route to Chicago and then to the Atlantic coast. They will sail today for France to fill vacancies among railroad employees. Jeanette and Mary Bale, daughters of Mr and Mrs Wm G Bale, were graduates of Winona Normal School 1917 and will teach in Royalton Minnesota public schools next year. Ella Buchanan, a former school nurse now Red Cross nurse, expects to be called to New York for service with the Red Cross.
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Mary Rodney
Arch Foster
Manila
Will Rodney
C. V. Pence
Sioux City
Jessie Pence
Rev. Pence
Moville
I. E. Grempel
Des Moines
Hagle Grove
Illinois Central
France
Ilinois Central Railroad
Fort Dodge
Chicago
Atlantic
Jeanette
Mary Bale
Wm. G. Bale
Winona Normal School
Winona
Minn
Bale
Royalton
Ella Buchanan
Ottumwa
Red Cross
New York
Buchanan
Quarantines for Scarlet Fever Reported in Town
Division street homes of Herman Teget and Dunkel families placed under quarantine with mild cases among Bruce Teget and J A Dunkel Jr. Philip Clerff home two miles north also quarantined as Philip Jr. contracts the disease. Delegates elected for Christian Endeavor districts Lottie Miller and Della Pringle will attend district at Britt and state at Marshalltown. Red cedar flakes offered for furs and woolens at Teed's.
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Herman Teget
Division Street
Little Bruce Teget
Philip Clerff
Philip, Jr
Lottie Miller
Della Pringle
Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor
United Brethren Church
Geo. Thompson
East Side
Society
Endeavor
Past Noble Grands Visit Jewell Rebekah Lodges
Mesdames Poland Stuart Coles Walton Brower Vauble Hyatt Nickerson Bauer Stuart McComb Richardson Minnie Helmick Maude Helmick and Mrs Roy Martin of Woolstock members of the Webster City Rebekah Past Noble Grand associations were guests of the Jewell group on Wednesday A business and social session followed by a six oclock dinner at Mrs B S Milletts home concluded their visit before evening trains returned.
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Mesdames C. L. Poland
Hattie Stuart
J. W. Coles
Wilson Walton
Emogene Brower
Ll. B. Vauble
I. W. Hyatt
B. I. Nickerson
Fred Bauer
L. I. Stuart
K. G.mccomb
W. H. Richardson
Minnie and
Maude Helmick
Roy Martin
Woolstock
Noble Grand Association
Webster City
Rebekah
Jewell Past Noble Grand Association
Jewell Society
Women urged to seek taxi driver roles amid wartime labor needs
The item urges girls to apply as taxi drivers for Parkhurst and Lav endangered by wartime shortages. It notes many locals already drive and that a garage staffer is required, with trips in town and surrounding areas. It also mentions Cleveland seeking female streetcar operators and Iowa State College in Ames hiring for 1917 graduates.
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Parkhurst & Lavender
Cleveland
Ohio
Boy Scouts Aid Liberty Bond Drive Nationwide
Handbills go to all Scout groups as President Wilson asks scouts to aid the treasury in selling liberty bonds. Local units receive posters and distribute them in towns while urging ten or more home subscriptions for a war service emblem prize. The 299755 Scouts of America lead the effort.
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United States
Wilson
National Scout Headquarters
Secretary of the Treasury
Boy Scouts of America
Pebble Dash Underway on H. E. Schroeder Building
The exterior of the H. E. Schroeder building at Second and Seneca is being pebble dashed. When finished the improvement will enhance the appearance of the structure housing the Bahrenfuss restaurant.
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H. E. Schroeder
Second and
Seneca Streets
Bahrenfuss
Ilineis Central names Chas Lynch as temporary operator
Wm. Garvey of the Ilineis Central takes a fifteen day vacation before moving to Parkersburg where he will be operator. Chas Lynch, formerly of Hinton and new to IC, fills his post temporarily. Lynch and family will join from Hinton and stay in rooms over Hanrahan and O Connor shoe store near Teed and Teed's.
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Wm. Garvey
Missouri
Parkersburg
Chas, Lynch
Hinton
Lynch
Hanrahan & O’connor
Mildred Pettibone Weds Srr Fremont Guff in Ames
Miss Mildred Pettibone of Ames wed Srr Fremont Guff at the Pettibone home in Ames on Tuesday noon. The bride, daughter of Mr and Mrs D A Pettibone, grew up in Webster City and Ames, taught at a consolidated school near Ames, and will reside in Marshalltown where the groom works as a jeweler. Watches, watches, watches at Teed Teed’s.
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Mildred Pettibone
Ames
D. &. Pettibone
O. D. West
Srr Fremont Guff
Pettibone
State College
Marshalltown
Honeymoon Plans and Guest Arrangements Referencing Leaders
A narrative notes a couple's brief honeymoon trip through lakes and Montana with future home plans. Guests from Fay Oklahoma Fort Worth Texas and Pilot Mound Iowa are mentioned as greatly missing by hosts and friends wishing the newlyweds a long prosperous life. The passage includes a Civil War era poem urging liberty and support for soldiers.
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Montana
J.J. Wrench
Fay, Okla
Carson
Fort Worth
Texas
Anna Carson
Pilot Mound, Towa
Early Summer Drive Against the Cutworm
The article urges a garden pest campaign against cutworms in Ames during June. It notes the insects attack cabbage and cauliflower, hide by day, and crop under trash or grass. It recommends methods using cardboard cylinders and shingles to trap and kill worms.
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Ames
Towa
Henry Ford Buys Large Liberty Loan Bond Block
Henry Pord subscribed 5,000,000 to the liberty loan in Detroit as Secretary McAdoo spoke there. The report notes Ford’s substantial commitment amid wartime funding announcements and local business circles.
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Detroit
Mich
Henry Pord
Liberty Loan
Mc‘Adoo
Pershing 13 Strong on Every Detail
Washington reports Maj. Gen. John J. Pershing famed for meticulous inspections. He will command America’s first expeditionary forces in France and is described as a hound for detail who will know, at every moment, the exact state of men and equipment and ensure nothing is lacking.
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Washington
John J. Pershing
America
France
Pershing
Aviation Corps
Mexico
Atrocities of Germany in France Reported in Noyon
Senator Noel recounts to a German commander in Noyon how French civilians suffered. He named multiple atrocities including the beating and bayonetting of a child, as the Germans justified violence against “French blood and race.” The account cites a cruel demand for resistance details before destruction.
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Paris
Noyon
Noel
Andre Labot
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Minnie Stauffacher
Renwick
Ole Holkvam
Nagle Grove
P. Mathre
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C. L. Poland
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San Juan
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Walter Ambrose
Blatraburg
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Margaret Donovan
Misa Ella Stickney
Lane-Moore Lumber Company
Vinton
Edward E. Rineheimer
West Second Street
Oelwein
Ada Howland
Mildred Idso
Charles City
Mia. W. H. Snow
Moira Mickelson
Dorothy Wilams
Newton
Ming Willams
Misa Mickelson
Elsie Wiegert
Victorion Contatore
Palmer
Ruth Mertz
St. Paul Hospital
Harold N. Peterson
Currie, Miller & Boeyoe
A. F. Schrader
Gertrude Bauer
Waterloo Business College
Peterson
N. McAninch
Prospect Street
Levi Rasmussen
Fred Metcalf
Boone High School
Arthur Metcalf
J. W. Warden
Will A. Bauman
Bale Girls
Teed
Kathryn Stafford
Latimer Bros
Claude C. Johnson
Iowa State College
Iowa High Schools
BOY Scouts
Teed's
Teed & Teed
THE
Teed & Teed's
Edward Everett Tate
Henry Ford
of Liberty
Toad & Teed
Aiea
Pershing 13 Strong
Germany
Della Krueger
Star Laundry
Laura Brock
Tao's
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