Pastor Vanishes After Loaned Parishioners $1,020
Centerville Iowa June 18. Reverend George P Badgley of Exline disappeared about two weeks after borrowing more than $1,000 from church members in small amounts. He had recently come from Muscatine to lead Exline Methodist church amid a tale of hardship. His wife and two children seek him as creditors and officials search for his whereabouts. He had planned to return to Muscatine but never did.
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Centerville
George P. Badgley
Exline
Exline Methodist Church
Iowa
Kentucky
Muscatine Church
Iowa Point
German Ambassador Survives Shot by Special Policeman
Count Johann von Bernstorff escaped death when a special policeman fired at his car near the University of Illinois campus in Champaign. The shot missed. Mayor Dobbin apologized and said the officer's commission would be revoked. A second item notes John Cleggit's death in Mason City, a famed Iowa lawyer and former gubernatorial and supreme court candidate.
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Champaign
Ill
Johann von Bernstorff
Germany
United States
University of Ilinois
Count von Bernstorff
Arthur Meeker
Chicago
Murphy
Meeker
Dobbin
Count Bernstorff
Mason City
John Cleggitt
Iowa
Supreme Court
West
Mississippi
Minnesota
Miss Ethel Virtue Honored For Service In Des Moines
Miss Ethel Virtue of this city received honors in Des Moines for addressing the Officers Club of Lady Maccabees on the History of Iowa and was elected secretary of the Library Club of Des Moines for the ensuing year. The club named several officers including librarians, a state library official, and a Drake University librarian among others. Webster City expresses pride in her accomplishments.
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Ethel Virtue
Des Moines
Iowa
Officers Club of
Lady Maccabees of
Library Club of
Drake University
State Library Commission
City Library
State Library
Des Moines College
Webster City
Baby born to Mr and Mrs Will C Bauer at Mercy Hospital
The Cradle Roll reports the birth of a baby son to Mr and Mrs Will C Bauer of Woolstock born on Tuesday at Mercy hospital. Mr Bauer formerly agent at the Northwestern passenger station in this city and now holds the same position in Woolstock. FOR SALE multiple farms and town lots around Fenton and Bancroft Iowa. Philip Weisbrod Fenton Iowa. WANTED young man with fair education to work in general store Box 72 Williams Iowa.
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Will C. Bauer
Woolstock
Mercy Hospital
Bauer
Northwestern
Fenton
Iowa
Bancroft
Philip Weisbrod
Williams
Notice to Contractors for Harmony Center School Work
Sealed bids due July 2 at 1 30 p m at Harmony Center school house for erection of a new building or remodeling of the old one in Webster township Hamilton County Iowa. Plans on file with county superintendent and District Secretary W A Biking Route 6 Webster City. Work to begin within five days of letting and be completed by September 1 1914. Board may reject any or all bids. W J Sharkey President of Board.
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Harmony Center
Webster Township
Hamilton County
Iowa
W. A. Biking
Route 6
Webster City
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Webster City Mercantile CO
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Ero
Dry Goods Dept
Lic
Nainsock—Athletic Union
Signal of
W. J. Sharkey, Pres
Ught Hart Schaffner & Marx
Hart Schaffner
Marx
England
Ireland
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