Lewis News Notes Travel and Local Socials
June items report Mr and Mrs Ralph Case and son departing for a California exposition in their Ford with Mrs John Morton and Mr and Mrs Theo Krause joining to Omaha. A Sunday ball drew a crowd but limited by Clarke. Clarkesville social detail notes Woolward Maffitt Davis Harris with Beulah Haworth of Oakland. William and John Zike acted as chaperons. The Rock Island paint gang is mentioned.
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Lewis
Ralph Case
Exposition
California
Ford
John Morton
Theo, Krause
Omaha
Clarke
Ign
Crystal Lake Diamond
Trent
Okel & Weaver
Fred Sherer
Coleridge
Neb
Calbert Marker
Phillips
Atlantic
Chas. Smith
Sioux Falls
S. D
John
Harlow Caton
Grain Street
Wilbur Albright
E. E. McDonald
Fontanelle
Pauline Ross
Oelwein
Ted Battersby
Maxwell
Lewis Boy Scouts
Walter Burnside
B. Diven
Larkin Club
Carl Camp
Ernest Multhaup
Red Leak
Miss Ruth Camp
Harlan
E. Tash
Carson
Clare Jones
W. H. Parks
Main Street
Lucy Harris
Sioux City
Hugh Wilson
Lewis Painter
Winterset
Herman Grulke
Chas. Brown
F. J. Macomber
Painting the depot adds to the town building
Local notes report painting the depot this week improves the building’s appearance. The column lists residents and events including purchases, travel, visits, and social gatherings. Notables include Will Zike Ira Smart two coons from Geo Keffer. Franks house struck by lightning with no injuries. various visits and excursions. new plate glass at Okel Weaver. and health update on Calbert Marker.
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Will Zike
Ira Smart
Aving
Geo. Keffer
Mr. Keffer
Chas. Franks
Bear Grove
Ladies Aid Society
Huston
Norways Day at Exposition Features Luther College Band
At the Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco on Norway Day June 3 the Luther College band of Decorah Iowa shared top billing with the Pacific coast Norwegian Singers. Roowans and former Iowans appeared in official roles while the band supported the elaborate ceremonies during the western tour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Cal
Luther College
Decorah
Iowa
United Norwegian Singers of
Pacific Coast
Relief brochure offers Triumph Pills through Milwaukee institute
An advertisement urges ladies to request relief for irregular or delayed Triumph pill use through the National Medical Institute in Milwaukee Wisconsin. It warns against experimenting with other remedies and claims relief is free. A separate note promotes Home Bakery bread and paper hanging painting services with a garbled phone listing.
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National Medical Institute
Milwaukee
Wis
Coal and dental services advertised in Green Bay notice
You can always buy good coal at the Green Bay Lumber Co. sy Dr. J. T. Halston, Dentist, Fulton building: Phone Green 48.
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Green Bay Lumber Co
Fulton Building
Owens Pleads Guilty to Forgery and Gets Ten Years
Council Bluffs Iowa June 12 Alfred Crosby Owens a claimed navy lieutenant and English title holder was sentenced to ten years in Fort Madison penitentiary after pleading guilty to forgery He sought the sentence as a chance to break his drinking habit and thanked the court for the long term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Owens
Council Bluffs
Alfred Crosby Owens
United States Navy
Episcopal Church
Aberdeen
Scotland
Fort Madison
Hadley
Hia
OWA Wins Grand Prize at Frisco Fair Agriculture Exhibit
San Francisco June 12 Iowa won the grand prize for the state agricultural exhibit at the Panama Pacific exposition. Of 289 Iowa exhibitors, all but four received prizes or honorable mention. Individual winners earned two medals of honor thirteen gold medals eighty five silver medals 161 bronze medals and twenty four honorable mentions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Iowa
Widow Accepts 5500 in Shenandoah bridge case
Settlement approved by Fremont and Page counties with Mrs. Ella Johnson administratrix of her husband’s estate for a fatal bridge accident on March 10, 1914. Widow to receive 5600 with counties paying court costs. Johnson to repay 3700 to Commerce National Bank Essex. Separate items note Admiral Fullam seeking counsel for naval inquiry. A stranger killed by a train in Council Bluffs with a tattooed woman’s head on his forearm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shenandoah
District Court
Fremont
Page
Ella Johnson
Fullam Aska
Annapolis
Admiral Fullam
Naval Academy
Court of Inquiry
Council Bluffs
Rock Island
Chautauqua Switch
Resolutions Denounce War by Washington Odd Fellows
A Washington grand lodge of Odd Fellows adopts strong antiwar resolutions. The rest of the dispatch notes a series of disasters and events including a dynamite explosion wrecking the Butte Socialist plant, severe Kansas River flooding, quarantined Cincinnati yards, and a foot and mouth disease finding in Baltimore hogs. Refugees from Mexico City reach Vera Cruz aboard a special train under U S and British consular oversight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows
Butte
W. HB. Chapman
Benjamin. Schull
Longacre-Chapman
Joplin
Mexico City
Vera Cruz
Arnold Shanklin
John 8. Hutchison
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Co, Philadelphis
Central Iowa Poultry& Egg Co
Kimballton
Joyce Lumber Co
Otto Gans
Zaneaville Ohio
Chamberlain
Norway
Magarrel Bros
Hamilton
Eggers Bros
GOURT
Sentenge
OWA
Hawkeye State
Fremont and
Page Counties
Chant
Vertising
Umns
Tises
Mail Order House
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