Dear Prayer Meeting Nears as Community Gathers
A cryptic OCR fragment references a prayer meeting event with community involvement. Names and places are unclear, but the notice points to a local gathering to discuss or observe a designated occasion.
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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1902
Page
4
A cryptic OCR fragment references a prayer meeting event with community involvement. Names and places are unclear, but the notice points to a local gathering to discuss or observe a designated occasion.
Regular communications of Fidelity Lodge No 39 AF and AM are held in Masonic Hall Austin Minnesota on the first and third Wednesday evenings each month. Officers listed include John H Anderson Worshipful Master and Parke Goodwin Secretary.
Von Dusko Camp and W A No 43 hold Wednesday evening gatherings in Woodman Hall. Wm Cutter serves as Vice Commander and Ed Sterling as Clerk.
Cedar Camp No 205 R N A meets on the second and fourth Mondays in the Woodman hall Mrs Mattie Fairbanks Oracle and Anna B Roble serve as recorder in the ordnance?
The entry notes a Model Camp gathering at Woodman Hall on Tuesdays with participants including Mrs Beatrice Foster Uncle and Mrs Etta Hommel. Fragments indicate a connection to R N A or Istana events and a meeting led by or involving Mrs Foster.
St Bernard Commandery No 13 holds its monthly meeting on the first Monday evening in the Masonic hall with Geo W E Parke Goodwin serving as recorder.
The Royal Arch Chapter No 14 meets at the Masonic hall in Austin Minnesota on the second and fourth Friday evenings. R L Johnson MEH P signs off as Parke Good wins. Secretary.
Austin Council No. 53 meets on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month at 8 p m in Woodman hall. Visiting neighbors welcome. T. H. Pridhan, Good Samaritan, J.5 HK. Boo vell, Fin. Scribe.
Post No 66 GAR announces regular meetings on the first and third Saturday evenings each month. Comrades are invited to attend. John Robertson serves as Commander.
Outlaws attacked a Chinatown settlement of Chinese placer miners in Malheur country Oregon. They set fire to twenty two houses as residents fled with money and valuables, then were robbed. It is unclear if anyone died in the incident reported from Boise Idaho dated August 13.
Austin lodge No 32 A O U W meets on the second and fourth Thursdays each month at the new Ellis ball on Main street. John Rustad M W and O H Harris Recorder.
Austin Lodge No K of P meets on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month. Visiting Knights welcome. John F Cook, C C. W J Urbatch. F o aris listed.
Austin Lodge No 414 BPO Elks holds meetings on the second and fourth Friday evenings at the new Elks hall on Main Street. Visiting Elks are invited to attend. Exalted Ruler A. L. Campbell and Secretary 8 S Washourn listed.
Chicago officers Timothy Devine and Charles Pennell were killed in a dawn gun battle near Jackson boulevard and Astiand avenue. Six men were taken into custody as detectives chase a wounded suspect seen by druggist George Pulford, who reported two men fleeing the scene.
Sheriff Solon of Woodland Wisconsin reports the arrest of Albert Ullman father of Ida Ullman after he confessed to shooting her in an ambush near Neosho on August 3. Ullman falsely traveled to Oconomowoc then returned home with his team, raising neighbors' suspicions and leading to custody in the county jail.
A plot to destroy the Adams county infirmary and kill 44 inmates was exposed in Decatur Illinois. State charity secretary A W Butler found sixty pounds of dynamite two two pound bombs and 115 feet of fuse buried under rubbish in Charles Echerman’s room. Echerman, an infirmary inmate, fled after the discovery.
The Italian steamship Citta di Milano arrives Genoa reporting that an anarchist named Sganza of New York committed suicide by jumping overboard off Gibraltar while the vessel sailed from New York on July 22.
An electric car on the Detroit Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor line derailed three-quarters of a mile outside the city, landing in a ditch. Twenty passengers were aboard. ten sustained cuts and bruises in the accident.
President Roosevelt likely to call the senate to an extraordinary session soon after the November elections to act on Cuban reciprocity. A treaty is prepared and awaits only signatures, with the timing aimed at post election action to ease political opposition.
E Benjamin Andrews chancellor of the University of Nebraska declares American divorce laws harsh and dangerous to families. He warns against hasty and early marriages and says divorce spreads social harm and injures children, urging reform and caution in marriage intentions.
In Edmore North Dakota George Pelke a blind pigger was killed and Carl Okel son a Cavalier county farmer aged sixty five was fatally wounded after a quarrel between them Pelke shot Okel son Hanson deputy sheriff entered Pelkes home with command to surrender Pelke shot Hanson and Pelke was shot dying half an hour later
One hundred members of the Minnesota Editorial association begin a tour visiting Duluth Isle Royale the American Soo Mackinac Island Port Huron Sarnia and the Clergue syndicate plant at the Canadian Soo. They will also visit Two Harbors Ely Fayal mine Virginia and Eveleth.
Five prisoners escaped Tombstone jail early this morning. Among them is Guillermo Romero convicted of murder and awaiting hanging on the 15th. He has an appeal in the supreme court pending. The inmates forced the large iron doors open.
A Marinette Wisconsin dispatch cites a regents board member saying Professor C R Van Hise, head of the geology department, will be chosen to succeed the late Dr Charles Kendall Adams as president of the University.
The Peter Power merger suit proceedings in New York hear testimony from George A. Lamps and Dan Weidenfeld as questions probe Power’s role and payments. Defence counsel questions indicate Power’s contributions and alleged actions while witnesses deny direct knowledge of certain dealings with Northern Pacific and related parties.
Minneapolis August 1—Sorbi er of Police Ames was arrested before Judge Pond on two indictments accusing him of conspiracy. One indictment names Mayor A. Ames, Christopher Norbeck, and Irwin A. Gardner with the chief. The other accuses him of conspiring with Joseph Cohen.
Chicago officials report charges linked to fictitious trades at a firm discussed by Edwards of St. Paul. The board reviews the case as investigations seek to clear outstanding charges and determine financial missteps.
The text reports James H. Davidson being renominated for representative in the Eighth Wisconsin district by the Republican convention. It also notes a jealous shooting in Lone Elm Arkansas where Manso Huggins killed his wife and then took his own life.
In American Association play at Louisville Kansasity beat Toledo 8 to 1 and St Paul defeated Indianapolis 4 to 2 while Minnesota won at Columbus 2 to 0. In American League games Cleveland routed Baltimore 6 to 1 and in National League Boston defeated Pittsburgh 11 to 1 while New York beat Cincinnati 3 to 2. Brooklyn posted a 5 to 3 win over Chicago and Philadelphia topped St Louis 9 to 12.
In Minneapolis on August twelve wheat Sept at 65 and Dec at 64 percent. Market notes show Track No. 1 hard at 77 percent, No. 1 Northern at 75 3/4, No. 2 Northern at 75 1/4 percent.
Sioux City la August 12 cattle beeves sell from 5.50 to 7.50 cows and bars and mixed 2.50 to 5.00 stockers and feeders 2.75 to 5.00 calves and yearlings 2.60 to 4.00 Hogs 3654 head market value not fully listed.
Duluth grain notes Aug 12 show cash wheat prices for No 1 hard at 74 cents and No 1 Northern at 71 and half, No 2 Northern 70.5 cents, spring 67.5 cents. Futures bids listed for Sept 67.5 cents, Dec 66.5 cents. Flax cash at 1.45 dollars.
St Paul Union Stock Yards reported August 12 prices for cattle and calves. Butcher steers brought around 6000 dollars, butcher cows and heifers ranged, veals in the 4 to 6 dollar range, good to choice hogs and sheer goods noted with specific per unit values.
Chicago market brief lists steers priced at 8.00 per drum, cows and hogs with various quotes, sheep and lamb values, and salt bulk notes. Prices shown include $8.00 for prime steers, $4.50 for seven head of rocket ers, $2.50 and $1.50 for other cattle, hogs and mixed lots, plus lambs from $3.50 to $6.25.
Chicago prices for corn oats and oats futures show Sept and Dec contracts at various fractions and percentages. Butter creamery and egg markets listed with creameries at 15 to 18 cents, turkeys quoted around 11 to 13 cents.
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