Hopkins journal notes oddities and local changes
The Hopkins journal covers peculiar local items from Clarinda to Hopkins, noting a calf lacking an eye pollution, a three week old lively animal, power-franchise turbulence with Maryville, Billy Miles leaving his barber shop for a penitentiary appointment, political chatter on a new warden, and humorous anecdotes about a dog fight, flying machine spectators, auto horn use for herding cattle, and Blue Sky Law battles in Nebraska. It also reports Taft delivering the Gettysburg Fourth, Minnesota hunters fined for misidentifying a Miss Moore as a moose, and a Burlington mule tale about expense-cutting and a stubborn, blind, 26 year old beast.
Mules, illness, harvests and creekside notes in June era
Rilroid returns the original order. the mule is tied to court action and a livery keeper demands board. Mrs. John Godfrey falls ill with appendicitis and is operated on in Creston. W J O’Brien calls for 19,000 harvest hands at 2.50 a day to pick wheat. Missouri and Kansas cooperate on harvest labor. alfalfa fields near Mason City yield 2 1 2 to 3 tons per acre with three cuts anticipated. A French aviator’s Paris to St Petersburg flight proves the era’s aviation promise. A gun tote law will ban weapons for under 16. Local business sales and merging, church services for old folks, and civic projects fill the towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. J. O'Brien
Kansas
Fitzpatrick
Missouri
Bedford Gazette Reports Prohibition Debates and Local News
Thirty one years ago in Bedford the town hears lectures on the prohibition amendment. Officials approve bonds for local officers. A circus brings large crowds, with one drunkard noted. Several land sales, store changes, and a greenback convention visit are recorded. Births and marriages are listed alongside civic notices and preparations for Independence Day events.
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Johnson & King
Mason Township
William Meikle
Bedford
Whittington
Fair Grounds
John S. Courtright
Jefferson Township
Milton S. Fora
Thomas Potter
Abar
Platteville
Shambaugh
Taylor County
John W. Tate
Chicago
William Webb
Messrs
J. L. Brown
G. M. Bradley
Harvilla Bailey
Joe F. Fluke
Des Moines
Joseph Smith
Buchanan
H.H. Taylor
Thomas
Mary Maxwell
Albert
Sarah Chappell
Simeon
Lucinda Butts
A. L
Louisa H. Fowler
G. W
Addie J. Dean
J. B
Sadie Wallace
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