Who Mailed Those Letters The Mutual Insurance Scare
Farmers faced mailings from Bedford aimed at discrediting Old Line insurers and promoting the Taylor County Mutual. Letters suggested losses on stock were paid at cash value with no policy limits and lower costs. Some residents feared a $4.95 collection while awaiting guidance from Receiver Frank Greeley who reassured the public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mutual Co
Taylor County
The
Mutual
Bedford
Abe Lincoln
Frank Greeley
Sec’y
Local notices and social items from Gravity and surroundings
A roundup of social calls, visits, and engagements across Gravity and nearby towns. Mentions include Alice Long, W. P. Savage and families, Miss E. May Ladd's return, Miss Britton’s M E church address, marriage licenses for Snyder and Robinson, Wilson and Gibson, and bequests of civic and church events. Also notes on farming, a local accident involving a Cubbage boy, and the death of Mrs. John C. Steeves in Clarinda, with service details and burial near Page Center.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice Long
Gravity
W. P. Savage
S. G. Savage
T. G. Stewart
W. H. Gooding
Vickery
E. May Ladd
Red Oak
R. M. Williams
Miss Britton
M. E
D. E. Snyder
Mary E. P. Robinson
Wray Wilson
Ohio
Mary Atkinson
Stillwater
Okl
M. Atkinson
Bedford
van Sickle
J.C. Beauchamp
Shenandoah
Bedford Telephone Company
W. E. Crum
Beauchamp
Idaho
R. W. Thompson
W. E. Thompson
Ruth Randolph
Chicago
Effa Ellis
Bedfor National Bank
H. R. Reynolds
J. M. Haddock
Winoa Rose
Willisea
H. M. Long
Waterloo
Cecile Long
Indianola
Ben Long
May Meek
C. A. Hall
John Sawyer
Crawfordsville
Ind
Sawyer
Oxford
Neb
Taylor County
Wm. Cubbage
Platteville
John C. Steeves
J. R. Knox
Clarinda
Bright
Steeves
Page County
Page Center
M. E. Church
Abel
Knox
Clarinda Democrat
Christian Conventon coverage and Iowa political notes
Elder G A Hendrickson travels to Des Moines for the Christian Churches convention. The Des Moines News outlines the Disciples of Christ as a large, evangelical body with Drake University as its leading institution, aiming for unity through the New Testament pattern. The article notes 500 delegates, labor ties to Cummins, Taft, and presidential considerations, plus a Mason township school term closing with a long community picnic and perfect attendance figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. A.hendrickson
Des Moines
Church of Christ
O. M. Pennock
Disciples of Christ
Christian Churches
United Sates
Canada
Iowa
Drake University
Churches of Christ
Thomas Campbell
Pennsylvania
Alexander
Rayeth
Apostolic Church
Black Belt
Capitol Hill
Mason Township
Ethel Kelso
Corolin Hutchinson
Esta Hutchinson
Anna Wells
Homer Cavender
A Family Reunion at Mrs Woolverton Home
A reunion held June 21 1908 at Mrs Mary C Woolverton’s Polk township home brought together eight children and sixteen grandchildren who surprised her with a gold watch. Sixty four people shared a dinner while Mrs Woolverton and late husband A J Woolverton began on the farm since 1874 with Brazil Indiana roots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary C. Woolverton
Polk Township
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einUs
Daniel Boone
F. N. Lewis
Amus. Com
C. D. Dresher
Jone Bros
Des Mones
Tonebros
Dr. A.’ Dealers
Dr. A.W. Chase Medicine Co
Buffalo,n
Batis
W. Chase
Bbbius
Christian Convention
Foley
H. B. Rhoads
Cummins
Northern Securities Company
Taft
Campainn
Dolliver
George RE. Roberts
Maurice D. O’connell
Treasury
Washington
Senate
Mason
Chas
Ely
Lenox
Ben H. Fuller
M. L. Burt
Hedford
Burt
Ler Olin
Rogers
Wests
Gem City Business
Quincy
Ill
Staton
Monty
D. E. Mubbelman
Ayer
Dandruff Aiyer
Cade
Sher
Speer
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