Neighborhood Echoes at Butler Meetings and Local Notes
Ballard notes a neighborhood turnout at Butler teachers meetings with a positive report. T. D. Embree and wife visited D. Teeter. C. B. Chambers and family planned a Lamar Colorado trip. Van Sant moves to M. J. Crow’s place for next year. M. W. Andersons spent Thanksgiving in Montrose. John Owens, mail carrier on Altona route 1, died in Kansas City. A. D. Brixser bought horses at Sniff sale. Jeasse Bailey hosted classmates during vacation. A literary society forms, with hope neighbors support. Christmas soon. concerns about a possible panic and shopping challenges.
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Vers van Sant
M. J. Crow Pace
M. W. Anderson
Montrose
John Owens
Kansas City
Bis
A. D. Brixser
Mise Jeasse Bailey
Aged German Farmer Takes Poison Near Clinton
Henry Co Democrat reports Chiia Volckman an aged German farmer living four miles southwest of Clinton ended his life Tuesday afternoon by taking carbolic acid. His daughter was in Clinton and his sons worked in the field. About 2 pm a son and a neighbor found him lifeless. a cup with the poison lay nearby. He was about 80, despondent after his wife’s death. An honest, industrious man with grieving children.
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Chiia Volckman
Clinton
Thanksgiving on the Wheaton farm barn noted
The report notes limited Thanksgiving observance in the area with work continuing and the Wheaton farm barn highlighted as a local improvement while John Beckham rents a farm and discussion hints Farmers Institute could be more appealing with broader news exposure.
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Wheaton Farm
John Beckham
C.D. Ee
Farmers Institute
Council Cuts Hydrant Rentals Under New Public Utility Law
At a city council meeting last night an ordinance reduced hydrant rentals from about 4500 to 1500 annually. Passed under the 1907 session acts empowering mayors and councils to fix maximum water rates. The measure cites reports by H. L. Hunter and Wm. Godwin and Engineer Burns on company finances and plant value as a basis for rates. The current rates are deemed exorbitant and arbitrary.
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H. L. Hunter
Wm. Godwin
Burns
Sixty Miners Entombed in Pennsylvanian Mine Blast
Between fifty and sixty miners are entombed at the Naomi mine in Fayette City, Monongahela, after an explosion of black damp. Rescue efforts are hindered by rock and coal blocks at the entrance. The blast reportedly occurred when a miner with an open lamp entered an old working.
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Monongahela
Naomi
United Mine Coal Company
Fayette City
Neighborhood Hunt Near Peru Nets Rabbits and Quail
Thanksgiving day hunting party in Peru neighborhood fires from dawn to dusk, killing about four hundred rabbits and one hundred quail for Carpenter and Shafer. Evening oyster supper at Mr. and Mrs. J J McKee home fed one hundred plates with hunters and families, sharing stories to be remembered.
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Peru
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Ladies Cloaks
Pet
Ciic
Kim
Ulster
Sam Levy
Merc. Co
Ballard Notes
Butler
T. D. Embree
D. Teeter
C. B. Chambers
Lamar
Colorado
Henry Co
West Side
Riley & Son
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