Cummins Nominated for Governor at Cedar Rapids Convention
At the Republican state convention in Cedar Rapids J Herriott was named for lieutenant governor and A B Cummins of Des Moines won the governorship on the first ballot with a large majority. John Herriott Stuart S M Weaver E O Brown Richard C Barrett named to top statewide posts. The Patriot calls for unity and a solid victory for the ticket.
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Cedar Rapids
A. B. Cummins
Des Moines
John Herriot
Stuart
S.M. Weaver
Iowa Falls
E. O. Brown
Sheldon
Richard C. Barrett
Osage
Iowa
the Patriot
Chariton Man Praised as Drum Major Smith Joins Keokuk Band
The Gate City reports W. R. Smith of Chariton arrived and assumed command of Keokuk's band. Described as a great drill master the drum major impressed with military bearing and marching to the depot. The piece hopes Smith will relocate to Keokuk to strengthen the band’s national standing.
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Chariton
Keokuk
W. BR. Beet
Drom
W. R. Smith
Smith
Mr. Smith
Unclaimed Letters List for Week Ending August 3 1901
Post office records unclaimed letters include Mrs Tina Long F B Jemison Mrs Armine Gooden B R Smith Jno Ryan Geo R Schneers Esq RH Vierce John W Wilson Esq L F Maple P M.
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Tina Long
F. B. Jemison
Armine Gooden
B.R. Smith
Jno. Ryan
Geo. R. Schneers
RH. Vierce
John W. Wilson
L. F. Maple, P. M
Estate of Saies on filed for final report approval
John A. Anderson administrator to the estate of Saies on September 0, 1901, files with the Clerk of the District Court his final report for approval and seeks court action.
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Ag Pga
John A. Andergo
District Court
Saies
John A. ‘Anderson
Eva May Graves and George C Blake Wed in Quiet Home Ceremony
A quiet but beautiful wedding united Eva May Graves and George Clarence Blake on August 7 1901 at 8 oclock at Mrs Elsie Graves West Braden Ave Rev W V Whitten officiated with relatives present. The bride wore white silk muslin and roses, maid of honor Miss Margaret Beem wore red silk, best man Ed Culbertson, guests enjoyed refreshments and the couple will reside on West Armory Ave. Both are active in local social circles with Miss Graves formerly in a millinery shop and Blake in banking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elsie Graves
West Braden Ave
Eva May
Graves
George Clarence Blake
W. V. Whitten
Episcopal Church
Nellie W. Clow
Margaret Beem
Ed Culbertson
Miss Beem
Mrs. Blake
West Armory Ave
A. Goldsberry
First National Bank
Blake
Entre Nous Club
Noxall Club
City officials head to Cedar Rapids for Brigade Meeting
Col. M. M. Perry Maj. C. T. Brant Capt. C. B. Frose and others will leave next Saturday for Cedar Rapids to attend the Brigade Meeting Uniform Bank and the Grand Lodge of the Knights of Pythias. Twenty seven companies will be in attendance reviewed by Maj. Gen. Carnahan Brigadier Gen. Manchester and Supreme Chancellor Feathers. One large picture with every dozen photos for two dollars at Smith's.
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Col. M. M. Perry
Maj
C.T. Brant
Capt
C. B. Frose
R. A. Gray
O. A. Hoagland
Bert Smith
J. R. Clouse
Laurel Ross
Chas. Mauk
George Beagley
Carnahan
J. C. Manchester
Feathers
Normal Institute Opens With Elite Teaching Staff
The Lucas County Normal Institute began at the new high school building with a strong corps of instructors led by Prof. O. F. Goltry. Supts Chevalier Hayden Bell and others bring years of experience, and devotion to orderly, productive sessions. Devotional exercises and daily programs feature music, physics classes, and primary instruction, with a long list of enrolled teachers arranged by districts and grades.
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Lucas County Normal Institute
O. F. Goltry
W F Chevalier
Muscatine
H B Hayden
Rock Island
William Bell
Creston
H A Glackmeyer
Russell
Charles Murray
Tingley
Carne
Linn
Orient
Della Courtleyow
Chariton
Supt. Goltry
Bell
Chevalier
Hayden
America
Unclear Names in Derry and Lacona Local Mentions
Fragmentary OCR lists many personal names including Dora Davis Qacar Smith Elfleta Sureve Hattie Turner Frank Gibbs Adda McManns Carrie Elliot Lucas Catherine Spencer Nelle Hunter Willa Chalder Eugene Swanson Nettie West Georgia McDowell Bert Bingaman Athel Kneel Mattie Long Ada Phrimmer and places Lacona Newhern Columbia Melrose Norwood. The text appears as scattered names and place headings without cohesive event details.
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Lucas, Catherine Spencer
Nelle
Hunter Olmitz
Willa Chalder
Eugene Swanson
Company H Grows in Good Standing at Encampment
Captain L A Hasselquist reports Co H members show rising interest and discipline after encampment. They plan rifle practice at a town range and will contest inspection next winter. The unit is trusted to roam town honorably at night and a piano may be installed in the armory for bell bar drills with music.
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L. A. Hasselquist
Co. H
Arill
Hasselquist
Chariton
Lucas County
Miss Anna Lyman Resigns Teaching Post in Local Schools
Miss Anna Lyman, a successful public school teacher, has submitted resignation to the school board, which is pending due to Mr. Manning's absence. After a year of illness her physician advised a Los Angeles summer, and her health has improved enough to consider staying if the resignation is accepted.
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Anna Lyman
Manning
Miss Lyman
Los Angeles
California
Misa‘Lyman
Mrs. J. O. Becker Surprised at Home Gathering
About thirty members of the W. B. C. visited Mrs. J. O Becker in Orchard Addition last Friday evening to surprise her. They brought refreshments and presented a lodge emblem pin as thanks for her faithful lodge work. Mrs. Becker expressed heartfelt thanks amid a pleasant gathering.
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W. BR. C
J. O Becker
Orchard Addition
W. O. Parmenter
Oldest Protestant Church in the United States
William E. Curtis notes St. Luke's Church in Smithfield Virginia as the nation’s oldest Protestant house of worship, built in 1632 and rebuilt in 1894 to its original form. The English Gothic structure features mullioned windows and a tall tower and has housed services for two and a half centuries. the James Town island church site with Pocahontas’ baptism and marriage has mostly vanished except for an ivy clad brick tower.
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United States
St. Luke's
Smithfield
William E. Curtis
Chicago Record-Herald
Jamestown Island
North America
John Smith
Poca‘bontas
Coles Family Reunion Ends With Tender Tokens
A large Coles family gathering at Wilberforce Coles home included H B Alcorn and family from Chicago, R W Coles and kin from Chariton, C B Coles from Omaha, and T A Coles from Marshall. Children gifted W Coles a gold headed cane and their mother gold rimmed spectacles, as Mr Coles expressed gratitude for the thoughtful tokens amid his increasing frailty.
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Wilberforce Coles
H. B. Alcorn
Ethel May
G. C. Coles
Chicago
Illinois
R. W. Coles
Thomas Wilbur
Jay Coles
Byron Burdette Coles
Chariton
C. B. Coles
Omaha
Neb. T. A. Coles Marshall
Texas
W. Coles
Property transfers listed for week ending Aug 3
The notice details multiple land transfers including Sarah C Hellen and husband to W A Day for 100 acres in Lincoln Cedar. Belle D West and husband to W A Susan Day for 100 acres in Lincoln Cedar. Umbenhower to JO Umbenhower for 90 acres in Pleasant. W J Hughes to Cleveland Coal Co for 5.30 acres in Jackson. David Crowley to H O Penick for 300 acres in Cedar. Chariton Cemetery lot transfer. John et al to S A Whitcomb for 1 lot in Johnstown. LBS and WE Hanks to S A Whitcomb for land in Jackson. Fred M Waynick et al to Anna W Dent for land in Chariton.
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Sarah C Hellen
Lincoln
Cedar
Elizabeth J Paine
Belle D West
Susan
A Umbenhower
JO Umbenhower
Pleasant
J Hughes
Cleveland Coal Co
Jackson
David Crowley
H O Penick
Chariton
Coto
William T
Smoke No 7 Cigar Tops Six Cent Goods on Market
A brief note highlighting Smoke No 7 Cigar as the best value among six cent goods, praised for quality and price within the market.
Crop Bulletin Reports Mixed Corn Prospects in Iowa
Des Moines August 5 1901 crop bulletin notes weekly temperatures 1 to 6 degrees above normal with a 12 degree drop from last week. Cooler humid weather and July rains improved drought conditions though light rainfall hurt some areas. Corn conditions vary with early planted corn damaged for grain but fodder available. late corn tassels healthy with uncertain merchantable yield depending on weather through September. Threshing returns look encouraging and pastures improve but more rain is needed.
Earl Lewis Wins Grocers Criterion Essay Prize
In December 1900 the Grocers' Criterion published in Chicago offered a prize to U S grocery clerks for best essay on starting a business and advertising. Over 1000 essays were submitted with Erle E. Lewis of Chicago winning first prize, a handsome open face watch, a fact he publicizes proudly.
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Grocers’ Criterion
Chicago
United States
Erle E. Lewis
The Only Guaranteed Kidney Cure Claim by Smith’s Cure
An advertisement markets Smith’s Sure Kidney Cure claiming a guaranteed result with a refund from O. R. Kirk if one bottle proves unsatisfactory. The product is offered at 50 cents and promises complete satisfaction.
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Smith
O. R. Kirk
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M. Sheuerman & Bro
West Side, Chariton, Iowa
Cummins
J. Herriott
PHAT
Trojan
Gedar Rapids
Smith's
Normal Institute
Laura Simpson
Alice Powell
Tutu McMasters
Rose Wilson
Maude Throckmorton
Tessie M. Courter
Ella Nelson
Ora Criswell
Alice KE Watts
P Harriett Stanley
Susie H Hupp
Jessie Coppenhaffer
Elinore P Cowan
Ellda Brownlee
Tessie Douglass
Nellie Hanlin
Carrie Kull Savilla Mc Dowell Russehll
Mary Patterson
Sadle Pyle
Flota Davis
Ada B
Baugh
Leona Howard Bertha Keene
Lida R. Johnston
Olle Cain
Nancy Bingham
Louise Moore
Gertrude Welch
Jennie Law
Ira Baldwin
Ina Plympton
Ethel Paine
Olive M. James
Alfice M. Stinson
Ina B. Crdston
Retta F. Clark
Lucas
Mary C. Welch
Derby I
Gertrude Brown
Norwood
B. Grade
Myrtle Eastmen
Ida Patterson
Daisy C. Trimmer
Winifred Hunsucker
Addie Manninglla
M. Myers Regia Talbott
Flora A. Tool
Margaret Gay
Anna Criswell
Bessie Mongar
Anna Rickey
Edith Ashby
Maggie Flemming
Amanda Mc8nuggs
Mary C. Evans
Alice Roddy
Olive J. Roddy Russell
Maud Foster
Pearl Goltry
Elsie Curtis
Grace Evans
Lucretia McKinley
Grace Prather Olmitz
Lida McMannis
Victoria Swanson
M. Herring
Elsie Turner
Josie Barger
Francis B. Foxal
Sylvia _Krutesinger
Leota Tica
Newbern
D. Grade
Chas, E. Hamilton
Sarah White
Blanche Willoughby
Mary Andrew Hattie Gookin
Lulu Brennaman
Cyntha Miller
Bertha Williamson
Ethel Smyth
Clara J. Hose
Jessie Clapp
Agnes Wilson
Blanche Mitchell
Minnie Myers
Rena Criswell
Myrtle Nobile Guasie Lienen
Agnes Bejler
Mable Lyman Nettie Award
Nettle L. Tuttle
Goodle Wards
Edward Kimball
Boston
Mount Vernon
D. L. Moody
Chicago Tribune
Union Park
Immanuel Baptist Church of
Robinson
Presbyterian Church of
New York City
Kimbatt
Dora Davis
Qacar Smith
Elfleta Sureve
Hattie Turner Derry
Frank Gibbs
Adda, McManns
Carrie Elliot
Nettie West
Georgia McDowell
Bert Bingaman
Athel
Mattie Long
Ada Phrimmer
Lacona
Columbia
Melrose
Balinda
J. O. Becker
Hanan
Hollinger & Larimer
Clothiers
Coles Family Reunion
Crop Bulletin
Earl Lewis
Eikenberry & CO
Phoenix Mills
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