Horticulturists Conference Concludes in Oelwein
Northeastern Towa Horticultural Society wraps a two day session in Oelwein amid modest attendance. New officers named include President Earl Ferris Hampton and Vice President A LeFevre Earlville with C H True Edgewood as Secretary and G S Woodruff Independence as Treasurer. Directors listed I Johnson West Union E M Reyes Waverly R E McCrillis Hampton Chas F Gardner Osage Eugene Secor Forest City John Harter Decorah. Prizes awarded C C Lomen first for apples and second for seedling. John Harter second for best preserved apples in northern district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Towa Horticultural Society
Oelwein
Earl Ferris
Hampton
A. LeFevre
Earlville
C. H. True
Edgewood
G. S. Woodruff
Independence
I. Johnson
West Union
E. M. Reyes
Waverly
R. E. McCrillis
Chas
F. Gardner
Osage
Eugene Secor
Forest City
John Harter
Decorah
C. C. Lomen
Winter 1865 Ice Freeze Traps Ferries at McGregor
Mr. C W Walker recalls a November night when the Mississippi froze solid and stayed so until spring. Two large ferries and the War Eagle steamboat were stuck in the ice, forcing cross river travel to converge at McGregor. Walker, then a ticket agent, worked amid crowds from Iowa and the east crossing at McGregor due to lack of other ferries between Dubuque and La Crosse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McGregor Times
C. W. Walker
Mississippi
McGregor
Prairie du Chien
Walker
George Freeman
Iowa
Dubuque
la Crosse
Judge Reed to Remain Despite Retirement Rumors
The Dubuque Times reports rumors that Judge H. T. Reed of the United States court for the northern district might resign and retire on a pension at age seventy. Observers say no retirement is likely given his robust health and continued devotion to duties. retirement on full pay is not mandatory for federal jurists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. T. Reed
United States Court For
Northern District
Dubuque
Wells Fargo to give Thanksgiving turkeys to employees
The Messenger reports Wells Fargo Express will award a Thanksgiving turkey to every employee with six months service. A Texas committee is buying birds by the drove, promising two turkeys for Texas workers and one for the Messenger route between here and Calmar, plus a turkey for the Calmar connection with John Sanders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Messenger
Wells Fargo Express Company
Texas
Calmar
John Sanders
Coal shortage grips New Hampton as lights dim
Facing a coal famine, New Hampton grapples with a severe energy crisis. The electric plant can burn only forty hours of coal, with prospects of new shipments delayed. To stretch the supply, the city has begun dimming street lights and reducing loads at the plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Hampton
Electric Light Company
Osage Stone Proves Highly Valuable for Industry
Osage Stone company sent rock samples to Ames for analysis showing over 97 percent lime content. The material is in demand for sugar refining and fertilizer with about 50 carloads shipped this season to Wisconsin and Minnesota sugar refineries and roughly 600 cubic yards sold for roads and building projects.
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Osage Stone Company
Ames
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Harding Names His Secretary
Charles E. Witt editor of the Shell Rock News was named private secretary to governor elect W. L. Harding. Witt has edited the Shell Rock News for fifteen years and served as Shell Rock postmaster. He also worked with the national Republican committee in the last campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles E. Witt
Shell Rock News
W. L. Harding
Harding
Witt
Shell Rock
National Republican Committee
Neighbors and Notable Local News Items
The collection reports on regional events and incidents. Scrap shipments totaling $46,000 were sent from Oelwein by the Chicago Great Western last month. A barn fire on the Arthur Ward farm in Amherst township destroyed outbuildings and stock. The Strawberry Point Congregational church was dedicated recently. Mrs. Alfred Anderson near Boone died while feeding chickens. New Hartford high school suffered a total fire loss. Nassau’s oldest businessman M L Woodbridge injured in a knee-cap tear from a fall. Nashua dam workers’ bunkhouse and kitchen burned. H H Bucknam of McGregor injured in a fall from a roof. An Illinois Central rail wreck near Earlville spilled seven coal cars. Decorah post office has letters for several residents. A Cherokee jail inmate reported a pigeon mascot incident.
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Chicago Great Western
Oelwein
Arthur Ward
Amherst Township
Fayette County
New Hartford
Butler County
M. L. Woodbridge
Nassau
Nashua
H. H. Bucknam
McGregor
Earlville
Decorah
Russell DuBois
Buelah Haas
J. C. Miltimore
Dorothy Stead
Cherokee
F. J. Corbett
Blacklisted Towns Along the River Cited by Steamboat Blacklist
The Lansing Mirror reports that McGregor Prairie du Chien and Dubuque join Lansing on a steamboat blacklist. It blames launch owners and the steamboat company for the trouble and urges city action to land boats as in former years.
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Lansing
Father of Waters
McGregor
Prairie du Chien
Dubuque
Saved Her Three Children in Fiery Explosion
Mrs. Otto Schutte meyer saved her three children from an accidental dynamite explosion at their New Albia home last Friday evening. A dynamite stick left in a stove warming closet caught fire after she detected a peculiar odor. She evacuated the children as the blast shattered the kitchen end, broke windows and doors, with a fragment grazing a child’s head causing minor injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Albia
Otto Schuttemeyer
Re Districting in State. Eleventh District Leads
Politicians expect a reapportionment push after the recent election. The Eleventh District, led by George C. Scott, will have the most representatives in the lower house this year. The Eleventh district population reached 279,532 per the last state census, up 24,525 since the federal census five years earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George C. Scott
Eleet
United States
Fire destroys Union Black building at Spencer
A blaze starting from a defective flue gutted the Union Black two story brick in Spencer. The Larson Witte Grocery, G K variety and new dry goods stores on the first floor suffered stock loss while Dr Collister music studio and the Union Lodge hall were on the second. Water supply exhausted in an hour and Mason City sent chemical equipment. Loss estimated near $100000.
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Union Black
Spencer
Larson & Witte
G. & K. Variety Store
Dr. Collister
Conservatory of Music Studio
Union Lodge
Mason City
Minnesota farmers' elevator co op members and gains
One farmer out of every five in Minnesota is a shareholder in a farmers' elevator. Elevator firms show memberships of 600 500 400 and four with 300 to 400. Minnesota elevators did 24 million dollars in 1912 13 and 30 million last season.
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Minnesota
Farmers’ Elevator
Farmers’ Elevator Company
Farmers’ Elevators of
L. D. H. Weld
Fifty Years Ago Snow Covers All Regions And News
A six inch snow blanket covered the entire south on the 15th. The Russia to America cable nears completion. Nebraska appears set for statehood. The Masons host St John day festival at Tre mont House December 27. Robbery at Frankville nets $700. another $1000 book missing. Fort Atkinson fire consumes a home on the Square. Quail and pork markets show brisk activity with quoted prices.
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Russia
America
Nebraska
Masons
Tremont House
St. John’s Day
Woodward
Tremont Hotel
Tom Powers
Frankville
P. Lathrop
Fort Atkinson
Mr. Bradley
Best Baby Beef Feeder
Kenneth Freeman age 16 of Independence won first prize in Buchanan county Iowa for baby-beef feeding. The Iowa Beef Producers association and Iowa State College extension program sponsor a trip to the International Stock Show in Chicago. Freeman and 32 other winners will meet at Ames on December 3 and travel to Chicago for a week guided by E K Bishop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Independence Bulletin
Buchanan County
Ames
Kenneth Freeman
Independence
Iowa
Iowa Beef Producers’ Association
Agricultural Extension Department
Iowa State College
Chicago
Clay-Robison Company
Bishop
Husband and Wife Found Dead Near Crystal Lake
The bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Liefelt were found two miles south of Crystal Lake in Hancock County by railroad workers. The woman wore only underclothes and had been shot three times. the man had abdominal wounds. A shotgun hung on a fence nail suggests suicide by the trigger. The car used to transport them remained at the scene with the engine running.
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Melvin Liefelt
Crystal Lake
Hancock County
Klondyke
Twoman
Adamson Eight Hour Law Declared Void by Court
Kansas City November 22 Judge William C Hook held the Adamson eight hour law unconstitutional in the United States district court He directed the railroad receivers to aid government in expediting the case to the Supreme Court and to invite railroad representatives nationwide to attend hearings before the high court.
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Kansas City
William C. Hook
United States District Court
Hook
Missouri, Oklahoma & Gulf Railroad
Supreme Court of the United States
Hunter Captures Rare Golden Eagle Near Yellow River
Elmer McDowell bagged a seven foot golden eagle while hunting on Yellow river. He shot the bird breaking a wing and now keeps it at his Pleasant Ridge home if it does not escape. The bird is noted as very rare in the region.
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McGregor Times
Elmer McDowell
Yellow River
Elmer
Pleasant Ridge
Nightwatchman Involved Fatal Garage Fight
Ambrose Tucker of West Branch bled to death in an Iowa City hospital after a clash with Nightwatchman Lee Wing in a city garage. Wing knocked Tucker through a plate glass window severing an artery, and Tucker died from blood loss despite medical treatment.
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Ambrose Tucker
West Branch
Iowa City
Lee Wing
Wing
Tucker
Election Ballot Totals Reported for Allamakee and Fayette Counties
Allamakee County votes show 2363 Republican 1649 Democratic 7 Progressive 27 Socialist 8 Prohibition 2 Socialist Labor. Fayette County totals list 3776 Republican 1958 Democratic 4 Progressive 113 Socialist 32 Prohibition.
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Allamakee County
Fayette County
Puzzling Questions and Their Uneasy Answers
A proverb notes that a fool may ask many puzzling questions yet gains little from having them answered. The saying emphasizes the futility of questions without beneficial outcomes or action.
Has His Pocket Picked by Train Dip
H. M. Havner of Marengo Iowa attorney general elect of Iowa experiences a pickpocket on a Northwestern train east out of Ames after the Towa Ames football game. Havner was talking with friends when the thief worked his artful dip on the crowd.
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H. M. Havner
Marengo
Towa
Towa-Ames
Twin’s Cradle Fall Fatal Fear In Marshall County
A newborn twin suffered a skull fracture after falling from a cradle near Vancleve Marshall County. Local reports say it is feared the infant may not survive.
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F. W. Potheast
Vancleve
Marshall County
Teen James Ferrer Dies After Fall From Coach
James Ferrer age 16 died last Saturday after falling from a coach on the way from Town Mines at Waukon. His head was crushed and death occurred instantly.
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James Ferrer
Waukon
Fred Wood Wins Tama County Cattle Championship
Fred Wood of Buckingham claimed the Tama county cattle championship after shipping two cars of fat steers to Chicago. The 32 head shipment averaged 1,592 pounds and sold for 11.65 per hundredweight, equaling 182 per steer. Wood had bought the steers last fall for seven cents in his neighborhood.
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Fred Wood
Buckingham
Tama County
Chicago
Mr. Wood
Peculiar Accident Foils Railway Foreman In North McGregor
J. E. Gleason general foreman of the engineering department for the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul railway construction at North McGregor suffered a badly lacerated hand. A ring on his third finger caught on a door knob as he stepped down from a car tearing flesh from the bone. The ring had to be filed from the finger before medical care.
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J. E. Gleason
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
North McGregor
Men Drink to Forget, Few Forget to Drink
A pithy adage notes that many men use drink to dull memory but few remember to stop. The line captures a wry caution about alcohol use and its consequences.
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