Fayette County Tid-Bits Highlights From Local School News
GOONTY MEWS COMPLETE Fayette County tid bits note Oelwein school values 900 and Decorah 900. Boilermakers strike settled at Oelwein workers earn 1.85 daily. Third Iowa Infantry reunion at West Union names Talmadge secretary. Carnegie donation to Upper Iowa University for steel book stacks. Three pickpockets on Rock Island train sentenced to ten years hard labor at West Union. Miss Tryphe Lewis and Rose Wander enter school to resume study. Visitors include Mrs Halverson and Dr Rennison. High School adds a new room. pupils and teachers praise it. Intermediate pupils win top honors at Fayette County Fair. School opens Sept with enrollment High School 20 Grammar 423 Intermediate 48 Primary 51. Teachers invite all to visit and encourage work.
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Rock Island
Oelwein
Randalia
West Union
Tryphe Lewis
Rose Wander
Albert Halverson
Halverson
Rennison
Second
Bern
Fayette County Fair
Snake hunt ends with fifty two killed on Pleasant Peak
Last Sunday forenoon Joseph Bura and Frank Stupanek of Great Central Tobacco Works killed fifty two snakes on Pleasant Peak. They wielded stout clubs and counted the corpses after a mass of rattlers lay in a patch of ground. Snakes measured up to five feet long.
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Joseph Buraiinek
Frank Stupanek
Central Tobacco Works
Death of Peter Lehman at Sutter mill in Elgin
Peter Lehman, longtime Elgin resident born in Switzerland, died Friday September 26 1902 after a belt incident at Sutter saw mill. He was 62 and survived by four children from his second marriage to Mary Moser. his first wife Mary Miller had predeceased him. Funeral held at German Baptist church with Rev J Huck officiating. The Lehman family notes a long local presence and communal sympathy.
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Peter Lehman
Digin
Sutter
Petar Lehman
Canton Bern
Switzerland
Fayette County
Elgin
Mary Miller
Junion
Lehman
Mary Moser
Ring Brothers
Bilgin
Neffre
German Baptist Church
BR. J. Huck
Elgin Cemetery
Abstracts of weekending Sept 18 190%
Abstracts prepared by J W Ainsworth for Eastman to Tompkins and others cover transfers across Iowa towns. Listings include parcels in Draper, Grand View, West Union, Maynard, Oolwein and Union additions with values from 50 to 2050 dollars and multiple ne and sw quads. Names include Eastman, Tompkins, Draper, War ner, Morse, Bengfort, Draper, Jacoby, Heinze, Van Syckle, Badger, Kemp, Kinidtson, Walton, Frost, Benson, Richmond, and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eastman
J Harry Tompkins
HJ Robbins
Julian Robbing
Tee Phebe
Draper
Wm H Warner
Ace Webster
Ulrick Baik N Sa
John Wenthold
Phebe
Draper Sane
Margaret Badger
William V White
Maynard
Humphrey
Fred A Kemp
Biel
D& W
Eeiecee
Halvor Kinidtson
Walton Land
Eigin
Emery Frost
Manry
Bensonite
Richmond
Frances
Union
Oolwein
Ccc
Cheeseseas
Crestau Firesman Dies in Rush to Scene and Other Local News
A Cresco fireman aged 28 died while racing to the scene from heart disease. A widow fund of 160 was raised. Frank Wither of Lansing lost sight after an ax struck his eye while splitting pine. A town ballot will include four parties Republican Democratic Socialist and Prohibition. Fred Boxleiter Jr of Dubuque was killed by a Great Western train. fourteen cars passed over him. Frank Marburger died after a quarrel and kick caused a ruptured abdomen. In Elkader a principal dispute over Prof Webb’s tenure was resolved in favor of Prof Wetch. A farmer misplaced 1200 in cash hidden in rubber boots later sold by a junk dealer. An exchange notes a reforming club woman with a worldly, satirical portrait of a virtuous, ambitious reformer and her misbehaving child Little Dicky.
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Cresco
Fred Boxleiter, Jr
Dubuque
Great Western
Elkader
Webb
Clayton
Wetch
Milender
Elgin Iowa Fair Store Offers Eggs for Goods
Mrs P M Smit of Elgin Iowa invites customers to exchange eggs for goods at the Fair Store. The ad promises a stool of Indies furnishing goods and a big line of fancy hosiery, urging visitors to inspect prices and quality.
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P.M. Smit
Elgin
Lowa
Clermont
Iowa
Jennings Bryan Headlines Cedar Rapids Carnival Talk
Womn Jennings Bryan will speak at the Cedar Rapids Carnival on Saturday sharing his view on current political issues. A fireworks display is planned that night and railroads will offer half rates to help attendees return home Saturday.
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Wmn
Jennings Bryan
Cedar Rapids
Marriage Licenses Listed for Several Couples
The notice lists names of couples obtaining marriage licenses including Guy 8 Bheldon with Nellie V Hamlin and Chase Lockard with Mary A Helen WHI Hayes with Myxtle Towslag.
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Guy
Bheldon
Nellie
Hamlin Chase Lockard
Mary
Helen Whi Hayes
Myxtle
Dog Tax Notice From Town Authorities
All dog owners must pay the dog tax by Saturday October 11. After that date the city marshal will be instructed to banish dogs without tax tags. By order of the Town Coruncin.
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Ciy
Coruncin
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SOVA
Decorah
Third Iowa Infantry
Waterloo
West ‘Union
Talmadge
the Gazette
Upper Wa University
Andrew Carnegie
Pleasant Valley
J. W. Ainsworth
Owa
Win, Gates
Marion
Frank Wither
Lansing
Prohibition
Frank Marburger
D. RB. Davis
Rinnville
Jos Mulick
Marburger
Mulick
Tracy
Alwys
Dicky
Fingels
Alnus
MSE Custom
Meyer
A. H. Smith
F. A. Wiegand
Mer
Repot
Lewa
C. Miller, Jr
the Elgin
Elgin Livery Barn
Falb & Muehlenthaler
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