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Newspaper
Emmetsburg Democrat
Location
Emmetsburg, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1900
Page
5
Thanksgiving visitors and local movement color Graettinger area life. Lewis Larson of Story County visits friends and conducts business. Schools closed due to sickness. H G Harrison buys Dalen Store building and plans winter stock move. Local dances, lyceum debates, and reading circle start anew with economics and rural school reform topics.
Paws From Our Correspondents details various residents including Hughes Dowd and Miss Clara Dowd. It lists homestead trips to Minnesota, illnesses, visits, and social events, noting the Foresters ball and plans for veterinary study in Chicago.
Osgood items report James Fisher improving while Mr and Mrs Dice returned home Monday. OC H Giddings renovates his store in grand style. Amos Letson did business in Osgood Tuesday. McEvoy shipped a bear ing to Supervisor Hand Tuesday. Dr Adams returns from Dubuque after Thanksgiving. Miss Josie McEvoy and Miss Kinsella of Kimball live nearby visiting in Dubuque. Father Giddings dies, friends will miss his kind face. McEvoy wrote four applications in an hour in Great Oak township last week. Mec. does not need help with insurance in that township. Mr and Mrs S J Guerdet and Mr and Mrs C S Wells travel to Chicago for the fat stock show to sell four cars of stock arriving on the stock train. Wells is a good man but spoke strongly when the Ayer passed Osgood. John J Jenswold and Mr Tod visited Friday. A sister of Mrs Chas Tyler visits for Thanksgiving. Frank J Walton left for DeKalb Illinois to attend college. Concert in Wells Hughes hall draws large attendance. F Q Satter and wife and others noted among attendees.
A sequence of social visits and travel links Ruthven residents with Emmetsburg Ayrshire Spencer Garner and Dickens. Names include Miss Joan Baxter Miss Mattie Higgins Miss Blanche McCormick Miss Ruth Dayton Roy Ruthven and Rev Thomas Carter with relatives in Emmetsburg Austin Minnesota Philadelphia and Rolfe. Also a late notice offering a silver plated alto horn for sale by O R Kexpaut.
A historical snippet riffs on music and theatre woes with playful questions about new songs plays and operas. It promotes Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a remedy to indigestion and a cure for yearlong discomfort, touting it as available at all druggists.
Coal dealers in Dubuque raise anthracite prices from 7.50 to 8 per ton. A Rock Island train killed two Iowa City men, Bo Warner and Chris Wosterditz, instantly. Miss Mattie Maish was not indicted for the shooting of William Foster. Ames builds a new engineering hall costing 150000. Mrs Nixon’s body identified after disappearance in July. Eyewitness testimony taken in advance for the Dixon murder case in Thayer. An extra session likely to fix biennial elections and jury selection issues. Cedar Falls shooters excel at a state tournament. Growth of free public libraries gains momentum with Ottumwa and Dubuque. Dubuque women strongly back the library proposal, with large turnout at the special election.
Cedar Rapids man J H Linter and his wife were held up on the way to the depot after Thanksgiving. Linter was killed by a footpad while his wife was wounded. Linter’s companion ran and escaped. A suspect, named Green Anderson, was captured six miles away and confessed to the shooting.
A boiler explosion last night at the Davenport glucose sugar refining company plant demolished the boiler house and wrecked the engine room. Two men were killed and several workers injured, including James Coleman D D Cook and others. The blast was heard citywide and a fire followed before the department contained it. damage was estimated around 20 thousand dollars though partly insured.
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