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Newspaper
Emmetsburg Democrat
Location
Emmetsburg, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1908
Page
7
Whittemore and Fenton residents prepare to celebrate July 4 while Emmetsburg hosts visitors and local events. Read about mass changes at Assumption church, property deals, travel and visits from area towns, a ruined dam, and community happenings including schools, cemeteries, and local projects.
The Emmetsburg High School commencement at The Iowa theater featured the farce The Sweet Girl Graduates with credit to Miss Jessie Baldwin as Miss De Smythe and Harlan Russell as Jack Hamilton. Diplomas were awarded to Jessie Baldwin Florence Underwood Sybil Gibson Alice Wataku Roby Smith May Atkinson Anna Babls Pearl Taylor Leo Shes Harlan Ressell Karl Kent Charles Joynt and M. J. Brennan. The Clues banquet followed at the Maconic ball.
Mrs Archer and Mr Archer of Ruthven hosted the wedding of Albert A Laton and Bessie Archer on Monday June 1 at the bride’s home. The bride, a longtime schoolteacher, and the groom, a bookkeeper for Floce Lumber in Spencer, plan to reside in Spencer. The Democrat extends congratulations.
Thomas Joyce of Emmetsburg township is praised for his fine driving team. He is described as judicious and painstaking in handling horses.
The body of Edward Galliger died Sunday night in Minneapolis at age 62 and was brought to Emmetburg for burial. Services were at Assumption church conducted by Very Rev. J. J. Smith with burial in St. Johns cemetery. He was born in 1816 in Donegal Ireland and lived in Wisconsin Iowa Minnesota before settling in this county. He left four sons Dan Charles James and Wu and is survived by Margaret McManus his wife and four brothers John Patrick James.
Memorial day in Emmetsburg featured a full parade led by Company KE with G A R and YW R C members in carriages. Graves of Civil War soldiers and Confederate veterans were decorated, then a program at The Iowa included recitations, speeches by Adjutant Darland and Fremont Gibaon, a Grant life anecdote, song, and a call to honor veterans and support Memorial University at Mesao City.
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