Local Briefs Mention Illnesses and Travel in City
Local notes report J A Wray ill at home on North B Street and Miss Margaret White ill with Spanish influenza. Several residents travel for business or visit relatives in Mount Pleasant Chicago and Kan sas City. Mrs Ruth Strausse returns from Iowa City and Mrs Willard Milliken visits in Galesburg Illinois. The K P Lodge meets at 8 00 PM and influenza recovery headlines accompany school closures in Pleasant Plain and Fairfield.
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Margaret White
West Burlington St
Albert Hayes
Chicago
Mrs
John* Roth
South Main Street
Lela McCleary
Pleasant Plain
Libertyville
Death of D A Lowery at Hershey Nebraska
D A Lowery died suddenly at his home in Hershey Nebraska on November 27 aged 64. He was born March 22 1854 in Beaver Dam Wisconsin and moved to Iowa as a child. He married Alice Bankhead December 25 1876 and they had seven children. He later married Maggie Simmons of Rome Iowa. Surviving are his wife seven children two siblings and a sister. He spent most of his life in the railroad service before health issues led him west.
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D. A. Lowery
Herhey
Nebraska
Beaver Dam
Wis
Iowa
Alice Bankhead
J. A
Ottumwa
Jas
Freshwater
W. C. Lowery
Elsie Haifley
Fairfield
Blain Oliphant
Hershey
Neb
James Painter
Belknap
Fred Leopoldt
Rome
Lowry
Maggie Simmons
Blas Lowry
Mary Ervin
Washington
Mrs. T. S. Pool Dies of Spanish Flu in Mt. Pleasant
Mrs. T. S. Pool widow of Rev. T. S. Pool former circuit church pastor died Monday evening at her Mt. Pleasant home from Spanish influenza after months of ill health. Her husband Rev. Pool and a daughter are seriously ill. Funeral services are set for Thursday at two o'clock from the home.
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T.S. Pool
T. S. Pool
Methodist Circuit Church
Mt. Pleasant
Rev
Paol
Fairfield Theater Closed After Fire Safety Notice
Fairfield Theater manager Hugh Bennett received a notice from City Fire Marshal Taylor Wildman to stop lighting fires in the rear until property upgrades are completed. Bennett says the theater remains closed until corrections are made.
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Hugh Bennett
Fairfield Theater
Taylor Wildman
Bennett
Fairfield
Verle Frazey to retire from Minnesota furniture and undertaking firm
Verle Frazey, junior member of A. V. Frazey & Son, Furniture and Undertaking Co., will retire about January 1 and move to Park Rapids Minnesota to run a farm he bought there. The furniture department will be sold at once while A. V. Frazey, the senior partner, continues the undertaking business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Verle Frazey
A. V. Frazey & Son, Furniture and Undertaking Co
Park Rapids
Minnesota
A. V. Frazey
Frazey
Mann says Republicans won’t embarrass Wilson abroad
Representative Mann of Illinois, Republican leader in the House, declares factional strife must not interfere with President Wilson's foreign mission. He says there will be no concerted Republican effort to embarrass the president while he is away and rejects resolutions about his absence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Wilson
Representative Mann
Illinois
House
Secretary Baker postpones Europe trip for Christmas return
Secretary Baker announced he postponed his trip to Europe. Edward Br. Stettinins, his assistant and personal representative in France, will return for Christmas and they would go together, probably in January, on War Department business.
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Baker
France
Washington
Europe
Edward BR. Stettinins
War Department
Prince Claims Never Renounced Crown After War
Oosterland December 4. The former crown prince told a correspondent he has not signed any document and did not renounce the throne. He believes Germany lost the war early in October 1914 after the Marne battle and says the chief of staff erred in urging peace, including surrender of Alsace Lorraine. He claims he was told to mind his own business.
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Oosterland
Cermain
Marne
Alsace-Lorraine
Clothing donations urged for Mission collection day
Call superintendent L. E. Kuhns at 3763 before next Thursday to donate clothing. Items can also be left at the Fair store or the New Chicago Grocery as the community gathers up clothing that day.
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L. E. Kuhns
Fair
Chicago
Nat Goodwin Loses Eye After Hospital Operation
New York actor Nat C. Goodwin underwent surgery to remove one eye after damage from an eye wash error. Officials said a mistake in mixing ingredients led to the injury necessitating the operation at a local hospital.
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New York
Nat C. Goodwin
Fairfield Theater Closure For Safety Improvements
The Fairfield Theater will be closed until necessary improvements are completed to ensure public safety. Hugh Bennett serves as the manager.
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Fairfield
Hugh Bennett
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Tireland
J. A. Wray
North B Street
Robert Angstead
Mount Pleasant
J. A. Huglin
Kansas City
Ruth Strausse
Iowa City
Willard Milliken
Galesburg, Illinois
Calvin Hoskins
Harold Cassell
South Second St
Pauline Clinkinbeard
Mrs. Prank Daggett
Milton
Georgia Trent
Batavia
K. of P. Lodge
Mrs. Arens
Portland, Oregon
Mrs. O. F. Nixon
East Washington St
Ernest Jericho
Moline
Mary Snook
Fairfield, H1
Mrs. M. S. Randall
Des Moines
Boyd Hutchins
J. J. Hutchinson
Winfield
Roy Hutchinson
Mann
Congress
Nat Goodwin
A. V. Frazey & Son
Guernsey
Richardson Hardware Co
Dakota
Queen
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