Local society notes bustle with visits and engagements
East Chicago mourns as Mrs. John Deistler returns home after her brother E. B. Kracht’s death. Numerous visits, illnesses, and social gatherings fill the page, from Mrs. Fanny Custer’s move to Eldon to Miss Nellie Burnaugh’s Libertyville trip and a flurry of church group meetings and a penny social planned by the Yeoman lodge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Deistler
Chicago
E. B. Kracht
Fanny Custer
Chicago, Il
Eldon
Nellie Burnaugh
Libertyville
Swedish Lutheran Church
Myrtle Nelson
Nelse G. Nelson
Miss Nelson
Russell Johnson
Glendale
John Lindeen
Charles Eklund
Louden Manufacturing Co
Odd Fellows Lodge No. 4
Yeomen
FE. B. Kracht
Suicide by railroad plunge shocks Quincy crowd
Lloyd Simpson, from Ironton Missouri, ended his life by stepping in front of a freight train in Quincy Illinois on January 27.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quincy
Lloyd Simpson
Ironton
Wyatt Thompson Dies at Libertyville
Libertyville resident Wyatt Thompson died yesterday afternoon after a tuberculosis illness. He was 55, survived by his wife and four children Harley Edna Edith and Esther, and was a Methodist and Odd Fellows member. No funeral plans announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wyatt Thompson
Libertyville
Mr. Thompson
Harley
Edna
Edith
Esther
Methodist Church
Odd Fellow Lodge
Invitation to Ottumwa Meeting on Blue Grass Trail Aid
A special invitation was issued to the Board of Supervisors County Engineer and County Auditor to attend a February 7 1917 meeting at the Ottumwa Commercial Club rooms at two p m. The purpose is to seek federal aid for permanent Blue Grass Trail work with Iowa State Highway Commission members present. Invitations extend to towns along the trail and local businessmen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Supervisors
Ottumwa
Commercial Club
Gas and Electric Franchise Promises Service Upgrades
A 1917 letter urges Fairfield voters to approve electric and gas franchises. The note includes claims of rate reductions, a $10,000 bond as security, and plans to spend $55,000 on plants to improve public service with promised extensions to areas not yet served.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gas and Electric Franchise
Water and Light Committee
Electric and Gas Service
Also Mentioned on This Page
W. B. Kracht
Long View
Ill
IE. B. Kracht
T. A. Keller
Theodore Despain
South Main Street
Ben Wallace
Helen Wilson
Washington
Walter Hunt
Anna Cfile
Efferson County Hospital
Rose Bell
B. M. Mikesell
North Third Street
Aurora, Il
Clarence Spratt
Lew van Sask
Can
Elatives
Robert Mc Whiter
H. L. Ogden
Batavia
Blidon
Perry King
Mt. Pleasant
Joseph Shaffer
Thomas Emry
J. L. Rose
Waterloo
Wallace Campbell
Bloomfield
Reuben Oats
Co. M
White T Store
Frank Pearson
T. L. Workman
John Cochran
Jefferson County Hospital
Mrs. Stansberry of
Chariton
City
West Hempstead Street
Thomas C. Kennedy
Dean Taylor
Ainsworth
Henry Ringelspach
Harold Berd
Ames
W. B. Cowan
J. H. McCarty
Stockport
van Buren County
Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Church
Jeanette Bryan
West Adams Street
White Rose Club
Ed. Miller
R. N. of A
Queen Esther
M. H. Church
L. T. Gobble
Young Peoples’ Work of Conference
Marie Doughty
Vera Parks
Clydena Stanford
Treas
Marjorie Roberts
Gladys Larmore
Yeoman Lodge
Blue Grass Road
Dows, Smith and Reed
Do Thoma & Thoma Hope
R. M. Burtis
Chicago, Illinois
Fairfield
Iowa
Thomas Thoma
Newton
Wapello
Vinton
Nishing Light
DOW, Smith & Reed
John A. Reed
K. W
K. W. EL
Jefferson County
Huglin & Rorick
Fairfield Real Estate and Loan Co
Presbyterian Church At
Sabonth
The
Presbyterian Church
Orpheum
Journal
Gilbert
I. T. Wisecarver
Thoma & Thoma
Gaumer Bros
Banta’s
North Fourth Street
John T. Davies
Undertaker
George Q. Loesch
L. E
Overture
Orpheum Orchestra
William Fox
Bertha Kalch
Stuart Holmes
Kitty Gordon
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