Bethesda Church History Recounted with Graveyard Origins
An editor notes extended history of Bethesda church and its graveyard dating to before 1853. Details cover land ownership, trustees, a nearby sawmill and grist mill, revival at Clover schoolhouse, construction of the Bethesda church, naming by Mr Facet, first dedicating preacher Rev Heaton, later pastors, Sabbath schools, and a plea for a cemetery association to protect the graveyard from stock pasture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corey
Bethesda
Peter Arneck
Strong
William Davis
Howard
P. N. Woods
John
Dan Clapp
Woods
Clover
Facet
Heaton
McDowell
Four Hundred Carloads of Potatoes Declared Unwanted
Fort Collins Colorado March 29 four hundred carloads of potatoes stored near the city are said to be rotting in pits. Commission merchants refuse to handle them and growers say there is no market for the crop at any price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Collins
Colo
Colorado
Mother of Russian Revolution hailed in tribute
MME BRESCHKOSKAYA is celebrated as the Mother of the Russian Revolution in a flowing tribute that honors her influence on early revolutionary movements and her role as a symbolic matriarch for activists and scholars.
Early Russian reformer Catherine Breschkopskaya Freed
Catherine Breschkopskaya, among the first victims liberated after the revolution, had preached democracy since age seventeen. She was jailed in Siberia for her appeals to restore democratic rights in the former empire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mme
Catherine Breschkopskaya
Siberia
Notice General Clean Up Week Begins April 2 1917
City announces a cleanup week starting April 2 1917. Residents are urged to pile tin cans and rubbish for easy collection. Mayor D F Spratt signs the notice.
Balmer Seeks Patrons At Batavia Garage
W. B. Balmer, formerly a Ford Garage mechanic, is now at Batavia Motor Co. Batavia and offers service to former patrons when in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. B. Balmer
Ford Garage
Batavia Motor Co
Batavia
Tax Office Extends Hours For Tax Payments
The Treasurer's office will stay open until nine p m from Monday March 26 to Saturday March 31 to allow residents to pay taxes. The extended hours run each evening to accommodate payment needs.
Converted, Repents Trick In Denver Woman Seeks Walleted Ad Man
Mrs Minnie Lee of Terre Haute Indiana writes to Police Chief Armstrong confessing she was duped by a Denver advertisement for a wife two years ago. She sent money for travel but refused to come, now seeks apology and wants the man to write to her. She cites a recent religious conversion and says she is willing to straighten up though married.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Col
Minnie Lee
South Thirteen and One Half Street
Terre Haute
Ind
Armstrong
Lee
Brumbaugh Pledges Aid To Wilson From Pennsylvania
Governor Brumbaugh pledges cooperation of the Pennsylvania committee of public safety to President Wilson. The group includes over 200 representative citizens from Harrisburg and across the state.
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Wilson
Harrisburg
Brumbaugh
Pennsylvania Committee of Public Safety
Treasury Plans One Year Certificates To Aid Government
Washington March 29 plans for issuing one year certificates to provide money temporarily for the government probably will be announced within forty eight hours. Secretary McAdoo has under consideration details of issuing sufficient certificates to tide over the government until income tax collections in June. Under law he is authorized to issue up to 300 million dollars at interest above 3 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Mar
Treasury Department
McAdoo
Adriatic Safe in Port Arrives at English Port
The British passenger steamship Adriatic of the White Star line reached an English port safely, having left the United States on the same day as the St. Louis. Among its sixty five passengers were six American citizens from a Harvard surgical unit bound for France.
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New York
Adriatic
White Star Line
United States
St. Louis
Harvard
France
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Bethesda Church
Mme. Breschkoskaya
American Press Association
D. F. Spratt
Earl Bowermaster
Unkrich’s Dry Goods Store
W. B. Corset
Brassieres
East Side Square
Fairfield, Iowa
Embalmer & Funeral Director
Iowa State Bank
Terré Haute
IOC
Poalley CO
Georgette Crepe
Perrin
Potter
Nemo
Kayser
Fhorne & Son
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