Local News Briefs Hit City Featuring Visitors and Events
O J Graham of Des Moines visits friends in town and W H Neibert shows slight improvement. Kahgahgee Boll club plans a Friday picnic at the club house. G B Baker of Ottumwa attends to business for his city music store. Gail Hunt hosts Delta Sigma Theta at a South Main street picnic supper. Eliza McCrackin and Jan ie Steele return from Los Angeles. Caroline Roder sails for Wellman after a trip home. Mrs Will Donoho of Keosauqua visits her mother S E McGrew. Prof H M Gage of Parsons College to speak at New London High school commencement. Ebenezer House to hold annual homecoming services Sunday June 4 at 10 o’clock. Atty Joe S Crail to deliver Memorial Day address at Libertyville May 30. Emzy Scott and Velma Stephenson head to Ottumwa then Sey mour for events. Miss T F Wells and children of Waterloo leave for Mt Pleasant. Anton Carleon ill with typhoid fever on South Third street. Carrie Wisecarver returns home for summer vacation. Ruth Leggett hosts a handkerchief shower for Miss Bessie McGregor at South Main. Ladies Improvement Association to discuss garbage question Thursday at 3 pm at library. Rev Thomas Osborn to preach Fairfield seniors at 7:30 Sunday evening. Sylvester Clapp funeral at Clarke home 9 am with Rev A G Graves. interment Evergreen cemetery. Ladies Aid Society of First Lutheran to meet at Mrs Jacob Ringelspach’s home with Mrs Hartman hosting. conveyances to church at 10 o’clock. all ladies invited.
Jefferson County Special Session Votes on County Auditor Bond
The Jefferson County Board of Supervisors met in special session on April 24 2011 to hear the bond of C W Morburg for county auditor. They refused to act citing a district court clerk notice of an appeal in a contested county elections case. Minutes approved and adjournment set to next regular session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Supervisors of
Jefferson County
C. W. Moburg
District Court
W. G. Burkhart
Mexican Foes Unite Against Las Vegas Assault
The federals and Magonista forces plan joint action to retake Las Vegas from Magonistas. Ernesto Madero, newly named Mexico's minister of finance, wires El Paso with orders for insurrectos to cooperate against the common foe. He is Francisco Madero’s uncle and heads Madero interests in Mexico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
el Paso
Federals
Insurrectos
Las Vegas
Magonistas
Ernesto Madero
Monterey
Magon
Los Angeles
Cal
Madero
Second bomb attempt targets Griffin home in Kansas City
The May 24 blast at 2442 Montgall Ave, the Booker T. Washington school principal W E Griffin and his wife were asleep on the second floor when an explosive under a boardwalk tore into the yard shattering windows and creating a one foot deep crater. Police say it is the second such attack in five months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
W. BE. Griffin
Booker T. Washington
Montgall Avenue
Griffin
Taft Opens Library In New York With 15000 Guests
The new York public library, built at a cost above 10 million dollars after ten years of work, opened with President Taft, Governor Dix, Mayor Gaynor and 15 000 invited guests present. Police lined Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street as 500 officers kept order while mounted guards escorted Taft to the entrance for the 2 pm reception and 4 pm formal exercises and address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
New York Public Library
Taft
Dix
Gaynor
Fifth Avenue
Forty-second Street
Pennsylvania
Middleville Man Found Drowned In Thornapple River
Simeon R. Pierson, about seventy five, was found dead in the Thornapple River near Middleville. Irving Betts pulled the body from the water near the boom west of Globe knitting mills. Pierson, previously of Yankee Springs township, leaves a widow, a son Guy Pierson of Wayland, and two daughters Mrs Frank Shaw and Mrs Pearl Putnam of Middleville. It is uncertain whether the drowning was accidental or intentional amidst his poor health and stated wish to be dead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleville
Mich
Simeon R. Pierkyn
Thornapple
Irving Betts
Globe Knitting Mills
Pierson
Yankee Springs
Guy Pierson
Wayland
Frank Shaw
Pearl Putnam
Kidnappers Sentenced in Baby Waldo Rogers Case
Las Vegas New Mexico May 24 Judge J C Roberts sentenced Will Rogers and Joe Wiggins the confessed kidnappers of Baby Waldo Rogers on March 29. Rogers drew five to twelve years in the penitentiary and Wiggins seven to twelve years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Las Vegas
N. M
J. C. Roberts
District Court
Will Rogers
Joe Wiggins
Waldo Rogers
Rogers
Wiggins
Parsons Sign six football games for fall schedule
Coach Berkstresser signs six games for next fall with one or two more possible. The slate includes Central at Fairfield Oct 13 Monmouth at Monmouth Oct 21 Christian at Fairfield Oct 27 Wesleyan at Mt Pleasant Nov 3 Penn at Oskaloosa Nov 10 and Wesleyan at Fairfield Nov 29. Parsons aims for a strong season with Wesleyan to be played twice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berkstresser
Central
Fairfield
Monmouth
Christian
Wesleyan
Mt. Pleasant
Penn
Oskaloosa
Parsons
Quits Using the City Water By Burlington Water Co
The C B & Q Railroad Co served notice on Mayor Sarr that it will cease taking city water six months after now under an existing contract. The city earns eight cents per thousand gallons. termination could cut city revenue 1200 to 1800 dollars yearly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarr
Burlington
Burlingston
Cedar Creek
F. P. Cummings
Barlington
Also Mentioned on This Page
O. J. Graham of
Des Moines
W. H. Neibert
Kahgahgee Boll Club
G. B. Baker
Ottumwa
Gail Hunt
Delta Sigma Theta
South Main Street
Eliza McCrackin
Janie Steele
California
Caroline Roder
Fair
Wellman
Will Donoho
Keosauqua
S. E. McGrew
H. M. Gage
Parsons College
New London High School
Ebenezer House
Atty
Joe S. Crail
Libertyville
Emzy Scott
Velma Stephenson
Seymour
T. F. Wells
Waterloo
Anton Carleon
South Third Street
Carrie Wisecarver
Davis City
Ruth Leggett
Bessie McGregor
Ladies’ Improvement Association
Thomas Osborn
Fairfield High School
Uoues Ayvorner Boo Egen
Methodist Church
Sylvester Clapp
Clarke
A. G. Graves
Evergreen Cemetery
Ladies’ Aid Society
First Lutheran Church
Jacob Ringelspach
Hartman
Proceedings of the Board of Supervisors
Alfred Armstrong
Iowa Wesley
Stephenson
Collins
Iowa
Grinnell
Slater
Rodgers
Wilson
Coe
Lemon
Morningside
Loudon
Turney
Alumni Field
Jack Temple
Charles Ireland
Jennie Wray
Dorothy Louise Hises
Frank Fuller
Jeff Pence
Fuller Lorene Carmicheal
John Brown
Leland Holgate
Elsie Davis Wilson
Albert Johnson
Captain Sharpe
Pred Ward
Humphreys & Wisecarver
Crail-Brown Company
T. E. Farris
Munn & Co
Scientific American
Tarvest
York
Washington
Lockridge Lumber Co
L. C. Capion
MGR
State of
County
Mount
Nancy A. Herrick
Wyeth
oTaay
Wyeth Chemical Company
Cortlandt St
N. Y
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