Many visitors and travelers noted in Ottumwa social column
A long list of Ottumwa residents and guests are mentioned as traveling, visiting relatives, or hosting friends across Iowa Illinois Arkansas and beyond with many returning from trips to Mount Pleasant Des Moines Davenport Denver Omaha Seattle and Chicago among others. Dates span Thursday through Sunday with passengers leaving for Canada Colorado and Wisconsin and locals hosting kin from Arizona Missouri and Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ollie
Effie Young
Colorado
Clyde Whittington
Yeo
Lowa
Henry Hansen
Ankakee
Ill
Relay
John Lindbloom
Canada
Minnie Pattison
Siloamprings
Ark
Ottumwa
Anna
Fern Sappenfield
Davenport
Elatives
S. A. Myers
Burlington
Edward Campbell
Misslizabeth Farmer
Compson
Michigan
Freda Carter
Libertyville
Will Willis
Mt. Pleasant
E. Harper
Harrison Hoagland
Walter van Tassel
Avenport
Otumwa
Stansberry
Ofce
Gertrude Fowler
Colo
Mary
Ethel Mitchel
Chamaign
Ethel Dougherty
Denver
Belle Day
William Day
P' Des Moines
DuBois
Otto Stichter
St. Paul
St. Paul, Minneag Has Been Visiting At the Home of Is Sister, Mrs. C. J. Fulton
Geo. Wray
Salt Lake City
Vera White
What Cheer
Washington
Harrison Collins
Batavia
Dean Taylor
Ralph H. Burnside
Robert
Oskaloosa
C. M. Buchanan
North Fourth Street
Charles Sawyer
Keokuk
Carrie Wisecarver
Miss Jordan
Ephriam
Wisconsin
Anna Randall
Mary Williams
Arizona
Elizabeth Locke
W. A. Robertson
Clara Pratt
Fred Neibert
Galesburg
Nat Childs
Coulterville
Illinois
Sam Douglas
Lucille
Stockport
P. C. Webber
J. W. Voorhies
Centerville
Henderson Voorhies
Nettie Harreld
Memphis
George Banfield
Mary Royce
Omaha
Nebr
Frank Simmons
Birmingham
Nettie Carlson
Des Moines
Frank Sanderson
Texas
Will Baird
Ed Allender
Byron Neibert
Mary Louise Hickenbottom
H. M. Miller
Cisne Young
Kansas
Lizz
Missie McElhinny
North Court Street
Rev.c. S. McElhinny
Seattle
S. McElhinny
Daugh’ Arion
Marjorie
M. H. McKee
R. S. McKee
Kankakee
Harris
Hansen
B. F. Woods
Lesher
Manatrey
East Burlington
Albert Roth
San Juan
Virgie Cornell
Senica Cornell
Local News And Chautauqua Prospects In Cedar Hill Area
Mrs H F Pumphrey travels to Iowa City for her sister’s illness. Visitors from Linby and Abingdon call on Mr Russell’s eight year old daughter. Cedar Hill grading speeds up though weather hinders undertaker work. Chautauqua there is expected to set attendance records with strong promotional reception and advertising results.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. F. Pumphrey
Iowa City
George Russell
Ham Bradfield
Linby
Alfred H. Caldwell
Abingdon
Samuel Russell
South Fifth Street
Russell
Cedar Hill
Is It Wrong to Favor Local Purchases Across Town
A Plattsmouth Nebraska journal cartoon-like note laments the practice that weekly papers and rural merchants alike can buy from Washington. It questions if publishers should buy locally and if home merchants should source from publishers, calling the arrangement odd when viewed from a distance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Uncle Sam
Plattsmouth
Neb
Dissolution Notice of Huffman and Shy Feed Store
Having dissolved partnership J. C. Shy takes over the business all indebted to Huffman & Shy are asked to call and settle by August 1 and anyone with bills against the firm should present them for payment Huffman and Shy Feed Store and Barn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. C. Shy
Huffman & Shy
Marriage License for Thomas Riley and Julia Garland
Ottumwa residents Thomas Riley and Julia M. Garland secured a marriage license in Ottumwa. The filing indicates both parties are of Ottumwa, with no additional conditions or filed dates listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Riley
Ottumwa
Julia M. Garland
Ottumwa Ee
The Road Drag's Worth in Dirt Road Making
A Wallace's Farmer excerpt extols road drags for Iowa dirt road work. It explains split log drags, log selection, shoeing, length seven to nine feet, and hitch construction. Observers note practical demonstrations on Northwestern lines in 1905 and advise safety precautions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallace
the Tribune
Wallace’s Farmer
King
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad
Lown
Wallaces
Iowa
Death of Floyd Bell After Hay Fork Accident
Floyd J. Bell eldest son of Mr and Mrs J F Bell died Thursday July 11 from injuries after a hay fork pierced him in a hay mow near John Healds farm. He was 21 and died at two oclock. The funeral was held at the John Droz home and burial took place in Kilbourne. The Bell family and Healds mourn a sudden bereavement with widespread sympathy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Floyd J. Bell
J. F. Bell
John Heald
Young Bell
John Droz
Mr. Heald
Kilbourne
Indian Family in Tama County Iowa Shown
A typical Indian family resident of Iowa is depicted here. the mother is bright and the children enjoy their rough life close to nature on lands in Tama County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Tama
Tama County
Death of Mrs Sherman Pickett in 1900
After months of illness Mrs Sherman Pickett died at her South Sixth Street home on Monday July 10 1900. She had suffered tuberculosis for about a year leaving a husband and two young children. Funeral services were held at the home and she was interred at Evergreen Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherman Pickett
South Sixth Street
All for the sugar trust and beet sugar politics
The article argues that the sugar trust controls the beet sugar industry through parent companies and directors, producing about 70 percent of beet sugar in 1908, while tariffs push high prices. It condemns the Beet sugar interests and cites New York Sun criticism of protectionism, with a separate court note on Agnes Barrette and Gingles lace theft case verdicts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sugar Trust
American Sugar Refining Company
The
Maine
New York Sun
Agnes Barrette
Gingles
Miss Barrette
Wellington
French Lick Springs
Ind
Aeroplanist Fails in Curtiss Demonstration Crash
An amateur passenger in Glenn Curtiss aircraft defaulted to fright at Hampstead Plain Mineola during a dawn demonstration for the New York Aeronautic Society. The craft smashed upon impact and the man suffered a broken left arm a dislocated left thumb and bruises though injuries are not deemed serious. Cur tiss recently sold the aeroplane for 5000 dollars to the society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Glenn A. Curtiss
Curtiss
Hampstead Plain
Mineola
New York Aeoonautic Society
Aeronautic stunt ends in crash injuring society man
Alexander Williams 42, an aviation enthusiast and machinist, lost control of a plane during a test flight. The craft swung, struck end over and rolled, pinning Williams until help arrived. Doctors say the injury occurred amid nerves and stage fright after a brief prior success by Edwards Foster Willard of New York City, who stayed aloft 28 seconds at about twenty feet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander Williams
Williams
Edwards Foster Willard
New York City
The
Aeronautic Society
Buffalo sightings in Iowa documented by 1835 Dragoon journal
A July issue of The Iowa Journal of History and Politics reprints a 1835 Dragoon journal entry from June 24 describing the first sighting of buffalo on the Ioway river crossing in Iowa. It notes that five or six buffalo were killed and meat eaten as recruits unfamiliar with buffalo pursued and observed the chase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
United States Dragoon
Iowa Journal of History and Politics
Ioway
North
Subscribe Offer for The Tribune
A paywall brief invites readers to subscribe to The Tribune for one dollar per year. The notice highlights affordability and access to the publication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairfield Tribune
Jefferson County
Chicago Daily Journal
The
Tribune
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Marshal Chilcott
Ivan Bell
West
W. S. Shaw
Arkan
Okoboji
Stanton
Enos Shaw
David Caldwell
Fairfield
L. T. Gobble
Squire Warner
J. W. Flint
Stanford
Chicago
W. B. Higbee
Nebraska
R. E. Harlan
Evansville
J. F. DeMarsh
J. W. Templeton
McGregor
Charles McClelland
McComb
Evergreen Cemetery
the Sugar Trust
Ella Gingles
Abig
Chicago Daily
Chicago Record Herald
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