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Newspaper
Le Grand Reporter
Location
Le Grand, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1910
Page
2
From Our Special Correspondent readers report visits and calls across Gilman Melbourne Marshalltown and Nevada areas. Families like the Wolken Tostenson Geier Ackley and Englemen networks share meals funerals and travel while Ben Sawyer and local names appear in greetings and weekend gatherings.
From Our Special Correspondent Mrs Alva Piper of Albion reports Monday visits and chats at the Pipers and Koens. J W Piper went to Milton Kansas to check his farm. Elmer Sloats of Montour and Allen Hoover families visited Walter Hoover. Ed Sharp plowed with five teams to help his father during illness. Thomas Barber and cousins of George Pierce came from Ames for a Toledo trip and a good time. Fred Baer and wife went to St Louis for catarrh treatment and bone removal operation. he is improving. Other locals include John Alden, Miss Sarah Gabrielson, Oliver J Olesen returning from Dakota, and talks of prosperity with three new shucks bought locally.
County attorney J. H. Egermayer and the board of supervisors will seek arrests of fast drivers. They ordered stop watches to collect evidence and may appoint officers to assist in gathering proof. The plan aims to set an example for reckless drivers city and countrywide, with LeGrand suggested as a testing area.
Text discusses a plan involving two inch planks twenty feet long filled with spikes to act as a coaxer and deter dust, suggesting this brutal method as a better plan than timing with a stop watch. It depicts a person disappearing in a dust cloud and implies dangerous, makeshift tactics. The fragment lacks clear context or identifiable names or places.
Mrs. Leia Northam visited from the county seat with Mr. D. M. Carey and family last Saturday. Montour and LeGrand baseball saw Mon tour prevail 12 to 3. Modern Woodmen of America plans a county cottage at the Colorado Springs tuberculosis sanitarium, to bear the county name. Mayor Richards and family enjoyed an auto ride. Dr. Newell and family visited, driving to Cedar Rapids by moonlight. Mrs. Hattie Richter and Mrs. Suzetta Barton visited friends from Decorah. J. C. reelected superintendent of Decorah schools with a salary raise, plans Chicago study. A. W. Arnold begins remodeling the J. D. Mills home after buying the property.
A fragment reports a busy scene at East LeGrand station when Westhound passenger No 29 pulled in. The line notes a commotion and a root stone of finmen becoming a focus, with word of desisting activity and a carried effort.
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