County News Summary From Our Own Correspondent
Brackett visits Alle gan and Grind Rapids while Mrs Jane and daughter from Muskegon tour Conyis. Myron Tawkins joins his uncle Shanahan in Marshall. Centre school term closes. Miss Sackett teaches Bellevue district six A. Miss Haykins to teach Hotchkiss district. Acuna Lederer starts school at Wright's corners. Fredonia ball team vs Clarendon ends with Fredonia ahead. game called in seventh. Weily to New York. Lynd Johnson at Union City. Mrs G B Murray hosts night blooming cereus. Telephone fund seeks $125. Local fights, bridge contract on St Joseph River. Mr. Ty’s event at Vincent's lake. Dr Nellthrope heads medical studies. state fair visits increase. Burlington notes school, prohibition speech, county court, Masonic lodge. No Baptist services. Barnes liquor suit dismissed. Foreign pupils in village school. new equipment bought.
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Conrra
Bellevue
A. B. King
Porter
Sopha Haywkins
Hotchkiss
Fredonia
Ory Qion
Acuna Lederer
Wright's Corners
John Keffer
Fredonia Ballista
Clarendon Club
Clarendon Goose
Pinnegax
Clarendon
Fred
Frank Granger
No. 4
L. Boni
Geo
Burt
Decatur
Calvin Davin
Utica
Mich
Lew Allen
Chicago
Mason & Morgan
Burlington and
Girard Toughs
Albion Notes on Mill Restart and Local Happenings
The stone mill restarted operations as Albion reports a strong fall term upcoming next Tuesday. Second growth strawberries are plentiful in Albion while a commercial department is added to the college. Gale M’sing Co shipped plows to California. James Finch displayed corn nearly 12 feet long and district figures show notable apple crops impacting prohibition sentiments. Retiring trustees A F Austin and K E Mills were reelected at the school meeting. A L Dickey reported ninety acres of wheat with a yield of 1,664 bushels noted as a solid average for the year. John Avery and wife, of Albion, returned yesterday.
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Gale M's'g Co
California
James Finch
Albion
A. F. Austin
KE F. Mills
Recorder
Prohibition
A. L. Dickey
Peter Oatrader
Oscar Wilde and Albion baseball mixed in town events
A fragmented local page notes Oscar Wilde in a satirical obituary tone, plus Albion baseball with a 9 to 6 win over Homer and a claim they are the best nine in the area. It also covers school hiring debates, a doctor visiting for telephone construction, a farmer’s eye injury, and a damaging storm that toppled chimneys and destroyed trees.
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Oscar
Wilde
Raish
Gale
Albion Baseball Boys
Homer Club
Homer Boys
Albion Boys
The Old War Horse Lawrence Sullivan Ross Governor Nominee
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Democratic nominee for Texas governor, born Bentonsport Indiana September 28 1833, became a frontier commander against the Comanches earning a brigadier general's rank in the Civil War. He rescued a captive girl who later married a Los Angeles merchant, and later led frontier expeditions with multiple engagements and casualties.
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Lawrence Sullivan Ross
Ross
Bentonsport
Ind
Texas
Florence Wesleyan College
North
Alabama
Los Angeles
Cal
Bam Houston
Ros
Com Hs Paricipaind
Cincinnati Exposition Opens With Six Mile Procession
The thirteenth annual Cincinnati exposition begins and will run through October. A six mile procession drew an estimated 250000 spectators led by Senator Sherman and Governor Foraker. The event featured a carnival tone, notable displays, and a grand zoological exhibit including a leopard, with praise for Cincinnati’s tradition of industrial expositions.
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Cinscinnatie New Chamber of Commerce
Guy
Cincinnati
Chicago
Ohio
Sherman
Foraker
Butterworth
Zoological Garden
Cincitnnati
America
Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce Boom Props Major City Growth
Cincinnati announces a broad growth boom with a proposed $10,000,000 bridge and elevated railway over the Ohio, a fourth river bridge, and a $600,000 chamber of commerce building at Fourth and Race streets. The new edifice aims to be fireproof and paid cash, with offices to rent returning about $20,000 yearly, reflecting rising trade since 1873.
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Chamber OF Commerce
Cincinnati
Ohio
Fourth
Race Streets
Village News and Repairs Highlight Local Life
Village physicians busy as M Tucker builds mill addition and H N Randall ships apples east. Fats and Leana to appear in cameos while school census rises by twelve. Water drawn from mill pond for race bank repairs yields many fish before weekend storm damaged L Lyttle’s Newton home. authorities report swift insurance response and county farmers note.
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H. N. Randall
L Lyttle
Newton
Colboys ‘County Farmers’. Company
News
Professional beauty craze threatens winter social scene
Washington Letter notes a professional beauty craze looming this winter as several Republican senators wives discuss inviting two young women boasting charm and poise comparable to Mrs Cleveland to visit Washington. The column hints at social competition and the White House scene.
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Cleveland
Wash- Sapen
White House
Washington
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Union City
John Smyth
St. Joseph
G. B. Murray
Burlington
H. J. Smith
Marshall
Kassen Richardson
Hower
Lindsay
Town
Copp
J. M. French
Libbie Wiliams
Francisco
Masonic Judge Reons
Vincent's Lake
Chas. Nellthrope
Chicano
Mr Baldwin
Burlington Station School
Baptist Church
Marsh
M. HK
F. L. Barnes
Barnes
John Avery
Mth
A. D. Bangham
Homer
Telephone & Telegraph Construction Company
Detroit
Archibald Miller
Girard
Miller
Dickie
Albion College
Albion Milling Co
Messrs. Knickerbocker & Son
Mr. Morse
J. B. Powell
Frank Bender
John Powell
Ningare Falls
W. A. Powell
Misa Nettie Burke
Grass Lake
George Bell
Lee Center
John Deuel
Bellavue
Kezartee
Grand Rapids
Abram Douel
Lida Dickson
Lawton
Ann Barker
Vicksbore
R. Gould
John Mingle Hay
Dr. Kenartee
George Cagwell
White Water
Wis
R. Melaod
Julio Powell
J. W. Parkhurst
Spaulding School
Ely
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Batavia
Misa Huldah Phelps
Jet
Morris
Lyman Geralds
Seymour
Simary Bhaipeia
Jackson
George Bentley
Main
Ceresco
Vereseo
M. J. Faink
Blake House
Stark
Tekenshi
CO. M. Tucker
W. BO
Staple & Fangy
R. Butler
Tremont
Lowerries
Peeser Pontine
Marshall Light Coo
Fool Snovif
State St
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Whitney
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