West Liberty Area Notes Visitors and Local Events
Local reports note Frank Smalley visiting the West Liberty fair along with Dr. and Mrs. E. H. King and other residents. The Firefly line carries many passengers including Charles Gobble to Davenport and Margaret Chambers from Chicago to Fairport. River flooding affects travel while a Large Alexander apple is presented north of the city. A meeting of the Young Woman's Guild is announced and a funeral is planned for Brother Warner.
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B. Landis
Alexander
Margaret Chambers
Chicago
Will Berger
Fairport
New Era
Arthur Brandt
George Thornton
Lee
Millersburg
Ill
Cedar River
Davenport
M. E. Church and S S Picnic Announcement
The First Methodist church schedules its annual church and Sabbath school picnic for next week likely Tuesday or Wednesday. It will be the last S S picnic before school opens and the first in the new park. Members travel by street car from the church about 10 o clock for a park dinner. A special committee H H Arnold Bert Mark W D Peck and Fed Asthalter oversees grounds entertainment. All church members and the congregation are invited to join.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Methodist Church
S. S
H. H. Arnold
Bert Mark
W. D. Peck
Fed. Asthalter
Prohibition Party Names Ticket for Iowa Offices
The prohibition state convention announced nominations by acclamation: W. Howard for Secretary of State from Marshalltown, John W. Leedy for State Auditor from Janesville, F. P. Fetters for Treasurer from Oakland, E. H. Albright for Railroad Commissioner from Des Moines county, J. B. Ferguson for Attorney General from Cedar county, J. A. Harvey for Supreme Court Justice from Dallas county, E. A. Graves for Clerk of the Supreme Court from Mitchell county, and W. P. Briggs as Supreme Court reporter from Hartley. The platform calls for opposing liquor traffic and licensing by government, equal suffrage, repealing the Martin mulci law, a prohibition amendment by popular vote, tariff revision, and election of senators by direct vote.
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W. Howard
John W. Leedy
Waterloo
Marshalltown
Janesville
F. P. Fetters
Oakland
E. H. Albright
Des Moines County
J. B. Ferguson
Cedar County
Supreme Court
J. A. Harvey
Dallas County
E. A. Graves
Mitchell County
W. P. Briggs
Hartley
Martin Mulci
Leysen's Shoe Store Clears Summer Shoes at Cost
All summer shoes at cost in the sale at Leysen's Shoe Store. Ladies oxfords and light high shoes plus misses and children's styles in new colors are offered with savings from five to seventy five cents per pair until September 1.
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Leysen’s Shoe Store
Opera at Park Delights Boston Audience
A large crowd enjoyed The Chimes of Normandy as the Boston Ideals staged the production last night. New tenor Mr. Taylor impressed as Grenecheaux and soprano Miss DeBold shone, with the rest of the cast unchanged. Tonight Fra Diavolo opens with Sylvan Langweis as the title role and a strong cast, followed by Martha on Saturday by request.
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Park -Fra Diavolo
Boston
Normandy
Mr. Taylor
Grenecheaux
Miss DeBold
Auber
Fra Diavolo
Sylvan Langweis
Lorenzo
Mr. Riggs
Fd. Andrews
Banditti
Mr. Plowe
Matteo
Miss Laurens
Zerlina
Miss Miller
Lady Allcash
Otto Jaencon
Lord Allcash
Martha” Flotow
Rock Island Road seeks to dissolve injunction over gauntlet track
The Rock Island railroad filed a motion with the county clerk to dissolve the injunction restraining it from building a so called gauntlet track through Muscatine. City officials opposed the plan with affidavits while Carroll D Wright acted as general solicitor for the road. Today’s session was postponed with settlement talk likely.
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Rock Island Railroad Company
Carroll D. Wright
Des Moines
Road
Muscatine
Brannan
Candidates initiated into B W P U No 6860 meeting
A number of candidates were initiated into the B W P U No 6860 at Assembly hall last night. Attendance was fair and interest high. An order was passed to fine any member not in the Labor Day parade. The union is flourishing with growing factory union labor in the city.
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Assembly Hall
Firemen Prepare to Attend State Tournament in Davenport
The city volunteer firemen plan a mass meeting this evening at the Excelsior hose house to finalize arrangements for attending the state tournament in Davenport on September 2 3 and 4. Most preparations are done with only two companies undecided, likely to commit tonight.
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Excelsior Hose House
First Ward
Davenport
Bride Takes Carbolic Acid In Trivial quarrel death
Keokuk Iowa August 22 Mrs Edward E Zimmerman a bride seven months old committed suicide at Fort Madison by drinking carbolic acid after a quarrel with her husband over a trivial matter. Her sister saw her drain the bottle through an open door and she lived five hours. The husband is distraught.
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Keokuk
Edward E. Zimmerman
Fort Madison
Johnson for President Democrats Eye Cleveland Mayor
In Cleveland on August 22 crowds of leading Democrats visit Mayor Tom Johnson at City Hall. Frank P. Walsh declares Johnson will be the next Democratic presidential nominee, citing broad Western support and unity of factions.
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Cleveland
Johnson
City Hall
Hanna
Frank P. Walsh
Kansas City
Tom. Johnson
Walsh
Hill Cleveland
Whitney
Bryan
Pleasant Social at M. E. Church Isle
A pleasant social at the M E church on the island featured ice cream and cake, was well attended, and supported Epworth League efforts raising a good sum. The Rebecca Mite society met at Mary J Platts home with active work and pleasant refreshments, planning next gathering at Lizzie Priesters in three weeks.
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M. E
Epworth League
Rebecca Mite Society
Mary J. Platt
Lizzie Priester
South Muscatine
Emma Kohlhammer Hosts 12th Birthday Lawn Party
Miss Emma Kohlhammer celebrated her 12th anniversary with a lawn party for about twenty friends at her Bartlett street home from 7 30 to 11 p m. Guests listed include Myrtle Hennig Mabel Othmer Minnie Zoller Lulu Schroeder Clara Blasing Lillian Koeckeritz Goldie Vandusen Alma Kohlhammer Helen Jasper Emma Jasper Roy Zoller Roland Scholton Ralph Madden Earl Smalley Edward Schroeder Walter Smalley Far Hartman Adolph Kohlhammer Frank Jasper Harold Kohlhammer.
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Emma Kohlhammer
Bartlett Street
Myrtle Hennig
Mabel Othmer
Minnie Zoller
Lulu Schroeder
Clara Blasing
Lillian Koeckeritz
Goldie Vandusen
Alma Kohlhammer
Helen Jasper
Emma Jasper
Roy Zoller
Roland Scholton
Ralph Madden
Earl Smalley
Edward Schroeder
Walter Smalley
Far] Hartman
Adolph Kohlhammer
Frank Jasper
Harold Kohlhammer
Amendment Filed In Coldren V City Of Muscatine Case
An amendment to the petition in Coldren versus the city of Muscatine argues the ordinance is invalid for containing two subjects, a franchise to build an electric light plant and a ten year public lighting contract with Roach Giesler and People’s Light Power. The city has filed a demurrer to be argued later.
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Clymer A. Coldren
City of
Muscatine
Judge House
Coldren
City of Muscatine
Roach & Giesler
People’s Light & Power Company
Death of Mrs Eliza Cherry in Ireland at 75
The city mourns the death of Mrs Eliza Cherry at Warrenpoint County Down Ireland due to heart failure. She leaves large ties in the area including daughters Mrs W J Allen of Vancouver B C and Mrs John Keenan of Oakdale Pa and sons J C Wilson Thos W Cherry and R J Cherry of Mason City Ia. Her husband Shaving Cherry had died years before. She had been an invalid for some time and died suddenly after finishing dinner.
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J. C. Wilson
Thomas W. Cherry
Eliza Cherry
Warrenpoint
County Down
Ireland
Cherry
Thos. W. Cherry
R. J. Cherry
Mason City
Moses Cherry
New York City
W. J. Allen
Vancouver
B. C
John Keenan
Oakdale
Belfast
Escaped Washington Jail Two Tramps Vanish
Two men arrested in Brighton and jailed in Washington were confined Wednesday night and escaped during the night by picking a lock with a key. They disappeared by Thursday morning, leaving authorities to search for the pair.
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Washington
Brighton
Boone Aroused Campaign to Keep Choppers HQ
Boone Iowa residents have launched a campaign to retain the headquarters of the Fraternal Choppers of America after fearing the facility may move. Aug. 22 report notes city efforts aim for the largest lodge membership in the order.
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Choppers
Boone
Order of Fraternal Choppers of America
Philosophic musings on work and fashion
A Baltimore News satire argues you cannot judge a man by his clothes until you know the size of his lien. It quips that there is an unwritten law that man must work and nature provides many to be worked. It adds humor about a woman being late to the theater due to clocks on her stockings.
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Baltimore News
Coal Trust Gains Interest in Midwest Mines
H Morris of Des Moines and C Frohman of Chicago visited Sioux City to discuss acquiring the Peterson coal mine at Jackson Nebraska. They claimed they represented a gigantic coal trust formed to oversee all soft coal mines across Iowa Illinois Missouri and Nebraska. They also hinted at an eastern soft coal trust being formed.
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Sioux City
H. Morris
Des Moines
Marquette Coal Company
C. Frohman
Chicago
Lackawanna Coal Company
Peterson
Jackson
Neb
Morris
Frohman
Iowa
Illinois
Missouri
Nebraska
Coroner Jury Rules In Bartholin Case
The coroner's jury found Mrs. Bartholin died July 5 from strangulation and urged Oscar Thompson and Edward Counselman held for the grand jury. It also recommended releasing John Claffey and arresting William Bartholin.
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Bartholin
DIES FROM EATING GREEN CORN
Winona Minnesota reports the death of farmer William Hafner near Trempealeau Wisconsin from eating a total of fifty ears of green corn over a day and night. He ate twenty four ears at dinner, fifteen at the evening meal, and eleven more during the night before dying. His wife found him dead in the morning.
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Winona
Minn
William Hafner
Trempealeau
Wis
Lightning Kills Girl From Barn Fire Shock
Mishawaka Ind Aug 22 Lightning struck the Lem ler barn south of the city Alarm woke Albert Kinzie and wife Their daughter Margaret looked toward the fire and died instantly from the shock in the window scene neighbors report accidents and deaths linked to the blaze
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Mishawaka
Ind
Stephen Lemler
Albert Kinzie
Margaret
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Davienport
C. A. Carpenter
Young Woman’s Guild of
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Florence Coffin
West Liber
Prudential Insurance Company
Henry C. Gerth
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Brother Warner
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Oregon St
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West Second Street
M. E. Church
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Heinz
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Rock Island Road
Carroll Wright
Rock Island
Firemen Meeting
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New York
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Piano Company
East Second Street
A, Welk
Grocer
Fifth and Mulberry Streets
Soft Coal Trust
Hinkel & Phone
Flannery
W. 2d St
D. McCurdy
West Hill
Cash Store
H. H. Sharrar
Paris
Ritz
Chas
Fair and Wife
United States
K. I. Hall
Sun Run
F. Whitman, Sachem
F. A. Johnson
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A. F
A. M. Kregular
G. A. Riemeke
Chawter No. A. R. A
Geo. C. Winn
DE Molay Commandery
K. T
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I. C
F. Miriam
D. of R
Prairie Encampment
Muscatine Lodge
Speer
Second
Cedar Streets
Cedar Street
Muscatine Camp
Woodman Halls
J. M. Conner
Bend City
Modern Brotherhood of America
K. of P
J. J. Cosgrove
Sue Browning
Fagle Lodge
A. O. U. W. Hall
Second Street
Howe
E. H. Dolsen
American Yeomen
Muscatine Homestead
No. 356
G. A. Kk. Hall
Hershey Bank
A. W. Scott
Gladstone
Cedar St
K. O. T. M. Muscatine
Maccabee Hall
Asthalter Building
Iowa Avenue
E. G. O'Brien
J. W. Hahn
Ladies OF the Maccabees
Muscatine Hive
Asthalter
Emma Sterneman
Carrie Rankin
Fraternal Aid Association
Bloomington
F.A. A
Shammo
Q. T. Howard
E. P. Day
Farmer
Barnard’s Laundry
Umscheid& Seiler
the Journal
Rathbone Sisters
K. of P. Hall
Sally McCoskry
M. R
Frances Rosenbaum
Electa
A. L. Lindner
W. M
Emma Manlove
J. A. Leyda
Iowa Legion OF Honor
Argus Lodge No. 17
G. A. R. Hall
W. W. Millett
A. C. Hopkinson
Knights OF Pythias
Wyoming Lodge No. 76
K. P
Bretren
J. M. Butler
C. G H
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