Reading Room fundraising and school reports in Newton
Citizens pledge subscriptions to sustain the Newton Reading Room for the coming year with cash gifts coal books and magazine favors. The piece also reports high school month results including attendance, punctuality and progress across grades and notes upcoming sermons and gymnasium opening at Company L with member rates and access to current periodicals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newton
Beard
Ann Nal
Company L
Apas
Milit
Newton Fire Department Christmas Banquet Party
Christmas week in Newton features a big banquet and evening entertainment by the Newton Fire Department on Christmas night at Firemen's Hall. committees, arrangements, and talent are listed, with cantata performances and local dignitaries noted. events include elocution, musical sections, and a wedding nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newton Fire Department
F. F. A. McMurray
Ritte _senson
Austi Harvey
Jor
Josh Crawford
E. E. Ramsey
Geo, Quaintanee
Fred Latimer
McGregor
Elmer Jones
Frank Baldwin
Fred Coon
Ritter
Harry Agnew
Charley Spencer
Jesse Lamb
E. J. Miles
Wm. Crawford
Chas. Livingston
W. E. E. Lambert
A. K. Lufkin
F. A. McMurray
I. Smith
Josh Bowyer
Ed. Stahl
November City Council Meeting Allows Bills and Raises
The City Council met last Monday with full attendance. Reports were read and bills from the Ways and Means Committee were allowed totaling payments to several individuals and firms. The Fire Water Electric Light and Health committees reported no new items. Street and Alley notes included a five inch grade walk at Harrah's building and no city claim on the east Leonard addition. An ordinance on heating the city hall was discussed but no action taken. A motion approved salaries of five dollars monthly for Ed Phillips and electric light station workmen. The meeting adjourned to Monday evening in December.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lufkin
Gates
Ways and Means
C. Seeberger
OEE Woon Ai Stesidaiei Iin
L. Krause
Omaha Boiler Compound Co
Per County Coal Co
Hollingsworth Rr
Hank Rollins
Baum
D.finch
J.T. Sherman
Richard Hayes
Bailey
OOM
Lambert Bros. & Hewyer
Brooke
Harrah
Leonard Addition
Ed. Phillips
Witemen
Cornell
Obituary notices long list of local deaths and events
Long obituary and community notices detail the death of Mrs Catherine Connelly on Sunday night and the family’s loss, with funeral details led by Rev. Harrah. The paper lists surviving children and notes sympathy messages. Additional items include officers elected by local fraternal lodges, business updates, marriages, travel plans, and various social notices from Fairmount and surrounding towns.
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MR. Lufkin
Woman's Christian Temperance Action
Lars
Knights Templar
Odd Fellows
Knights of Pythias
Ald
Congregational Church
Paul
Mowner
Iowa
C. F.D. Wien & Ce
Newton Recon
Jeph H
M. Woodrow
ER. Lydey
Axtell & Cox
Charles McFarland C. N
Wag T Eilzabeth Sloansker
Monroe
Queen
G. Hall
Sens
W.H. Anderson
King
George Greasby
A. Gr Sa
W. J. Anderson
Nona Hart
Agnes Reinmouth
Alleart
Shaw
Rinel Scribe
George Fie
King’s Guards
Roersma
Paul J. Scarbrough
Cochran Mathew Shaw
Zeresh
Gertrude Loar
Luetla Thomason
Queen's
Dode Mitchell
Li Honnold
Mitchell
Mordecai
Herald
Ira Dussiaan
Ohio
Baptist Church
Otley
Ay of Drake
Methodist Church
Dade Mitchell
Stella Bateman
Prairie City
William J. Snoos
Our City
Pearl Mead
R. Hall
W. Howard
Fred Roberts
Howard
F. E. Roberts
Evans Ryan
David Inview Township
H. Gifford
Stella Jenkins
Woody
J. Gaston
South Side
Soil
West Plain
Missouri
Peita
Orpheus Mandolin Club
FA. French
Des Moines
W. G. Miller
Miller Hotel
Pella Friends
E.M. Booten
Baxter Criefs
S. Downs
Tayeen Lowderbay
Baxter
Steiner
Rhodes
Iwo
Brooks Onderbargh
Rev
Manchester
En Kraft Bros
Colfax
Phipps
Opera House
Mary Faque
Dawson
Shull
Mmoral
Uesdlay Nggton
Ola
Luna
IL Magard
Davis
Nicktess
Mrs
Connelly
Chicago
B. Ritter
WD. Morse
Edward
Kittie
John
Kelly
Comne Vana
C. Harrah
Eberhart
Ilm. Vaughan
Fred Meredith
Fisk
Col. Connelly
Wooden
A, O
Hall
George M. Slattner
Texas
Deaf Dumb Institute
Dowden My. Limited
C. J. Cozad
Ira E. Draper
California
C. P. Norton
Florida
L. Nl
T. Cooper
Adair County
M.J. Wooddell
Arkansas
Jennie Frazee
Wm. Cochrane
The
Christian Church
Lizzie
Inez Adair
Drake University
Desnes
Bennett
F. A. Braley
Harvey, Mi
Carrie
Nellie Burton
Jenes
Phil Deane
Kellogg
Webster City
C.W. Shepherd
Pleasant Chapel
H. Showalter
Illinois
Showalter
Epworth
M.E. Church
Dunhaming
A. £. Starrett
Seavill
Nixon Grove Chapel
Rev. Phillips
Reasnor
M. E
Hughes
Gifford
Miss Crawford
RC. Pippin
Knoxville
Evangelical Church
Vern
Glen Wheeler
Mies Sullivan
Carlisl
Lowa
John Lairdson
James Wright
Neton
Henry Wright
Strader
James Livingston
Newton W
Fairmount
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