Royally Treated by Colfax at Jasper County Teachers’ Meet
Colfax hosted the Jasper County Teachers Meeting with about fifty attendees. Miss Nettie Wiley led papers, discussions covered discipline, morals, instruction methods, and teacher character, and thanks were given to Supt. Kelly, Colfax citizens, and visiting professors for a successful program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jasper County Teachers’ Meeting
Fannie Powers
Nettie Wiley
Fales
Condon
Couden
Sadie Jontz
Callisey
Callison
Miss Mulhern
Addie Rorabaugh
Edith Ryan
W. E. Brown
G. Macy
Carl Kiser
Kelly
Colfax
McLain
Supt
Sapp
Rorabaugh
Powers
Johnston
Des Moines
Morrissy
Mitchellville
Grinnell
Newton
Misse Baugh
Taylor Harvey
Walsh
Mary Hall
Allie O'Roake
Martindale
Prairie City
Wolfax
Prof
Jasper County
Quiet Ames Wedding Unites Loomis and Atwood Couple
A February wedding near Ames united Miss Katie Loomis and Mr. Lewis At an intimate home ceremony attended by many guests from Ames Des Moines Paton and surrounding areas. The bride wore lace with a white bouquet and the groom a black suit. A late supper followed with relatives helping serve.
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Katie Loomis
Lewis
Miss Edge
Miss Moffitt
Alias Jones
Ames
Rough
Des Moines
Abram Condit
Paton
Iowa
Right Man in the sight Place. Dr Moore at Blackfoot asylum
Dr O Moore formerly of Newton is superintendent of the Maho asylum for the insane at Blackfoot. A Thanksgiving day inspection by state officers praised the changes and praised Moore’s two month leadership, calling the asylum a model institution in management and care.
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Moore
Newton
Maho, Asylum For the
Blackfoot
Gover
Turck suffers heavy ankle injury in timber mishap
Bert Turck slipped while cutting posts in Adamson Grove and a heavy timber fell on his right ankle, bruising and lacerating it but not breaking bones. He is at his father's home under Dr Boyd care, expected to be unable to use the limb for some time. H. S. Manning of General Electric announces plans to enlarge the Thomson-Ouston plant.
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Adamson Grove
Bert ‘Turck
Andus Tureh
Boyd
Thomson.ouston
H. 5. Manning
General Electric Company
Dobbin
Legislature Studies New Mathematics for State Code
Des Moines Feb 1 Progress slow in the general assembly with short sessions and heavy code work ahead. Senate and house debate methods for the new code, a 35 member committee plan and proposed changes to teachers certificates civics and economics. A notable secret caucus of Grand Army members proposed striking medalions from the soldiers monument, with a push to replace Victory with a common soldier.
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Des Moines
General Assembly
Senate
House
Code Commission
Mittee
Alter Byers
Byers
Phelps
Lambert
Democratic Caucus
St. John
Blackhawk
Mei
Hangherterday
Grand Army
Waterman
Crow
Wapello
Return of Seneca Bain to Palo Alto Homestead
Seneca Bain of Palo Alto returned from Tennessee seeking milder winters but chose to come back to his old Palo Alto home near his late father John R. Bain. The piece notes his boyhood, purchase of the homestead, and hopes for his prosperity and happiness. It also reports Mrs. J. B. Rumbaugh surviving a near fatal butter-pan burn, recent stomach illness, and a marriage at Hakill near Sully with Mr. Cry nema mt officiating, plus a farm accident where a man was bruised by a horse kick.
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Seneca Bain
Palo Alto
Tennessee
Towa
John R. Bain
Seneca
J. B. Rumbaugh
Hakill
Sully
John Crynema
Bentohds
Jasper
Bessie
Peterson
Methodist Protestant Church
Senate kills code reform resolution in rebuke vote
The Blanchard introduced measure to nullify the code commission was postponed indefinitely by a 28 to 16 vote in the senate on Wednesday. The defeat serves as a sharp rebuke to the code croakers and ends the effort to curb the commission's work.
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Blanchard
Code Commission
Senate
Straw Hats and Tan Shoes In February
A midwinter picnic theme heats a gathering at the Van Court home with forty guests enjoying summer decor, luncheon, games, and music. Revival at the M E church draws large crowds as hundreds convert and plan a Jubilee service. A wedding at Levi Irwin’s farm unites Ella Irwin and Will Moore. The February district court term opens with equity cases heard and a grand jury panel announced.
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District Court
Ryan
Grand Jury
Foremaner
W. L. Hoxelwin
A. P. Hedberg
G. Hain
McCoy
Representative Wells Named to Broad Committee Slate
Representative Wells serves on Municipal Corporations Agriculture and High Animal in 4 Township Organization Pardons Woman Suffrage Industrial Schools and Constitutional Amendments committees according to the speaker Byers.
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Wells
Byers
City Council Notes Cost of Electric Plant and Reelection
Regular meeting led by Mayor Lufkin with cost figures for extending the electric plant, including engines dynamos and labor. David B Kuhn re elected cemetery sexton. Election officers appointed for wards one and three. dog tax collection referred to health committee.
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Kuhn
Sexton
Lufkin
Ways and Means
Central Electric Co
Globe
Lan Kennedy
Stallings
John Wie
John Young
Miles Towsley
Bo Frank Smith
Ross Heey
Dennis Be
von McKeen
Dick Richanom
Flekinger
Dick Muton A. Cary
Han FL. Maytag
A.D. Hanson
Schaumburg
Cam
Iowa
Sioux City Tron Works
Tsee Ameters
Gemen Central Electric Co
Lambert Bros
Hewyer Sos
McKinley
Edcook
Meyer
Lambert
Board of Supervisors
Noah Hays
Frank Wilson
David B. Kuhn
G. L. Bates
City of
Newton
Judiciary Committee
James Dixon
Bergman
Fred Green
Johin Young
John Miller
Ibford
Lorand Win
McGregor
Win
Amos and
Thos
McManigal
C. Lamb
F . Ruswell
Hard
Sam Reed
Health Committee
Mrs O G Lewis Seeks New Farm Location in Jasper County
Mrs O G Lewis of Marenban has been in town for several days returning home yesterday. Her husband, Mr Lewis, wealthy and reputed to own a large farm in Iowa County, visited to scout another location. He may return and buy a farm in Jasper County becoming a permanent resident.
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O. G. Lewis
Maren
Lewis
Iowa County
Jasper County
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Gton
D.C
Atwood
Folles
Ile da
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van Court
Boreas
Stella von Court
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Cowan
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M. E. Church
Earnest Earley
Levi Irwin
Ella
Will Moore
Someon
Durant
Harrison Moore
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