Cummins Wins Iowa Republican Nomination for Third Term
The Iowa Republican convention nominated Governor Albert B Cummins for a third term with a progressive platform. Delegates backed Cummins Garst and the ticket amid a party united against corporate domination and committed to primary reforms anti pass laws and tariff protection. The keynote praised Theodore Roosevelt and vowed a strong campaign for November.
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Iowa
Albert B. Cummins
Cummins Sand Gerst
George D. Perkins
Cummins
Garst
Electric Light Plant Sold for 3000 Acres in Kansas
A deal last week traded the local electric light plant to A J McCall of Des Moines for 3000 acres of Kansas land. J R Gladstone acted as agent for Buwalda Brothers. Gerritt Buwalda and party inspected the Kansas land and praised its quality. Contracts signed and possession to follow. plans for relocation remain unclear.
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A. J. McCall
Des Moines
Kansas
Gladstone
Buwalda Brothers
Gerritt, Buwalds
Towa Prairie
Severn Named Trustee After Huber Resigns
The resignation of D. B. Huber from the library trustees prompts the mayor to appoint Professor H. A. Severn as trustee in his stead.
Jelsma Hayes Wed In Newton On August First
Jelsma and Miss N Lenora Hayes united in marriage at the brides home in Newton at noon on Wednesday August 1. The couple left for a westward tour and will reside in Perth after September 1 in the new home Mr Jelsma built in West Pella. Friends extend best wishes for a long and happy life.
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Newton
James S. Jelsma
N. Lenora Hayes
Perth
Jelsma
West Pella
Central College awards contract for president's house
Central College has let the contract for a president's house to K. Ver Hey. The brick building will stand east of the Auditorium on the Stoddard lot and will be two stories with a basement containing ten rooms. Materials are being hauled to the site and completion is expected this fall.
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Central College
K. Ver Hey
Verhey
Ducky Van Rees Fined for Bootlegging in City Court
Henry Van Rees known as Ducky appeared before the Mayor on bootlegging charges. He pled guilty and paid the prescribed fine and costs. He supplied whiskey to younger boys, one of whom was jailed, then confessed accomplices leading to more possible arrests.
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Henry van Rees
Ducky
van Rees
Contracts by Mail Telegraph and Telephone Rules
Article discusses how offers and acceptances are bound when sent by mail telegraph or telephone. It explains that acceptance must be communicated or received to form a contract and notes differences in Massachusetts and New York law. Telewords and phonograph issues are considered, with guidance to specify when acceptance becomes binding.
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Detroit
New York
Massachusetts
Oskaloosa Times and Record Consolidate Under New Ownership
The Oskaloosa Times and Oskaloosa Record announce a consolidation to form a single paper. H. S. Rosecrans now controls the Times with J. H. Plewwelling, planning to merge the two plants within weeks, reducing local competition to three papers.
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Oskaloosa Times
Oskaloosa Record
Times and Record
Oskaloosa
Herald
Republican
Times-Record
Democrat
Independent
L. G. Ballengee
Pella
Times
H. 8. Rosecrans
Mr. Rosecrans
J. H. Flenwelling
H. S. Rosecrans
J. HE. Plewwelling
Oskaloosa Herald
Miners and wagon workers play baseball at athletic field
The Dieleman coal miners and the Buerkens wagon factory boys contested a baseball game last Saturday with the Buerkens tallying 13 to the miners. Also notes of a Baptists Sunday school picnic at Big Rock and local folks earning praise for catching flies and fighting bumble bees. express reports thousands of cherry baskets shipped from Pella this season and travel there daily for twenty eight days. Miss Minnie Deedyns returns to Omaha for a two week visit with relatives.
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Dieleman
Buerkens Wagon Factory
Buerkens Boys
Baptisl
Big Rock
Young
van den Berg
Express
Pella
Pallas
Minnie Deedyns
Omaha
John
Church Services and Pastors Directory Feature
A list of churchs with pastors and service times. Rev A LeGrand Rev F C Edwards Rev 8S Van der Werf and Rev Wm J Van Kersen offer Sunday schools preaching times language notes and evening themes including Washed white not whitewashed and The blessed assurance.
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A. LeGrand
F.C. Edwards
Epworth
Syria
van der Werf
Wm. J. van Kersen
O. B
Second Reformed Church Supports Arabian Missionary
Rev. W. J. Van Kersen organized a church syndicate from the Second Reformed church to fund Miss Bessie Mybrea, a missionary in Arabia. Pledges reach 8500 dollars yearly, making the church’s missionary contributions around one thousand dollars annually.
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W. J. van Kersen
Second Reformed Church
Arabia
President Garrison to Fill Pulpit and Attend Funeral
President Garrison rushed to Ottumwa to conduct the funeral of Mrs. Common, aged Baptist member and former admirer of the doctor. He departs for Cambridge Mass to supply the First Baptist pulpit next Sunday and then speaks at Randolph and Reading, Mass., as part of a schedule tied to a Carnegie offer for the college. Local visits include Rev Fred Donovan and Miss Wthel Webb. other relatives and travelers are noted with brief movements and mishaps in Des Moines and Bona parte.
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Garrison
Ottumwa
Common
Baptist Church
Cambridge
Mass
First Baptist Church
Randolph
Reading
East
Carnegie
Fred Donovan
Central
John B. Stetson University
Florida
Newton Center
LeGrand
Wthel Webb
Spirit Lake
Monroe
Libbe Cox
Counc!l Bluffs
Des Moines
Girl Cut by Scythe Receives Six Stitches in Foot
In a yard accident on Wednesday morning little Beatrice Bolon ran into a scythe left by a gardener mowing the lawn. She sustained a deep cut, six stitches were required, and she is currently recovering and doing well.
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Beatrice Bolon
Deaths of DeHaan and McAdoo in Pel la area
Deaths reported of DeHaan aged 76 living southeast of Pella who died at home on Monday July 30. Also Samuel McAdoo an elderly man living at Runnels and well known in Pel la died at his home on Wednesday.
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Tennis DeHaan
Pella
Samuel McAdoo
Runnels
R. A. Marshall
North Side
S. H. Mears
Mr. Marshall
Local Exhibit Promotes Colorado Grain Lands
P. O. Lankelma Jr displays grain samples including wheat speltz and rye from the South Platte Valley at Platte and Vander Linden's meat shop. He acts as agent for lands in the region offering homeseekers bargains. Ernest Shutts, Chronicle patron, notes crops in his Sully area good but needing more moisture after a shower last Saturday, especially where manure was spread.
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P. O. Lankelma, Jr
Platte
Vander Linden
South Platte Valley
Colorado
Ernest Shutts
Chronicle
Sully
Vandrimmelen & Davis Rebrands as Land and Loan Co
Real estate firm changes name to VanDrimmelen & Davis Land and Loan Co with a Knoxville and new Pella office. VandDrimmelen to run Pella, Davis stays in Knoxville. Business to focus on buying selling farms city property Canadian lands and loans. Also reports several local injuries and a drug store sale to J H Power of Cincinnati Iowa.
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Vandrimmelen & Davis
Vandrimmelen & Davis Land and Loan Co
Pella
Vandrimmelen
Mr. Davis
Knoxville
Hall Drug Store
J. H. Power
Cincinnati
Iowa
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