Various local visitors and events gathering in Pella town
A roundup of visits by Mrs Baer Mrs Stubenrauch and others from Des Moines Knoxville Chicago and Des Moines area to Pella. Attends a marriage in Mayor Hubers home notes excursions to Ames Oska loosa and Prairie City. Preparations for graduation and a planned Fourth of July address by J B Sullivan are described with college notes and local civic activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. D. Stubenrauch
Des Moines
M.s. Lafayette Collins
Knoxville
M. Porter
Oskaloosa
Eli Wheeler
Sam de Cook
Pella
Ames
A. Brown
Chicago
W. W. Brown
Old Central
We Have Your Hammock We Have Your Hammock
We offer a new hammock line promising greater comfort than prior years. Manufacturers continually improve construction and, at any price, a hammock to suit you is available. See the full line soon to ensure you get the one you ought to have.
Buck Declared Not Insane by Sheriff in Prairie City
Sheriff Moberly of Newton discusses Millard Buck who shot William Porter in Prairie City. He doubts Buck is insane and says he is closely watched, believing Buck is sane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buck
Satan
Millard Buck
Sheriff Moberly
Newton
Wm. Porter
Prairie City
Ee Ok
Gospel Temperance Conference Call in St Louis 1904
A call invites all interested in gospel temperance evangelistic meetings to St Louis during the world’s fair. The conference opens at Epworth Hotel auditorium on Sunday July 3 1904. The appeal urges churches nationwide to observe the date with a special service and reach the masses. Attendees are asked to contact A L Morse care Hotel Epworth St Louis Mo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Epworth Hotel
America
A. L. Morse
Care Hotel
Epworth
Local Notes and Visits Highlight Community Weekend
Durham H Miller brightened his east-side premises with new paint. Mr and Mrs James Morris of Tracy visited relatives Saturday night and Sunday. Rumor spread that W H Cummings bought the Gaass farm of eighty acres one mile south of town. Sunday school held a children day program at the M E church with a full house and good time. Mrs C H Durham and Misses Ethel and Fay Roberts traveled to Des Moines Sunday by Wabash to visit relatives and tour sights, returning late.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Morris
Tracy
W. H. Cummings
M. E. Church
C. H
Durham
Ethel
Fay Roberts
Des Moines
The Sweet Girl Graduate Commencement Verse
A poem about a June commencement and the celebrated graduate. It playfully presents her as ready to speak on cash as evil, China and its blue, Julius Caesar’s death, Italy’s aging, and moral dawn before the darkest hour. The lay blends satire with school day triumph and worldly claims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Julius Caesar
Italy
Alps
Chicago Great Western Rails Special to St Joseph Kansas City
A notice states on June 25 at 10 30 p m the Chicago Great Western Railway will operate a popular special coach and sleeping car excursion to St Joseph and Kansas City Tickets are valid for two days for details contact E J Sawyer city ticket agent 5154 Walnut Street Des Moines Iowa
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Great Western Railway
St. Joseph
Kansas City
E. J. Sawyer
Walnut Street
Des Moines
Iowa
June American Boy front cover note and youth content
The June issue opens with a front cover design showing a healthy American boy throwing a ball over home plate. It highlights continued stories like Kirk Munroe's The Blue Dragon and W. J. Roe’s Camps and Campaigns of Washington, plus many articles aimed at American youth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kirk Munroe
W. J. Roe
Washington
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Baer
Seth Way
City
Huber
Jacob Dingeman
Nellie Koopmans
W. H. Fowler
Sully
H. Kuyper & Son
Arch Butts
de Bie
Maggie
Nettie van Gorp
P. Johnson
Bessie Butts
Carson
Paardekooper
Tennis Kaldenberg
Wm. Koopmans
John van Gorp
Maggie de Reus
Meyer Langerak
Des Moines Daily News
Des Moines College
First Baptist
Stella Rich
Henry G. Cox
A. V. McIntire
Taintor
Udell Hendricks
Charley Brand
Brand
Chronicle
Amelia Bolhuis
van Nimwegen
Bolhuis
John H. Ver Steeg
Sunny Slope
John
J. H. Cole
Miller
South Dakota
Central College
Cyrenus
Cedar Rapids
J. B. Sullivan
Sullivan
A. W. Fish
Fish
Call For A Gospel Temperance Conference
H. Miller
The
Sweet Girl
W. A. Morris
Pittsburg
A. N. Kayeer
Dementico
A. N. Kuyper
A.N. Kuyper
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