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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1905
Page
7
Our fountain attracts more visitors daily to enjoy our delicious beverages. The soda is praised as excellent and enjoyable beyond thirst or heat, with some noting this year’s soda surpasses last year’s. We invite you to taste our soda anytime.
A large crowd of about 600 leading citizens in Oskaloosa debated and supported a plan for an interurban line to Buxton and to the Monroe and Marion counties. The project requires about $100,000 in funding to proceed.
Major Lacey chaired the meeting where a resolution pledged cure the road. David R. Francs of St Louis and N B E O Neill presented the proposition for an interurban system. The plan targets operation by April 1906 and full completion by October 1906, linking Ottumwa Os kaloosa via Nddyville with a $4.5 million capitalization including $3 million in bonds. John Scullin, linked to Frisco expansion, is named amid remark about a prior life sentence and confinement in Anamosa asylum.
Millard Buck, son of EB Buck, is confined in the Anamosa hospital for the insane after a three day visit by EB Buck. The condition is unchanged with physical weakness and bed rest most of the time. Mental state is very discouraging. the hospital physician offers little hope. He is quiet and tractable with a pleasant single room since transfer from Ft Madison about six weeks ago. Prairie City News. Millard Buck is the man who was?
One of the county's largest land transactions closes with five hundred acres of coal land sold to George H. Ramsay of Oskaloosa by Williams Brothers of Beacon for 44,155 dollars. The tract lies eight miles southwest of Oskaloosa along the planned interurban route to Buxton, signaling development of another mining camp.
Fred W. Else of Mt. Pleasant was elected superintendent of the Oskaloosa schools amid a field of fifty applicants. The selection sets the district’s leadership for the coming term.
About twenty-five Italian laborers employed for two weeks on the sewer in Knoxville went on strike Friday morning after two of their number were discharged the preceding evening. The next morning they warned Foreman Brennin that if the man discharged was not reinstated, all would quit. The foreman refused to reinstate him, and the workers then marched off.
The narrative notes that crews move to the eastern town area where two tents will serve as lodging and boarding sites. About a dozen American workmen have been secured to fill the positions.
Frank Sherman, a 14 year old, was instantly killed when he fell between coal car wheels on a Wabash train near Tracy. He lived with his widowed mother a quarter mile north of the Tracy station and was possibly riding the car when the accident occurred. The deceased was a half brother of Mrs. W A Lyman of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Lyman have gone to Tracy for the funeral.
The Chicago Great Western rail way will on May 2 and 16 and June 20 sell homeseekers tickets to the North Northwest South Southwest and Midwest at greatly reduced round trip rates. Also on May 9 and June 18 and 27 tickets to Minnesota Dakotas and Canadian Northwest. Information available from any Great Western agent or J P Elmer G P A St Paul Minnesota. The largest variety of Walking Skirts at Wormhoudt's.
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