Convicted critic Blodgett faces long federal sentence
In a letter from an Iowa city, C C Pugh reports Blodgett, once a candidate for Congress, convicted on multiple counts of disloyalty and sentenced to twenty years at Fort Leavenworth. The piece praises his wife’s devotion, urges clothing drives for Belgium, and comments on coal pricing and wartime training at Camp Dodge.
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Man Blodgett
Congress
Blodgett
Tuia
bin Zoing
Fort Leavenworth Penitentiary
Thomas Ray
The
Tribune
Iowa
Ray
Earnest tone boosts Taft support and local editors
The piece lauds President Taft as popular in military circles and visits the cantonment for three days seen as a soldierly event. It also congratulates Editor Blake of The Pocahontas Record for 1917 business and urges recognition for local newspaper leaders. Faville and Healy formed a strong Iowa law firm. The pork industry aims to grow hog numbers in Iowa pending a normal pig year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taft
Taft—tmany
Blake
Pocahontas Record
F. F. Faville
Storm Lake
Fort Dodge
Robert Healy
Fred Faville
Faville & Healy
Special election on bonds for Des Moines Township school
A special election will be held February 2 1918 in Pocahontas Iowa for the Consolidated Independent School District of Des Moines Township. Voters will decide on issuing sixteen thousand dollars in bonds to complete and equip the district schoolhouse now under construction. Voting hours are 1 PM to 6 PM at the schoolhouse on Section Fifteen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Afl
Ailké
Des Moines
Garfield
Town Press Association
Roosevelt
Polk
Warren
Marion
Altoona Herald
Saint Robert Disct
Des Moines Township
Pocahontas
Iowa
Independent Consolidated School District
Section Fifteen
Consolidated Independent School District
State of
Rolfe
W. S. Watson
Sect. Board of Directors
Notice in Probate to Attend Court in Pocahontas Iowa
Notice to appear at the Court House in Pocahontas Iowa on January 30 1918 at 2 pm to attest the will of Thomas W Pierpoint late of Pocahontas County now deceased and show cause why the will should not be admitted to probate. Signed by W E Bollard Clerk of District Court Pocahontas Iowa December 22 1917.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pocahontas
Iowa
Thomas W. Pierpoint
Devengey
Pocahontas County
Pocahoy
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C. C. Pugh
Perry Chief
Belgium
G. McNeal
Schee Building
Ace
Scott Snyder
Monty
Henry VanDyke
Care Schee
W. 30Th St
Camp Dodger
Cantonment
Front
Lne
France
Camp Dodge
Tce
Nebraska
Council of Defense
Perry Tribune
A. A. Coates
the Tribune
Coates
W. B. Battenfield
Des Moines News
Rason
J. Cheney & Co
Cheney
National Bank OF
Cone
Hall
Avai
W. EB. Bollard
Mather Farm
Edgar Cornell
Deering
Milwaukee
John Deere
Rock Island
WM. Mather
Alfred Gadd
Grove & Lathrop
Jas. Bruce
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