Emmet County Republican Convention Call and 11th Ward Delegates
Emmet County Republican chairman M J Soeth issued the call for a county convention at the Court House on Feb 23 at 11 am to elect 12 delegates for the State convention in Des Moines on March 4 and 7 delegates and 7 alternates from each of 11 districts for the Republican National Convention. Township caucuses will be held Feb 19 at 7 pm to elect delegates. 79 delegates total with representation by township and votes cast in 1899. districts and townships listed. A Ku Klux Klan organizer spoke in Estherville Feb 11, with a cross burned after attendance by several hundred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. J. Soeth
Republican County Central Committee
Emmet County
Court House
Des Moines
Ku Klux Klan
Iowa Falls
K. of P. Hall
Armstrong
Gruver
Dolliver
Esthervill
Estherville
Gulla Menswang
Glenn
Brockway
Pearl Sweet
Glenn Brockway
Marie Caylor
Brooke Demarce
America
Justin Rogers
la Rue
Alice Knipe
Annual Gymnasium Exhibit At High School Gym
High School hosts annual Gymnasium Exhibit on Wednesday February 20 showcasing corrective calisthenics on the horse and parallel bar routines, springboard dives, and tumbling with entries by freshmen girls and advanced elective classes. Directors Miss Wartzman and Mr Sauerman supervise a program with Ruth Dayton at the piano.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minuet
Wartzman
Sauerman
Ruth Dayton
Youth killed by shotgun at Manley incident name Earl Burier
Earl Barrier sixteen year old son of Mrs Joe Barrier died Monday at Manley from a gunshot wound in the right shoulder. He was hunting with a friend when the gun dropped on ties and exploded as they crossed a track Sunday afternoon. The Burrier family were former residents of this city. Mrs Burrier is a daughter of John Osborn who left as soon as word arrived and stayed at Manley until the end. The body will be brought here tonight for burial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl Barrier
Joe Barrier
Manley
Burrier
John Osborn
Standard Oil Men Attend Banquet and Instructional Session
The Standard Oil Co held a school of instruction and banquet for Estherville Field men at Gardston Hotel, Earl E. White in charge, with J M Stokes of Spencer assisting. Lectures covered oil products and work aspects. A 6 45 dinner followed a pleasant hour. Attendees included Nellis, Leland, McGuinn, Cronk, Hilgdebrand, Christen sen, Dake, Carnahan, Jones, and Brown. O N Ressell was in Des Moines Monday on legal business.
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Standard Oi Co
Estherville
Gardston Hotel
Earl E. White
J. M. Stokes
Spencer
Joe Nellis
Fenton
Leland
Swea City
W. J. McGuinn
Ringsted
Geo. Cronk
H. H.hilgdebrand
Armstrong
L. E. Christensen
Graettinger
R. E. Dake
H. .Carnahan
Lawrence Jones
The
Atty
O. N. Ressell
Des Moines
Florida Trip Notes On Bus Travel And Gasparilla Festivities
G A Nichols recounts Florida travel by auto bus from Sarasota to Tampa via paved routes, noting stable schedules and improving fair grounds at South Florida fair. He describes Gasparilla Day as a major Tampa event with floats and pageantry, plus family visits and citrus price deflation impacting the state, cold weather, and fashion notes on new bathing suit styles and seaside trends.
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Florida
Sarasota
South Florida
Strand
Tampa
New Orleans
Gasparilla
Gasparilla Island
Gulf of Theica
Tampa Bay
Winter Haven
Iowa
G. A. Nichols
Smith leaves Gooden Monument Co after thirteen years
Clint Smith resigns as Estherville branch manager of the Gooden Monument Co after thirteen years with Iden Monument Co. He will join Memorial Art Co of St. Cloud Minnesota and work on the road, dealing directly with purchasers. The firm notes it is a large operation handling orders of all sizes. The company begins search for his successor.
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Clint Smith
Iden Monument Company
Estherville
Memorial, Art Company of
St. Cloud
Minn
Godden Company
Smith
V-R
Purchasers of Long Property Move Here
Earl Fell has moved his carload of odds from Tipton and is ready to move onto the C I Long farm purchased last fall. He stays with A W Underwood and will be joined by his wife and daughter. Mrs Fell is sister to Mrs Underwood and niece to Mrs W A Stages. The Fells will remodel the farm buildings for poultry and dairy use and raise purebred Poland China hogs, going into each conservatively.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl Fell
Tipton
C. I. Long
A. W. Underwood
Young man insane from moonshine in Armstrong county
Thoryvald Strum a thirty six year old man from Armstrong was judged insane by the county insane commission after ten days of a renewed mental decline linked to corn stew drinking. Deemed physically weak and near death, he required support to stand during the hearing and was taken to Cherokee by deputy sheriff W G Gordon. Sorum, a single laborer in Armstrong, has a history of prior insanity episodes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thoryvald Strum
Armstrong
County Insane Commission
Emmet Couny
Soram
W. G. Gordon
Auto
Cherokee
Sorum
Study Center to Be Held Saturday at High School
County Superintendent Marie Sorum has arranged a program for the Study Center to be held in the High School building this city on Saturday Feb 16. R J J Abbott will discuss Naturé Study topics and Migs Eulalie Turner will give talks on reading.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marie Sorum
R. J. J. Abbott
Migs Eulalie Turner
Little Girl Severely Hurt On M and St L Turntable
Avis Lytle six year old daughter of Mr and Mrs J J Lytle was seriously injured when strong wind set a turntable in motion at the M and St L round house. She was pulled into the mechanism, suffered a diaphragmatic wound and spleen injury, was operated on by Dr Coleman at Coleman Hospital, and remained in serious but improving condition.
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Avis Lytle
J. J. Lytle
Avis
Jackson
M. St. L
Coleman Hospital
V.R
Irving Batcheller Novel Featured by Vindicator
In the Days of Poor Richard Irving Batchellers recent novel, secured for serial printing, weaves American history with romance. The work profiles Washington, Hamilton, Adams, Benedict Arnold and Franklin, framing a story of devotion to liberty and the signers of the founding document. Rev Newell Dwight Hillis hails Batcheller as a steady non sensationaliser whose visions lift the pilgrim spirit. The piece notes Batcheller’s long literary arc and his Americanism guiding creed.
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Richard
Irving Bachellor
Ben Franklin
America
Washington
Patrick Henry
Hamilton
Adams
Benedict Arnold
Batcheller
Bachellor
New England
Tife
Eben Holden
Newell Dwight Hillis
Spukeseenen
Bachelier
R Bishop Stuntz Stricken in Florida
Miami Feb 11 2 Dr Homer C Stuntz bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church for Iowa and Nebraska diocese was struck with paralysis while in Florida and removed to a sanitarium His left side is affected and he lies semi conscious He had planned to address gatherings and conduct the Florida conference before illness intervened
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Miami
Mia
Homer C. Stuntz
Omaha
Neb
The
Methodist Episcopal
Iowa
Nebraska
Florida
Isters
Gainsville
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al Free
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Gooden Monument CO
Thorvald “Strum
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Jessie Krieger
Violet Oswalt
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Vindicator
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Morse & Lee
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Sullivan Vs. Agnard
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Sven Agaard
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Hillestad
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