Aunt Esther Ridley of Estherville Dies at 90
The town mourns Mrs. Ann Allen Ridley first white woman in Emmet County and namesake of Estherville Park. Born 1832 in Maine she and husband Robert Ridley helped settle Estherville and donated land for the Methodist church. Survived by husband, daughter Annie Dana, son George Ridley, 11 grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren. one daughter Evelyn Hoover predeceased. Funeral in the Methodist church with Rev. E. E. Evans and others officiating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fisther Ann Allen
New Prlocester
Maine
John
Sarah Bennett Allen
Robert Je. Ridley
Brunswick
Iowa
Dubuque
Estherville
Des Moines
Emmet County
Ridley
Annie J. Dana
Sparta
Wisconsin
George E. Ridley
Cheyenne
Wyoming
Sherman
Free Baptist Church
Bath
Methodist Church
Old Free Baptist'meeting
Union Baptist Church
Paris
Meyer
M. J. Groves
A. O. Petersen
Chas, Barber
W. J. Pullen
N. B. Silcox
W.P. Galloway
Ira Stanley
Moe
Lyman
Cox
Myhre
Jesus
Mitchell
E. E. Evans
J. Frederic Catlin
Mr. Torbett
C. D. Priest
Bugineas
Draft notices issued for class one men in Emmet county
Notices were sent to the remainder of the boys in class number one to report for medical examination before the examining draft board in the city. The next quota of fifteen is expected around April 15 and similar numbers each month thereafter. France and Camp Dodge will keep the camps filled as men are released, with Emmet county expected to supply about fifteen monthly. B. B. Anderson has sold two car loads of wheat to local farmers at $2.25 a bushel, government guaranteed, signaling a favorable spring for seedings and optimism for 1918.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birney
Wilson
France
Dodge
Emmet County
B. B. Anderson
Richardson Brothers
Dodge Brothers
Estherville
Death Valley
Notion
O. K. Parker
Los Angeles
Richardson
MISS WALKER MONQKED IN FRANCE NURSE SERVICE
A long column recounts Miss Ethel Waller who joined the Red Cross nursing corps in France and later went to New York then to embark for new duties. It notes Mary Baby Clarence Johnson enlisting in the U S Navy, and Lt. Robert Case’s return from Fort Leavenworth to visit family before transfer to Fort Sheridan. Roscoe Tilla leaves for Camp Dodge to join the Hospital Corps with local well wishes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ethel Waller
Prades
Aes
Ml Groves
Vivyar Crayis
Misa Sybbadie
Ure City Hospital
Warani
France
New York
Mary Baby
Clarence Johnson
Mrnday
Chicago
U. S. Navy
Clarence
Estherville
Great Lakes
Roscoe Tilla
Gardston
Camp Dodge
Hospital Corps
Tila
Local Cedar Rapids Obituary And Civil Tragedy Report
Mrs. Jack Riley, longtime Cedar Rapids resident and wife of conductor Jack Riley who killed himself on a passenger train between Dows and Germania, dies after months of illness. Also notes a quiet Union Baptist wedding of Charles Burger and Winsie Cory, with the bride’s mother present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aed Wiley
Jackley
Cedar Rapids
Epie
Jack Riley
Dows
Germania
Obituary and local notices from Estherville 1918
Arthur Peterson dies in Colorado Springs after tuberculosis fight. Funeral held in Estherville with Christian influence noted. Also school roll of honor and a house fire at Mrs George Myers residence described with fire department response and insurance coverage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Peterson
C. J. Lungren
Colorado Springs
Colorado
Estherville
Union Baptist Church
Peterson
Langren
Genevieve Strait
Burnside
George Arthur Peterson
Chas
Anna Peterson
Webster County
Iowa
Webster Countty
Paterson
The
Christian Church
Catlin
Gustafson
Spencer
Town
Oak Hill Cemetery
Geo. Myers
West Third Avenue
H C Moss Delivers Splendid Talk in Dutch Room
H C Moss of Des Moines spoke in the Graaf Dutch Room Tuesday evening before a large audience of town and farm business men. He outlined the Greater Iowa Association’s aim to unite farm and town business interests and traced the nonpartisan league’s origins in North Dakota and Minnesota, arguing it harmed farmers while the Greater Iowa Association built up towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. C. Moss
Des Moines
Greater Iowa Association
Graaf Dutch Room
Moss Firet
Gerater Jown Association
Non Partisan League
North Dakota
North
Kota
Minnesota
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Robert E. Ridley
Aunt Esther
Stherville
Woman's Relief Corps
W. CD. U
Esther
Post
Tennyson
Thin County
MR. and
Mrs
R. E. Ridley
Miss Walker
Tiandaml Scheu
Robert Case Home
Robert Case
Fort Leavenworth
Kansas
W. A. Case
Case
Fort Sheridan
Roscoe Tila
Bysmad
Fay
Satta Paakteter
Mets
York
Tae
Benny
Bertie Theta
O'Connor
Somme
Grand Theater
Elizabeth Andreae
Stephen Andreae
Herman Becker
Dorothy Beymer
Alice Bingham
Virgie Bond
Creta Brown
Alice Bucy
Bernice Case
Elizabeth Clarey
Burton Clark
Avia Cole
Hazel Dickerson
Iva Eastman
Beatrice, French
Vidia Gilbert
Ruth Gorton
Wilma Gronstal
Maude Hamilton
Blanch Harper
Ethel Irwin
Gordon Lapham
Coral Larson
Elida Larson
Iva Larson
Mathilda Lippert
Pauline Lippert
Frances Long
Ethel Mathews
Helen McClurg
Ellen Olgan
Zanna Osgood
Ralph Packard
Hazel Rokenbrodt
Sigward Sevatson
Marie Staggs
Leta Stone
Jennie Sutton
Alice Tangen
Hazel Thompson
Georgette Thorndyke
Viale Weir
Clara Wicks
Ethel Yeager
Blanche Young
Moss
Towna
Farnes
Clenrly
Hig
Ro Bn Farm
Miller & Farrington
Sioux Falls
Totel
Geo, Groves
Miller
Martin Achgol
District No. 3
Red Cross
Apives Knight
Famous Motion
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