Arrivals and Dinners Highlight Local News
A local dinner party hosted by Mr. and Mrs. J D Lemon drew guests by the country home. Attendees included Robert Lemon and wife Mia, John McCall and family, and Dr I G Fintrock, newly arriving osteopath at the Star grocery corner. Graders finish Kalona ditch work and return home. A lively school meeting debated whether secret societies benefit the community, with Alf Chilcote and Miss Darbyshire on the negative side.
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Wood
John Bellville
Alf Chilcote
Miss Darbyshires
Chilcote
Wreck and racing tale color a Cedar Valley dispatch
Depositors are asked to leave pass books for credit of interest to Jan 1. S. E. Sage of the third ward, formerly with the Kephart grading crew, returned from Wellman and county areas reporting a wagon wreck on Camp Creek. A team ran onto a bridge, a 30 bushel corn load broke loose, and the wagon plunged fifteen feet. Sage’s own team race with a passing man ended when an scraper axle broke, sending a wheel into a cornfield.
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Citizens Savings Bank
Coas H. Kee
S. E. Sage
Third Ward
Kephart
Wellman
Journal
Camp Creek
Mr. Sage
Washington
Highland Wedding Near Bethel In 1901 Chronicle
Miss Della Owen and Mr Frank Wilson wed at the Owen home in Highland township with Rev Emer son officiating and about thirty guests. They will reside on a farm in the township. Also notes on travel to Chicago for music study and local church events plus a cottage prayer meeting and a product advertisement.
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Della Owen
Frank Wilson
Bethel
Della E Owen
H. T. Owen
Highland Township
Emerson
Riverside
United Brethren Church
Uniondale
Owen
Wilson
W. A. Wilson
Nine Smallpox Cases Reported in Caledonia Families
Baraboo Wisconsin January 3 nine cases of smallpox are reported in the Shaughnessy and Dunnigan families in Caledonia town eight miles east of Baraboo. Quarantine began Monday. The Shaughnessy home serves as the post office exposing hundreds who called for mail. Epidemic fears rise. disease described as mild and no deaths yet.
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Baraboo
Wis
Shaughnessy
Dunnigan
Caledonia
Hydrophobia toll from dog bite shocks Illinois town
Nashville Illinois reports 10 year old Valentine Lehr dies after hydrophobia symptoms follow a dog bite nine months earlier. Hefroths and struggles during a school recitation. Separate briefs note U S district judge bars Chicago gas ordinance enforcement, Cullom support in Illinois, Maurice Thompson’s improving health, General Alger’s partial recovery, and Queen Victoria planning a French visit in March or April.
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Nashville
Ill
Valentine Lehr
John Lehr
Hecker
Century stake at Coney Island Jockey Club for 1901
The century stake of the Coney Island Jockey Club for 1901 stands at $10,000. Paul Kruger is laid up at The Hague with bronchitis.
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Coney Island Jockey Club
Paul Kruger
The
Hague
Pick Ups and Local Visitants Across Region
A series of short notes lists residents and visitors: Clyde Maxwell of Havre visited the city. Ella McNeil returned from Havre. W Ferguson and wife came back from Clarinda. Ortus Adams left to finish medical studies in Chicago. Mrs. Smith and daughter from Des Moines visited at the W Nelson home. Mrs. S A Moore from Burlington returned home after visiting her son Frank. Smith Riley plans to move to David Stewart farm east of town after purchasing it. Mr. and Mrs. Carson of Columbus Junction and C A Sigafoose of Council Bluffs visited the Wm Sigafoose home. Mr. and Mrs. John Green of Seventy-Six and guests from near Peoria Ill visited J F Simpson’s country home before leaving.
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Rockford, Ill
Daily Star
Tim Murphy
Sol Smith Russell
Sol
Murphy
Rockford
Martha Morton
Mr. Russell
David Holmes
Mr. Murphy
Russell
Dorothy Sherrod
Clyde Maxwell
Havre
Ella McNeil
Ferguson
Clarinda
Ortus Adams
Chicago
S. A. Moore
Burlington
Frank
Smith Riley
Washington
David Stewart
Carson
Columbus Junction
C. A. Sigafoose
Councill Bluffs
Wm. Sigafoose
John Green
Peoria
Ill
J. F Simpson
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Mercer & Chilcote
CMM
Graham Opera House
Wrarri
Sol. Smith Russell
Mr. Tim. Murphy
Rowland & Shields
West Side
Stewart's
Masonic Lodge
Lettsville
Muscatine
East Side
Lemmon & Lewis Jewelers
Solbrig Repair Shop
Joseph Pollard, Jr
Iowa
Vien’s West
Harwood, Soutm
J.D. Lemon
Wm. Nicholson
L McCauley
Geo. Corbin
J. H. Kephart
I. G. Fintrock
Ottumwa School
Star
Fintrock
English River Township
Temple
Mise Ola Hamilton
Crawfordaville
0. W. Melanwhiin
Red
Bowland X Shields
W. Et
Mr. Johnson
Mollie Flater
Cedar Valley Correspondence Muscatine Journal
Dingie
Stuart
Golden Buck
Asa Reed
Buffalo
N. Y
West Chester
Birdie Crayne
C. Bray
Elmer Thoma
T. P Harbaugh
J. B. Crayne
Jacob Anderson
Keota
John P. D. John
John
GC. H. Wilson
Bro. Pulaski Maxwell
John Ingham
Lewis Klein
W. A. Moore
Scureckengast
Stewart’s
Boy
Kohleaat
United States District Court
People’s Gas Light and Coke Company
Odin
Ills
Forty-Second
Republican Senatorial Committee
Stelly M. Cullom
Senate of the United States
Maurice Thompson
Crawfordsville
Ind
A. B. Ballard
Tampa
Fila
Gen. Alger
Detroit
Alger
Lansing
France
Osborne
Isle of Wight
Victoria
Cimiez
Jerce
Alice E. Casebier
Crawford, Dawes Co
Neb
Lonsdale
Hill
A. Ki. Stiller & Sohn
Soran
Germany
New York
Stote
Lowes
Defender
Ohio
California
Baird & Bailey
Thalaphone
Temple Pharmacy
Lemple Pharmacy
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