Local notes on visits licenses and travel in West Chester
Local item list includes a marriage license issued to Harrison B Alli man and Edna Hazel Caldwell. Mentions Luella Shaw M D, Mrs Miles Bradford visiting West Chester, and several residents traveling for business or visiting relatives. Also notes cold weather with a low near zero and Ward McCutcheon’s Indianapolis trip and the Crone family's move to Idaho Falls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrison B. Alliman
Edna Hazel Caldwell
Funeral Services for Warfel and Maxwell Figures
The funeral for Mrs Susanah G Warfel was held at the L J Cherry residence with Rev W O Fisher and Rev W R Sawhill officiating. Interment was in City Cemetery with pallbearers John Stewart George Stewart Allen Stewart John Taylor T J McElhinney and Charles Corrett. The funeral for Mrs Pulaski Maxwell was delayed to 5 pm due to a late Rock Island train. Services were at the Methodist church led by Rev A S Smith with special music by the Methodist quartet. Interment followed at Elm Grove Cemetery with pallbearers A Hunter Harry Kracaw G W Hobson G G Sigler W W Wilson Roy Schiebel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. J. McElhinney
Charles Corrett
G. G. Sigler
W. W. Wilson
Roy Schiebel
Letter Writing in Antiquity Tablets and Wax
Ancient methods used tree leaves for letters and the inner bark of the linen tree inspired a word for a book. Wax tablets were popular, offering a smooth surface for writing with a stylus.
Father and lover argue over late visit timing
Dialogue from the Houston Post shows a couple negotiating a late stay with the father. The suitor plans to arrive just before the expected 11 pm departure, aiming to please the father by arriving at 10:55.
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Houston Post
Box Supper At Salem School
A box social will be held at the Salem school in Jackson No 3 on Thursday night January 16. Bring untrimmed boxes and everyone is invited. Teacher Della F Saur signs the notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salem School
Jackson
No. 3
Della F. Saur
Fifty Years Ago in the War Bayou Teche Action
A Federal force led by General Godfrey Weitzel attacks Confederates under General Richard Taylor on Bayou Teche. The Cotton gunboat is burned, Weitzel’s land column advances, and Vermonters seize Confederate pits amid heavy fighting. The sequence includes naval and land operations, casualties, and the broader context of the Port Hudson/Vicksburg theater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisiana Bayous
Godfrey Weitzel
Richard Taylor
Bayou Teche
Geo L. Kilmer
U.S. Vv
Mississippi River
Parragut
New Orleans
Vicksburg
N. P. Banks
Benjamin F. Butler
President Lincoln
Mississippi
Port Hudson
Banks
Eighth
Vermont
Dutton
Seventy-fifth
New York
J. E. Whiteside
Fuller
Calhoun
Buchanan
Weitzel
Navy
Eighth Vermont
Louisiana
Teche
Cotton
Alfred Mouton
Berwick Bay
Taylor
B. W. Puller
Rotilla
Champel
T. McKean Buchanan
Estrella
Diana
Kinsman
Whiteside
Jeader
Vermonters
Ned
Baton Rouge
de Kalb
Indiana Volunteers
Duval's Bluff
Des Arcs
Arkansas River
J. A. McClerpand
Fort Hindman
Sith
Napoleon
Grant
A. E. Burnside
Fredericksburg
Rappahannock
Army of the Potomac
Burnside
Alabama
Good Roads Meet Held Here Today
The largest good roads gathering in Washington county Iowa is under way at the Commercial club gymnasium. About 200 attendees from eastern Iowa and local residents heard welcomes from Washington officials and speeches by A R Miller and Don McClure as committees convene and reports proceed this afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Commercial Club
Miss Houdek
W. M. Keeley
Good Roads Association
Good Roads
I-O
A. R. Miller
The
Democrat
Miller
Washington
California
Keeley
Mr. Keeley
Washington County
Don McClure
McClure
Don
Peterson
Special Bath Tub for Taft Suite at Hotel Taft
New Haven January 14 The Hotel Taft will provide a special eight by four by four foot bath tub for President Taft to occupy a sixth floor suite that includes six bedrooms a study and a dining room. Taft will visit Yale next week then move to New Haven after his inauguration plans to be in residence until next fall when he will lease a house and begin law lectures in the fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haven
Conn
Taft
Yale
Yale Corporation
Wilson
Taftum
Kert
Also Mentioned on This Page
Luella Shaw, M.D
Miles Bradford
Wm. Lowash
West Chester
Joe Sumerman
Montgomery City
I. Klein
Davenport
Marguerite Cherry
Mes Moines
S. W. Neal
Gele Ferguson
Havre
J. G. Kelly
Beardstown
Charles Long
Burlington
W. A. Harper and Son
Carroll
Crawfordsville
T. W. Rickey
Arthur Wylie
Ohio
Lorien Neal
Muscatine
M Irs
Gussie Mull
Evenine
D. B. McBride
Winfield
Ainsworth
United Presbyterian Church
Ward McCutcheon
Indianapolis
Ind
John Ward
H. Bell Carriage Shop
L. AK. Schilling
Harry Crone
Idaho Falls
Idaho
Mr. Farmer
CLAN
AL le
Robbins
Orm
Lemmon’ Sepharmacy
Washington, Iowa
Pedrmhal Seauler
Bayou Thoche
Galveston
Hatteras
Lincvin
Congress
Aemy
Review of Reviews Company
New Haven Hotel
Will
J. A. Harwood
Marco
John S. Stewart
West Side
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