Des Moines Valley and B & Q Rail Timetables Compiled
Train schedules list Des Moines Valley Division departures and arrivals, connections at Knoxville and Washington, stock express, and daily trains with exceptions. Cedar Rapids Route timetables show north and south services, while B C R N Ry and Iowa lines provide further connections and transfer points.
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P. BR. R
Des Moines Valley Division
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Des Moines
Knoxville
Des M
Rock Island
Washington
Bl&n. W
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Owa
Mason City Mail
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Peoria
Pete
Mershalltown
Lows
May Vokes Stars in My Friend From India at Graham
The Myrom B Rice Comedy Company presents H A Du Souchet’s comedy My Friend From India at Graham this evening. Miss May Vokes headlines in Tilly the German maid with a new 600g dance and a strong Metropolitan cast including Walter Colligan Sidney Lee Lewis Peters Millard Simpson Gaunt Parry Luckstone Tapley Ewen Bover and Chase.
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Graham
Myrom B. Rice
H. A. du Souchet
Miss Vokes
Caat
Walter E Colligan
Lute Vrohman
Sidney Lee
Lewis Peters
Millard Simpson
Wm. T. Gaunt
Frank Parry
Oscar Luckstone
Rose Eli Tapley
Edna Ewen
Blanche Bover
Emma Chase
Seed and disinfectant ad promotes crop protection in Iowa
In Iowa counties farmers are urged to buy Young's Natl Seed and Plant disinfectant to insure corn against pests. The ad promises pest proof per acre and higher yields. Contact lock box 303 Alexis Illinois for agency. A fish pond and box supper at Dewey school house two miles southwest of Crawfordsville on Wednesday evening January 40 for the school library. Errit Nelson, Teacher.
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Lowa
Alexis, Lll
Crawfordsville
Errit Nelson
Taggart for Chairman Eyeing National Democratic Post
Friends of Mayor Thomas Taggart report a quiet push among national committee members with twenty three pledging their votes. Support spans the east and north with some in all regions, while timing varies for a party reorganization plan tied to the 1902 elections.
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Indianapolis
Thomas Taggart
National Democratic Committee
National Committee
Jones
Taggart
Prison for a Bigamist in Brooklyn Court
George W. Howard formerly of Cambridge Massachusetts pleaded guilty to bigamy for weding Helen P Hawkes daughter of a prominent Brooklyn official on September 17. Judge Hurd sentenced him to two years and ten months at hard labor in Sing Sing prison.
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New York
Brooklyn
Hurd
George W. Howard
Cambridge
Mass
Helen P. Hawkes
Sing Sing
Senator Alberson Purchases Home on Main Street
Senator A. N. Alberson purchased a new cottage and lot on Main Street next to the High School. He will move in May when possession is given by Ralph Smith.
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A. N. Alberson
Ralph Smith
Main Street
Mr. Alberson
Smith
Festival at A M E Church Thursday Evening
A festival is announced at the A M E church for Thursday evening. Everyone is invited to attend and enjoy a good time. Admission is free.
Reverend Renwick to Lead Evening Services at Second U P
Rev Renwick of Biggsville Illinois will conduct services at the Second U P church this evening at 7 30. Everybody invited.
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Renwick
Biggsville
U. P
Special Fee Rush Suffers Hip Injury Near Ainsworth
Jan 29 report from Ainsworth says Rush, living 1.5 miles northeast of town, slipped while doing chores and broke a hip. He is 76 and his physician declares his condition critical.
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Ainsworth
Rush
Here
Heir to Fortune Ties Keokuk County Farm Plans
In Keota, county farmers organized a mutual telephone company for 100 members. J B Eaton, co owner of a Keota drug store, becomes heir to a $40,000 estate from his brother in law who died in Terre Haute Indiana last week, with Eaton and another heir. He is traveling to Indiana to settle the estate.
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Keota
Keokuk County
Mutual Telephone Company
Keota la
J. B Eaton
Terre Haute
Ind
Nation Invades Kansas Governor Office Over Prohibition
Mrs. Carrie Nation entered Governor William E. Stanley's Kansas Capitol chambers and pressed for closing saloons. She accused him of powerlessness and urged use of state power, while Stanley argued reforms were hampered by law. The exchange grew heated before Nation departed with calls for harsher action.
Ladies Seek Funds for Rest Room on the Square
Local women plan a fund drive to rent and furnish a rest room on the square for transients. They seek subscriptions to cover rent and will have clubs provide furnishings janitor and entertainment. A meeting is set for 3 pm next Thursday at Mrs Wm Scofield's home to discuss the project.
Local news items and society notes across town
Calvin Bray in town yesterday. NL Babcock bought 42 hogs from GO Meyer averaging 312 pounds shipped to Chicago. Fisher & Augustine sent a car of hogs to Chicago yesterday. Literary at Lewis & Ferguson ball Friday. debate topic intemperance versus war. My Friend from India seating sold. comedy touted. Miss Verne Ashby weekend Crawfordsville. Editor Jacob Statler obituary in Kansas City hospital. BE Beeman back after grip. Miss Lona Latta grip. Durst couple from Kalona shopping. Bidwell-Graham sale held. large local crowd. Ed Swift brick yard crew hunted rabbits near town. eighty-three caught. Son born to Henry Rathmell north of city. Mrs Kelsey Crawfordville returned from Burris home. My Friend From India tonight. T. D. Barr Wyman city visit. Mr and Mrs Harry Mehler visit. head to Washington then Des Moines. Illness in Frank McCarty at Washington. expected home Saturday. Invitations for at home at Mrs Ralph E. K Dougherty home by Mrs John B McCartney. Jeff Armstrong’s letter from Mrs Robert Armstrong of New York. Bob in West Baden training Jim Jeffries for next month fight. visit planned in March. Will Cunningham improves court house furnace with painted boiler head. My Friend From India tonight.
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India
T. D. Barr
Wyman
Harry Mehler
Washington
Des Moines
Mr. Pleasant News
Jeff Armstrong
Robert Armstrong
New York
Bob
West Baden
Jim Jeffries
Marriage of Mrs Russell and Mr Wiles in Squire Folger Office
A wedding occurred last evening at 6 45 in the office of Squire A S Folger. The couple were Mrs Maggie Russell and William J Wiles formerly of Brighton township now a resident of Keota area. Wiles works for the Rock Island railway. Farmers in Lafayette and Liberty townships plan a mutual telephone company with an eight to nine mile line to connect Keota and South Engis. About 100 farmers expect to use phones and form a network across the two townships with construction likely in spring.
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Wiles
Squire Folger
Squire A. S. Folger
Maggie Russell
William J. Wiles
Brighton
Rock Island Railway Company
Keota
Dupuis
Washington
South Engis
la Fayette Township
Liberty Township
Nation demands closure of saloons in Kansas case
Mrs Nation leads crowd to Governor Goddard and County Attorney Nichols pressing to shut down "murder shops" and remove lax officials. She vows to swear out a warrant against a saloonkeeper's wife after an attack and then moves on to Sheriff Cook's office amid a heated clash.
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Nation
Goddard
Roosevelt on Hon expedition in Colorado loons killed
Drs. Gerald Webb and Phillip Stewart, Colorado Springs men with Roosevelt on his Hon expedition, say Roosevelt had killed nine large mountain loons and three smaller ones up to the time they returned home from Meeker on Saturday night.
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Colo
Gerald Webb
Phillip Stewart
Colorado Springs
Roosevelt
Meeker
Indiana G A R leader courted as pension attorney candidate
Richmond Indiana report notes Colonel Ivan J Walker former department commander of the Indiana G A R and ex national commander of the G A RR is strongly supported to become United States pension attorney to succeed HH Clay Evans. Also Indiana florists plan 1902 national meeting with potential Indianapolis host if the group wins the Baltimore venue in February.
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Richmond
Ind
Ivan J. Walker
Department of the Indiana
G. A. RR
United States
Clay Evans
Walker
Indiana Society of Florists
National Society
Baltimore
Indiana
Indianapolis
Murder in Stanley: Father-in-Law Kills G. A. Miller
In Stanley Wisconsin a man identified as G A Miller was shot through the heart and killed by his father in law. The motive for the murder is not given.
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Chippewa Fal, Wis
G. A. Miller
Stanley, Wis
New York Caste presents My Friend From India at the Graham
Tonight the Graham hosts the comedy My Friend From India by the New York Caste of the Biju theatre production. Mr Green Hall will sing in concert February 12 at the Graham and on a spring tour to multiple cities including Boston Newburyport Holyoke Troy Springfield Syracuse Harrisburg Richmond Spartanburg Charleston Columbia Charlotte Louisville Ann Arbor Saginaw Oberlin and more.
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India
New York
Mr. Green Hall
Boston
Mass
Newburyport
Holyoke
Troy
N. Y
Springfield
Syracuse
Harrisburg
Lynchburg
Richmond
Spartanburg
S C
Charleston
S. C
Columbia
Funeral for Mrs. Harry Kleese Attended by Will Kleese
Will Kleese brakeman on the C. R. I and P attends the funeral of his sister in law Mrs. Harry Kleese this afternoon. Mrs Joseph Pollard of West Main Street is ill with the grip.
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Will Kleese
Harry Kleese
Joseph Pollard
West Maintreet
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