Ashby to Meade county trip noted on local page
Local brief notes list Hebner and Shannon at the Star and Ashby going to Meade county Kansas on Tuesday next. The column records various passenger trips and errands including 12,800 acres to be sold in one day on Thursday July 23, and mentions people traveling to Brighton Davenport Grinnell Fairfield Winfield Oskaloosa Garden City and Peoria with associated local firms and homes.
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Ashby
Meade County
Kansas
John Kneer
West Chester
Happenings in County Towns July 16
J P Huff buys stock again and Frank Lints delivers raspberries at ten cents a quart. Richmond’s Jim Page rode to Riverside. F M Snider family moved to a new home. W W Miller and wife visit daughter Mrs Tom Adams. H C Kirkpatrick visits home folks. L L Jones’s daughter healing after mouth ailment. W Small plans a western state trip. Kalona Woodmen picnic set for August 6. Dr H B Wescott welcomes a baby born July 14. Miss Jennie Sellers returns from Wapello. S P Gordon Mrs Will Anwyl Mrs W J Wagner and Miss Carter ride to Washington. Myrtle Carter visits from Washington. Carrols from Burlington visit. Maggie Duncan from Columbus City visits. Edna Young returns from Cedar Falls summer school. Louise Twinam of Fairfield visiting. J B Crooks and son Dr W B Crooks visit from Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. P. Huff
Frank Lints
Mr. Lintz
Jim Page
Richmond
Riverside
F. M. Snider
W. W. Miller
Tom Adams
H. C. Kirkpatrick
Jennie Sellers
Wapello
Henry McCoy
P. Gordon
Will Anwyl
W. J. Wagner
Miss Carter
Washington
Myrtle Carter
Miss Carrol
Burlington
Forty seven years since Kirkwood Guards left for Civil War
The Kirkwood Guards later Company H Seventh Iowa left for the Civil War marking a major moment in local memory. Belmont saw heavy losses with many killed wounded or captured while captain Benjamin Crabb and lieutenants Crawford and Bennett led the company. Few from the arden days remain alive today.
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Washington
Kirkwood Guards
Seventh
Iowa Infantry
Belmont
Benjamin Crabb
W. P. Crawford
Granville G. Bennett
The Light In the Window For Thee author’s tragic life tale
In Coffeyville Kansas the grave of Rev Edmund Dunbar marks a life of genius and downfall. A songwriter known for There’s a Light In the Window For Thee he spent years in a Minnesota penitentiary for bigamy then wandered as a tramp. He died in a city jail after seeking food and lodging, identified by letters on his body. His arc from minister to convict illustrates the Jekyll and Hyde duality of humanity.
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Coffeyville
Kan
Edmund Dunbar
Dunbar
Minnesota Penitentiary
Edward Dunbar
Calaboose
Stevenson
Dr. Jeky
Mr. Tridle
Dr. Jekyll
Mr. Hyde
Cardinal Gibrons Warns of Unrighteous Political Trend
Cardinal Gibrons of Baltimore lamented in New York before sailing to Rome that the nation shows a growing trend toward unrighteousness, saying politics rests on morality and urging reform starting in public schools and local denominations running their own schools at state cost.
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New York
Rome
Travelers and Visits From a Small Town on Weekend
July 20 reports show Geo A Carson and wife leaving for Waterloo to settle their new home. Mrs D Crozier and two daughters visited Washington. J M Walker and daughter Loret ta spent Sunday with his father S A Walker. Mrs T J Easter and daughter Eva travelled to Bloomfield. Mrs Strain and Ivah returned from Fairfield. George Paul and Washington family visited relatives here yesterday. Mrs Georgia Turbott of Illinois returned home after a relatives visit.
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Geo. A. Carson
Waterloo
D. Crozier
Washington
J. M. Walker
Loretta
A. Walker
T. J. Easter
Eva
Bloomfield
Strain
Ivah
Fairfield
George Paul
Georgia Turbott
Illinois
Crawfordsville Notes Briefly: Visits and Travel
Mrs Martha Wortman returned from a week at Olds and was joined by Miss Mary Smith. D C Kyle of Washington surveyed in town. S W Neal and George Alexander arrived from Washington. W J Wagner learned of his brother's death at Agallah, Kan and left on the first train, later returning from Cedar Falls where he attended summer school. Miss Martha Brown of Haskins was also mentioned in town.
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Martha Wortman
Olds
Mary Smith
D. C
Cresco Drunken Farm Death Shocks Iowa Town
In Cresco Iowa on July 20 Charles Brown died from injuries after Alfred Crawford beat him and jumped on his abdomen at Brown’s farm. Crawford, a married young man, remains jailed and faces grand jury consideration in October after a night of heavy drinking and a failed attempt to pay a fine.
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Cresco
Iowa
Charles Brown
Alfred Crawford
Brown
Crawford
George Brown
Coal Reserves Estimated in Pennsylvania and Bituminous Fields
A United States geological survey estimate reports that anthracite fields contain about 21 billion short tons and bituminous fields about 112.6 billion short tons, with additional figures near 110 billion for another coal type, as stated by M R Campbell.
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Washington
Pennsylvania
M. R. Campbell
United States Ecological Survey
Ice Cream Orders Due By Saturday Morning
Orders for ice cream from the Washington Ice Cream Co. should be in not later than Saturday morning. 32-66 im
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Washington Ice Cream Co
Railroads sue to block 2 cent fare law in Arkansas
Four railroads operating in Arkansas the St. Louis and San Francisco St Louis and Rio Grande Mountain Southern St Louis and Southeastern and the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific have filed suits in federal court in Little Rock to prevent enforcement of the recently enacted 2 cent passenger and freight tariff legislation.
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Little Rock
Ark
St. Louis
San Francisco
Ren Mountain and Southern
Southeastern
Chicago
Rock Island and Pacific
Local items note residents travels and illness
Mrs. Ella Yearick of East Main street is on the sick list. J. P. Brook of Chicago visited his brother F. Brook west of the city. John Grasse of Chicago, formerly here, visited with old friends en route to Kansas City. Miss Kate Benz will leave Tuesday for Fairbury Nebraska to visit her uncle Peter Tondre. W. M. Welch, recent guest at F. F. Parrish, departed for his home in Quincy Illinois.
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Harry Kracaw
Milwaukee
H. T. Nutt
Ft. Madison
Crow Creek Valley
G. A. Smith
Fairfield
Standard Land Co
Charles D. Gorham
Garden City
Kansas
Eula
Leila Hawkins
Winfield
Charles Hays
Davenport
Rock Island
Ella Yearick
East Main Street
J. P. Brook
Chicago
F. Brook
John Grasse
Kansas City
Kate Benz
Fairbury, Neb
Peter Tondre
G A R Regular Post Meeting Tomorrow Night
Notice requests full attendance for arrangements of the campfire at the Chautauqua. J C Boice P C
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Chautauqua
J. C. Boice
P. C
Local families visit Eicher camp near Wayland guests
The Miller Lytle Sproull and Livingston households hosted yesterday at the Eicher camp near Wayland. Ralph Clifton is seriously ill at his mother's home in south Washington, bedridden and unable to walk the streets. J T Matthews, secretary of the local Canadian Land Co., received a London remittance a Bank of England draft for 141 pounds, part payment for land sold two years ago.
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Alex Miller
Lloyd Lytle
Charles
Lia Sproull
London
Bank of England
Canadian Land Co
Also Mentioned on This Page
the Evening Journal
Orville Elder
Washington, Ia
Office
Mutual
Amate
Journal
W. N. Darbyshire
Journal Office
M. J. Orr
Carnes Ratliff Com
Howard L. McCleery
Union Stock Yards
Tii
Hebner & Shannon At
the Star
Elrod Dayton
Brighton
Kate Hayes
Grinnell
Lester Mintle
Ora Brinton
Thelma Dayton
Dean
Earnest Dean
Oskaloosa
Frank Rogers
G. H. Yohn
Cambridge
Ill
Palace Bakery
Hays’ Restaurant
Walter Wilde
Margaret
Mary
Peoria
Alice Anderson
Wilde
Marion T. Anderson
the Gounty News
Kalona
Company
Cardinal Gibbons
Ainsworth
Crawfordsville
Dani Mallaane
W. M. Welch
F. F. Parrish
Quincy, Ill
Missouri
North Side Shoe Store
FOX & Dewey
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