Local News Briefs and Weekend Notices
Sea Glue at the Star tonight and free entertainment at the Airdome. Miss Agnes Guthrie assists at the county clerk's office for a few days. R. W. Gibson of Chicago visited the Kendal home. A. G. Long returns to Havre after a city visit. Mrs J T Tierney returns home from visit with friends. Otto Schiebel family leaves for Davenport. Chas Atkinson and daughter Ethel head to OsKaloosa for Holiness camp. Miss Marguerite McGuggin to Kansas City to visit Jane McCahon. Will DeMarce returns home from Delta and South Dakota.
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Agnes Guthrie
A. G. Long
Havre
Mrs. J. T. Tierney
West Chester
Otto Schiebel
Davenport
Chas. Atkinson
Ethel
Jeff
Oskaloosa
Marguerite McGuggin
Kansas City
Jane McCahon
Funeral for Lottie Groendycke at Grace Hill
Funeral services held Saturday morning June 6 1908 at the Grace Hill home for Lottie Groendycke noted earlier. Rev J F Kaiser preached from Ecclesiastes 9 10, a memoir was read, and despite rain the service drew many friends. Lottie, a longtime teacher, was honored for her learning and noble spirit amid illness. Burial followed with Moravian liturgical rites at the Grace Hill cemetery.
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Lottie Groendycke
Journal
Grace Hill
J. F. Kaiser
Lottie
Electric Bitters Proclaimed A Grand Family Medicine
Mr Frank Conlan of 436 Houston St New York extols Electric Bitters as a grand family medicine for dyspepsia and liver issues. It is said to regulate digestion purify the blood and renew vigor for the weak and debilitated, with Lemmon's Pharmacy selling it under guarantee for 50c.
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Frank Conlan
Houston St
New York
Lemmon’s Pharmacy
Fairfield Man Injured by Runaway Team Faces Recovery
Recent word from Fairfield indicates David Roth, injured by a runaway team last week, has a chance to recover. His wife was killed instantly and his daughter Nina died the day after, the back broken. The accident’s death toll marks one of the saddest in the region.
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Fairfield
David Roth
Nina
Arrival of Clarence Proudtit From the East
Clarence Proudtit arrived Saturday morning from the east, marking a notable start to his visit. Local residents noted his brief stop and expected further engagements in the area.
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Clarence Proudtit
Road Reform Needed to Fix Bad Country Roads
A critic argues that bad roads persist despite heavy spending, blaming political control and inconsistent methods. A system driven by business principles and expert road builders, not farmers with political ties, could produce durable improvements and save tax money.
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Grandfather
Caesar
Midwest
Siiler
Ward King Outlines Three Requirements for a Good Road
PD Ward King, known as the original road drag man, states three requisites for a quality road: it must be oval, hard and smooth to ensure proper drainage. He emphasizes that drainage is essential to prevent the road from deteriorating.
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Ward King
Dentist Dr Mitchell Arrested For Wife Desertion
Andoer eon Indiana June Dr Willim W Mitchell a prosperous dentist and lodge man deserted his family and city nearly five years ago. He pleaded guilty in township court to an affidavit filed by his wife in March 1904. He was fined $25 under the old law designating wife desertion a misdemeanor and was jailed for inability to pay. He was brought back from Angola where he planned to join his mother for her eighty fourth birthday anniversary.
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Andoereon
Ind
Willim W. Mitchell
Mitchell
Angola
Enduring Love: Bassett Leach Couple Marks 68th Anniversary
Fairfield Alabama reports Rev Daniel Bassett Leach and Mrs Leach celebrating their sixty eighth wedding anniversary near Bene Gap. The couple has lived on the same spot for over seventy two years and boasts ten living children. Leach has been a Protestant church member for eighty one and a half years and a Methodist preacher for sixty nine years.
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Fairfield
Daniel Bassett Leach
Bene Gap
Here
Tilineis
Leach
Lightning Flashes Hit Armstrong Schoolhouse Town
A thunderbolt struck the Armstrong schoolhouse near Tonia on June 8 injuring Miss Mabel Nendall. Shoes torn, doors splintered, she lay unconscious briefly but is expected to recover. Nearby, FE. A. oC wan of Orleans lost barns, stock, and buildings as county farms suffered from the storm.
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Tonia, Mich
Armstrong
Tonia
Mabel Nendall
Kendall
FE. A. Oc Wan
Orleans
Detroit’s Jones-Teter White Dies After Collapse
Detroit reports the death of Jones-Teter White of Marquette known as the grand old man of Michigan and a copper and iron industry pioneer. He collapsed in the city hall while on business, believed due to heart failure, and died before hospital aid could reach him after starting toward the Ponchartrain hotel.
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Detroit
Jones
Teter White
Marquette
Michigan
Upper Peninsula
City Hall
Ponechartrain
Death of Dr Michael N Regent Tied to Fraternal Fraud Trial
Chicago reports the death of Dr Michael N Regent who ten years earlier was convicted of conspiracy to defraud a fraternal organization. He died of ptomaine poisoning, believed from a caviar sandwich. The trial showed Regent and others procured bodies of dead people and buried them under mythical names for insurance policies.
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Chicago
Michael N. Regent
Anarchy Rampant in India Reports Reach Missionaries
Reports of unrest in India brought by returning missionaries were aided by word that bombs were found in Punjab just before Rev. S. R. Vinton of the American Baptist Missionary Union left for India. Vinton says Punjab is flooded with anarchistic literature and general dissatisfaction with conditions.
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Boston
India
Punjab
S. R. Vinton
American Baptist Missionary Union
Mr. Vinton
Ex-bank cashier begins life anew after 195000 shortage
Charles A. Johnson, former cashier at First National Bank of Niles Michigan, released after ten years in the Detroit house of correction for a 195000 shortage. He plans to return home to start life over. his wife supports him saying the penalty is paid and the chapter closed.
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Detroit
Charles A. Johnson
First National Bank
Niles
Mich
Detroit House of Correction
Johnson
Eastern Ohio miners resume work after two year pact
Cleveland June 18 miners and operators in eastern district of Ohio reach a two year agreement after a stormy session. All differences are amicably adjusted and work in all mines will be resumed. About 10,000 miners in eastern Ohio No. 5 field are affected by this action. The scale is the same as that of the previous agreement.
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Cleveland, O
Ohio
No. S
Master Francis Case Improves After Illness
Master Francis Case, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Case, has been quite sick for several weeks but is now improving slowly according to family reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis Case
H. E. Case
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James Wooley
Keota
Chas. Winter
East
Airdome
R. W. Gibson
Kendal
Washington
Will DeMarce
Mose DeMarce
Delta
South Dakota
Geo. Peck
D. A. Chalmers
A.W. Chase
E. Lemmon
Ilinois
Deter White
Ila Dirs
Work & Meer
Nicola
Harmon
Patton Grogery
Just
Edwin Griffith
North Side Furniture Store
J. S. Carris
Alex Nelson
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