Local Visitors and Notices Fill City Streets
Personal news notes list Otto Dede as a Winfield passenger, Dr. George Payne visiting from Richland, O B Babb from Ainsworth in town, J J Young and wife from Lexington, and many other local arrivals and departures. Court disbarment actions against McCord Finley provoke discussion as trial dates are unsettled.
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Otto Dede
Winfield
George Payne
Richland
O. B. Babb
Ainsworth
J. J. Young and Wife
Lexington
School Notes Highlight Quick Exit and New Truant Officer
Pearl Fox was absent Wednesday. Miss Margaret Burnside of Oskaloosa visited at the Steck home and came to the High School Monday. Marshal Ewing has been appointed truant officer by the School Board. Pupils now form a double file at the door and stay in place until reaching the street, enabling faster exit. Some boys tried out for the choir Friday for the first time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pearl Fox
Margaret Burnside
Oskaloosa
Steck
Marshal Ewing
Local High School Considers Athletic Association Edict
Bad weather threatens Saturday football with Winfield and a few players may be unavailable. Students plan to cheer. Wednesday meeting formed a committee to draft a constitution and bylaws for a school athletic association to govern teams more businesslike.
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Winfield
School Month Report Ends September 1903
Report on schools for the month ending September 25 1903 notes a good month with deficiencies mainly in lower classes. It credits parental efforts and expects improvement in next month’s record.
Edwards's long stage career delights audiences
Mr Edwards has appeared for about fifteen years with the Fisk Tennesseeans for five seasons and with Donovans Tennesseeans for two years and with the Stewart Wilberforce Concert Company. He displays a marvelous verve and never fails to take his audience by storm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr Edwards
Puble
Fisk Tennesseeans
Donovans Tennesseeans
Stewart Wilberforce
Pleasant six oclock dinner and musical at Mr R K Lewis home
About eighteen members of Co A 2th Iowa enjoyed a six o clock dinner at Mr R K P Lewis home though he could not attend due to illness. The evening featured a delightful musicale by advanced piano pupils including Miss Hessie Park Miss Nora Curran Emeline Warren and Zoe Varney with Laura Rich on mandolin and Mrs Norton singing Ah pon credea from La sonnambula. Refreshments followed in a pink white carnation decor and vines setting.
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Co. A
Iowa
RK. P. Lewis
Dwight Norton
Hessie Park
Nora Curran
Emeline Warren
Zoe Varney
Mires Varne
Bees Swarm Traps Grocery Store in Muscatine
A swarm of bees invaded a Muscatine grocery on a main street Tuesday causing hours of business disruption. Clerks finally trapped most of the insects in a box and removed them from the building by nightfall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muscatine
Great tenor Howard Goodbar hailed as top in America
The New Orleans Grand Concert Co. favors Howard Goodbar as one of America's finest tenors. The speaker notes his salary would be limitless if he were white.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Goodbar
New Orleans Grand Concert Co
America
Ice wagons cut service to three days a week
After Saturday October 3rd ice wagons will run only on Tuesdays Thursdays and Saturdays. M. T. Anderson signs the notice to patrons detailing the reduced schedule.
Mississippi River at Clinton Reaches Record Flood Level
Clinton report shows the Mississippi River at fifteen and a half feet above low water, the highest in years. Lowland areas from Clinton to Davenport are submerged, with corn land under water one to five feet deep and many fields with only tassels exposed. Stacks and shacks float, fences are submerged, and lakes several miles long form between towns. North toward Bellevue the flooding mirrors these losses, with farmers facing thousands of dollars in damage.
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Clinton
Mississippi
Davenport
Here
Bellevue
Domestic quarrel ends in shooting at Burlington depot
Mrs Frank Humble lies dying after her husband is jailed for shooting her as she waited to board a train at Albia Burlington depot. The Humbles, a Black family from Buxton where the man works in mines, are central to the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albia
Frank Humble
Burlington
Humbles
Buxton
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