Local and Personal Notes From Groton and Vicinity
Local and personal items recount residents visiting relatives, travels to Winfield Ainsworth Keota and Davenport, marriages, and business notices. Notables include Mrs E E Eyestone of Groton leaving for home after a visit, Rev C T Rasche returning from Burlington, and Ruth Latta resuming county recorder duties after illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. E. Eyestone
Groton
Dak
J. P.thomas
Louis Masson
Winfield High School
Winfield
D. J. Masson
Sidney Anderson
Rock Island, Ill
W. H. Riley
Ruth Latta
County Recorder's Office
Meriam Jones
Ainsworth
Henry Hagist
Gertrude
Keota
Bella Carpenter
Rock Island
Laura Maxwell
Rail and shipping notes from Crawfordsville meeting mix with steel orders
J H Huston and W E Leet visited the city on business while clubs announce meetings. The Pennsylvan ia Railroad distributes 50 000 tons of steel rails to steel firms and Reading orders 2 500 cars with gondola and coal cars built at Berwick and Cambria works. A health inspection directive from Sherman Allen calls for railroad and vessel sanitary reviews for interstate traffic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania Railroad
United States Steel Corporation
Pennsylvania and Cambria Steel Companies
Bethlehem and Lackawanna Steel Companies
Reading
American Car and Foundry Company
Berwick
Cambria Steel Company
Sherman Allen
Secretary of the Treasury
Iowa farmer closes two large land deals near Crawfordsville
W A Harper reports two major sales totaling 67400 dollars. George Auld farm comprising 210 acres is sold to David Blankenhorn for 42200 dollars. Blankenhorn then buys 1630 acres on the Mississippi bottom near Port Louisa from Harper for 25200 dollars as part of the same transaction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. A. Harper
George Auld
Crawfordsville
David Blankenhorn
Mr. Blankenhorn
John Y. Whiteman
Biggsville
Mississippi
Old Port Louisa
Commerce Commission probes midwest car shortage
The Commerce Commission investigates a shortage of cars in the middle and Far West as part of a wider inquiry. A new Wabash locomotive shop is under construction at Decatur Illinois with five buildings and a capacity of 50 engines per month. Chesapeake & Ohio plans a $1,000,000 hotel at White Sulphur Springs on the Virginia West Virginia line. C K Mohler joins the Los Angeles Public Utilities Board to head a new railway bureau. Illinois Central warns shippers it will not haul freight to New Orleans for export.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ilinois Central
Interstate Commission
The
Commerce Commission
Middle
Far West
Decatur
Chesapeake & Ohio
White Sulphur Springs
Virginia
West Virginia
Cc. K. Mohler
Board of Public Utilities
Chicago
Board For Public Utilities of
Los Angeles
Railway Bureau
Illinois Central Railroad
New Orleans
Pity the Poor Fat Person Fat Presch Lady Quotation
A fat Presch lady laments her weight saying she prays for a disappointment to slim down but each disappointment brings joy of thinness and makes her fatter still.
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Fox & Dewey
C. T. Rasche
Burlington
Dougherty Bros
Wm. Shannon
Prof
A. DeLucas
Star Tonight
Kate Wheelan
Patrick Burns
Bessie
Waterloo
George Wheelan
Buerkens
Nate Jones
George Hook
Lillian Hook
Pleasant Plains Saturay
Benz House
Mrs. E. Nicola
Riverside
Col. Nicola
Ella Woodford
Brighton
Isabelle Kilgore
D. C. Kilgore
Louise Livingston
Kilgore
Ireland
Lyric Tonight
Luella Shaw
Helen Wilson
Oskaloosa
George Foote
Parkersburg
Iowa
D. J. Ross
Iowa City
John Woods
West Chester
City
Monarch and Arrow
Vernon Sigler
Wellman
I. B. Brenneman
Mattie L. Miller
Frank Runyon
Lou Betts
Letts
J. A. Young
Geo. C. Reames
Farmers & Merchants Savings Bank
Haskins
John McCartney
Kansas City
J. T. Miller
Lonaconing
Maryland
Ira Bowman
G. M. Welch
Omaha, Neb
Columbus City
Clint DuBois
Muscatine
J. B. Crooks
Norfolk Neb
Mrs. Lisle Nicola
A. R. Miller
Washington Democrat
Lockridge
Washington
Eldon
Ralph Bunce
Frank Latchem
B. 9. Barthelman
E. W. Goodman
Barnes City
Haan
Turner Bros
McKee School
Onward Kiburz
Jack Harkaway
Clarence Stephenson
Stephenson
Mary Crabb
New London
J. E. Kunath
D. A. Scott
A. H. Byers
L. M. Howard
Stewart
George Stewart
Monmouth
Mises
Loretta Tighe
Garnett Broesel
Keokuk
W. G. Stewart
W. C. Fisher
W. R. Sawhill
Indianola
United Presbyterian Synod
Nellie Harding
Blanche Dusenbery
the Fair
Effie van Sickle
West Ches _ter
Vic van Sickle
Fairbanks
Mrs
A. van Sickle
Frank Stewart
Marion
Harry Montgomery
Richland
George Foot
Leigh H. Wallace
Walter Ayers
Colfax
Davenport
C. H. Wilson
Knoxville
R. M. Smith
C. W. Stewart
Eva Denny
Mr. Smith
Herman Luers
Frank Giesler
Block
Arch W. McCulley
Della Brookhart
Fairfield
Jefferson County Hospital
J. F. McNamara
Jay
May
Minnie Wolfe
Bonnie Walker
Maggie Foster
Mat Miller
Vera
Glen
Harriet Stewart
John
Peter Findlay
Ottumwa
John C. Bowie
W. H. Stuff
M. Ll. Orvis
Bessie Fritz
San Francisco
Pomona
Calif
Denver
Gulf Coast Ruralist
Fred Smith
Washington, Iowa
Fred H. Smith
Geo. H. Paul Company
Gulf Coast
the Royal
Todd Stuart
Mutual
Wagner
Lytle Bros
Bol
J. A. Harwood & Son
South Side
J. H. Huston
National Coin
Vention
W. E .Leet
Ers
Eagles
Prisellia Club
Sam McCleery
Navajo Club
SK Iowa
Norman Pratt
Cedar Center School
Briples
Clara Faulkner
Esther Eiele
Alice Rowand
Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Church
J. A. Harwood
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