Neighborhood News Highlights across Eureka and environs
Local items include Harry Oaks drilling for John Lashek and Henry Ramsey selling for $1100. Miss Mae Love returns from Bloomfield Illinois. many visits to Union Dale and Wayland. School begins at Eureka under Edwin Lins. several church notices and a Milwaukee railway land bid near Gracehill. A fundraiser supper and a large sale near Washington are noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin
Iva Waters
Martinsburg
Ben Hill
Wayland
Samuel Cocklin
D. E. Cocklin
Alpheus Grumbling
Eureka
Edwin Lins
Washington
Tuttle
W. F. Slack
Mt. Pleasant
Prof Richards Dazzles Audience At Friday Graham Lecture
Prof Richards makes science engaging in a Graham lecture, captivating chemistry students with many astonishing experiments. The entertaining talk ranks among the course best and sustained strong audience interest throughout the evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prof. Richards
Graham
Souls with the gift of finding joy everywhere quote
A Father quotes that some people carry a rare gift the ability to find joy in every circumstance. The remark reflects gratitude and a uplifting outlook across daily life.
Local Events and Changes in Town Life This Week
Numerous visits and travels mark the week with residents in Keola Lexington Indiana and Crawfordsville. Thanksgiving observed. fires slight damage. health updates report Mrs. Wallace and others improving. Revival meetings grow with sermons on Personal Responsibility and Hope in God across M E and Presbyterian churches.
Letter from Hoopeston Sister Leads Battle Against Saloon
Mary G. Smith of Hoopston Illinois writes about her town age 30 since incorporation, noting no saloon since its start, five miles of paved streets nine churches a college and 4000 residents with strong finances. The piece praises the W C T U effort to keep liquor out and invites support from other regions in the fight for Christian citizenship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Mary G. Smith
Hoopston
Illinois
W. C.t.-U. Press
Pioneer farm sale near Havre announces December 5
Having rented my farm, I will sell at my residence, one and one-half miles south of Havre, on Thursday, December 5, 1901, beginning at ten o'clock a. m. The sale includes five head of horses, eleven head of cattle, fifty-five hogs, five hundred bushels of corn, farming machinery, hay and straw, household goods, chickens, and a two‑year contract terms on sums over five dollars. Credit 12 months on larger sums, cash under five dollars, 5 percent discount for cash. Keyes & Ross lunch counter. A. J. Hillhouse. C. S. Reeves, Auctioneers.
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George Ross
Washington
Silas Ross
Clay Humston
Chas. S. Reeves
Auct
Havre
Wnt
Brole
Keyes & Ross
Contract Let For Trenton Cut-Off
The C R I P railroad company let the contract for the Trenton cut-off on Saturday to shorten the line through this place to Kansas City by nearly thirty miles. An eastern firm won the bid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. R. I. &P. Railway Company
Trenton
Kansas City
Eastern
Death of Willard F Porter at Home Near Ainsworth
Willard F Porter died Saturday night at his home near Ainsworth after an illness of nearly two years. He was a member of the Masonic and Woodman fraternities. Deceased was a native of Scott county Iowa and was born Feb 4 1864.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willard F. Porter
Ainsworth
Masonic
Woodman
Scott County
Iowa
Thanksgiving Services Held Across Local Churches
Union Thanksgiving services were held Thursday at the Presbyterian church with Rev. Mr. Lilley and at the Second U. P. church with Rev. W. C. Allen delivering sermons. Both gatherings drew large crowds. A Thanksgiving service also occurred at the Seceder church.
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Union
M. E
Presbyterian Church
Mr. Lilley
U. P. Church
Riev. W. C. Allen
Seceder Church
Dentist Dr. O. E. Rork Returns Home From Chicago
Dr. O. E. Rork is back home after studying the latest advances in dentistry in Chicago. He spent time reviewing new techniques and equipment and plans to apply findings locally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. E. Rork
Chicago
Weather Boosts Early Building and Rail Work Citywide
The favorable weather accelerates construction on the first National Bank building and the Roberts and Smouse blocks while railroad projects advance. Grading on the Rock Island cutoff between Brighton and Perlee will finish in two weeks but bridge-material delays push opening to spring. Milwaukee line work continues as Flick and Johnston’s camp west of the city grinds ahead with heavy grading and a steam shovel set to start after preliminary tasks.
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First National Bank
Roberts
Smouse
Rock Island
Brighton
Perlee
Milwaukee
Flick
Johnston
City
Crooked Creek
Case verdict in Marion Fishburn vs. railway
The jury returned a $5,000 verdict for the plaintiff after seven to four hours deliberation on the Marion Fishburn case against the Illinois and Northwestern Railway and others. It involved a child crippled by a fence panel used as a snow break. Lawyers Fisher and Brookhart spoke for the plaintiff. Wilson and Scho held for the defendant. The suit likely heads to appeal to the Supreme Court. A separate case, Lowe vs Zarl Claar over liquor nuisance, was underway with Wellman as the defendant. Jury sworn at 10 Tuesday. those not on the case excused until Friday meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion Fishburn
B. & W. Railway
H. M. Fieher
W. Brookhart
Baby fires gun in pit test of McClean weapon
In a southern city clay pit a one pounder field gun is tested with Geneva Macliver, daughter of a local businessman, firing a shell that buries in a clay bank. The demonstration before thirty spectators shows recoil compensation keeping the gun stationary. General Wheeler and George Bartel witness, praising the device. Nearby, Miss Macliver also fires the ordinary rifle as part of the display. Philadelphia North American notes annual U.S. crop losses to insects exceed 300 million dollars, mostly from imports.
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McClean
Geneva Maclyer
North Ninth Street
Joseph Wheeler
George S. Bartel
Little Miss Maciver
Philadeleaphia
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Everette Stacy
J W. Lantz
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Iowa City
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C. W. Hendrickson
Anna Davis
Price
Columbus Junction
H. O. Jones
Wyman
J. W. Griffiths
Dr. Rogers
Fred Anwyl
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R. L. Richards
John Richards
Will Arthur
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Charley Busby
M. M. Steele
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Lester Godlove
Will McLaughlin
Minnie Stotts
The
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Gene Brown
East Prairie
Lizzie Mattice
Dutch Creek
Cora Statler
Keota
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New Bethel
Rev. Payne
Richland
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Joe Richardson
Milwaukee Road
Gracehill
Joe
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Opal Macon
Nels Thompson
Los Angeles
Cal
Wm. Nicholson
Defiance
George
Murray Finney
Boyd
Catherine Stephens
J. H. Kephart
Malcom Montgomery
Ohio
Kalona
Dan Ekimen
Ryder
Dan
Frank Brinkman
Frank
Albert Strabala
Albert
Jackson Township
Clark Meek
Mr. Donahey
Montana
A. R. Shaw
Mr. Marshall
E. Applegate
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Grundy County
A. Pearson
N.L. Babcock
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Wayne Gideon
Kingdom of Christ
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Keola
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St. James School
Charles Howe
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C. A. Mayer
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Heights
Mrs. Stanton Custer
Chariton
Wm. Davidson
Crawfordsville
Robert J. Moore
Oklahoma
Bessie Scofield
Norman Scofield
California
Will Kistler
Hastings
Neb
A.W. DeLaney
Wm. Randall
Runyon
Pilotburg
Milo Patterson
John Wooley
Frank Welliver
Wooley
Marion Neal
J. H. Huston
Walter Sewell
5. W. Neal
Luke James
Columbian Addition
Win Smouse
J. A. Cunningham
Kremlin
W. F. Sands
Sands
Lawton
Town
Fairfield
Wm. Hamilton
J. R. Logue
Wm. Wylie
W.C. Allen
Ed. McConaughey
Morning Sun
Baptist Church
A. J. Hillhouse
C. S. Reeves
Pad
Court
L. O. Howard
Department of Agricultue
United States
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