Whole Nation Weeps for One Whose Life Was Beautiful CLAY
Eugene Robinson returns to Fairfield College this week while notices from Eureka Marion township and nearby towns detail church events schooling moves and county affairs. Local deaths births and farm sales appear with reports on residents visiting relatives and changes in business locations and depot duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugene Robinson
Fairfield College
J. G. Stewart
Washington
Zickafoose
Des Moines
Daugter
Jessie Bosworth
Bessie Meacham
Fairfield
Edith Bales
Mary Hobson
Riehland
Morgan Home
Wellman News Summary Highlights Local Doings
A long Wellman column details visitors and travels across Iowa City and Burlington. It notes church events, a memorial service for the late President, a forthcoming lecture series, and a Star Lyceum program. Local political campaigning, candidacies, and public notices intermingle with family births, marriages, and farewells to Oklahoma.
Crawfordsville News Briefs and Local Happenings
Crawfordsville reports Bartholow renting the John Smylie farm for next year. Uncle John Cochran is gravely ill at about eighty three. Gormly’s baby girl seriously ill but improving. Rumor Rev Doud may not return. Mrs. Mabel Arkins heads to St Louis then Arizona. N D Robinson, Mrs Wortman and Ollie Gordon accompany to Burlington. Crawfordsville expected a big time on the 25th with a program including Invocation, Rev E H Thompson, and Mayor Buxbaum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robi. Gormly
Rev. Doud
Mabel Arkins
St. Louis
Arizona
N. D. Robinson
Wortman
Ollie Gordon
Burlington
Crawfordsville
E H Thompson
Buxbaum Fesponeey ii
Ceive
Russell
D D Bolding Candidate for County Treasurer
Announcement favors D D Bolding for county treasurer. Born in the county and long resident, he operates a milling business near Coppock and is seen as well qualified if nominated. Also noted are hog and sheep breeder Chas Merz offering bargains including many quality boars and cattle. Sept 50, 1901 sale in Sigourney Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. D. Bolding
Bolding
Coppock
Chas, Merz
Poland
China
Chief Perfection
Sigourney
Towa
Remembering McKinley and the martyrs in a divided Union
A historical tolling piece venerates William McKinley alongside Abraham Lincoln and James A. Garfield as martyrs. It frames progress as bloodied by great figures, cites earlier reformers and revolutionaries, and contrasts Federalist and Republican views on sovereignty. The passage links national memory to a vision of unity amid sectional strife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jude
William McKinley
Abraham Lincoln
James A. Garfield
Wm. McKinley
Gand
Gustavus Adolphus
John Brown
Toussaint L’ouverture
Church of God
John Huss
Savanarola
Ridley
Latimer
Jesus of Nazareth
Calhoun
South
Webster
Sermon on Union and rise of the spoils system
A sermon by Rev. W. C. Allen recounts secession, the Confederacy, and Civil War battles as a prelude to reforms in civil service. It traces Garfield and McKinley assassinations to political corruption and urges a strengthened, merit-based civil service, concluding with local notices and upcoming events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sumpter
Mississippi
Wilkes Booth
Abraham Lincoln
Garfield
Republic
Andrew Jackson
Congress
Civil Service Commission
James A. Garfield
William McKinley
Czolgosz
Grace
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Clay
Denmark
Eureka
George Hopping
Rev. Logue
Col
D. J. Palmer
Marion Township
Peter Goodwin
Keller
John Wolfe
Matthews
Wayland
Havre
J. H. Kephart
Jim Thompson
Henry Lovelett
Ed Nicholson
Lone Tree
Cal Mayhew
Wyman
Earl Draper
The
Christian Church
Pleasant Hill
Here
Mabel Dill
Hannah Gammon
Coats
Catherine Stephens
Joe McGinniis
Highland
Howard McCreedy
Ed Oaks
Kansas
James
Allie Brockway
Iowa City
E. F. Brockway
John Chihak
Cotter
G. D. Thomas
R. J. Reaney
Mary Hendrickson
C. W. Hendrickson
Florence.Mc ‘Hesney
Kh. W. Carter
Ainsworth
J. W. Griffith
Racine, Wis
North Highland
E. F. Simpkins
M. M. Steele
M. B. Greene
Will Simpkins
Allen Stewart
A. C. Tansey
Riverside
Raymond Benn
BE. F. Simpkins
Lou Smith
J. D. Fordyce
James Scholla
Prizzler
Johnson County
Charley Busby
M’kinley
Will Stotts
Sherd Wilson
M. Dodds
Wife
Cleveland
W.H. Wishard
Buffalo
Zella Longwell
Mt. Pleasant
Chas, Greene
Fordice
Albert Longwell
Mr. Swisher
Brighton
H. G. Moore
J. A. Young
Harry Jones
Roy Downing
M. E. Church
Rev. Stryker
Rev. Baker
W. F. Reed
J. N. Carr
Hon. B. F. Tipton
Logan
Wellman
Clyde
Bert Mathews
T. L. Sims
W. D. Ott
W.D. Ott
Eney
B. Hardy
Grand Fry
Morand Leibenguth
M. J. Sims
River Junction
Carr Bros
James McClellan
B. Ford
Oklahoma
Wm. Bulger
Shenandoah
Flannegan
Williamsburg
Wombacher
Ernest Holtz
Solon
A. Kent
Clara Woodburn
Cincinnati
C. A. Overfelt
Nettie
Stella Cruz
Win. Slater
Colorado
Dr. Grant
Maggie Shillig
Frank Cruz
Will Tansey
Horatio Benn
Ott
Rev
H. W. Jones
Newton
Iowa
Mary Younkin
Milton
A. M. Lings
A. M
Dental College of
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Iowa Township
Arthur Ford
C. S. Coe
Chas. McMillan
Blanche Fuller
Lowa City
Weiland
Louis Rummelhart
May Wombacher
O. B. Ford
Orlando
Lester Linn Godlove
Will Sr. Miller
Lester
Wheeler
Keswick
J.C. Wombacher
Bray
Rooks County
Ek. Coates
M. Ef
Star Lyceum
Glacier Company of Chicago
Kk. II
Bartholow
John Smylie
John Cochran
Young America
Samson
Bck
Titu Literary Societies
Crawford
Ace
Sylvester Smith
Hoosier Bend
Eeea Evans
Elias Jackson
Peewee
Hattie Jobes
Sakki
D Robinson
Tennessee
Caroline Berg
Lizzie Anderson
Davidson
W. C. Allen
Henry Harrison
Zachary Taylor
Hunter
United States
Charles J. Guiteau
Vienna
Paris
New York
Guiteau
McKinley
Lotta Meacham
Colorado Springs
Colorado College
Jas. R. Cunningham
Iowa Business College
T. H. McMillan
Deersville
Ohio
W. A. Birney
A. N. Alberson
Amos
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