Sidewalk Contract Award Lowers East District Price
City council awarded the east district sidewalk contract to C. A. Shepherd, matching the west district rate of 65 cents per lineal foot for standard 6.4 walks after an initial 72 cent bid was rejected. Shepherd’s offer to take the remainder at the same price was accepted amid partial council absence and routine business.
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A. Shepherd
West District
Shepherd
East District
Link
A. B. Goagy
F. C. Fish
BE. A. McFarlane
Leon A. Link
E.gralimirchy
Specink
J. G. Miller
Black Hawk Feeding Company
Austin Power Roller and
Road Main
Billy Hoon's Labor Day trapshoot at Jewell Virginia
Billy Hoon's annual trapshoot is set for Labor Day at Jewell Virginia on Monday September 7 starting at 10 am and finishing by 4 36 pm. Fred C Whitney serves as cashier. The program offers ten 15 target events with 75 cent entries totaling 11 25 including targets. Purses split 30 30 20 20 with optional targets only. Special features include five 30 target events at 75 cents with money flighted 30 25 20 15 10 percent, two 75 target events at 2 dollars with high gun prizes, money every three entries, 150 targets with 5 dollar high gun money every two entries, and prizes of 10 7 50 5 and 2 50 for high
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Jewell
Billy Hoon
Fred C. Whitney
Farmer Near Oelwein Grows 144 Foot Ear Of Corn
August Miche, a farmer near Oelwein, brought a stalk of corn to town that measured 144 feet 2 inches with a well formed ear ten feet from the ground. He owns 75 acres of corn and says all the crop is exceptionally tall, complicating harvest as ears are out of reach for his team.
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Oelweln
Miche
Qoelweln
Miehe
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C. A. Shepherd
Tainer
Norice
Cottage Street
Eleventh Street Bridge
Waterloo
Fred H
Georgiana Schram
Fourth
Almond Streets
Labor Day
Oelwein
Jesse
Puritan
the Lang CO
Puritan Malt
Waterloo, Towa
Alice
Eddress Francis H. Leggett & Company
New York City
Jemier
Som Ree
Ita
Franklin
Roper
Central Iowa Power & Light Co
Cedar
East Fourth Street
Antil
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