Market News and Livestock Figures in Chicago Dated Aug 28
Wheat and corn prices fluctuated in early trade, with December futures firming but slipping from session highs. Hog, cattle, and sheep markets opened steady in Chicago and St. Louis, with receipts forecast at several thousand head. Provisions and butter remained firm while live stock prices showed mixed movements.
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Chicago
ST. Louis
Kansas City Livestock
Kansas City
Omaha
Neb
Stolen Horse Recovered in Waterloo Search
Sheriff F. M. Shores recovered a horse stolen from Alfred Magee of Dunkerton. The horse, valued at 175, had been driven to Cedar Falls and sold to a dealer for 40, later tracked by police and returned to Waterloo. Earlier, a pony stolen in Cedar Falls was found abandoned east of Highland, with two boys seen driving away.
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F. M. Shores
Alfred Magee
Dunkerton
Cedar Falls
Magee
Sheriff Shores
Marshal Enlow
Waterloo
Fred Webbe
Lafay
Etta
William Halliday
Highland
La Follette Press Campaign Begins
Washington announces the La Follette presidential campaign is under way with headquarters in the capital from which nationwide solicitations and literature are being dispatched. The effort aims to unseat the Taft administration and promote the senator as the “Little Giant.”
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Washington
R. M. la Follette
Taft
Champ Clark Arrives in Quincy for Evening Address
Champ Clark, speaker of the national house of representatives, arrived in Quincy from Macomb last evening. He will speak at Highland Park this evening under the Western Catholic union on The United States in the 20th Century.
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Quincy
Til
Champ Clark
National House of Representatives
Macomb
Highland Park
Western Catholic Union
United States
Langlas Enthusiastic Over Geneva Conference Trip
Mrs. W. H. Langlas returned Saturday from Lake Geneva where she represented the local W C A as a delegate to a national conference. She reports strong religious work with institute sessions mornings and evangelistic services evenings. About 800 young women attended, including several missionaries on furlough, and she hopes to form a Lake Geneva club in Waterloo for next year’s outing.
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W. H. Langlas
Lake Geneva
Murdered Man's Niece Elope in Colorado Springs
Lucy Lee Swope, niece of murdered Kansas City millionaire Col Thomas H. Swope, eloped with W. B. Byrne, former Kansas City businessman and Denver salesman. They married in Pueblo and returned to Colorado Springs yesterday, confirming a sensational local wedding.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
Lucy Lee Swope
Thomas H. Swope
Kansas City
W. B. Byrne
Denver
Peublo
French Women Storm Markets Over Price Demands
In Northern France, market protests led by women spread across Nord as shoppers demand lower prices for butter meat milk and bread. Lille saw a market storm with eggs overturned and baskets smashed before gendarmerie intervention. Valenciennes capitulated, Cambray dealers fled, and talk rises of a Paris movement.
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Paria
France
Lille
Valenciennes
Cambray
Nord
Paris
Waterloo Lady Undergoes Gall Stone Operation
Parkersburg Iowa August 28 Special Mrs Wm H McCullough of Waterloo underwent gall stone surgery yesterday removing over 60 stones. Aged 27 she is a sister of Mrs A Cantonwine wife of Dr Cantondine. She rests comfortably and may return home soon.
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Parkersburg
Wm. H. McCullough
Waterloo
Railways July wreck tolls total deaths and injuries
Statistics from the Railway Age Gazette show 69 killed and 303 injured in July railway accidents. Collisions caused 31 deaths and 132 injuries, derailments 26 deaths and 171 injuries, and a boiler accident killed two. The Huinots Central report notes one derailment at Duquoin on July 13 with six injured.
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Railway Age Gazette
Hiinots Central
Duquoin
R. K. Downing
Freeport
G. A. Tibbitts
Sumner
Leslie Meskimen
Ioway Division
Altoona
Brotherhood of Railroad Shop Men
American Federation of Labor
W. P. Wells
Fort Dodge
Waterloo
G. O. Somers
Chicago
Chicago Great Western Railway
Waterloo Church Services Sunday
Dr Westenberg will present a stereopticon program on Egypt next Sunday evening with eye friendly fens. Music featured at First M E church included singer George Moody and Miss Helen Byrnes. The annual church and Sunday school picnic is at Lafay ette Park tomorrow at 2 pm with supper at 6. Ladies Aid meets Wednesday at Mrs C T Wilson’s home. Plymouth Congregational hosts a thimble bee Friday at 2:30 at Mrs Kenney’s home.
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Lafayette Park
Ladies’ Aid Society
C. T. Wilson
Sixth Street
Plymouth Congregational
Woman's Auxiliary
Woman’s Missionary Society of
Plymouth Congregational Church
White Plague Takes Athlete Ralph Peterson
Cedar Falls Iowa Aug 28 Ralph Peterson 20 died at 4 am from consumption after a yearlong illness His mother and brother George survive his father and three sisters preceded him in death Funeral at Baptist church at 2 30 pm conducted by Dr B B Jones He was a member of the church and an athlete who helped lead the 1910 high school football team with pallbearers from the 1910 squad Born Oct 3 1891 in Cedar Falls he spent his life there and withdrew from school in his junior year due to ill health.
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Cedar Falls
Ralph Peterson
George
Baptist Church
Ralph
The Aviator at Astor Theatre Tonight
Alien Dale in the New York American hails The Aviator as a sky high blend of humor and spectacle. A first class company performs with all special scenery including a genuine Bleriot XI monoplane and will ascend at every performance at the Waterloo tonight.
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Alien Dale
New York American
Astor Theater
the Waterloo
Moose convention draws large Waterloo crowd
Dr J R Scott secretary of the Waterloo Moose lodge returned from Detroit where he attended the national convention with over 1000 delegates at the twenty third annual gathering and grand street parade. The order added more than 140100 members last year and Waterloo lodge already has about 50 members. Also listed are marriages licenses for Frank W Potter and Stella Smith Anamosa William E Graham Morrison Lonale C Cowgur Marshaijito.
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J. R. Scott
Waterloo
Frank W. Potter
Anamosa
Stella Smith
William E. Graham
Morrison Lonale
C. Cowgur
Marshaijito
Town Talk Notes From Waterloo Area Socials and Visits
Town chatter records Mr and Mrs 8 M Bentley visiting Colfax. A J Cole returns to Minneapolis after a visit with his mother. W H Williams spent yesterday in Waverly with son Edd and family. F P OW Powers drove to Des Moines for days at the state fair. R T Van Metre of Dow City visited his father J Van Metre and family. Mrs Paul Kempter of Bellevue after Waterloo visit returns home tomorrow. R J Miller of Chattanooga visiting his Waterloo friends. A D Sumner and wife back from a Senate trip to spend vacation at home. Judge B McCoy hay fever relief trip planned to northern lakes returning Sept 10 to settle taxes. Burglary at 909 Jefferson St. watch and chain stolen, not reported. T E Magers catches 18 inch cedar river bass and will mount. John H Blair of Des Moines National Bank in city, returns home with Mrs Blair. Rev G H Thompson thanked by Walnut Street Baptist Sunday school. daughter Marjorie Thompson plays harp. Delta Sigma Phi hosts dancing party at Pinkerton hall with Myers orchestra. Mrs E L Johnson, Mrs M H Kimball, Mrs J A Bown, and Miss Mollie LaTier assist. Alice and Mary Ryke of Alton Ill guests. Miss Myrtle Salter hosts the Theta Gamma sorority dinner at Lafayette St. dining room decorated golden red. Twelve guests at a six o clock dinner with five courses.
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FP. OW. Powers
Des Moines
R. T. van Metre
Dow City
J. van Metre
T. E. Magers
Chautauqua Park
Cedar River
John H. Blair
Des Moines National Bank
Blair
C. W. Mullan
Waterloo
George H
Delta Sigma Phi Sorority
Pinkerton Hall
Bower
Myers’ Orchestra
E. L. Johnson
M. H. Kimball
J. A. Bown
Mollie LaTier
Alice and
Mary Ryrie
Alton
Myrtle Salter
Theta Gamma
Lafayette Street
Duel Ends With Wounding and Self Surrender Near Hornbrook
In Hornbrook California Aug 28 George Miller lies mortally wounded after a country road duel with William A Wright who then surrendered. Both men are noted Fiskirou county figures amid lingering litigation. Wright claims he acted first, alerting Miller's brother after the shooting.
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Hornbrook
Cal
George Miller
William A. Wright
Fiskirou County
Wright
Miller
Brotherhood Picnic At Chautauqua Park
First Presbyterian Church Brotherhood members plan their first fall meeting as a social picnic Thursday from 1 to 6 pm at Chautauqua Park. If weather allows a lawn lunch, otherwise at Dr H A Boysen home. Attendees bring picnic baskets and, after supper, prayer meeting moves to Dr Boysen’s home. The pastor asks each attendee to bring a favorite Scripture passage to read.
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Twe Brotherhood
First Presbyterian Church
Chautauqua Park
H. A. Boysen
Boysen
Robert C. Westenberg
Former Constable Confesses To Counterfeiting Five Cent Pieces
Rock Island Illinois August 28 F L Hall a former constable confessed today to making counterfeit five cent pieces. The coins were reportedly about 3 1 3 percent good and were widely circulated here. He was taken within 24 hours to Peoria for arraignment before the U S commissioner.
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Rock Island
Ill
F. Ll. Hall
Peoria
U. S
Dunkerton Folk Off For The Fair
Dunkerton Iowa August 28 special. Eighteen tickets sold for the early morning Des Moines state fair train. Notables aboard include J. A. Campbell H Rudolph FE 8 Canfield A Shimp and Mr and Mrs H Brant and Mr and Mrs W Sachert. Mrs Beaste Averell of McCook Nebraska visiting her mother Mrs Greene. A horse stolen from Mrs W Magee four miles north of town at the blacksmith shop prior to a baseball game. sheriff offers 25 reward for the horse, hitched to an old pink wear worn buggy. Patrols around the countryside failed to locate the animal during recent auto hunts.
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Dunkerton
Des Moines
J. A. Campbell
H. Rudolph
Canfield
A. Shimp
H. Brant
W. Sachert
Beaste Averell
McCook
Neb
Greene
Pat Magee
F. ©. Canfield
Cedar Falls
Church Laymen Banquet Planned by Y M C A Friday
Laymen from city churches will gather at 6:30 PM in the Y M C A auditorium for a banquet. A committee of one hundred will be named to lead the men and religious movement, with subcommittees to follow and several hundred expected to attend.
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Auditoriium
Unusually Low August Temperatures Across Midwest
Temperatures across Iowa Missouri Kansas and Nebraska were unusually low for August. Sioux City reported 44 degrees at dawn and Dresden Kansas 44 while Hayes stood at 48 and Maryville Missouri 53. Frost was reported in northern Nebraska with ice forming on still water at Clayton. tomato vines and other tender plants were killed.
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Kansas City
Avie
Iowa
Missouri
Kansas
Nebraska
Sioux City
Dresden
Hayes
Maryville
Moc
Norfolk
Neb
Clayton
Razor Battle Sparks Race War Near Huntsville
In Huntsville Missouri on August 28 a fight over a pint of whisky at a negro barbecue seven miles south of town left Edward Evans dead from a headshot and John Cameron severely cut with a razor. Two whites and six blacks were arrested as authorities feared worsening race trouble.
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Huntsville
Here
Edward Evans
John Cameron
Wreck on Valley Line Leaves One Dead In Middleton
Abram P. Brown of Hartford died from injuries after last night’s wreck of the New York New Haven and Hartford line near Middleton. About 60 others were injured but all are listed as stable with no expected fatalities. investigators probe the cause.
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Middleton
Conn
Abram P. Brown
Hartford
Tne
New York, New Haven and
Funeral Services for Mrs Anna Bovee Held Tomorrow
Funeral services for the late Mrs Anna Haoylan Bovee will be held tomorrow morning at the D W Bovee residence on Allen Street with Rev R E Graves of the First United Brethren church presiding. The remains will be sent to Richland Center Wisconsin for burial.
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Anna Haoylan Bovee
D. W. Bovee
Allen Street
R. E. Graves
First United Brethren Church
Richland Center
Wis
Church Calls A New Pastor For Central Church Of Christ
The Central church of Christ yesterday sent a call to Rev. Louis P Kopp of Fort Dodge to accept the pastorate. Since the resignation of Rev. W S Johnson the church has lacked a regular minister, but services continued with other ministers. Rev Kopp spoke last Sunday and impressed the congregation, who extended the invitation today and await his reply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Church of Christ
Louis Phopp
Fort Dodge
W. S. Johnson
Mr. Kopp
Walnut Street Baptist Agoga Class Reorganizes
The Young Men of Walnut Street Baptist Church re formed their Bible class into an Agoga unit with motto Get Another Man. Officers elected include President Wayne Garvin Vice President Sylvester Howell Secretary Wilbert Anderson Treasurer Keith Crowther Visitor George Clark Librarian Anthony Dailey Entertainer Clifford Cook and Reporter Arthur Truair.
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Walnut Street Baptist Church
Wayne Garvin
Sylvester Howell
Wilbert Anderson
Keith Crowther
George Clark
Anthony Dailey
Clifford Cook
Arthur Truair
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