Webster City Clay Works Reopens After Winter Shutdown
The Webster City Clay Products company will reopen today after a full winter cessation. The factory, shut since mid November, has been remodeled with 3000 to 4000 dollars of improvements and rebuilt kilns and driers. It will start with 20 to 25 workers, the same as before, and plans to manufacture tile despite rail car shortages. Coal supply delays have been resolved and production begins in the morning.
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Webster City Clay Products Company
Webster City
Webster City Council Adopts 1917-18 Budget and Hires Pro Tem
The Webster City council met in adjourned session with all members present and presented the 1917-18 city budget including general government, health, sewers, roads, water works, and bonds. Ordinance 416 on salary adjustments for the city manager was read. G J Long appointed city manager pro tem. The meeting adjourned to April 9 and reconvened as a board of health to hear Dr B Richardson urge reporting typhoid fever and pulmonary tuberculosis to the health department.
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Webster City
Board of Health
WAIKG
Cnn
G. J. Long
Richardson
City Health
City Health Department
Public health measures and rail depot upgrades announced
A report proposes distributing literature for patient self care and subsidized fumigation materials for contagious diseases. Engineers relocate semaphore boards at the Illinois Central station from the depot to a position above the tracks, with carpentry to install a door, stairs to the roof, and a railed platform extending to the boards. The change eliminates the outside ladder and aims for easier access.
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Ilinois Central
Rhode Island Red Hatching Eggs for Sale by Annie Garrison
Full-blood Rhode Island Reds with single comb offered by Annie B. Garrison. Prices: $1 for 15 eggs, $3 for 50, $5 for 100. Packed for shipment from Muscatine Illinois area. Contact 3-2918f2, 1528 Washington Street.
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Rhode Island
Annie B. Garrison
Washington Street
Muscatine
Town
Iowans Enroll in Roosevelt Legion For Allied Front
Des Moines reports Iowans join Roosevelts Legion seeking active service with the Allies on the French front. Mobilization hinges on many obstacles. six local volunteers fear they may never reach France. Legion irregular in structure, not part of regular forces, awaiting Washington and allied permission.
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Des Moines
Roosevelt
Legion
France
Europe
Washington
M. Bd. Daure
Istidopolitan Magazine
Col. Roosevelt
Dodge, Des Moines & Southern Rail to Electrify Crooked Creek Line
L. I. Foley announces readiness to begin electrification work on the Crooked Creek road this week. Crews will operate from both ends, with materials on site and only potential labor shortages delaying completion. Officials aim to electrify by June 1 unless war seizes labor supply.
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L. I. Foley
Fort Dodge, Des Moines & Southern Electric Line
Freeman-Tribune
Crooked Creek
Foley
Farm program eyed to aid city youth during vacation
The governor proposes a plan to send city youths to the country for a vacation work and learning experience. County and city superintendents are expected to be notified, with Supt. Deyoe likely to issue a bulletin outlining the suggestion and its benefits for employment and exposure to rural life.
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Supt
Deyoe
Call for new flags at city hall and post office
An aging county flag flown at the court house appears worn and ragged. The deteriorating state prompts a call for replacement at city hall and on the post office, with a hope business people will unveil bright new standards on a spring morning.
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Uncle Sam
Post Office
Iowa Senate Abolishes State Printer and Binder
Des Moines reports the legislature votes 38 to 4 to end the state printer and binder system. House concurrence expected after minor amendments. A separate measure failed to raise the state document editor’s salary. The printer remains until end of 1918 under the bill.
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Des Moines
Senate
House
City Seeks Capable City Manager From Three Applications
City council has three applications for city manager but no selection yet. The ideal candidate should have strong business training, leadership, and the resolve to discipline inefficiency. The Freeman-Tribune urges a well paid appointment who commands respect and ensures employees do their duty.
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The
Freeman-Tribune
Council
Soldier Boys to Receive Drill Pay Under New Law
Under a new law, once eight in ten members of a military company take the federal oath they are entitled to drill pay. Company C in this city will pay those who recently enlisted 93 cents to $2, with pay equal to one fourth the initial regular army amount. About ninety in Company C have joined, with twenty more enlisting today, including six young Radcliffe arrivals.
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Radcliffe
U. SS. A
Chase Labor Bill Meets With Defeat in Iowa Senate
Des Moines April 5 The Chase model injunction bill to extend federal injunction restrictions to state courts in labor strike cases was killed in the Iowa senate by lacking a constitutional majority. The measure backed by state labor unions failed after Senator Rule switched from yea to nay, leaving twenty six votes. The bill may reappear in the house calendar.
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Des Moines
Iowna Senate
American Federation of Labor
United States
Chase
Rule
Mason City
House
Senate
Corn price up at Webster City market exceeds prior highs
Corn sells today for 1.15 per bushel at Webster City, the highest price on record, 1.05 above the level twenty years ago and cheaper than any other grain product. Oats bring 1 cent as Bascomb Huddleston and daughter Mabel relocate to the Huddleston farm six miles south for the summer while the rest stay in town.
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Webster City
United States
Bascomb Huddleston
Mabel
State Teacher's College
Cedar Falls
Huddleston
School Board Elects Leaders for 1917 18
At a regular meeting the school board elected part of the teaching force for the next year. J L Pederson was chosen president. Committees include Finance Pyle and Lane, Building and Repairs Lane and Parkhurst, Supplies McAdow and Pyle. A state fire marshal and building inspector will inspect local school buildings for safety in 1917 18.
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J. L. Pederson
Pyle and
Lane
Parkhurst
MccAdow and Pyle
Atate
Wisconsin University professors plan military training campus shift
A letter to Mrs. Weston from daughter Ruth Donaldson at the Wisconsin Madison campus says professors met and may close the school in two weeks to become a military and Red Cross training site. If enacted students would earn credit for a full year. Also, Josephine Hummel from Bedford Indiana, English teacher, was re elected with a $5 monthly raise but has not decided about returning for another year.
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W. S. Weston
Ruth Donaldson
State University of Wisconsin
Madison
Josephine Hummel
Bedford
Police join federal drive as war prep spreads in Iowa
Des Moines April 4 police departments in Iowa cities are working with the federal justice department as preparations for possible war with Germany intensify. Attorney General Gregory sent a confidential directive to chiefs asking all local police and detectives to take necessary precautions and readiness for federal secret service work.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Federal Justice Department
Germany
Jackson
Gregory
Secret Service
Testing City Fire Truck Capacity In Water Throw
The city tested the new fire truck Tuesday at Des Moines and Ohio streets and at the elevator north of Willson avenue. It hurled a high water stream over the elevator, likely the town’s tallest building, leaving council members satisfied for possible acceptance. An omission in county funds depositories listed Webster City Savings Bank as an omitted but active depository like the other banks.
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Des Moines
Ohio
Willson Avenue
Ssonrvir
Webster City Savings Bank
Savings Bank
Anthbeta
Ellsworth Bride Weds Mason City Groom at Methodist Parsonage
Last Wednesday at the Methodist Parsonage Miss Ruth Nassen of Ellsworth married Mr. Rasmus Pederson of Mason City with Rev. W J Todd officiating. The couple plans to reside in Mason City where Pederson is employed in a dry goods store.
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Ruth Nassen
Ellsworth
Rasmus Pederson
Mason City
W. J. Todd
Will Foster
Algona
Pederson
Shipley & Black Dry Goods
Mr. Pederson
Accident at Hanrahan Store Basem ent Trap Door Opens
John Hanrahan suffered a fall when he stepped into an open basement trap door at the Hanrahan and O Connor store. He was found to have bruises and stiffness but no broken bones and may be confined to bed for several days. Also noted are Holy Week union services in Brookline Massachusetts reflecting interchurch cooperation among Congregationalists Unitarians Universalists and Presbyterians.
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John Hanrahan
Hanrahan & O'Connor
Hanrahan
Mr. Hanrahan
Northwestern Christian Advocate
I Christ
Brookline
Mass
Smallpox Quarantine Spreads In City
Mrs. Lee Spangler and two children residing above the Mission pool hall are quarantined with smallpox. The mother and older child suffer mild cases while the fifteen month old younger child is seriously ill. Mrs. Bert Thompson, a prior smallpox survivor, tends the family.
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City
Lee Spangler
Mission Pool Hall
Bert Thompson
Dangerous Medical Operation at Morey Hospital
Weldon Helmick underwent gall stones and appendicitis surgery Wednesday morning at Morey hospital. He was rushed from his farm near Galt to the city by automobile arriving near midnight. The operation began at 2 a.m. and he was in critical condition yesterday but is doing well today.
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Weldon Helmick
Morey Hospital
Williams Enterprise fire damages Hughes Hotel stoves
Mrs J F Doyle fueled a stove with coal oil delaying a fire rescue. The blast blew the stove pipe from the Hughes Hotel chimney and thimble, filling rooms with soot and smoke. No injuries reported.
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Williams Enterprise
White Building
J. F. Doyle
Hughes
Reserve Force 10 Formed For City Drill
A Company C reserve is formed for men over sixteen in this city. Lieut Louis Soderholm will command with another Company C officer as drilling officer in his absence. No arms at first. drills in squad and soldier schools. Targeted ages eighteen to twenty three. first drill at the armory at 8 o clock tomorrow night. No immediate war call. aims to acclimate youths to military life before actual service.
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Louis Soderholm
Company C
Seed Corn for Sale From Follinglo Farm
Early picked and carefully dried seed corn offered by Follinglo Farm Tjernagel Bros Props Story City Iowa. Contact for purchase details and pricing.
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Follinglo Farm
Tjernagel ,Bros
Props
Story City
Iowa National Guardsmen Relieve Guards at Bridges
Des Moines reports Iowa national guardsmen of the first Infantry guard federal and state property and rail bridges as war nerves heighten. Troops patrol river approaches and may be extended to other cities as recruiting rises and calls to colors loom.
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Des Moines
Iowa
First Infantry
National Guard
Garden Contest Entries And Week’s Planting Tasks
The list shows new entrants Howard Day Florence Krouskup Ruth Hunter lorence Prouty Ernest Grempel Carl Grempel Melvin Prouty Jennie Little Della Little Nellie Bobzien. Enter others at once. Vacation week tasks include marking and plowing plots planning seeds planting onion sets lettuce potatoes and other vegetables this week. Early peas radishes beets carrots spinach may be planted next week if necessary.
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Howard Day
Florence Krouskup
Ruth Hunter
Lorence Prouty
Ernest Grempel
Carl Grempel
Melvin Prouty
Jennie Little
Della Little
Nellie Bobzien
Vulcanizing Dept Back In Action At Parkhurst & Lavender
The Vulcanizing, Mr Holcomb, in charge of the vulcanizing department, has returned and is ready for business. Get your wagons in shape for spring. All work guaranteed. Parkhurst and Lavender.
Vote for Randall consolidated school carries by thin margin
The Randall area approved a consolidated school plan after a very close vote held Saturday amid much community discussion. The decision ends a lengthy debate and formalizes the school merger for Randall and surrounding areas.
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Randall and
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Ern Railroad
College of Pharmacy
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Lieut. Soderholm
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