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Newspaper
Webster City Tribune
Location
Webster City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1901
Page
5
A collage of local updates lists visits and travels by residents including C E Brown to Stewart Nebraska and Arthur Westrom from Lake View. Construction begins on E B Schroeder Hardware Co’s new store and work on a new schoolhouse as well.
Bi Yungelas has delivered oats for two weeks. Harry Cooter of Flugstad received a car of lumber for a new house last week. This week finishes threshing in the area. Many farmers are plowing. Mr and Mrs Herman Johnson of Waterloo visited over Sunday at the Cutler home. Theo Hartman sold his farm to Charley Nilles last week. Mies Fern Arbergast of Farmer City HL arrived Tuesday for an extended visit with her aunt Mrs C H Swiney.
The ladies of the Christian church held an ice cream and cake social at the home of C. E. Vegors on Saturday night. Nearby visits included Mrs. Geo. Johnson of Webster City staying with her sister Mrs. P. E. Vegors.
Allen Park returns from Illinois last Wednesday evening. Mrs Bertha Clara and Will Schwepe and Miss Augusta Sowerholm spent the day with relatives at Fairmont Minnesota last Sunday. Chas Gerber and family visited the H E Schroeder family near Blairsburg Sunday. Miss Hattie Hughes went to Minnesota Friday morning to visit relatives. The Fred Eggers Henry Lohmann John Bronkhurst Henry Weseloh Henry Rushmeyer A Willner and Horn families visited Henry Heins Sunday afternoon. Mesdames Chas and Dan Gerber visited at Peter Weber's Monday. Mrs Theodore Arnold went to Storm Lake Saturday to visit relatives.
Fremont residents including Rosa and Katie Welch spent Sunday with the Stark sisters. Katie Wagner of Webster City visited her brother Nick Wagner and wife. Arbergast of Farmer City DL arrived for a visit with Mr Swiney family. Albert Like plans eastern-state relatives visit. Nilles purchased Hartman farm of 160 acres at 57 dollars per acre. Nickerson and Helmick families visited Swiney. Dave Dundon visiting Blue Earth Minnesota. Aug 13.
Saratoga notes say farmers remain active as threshing winds down. DeFrance brothers led threshing while Ivy Layne visits South Dakota and Jim Layne visits his mother. Mr and Mrs Charley DeFrance and Florence Guthrie and Ed Spurling spent Sunday at the Guthrie home.
In Hamilton Center the community notes several farms with four threshing machines from De France Brothers, McFarland, Howes, and Reed. George Seamonds of Chicago visits his sister Mrs. Davia for the summer while Louis Carey and his mother visit Hiram Carey. Simon Wehrheim and his father travel to Oklahoma, and Grandma Smith shows partial recovery from December illness. Maude Guthrie visits from Saratoga, with Uncle Jesse Adams and Mrs Hill hosting visitors. Ernest Johnson sustains a crushed right hand at a threshing machine last week.
Blanche Miles visits Estherville while Mrs Ross from Eldora nurses here. Jerry Williams travels to Illinois. John Carns moves to Presbyterian parsonage. Several locals relocate homes and offices. A cement walk goes in around Schultz Bros. building as others shop in town.
There is a will on file in the district court clerk’s office for Hamilton County Iowa purporting to be the last will of Bilt Lente deceased. Probate is set for 2 o clock p m September 16 1901 at the courthouse Webster City Iowa. interested parties may appear and show cause why the will should not be admitted to probate. Witness is 8 W McAdo w clerk of district court, August 1 1901.
The Times cites El Conservador reporting General Uribe-Uribe killed July 27 at San Cristobal while Colombia’s forces clashed with Venezuelan troops. Uprising details reach Washington with three Colombia-based letters noting revolutionary activity and guerrilla fighting near Colon and Panama. A July 26-27 raid, arrests of nationalist adherents, and a looming deployment of the Iowa to Panama are mentioned.
Colorado Springs Aug 14. It is revealed General W J Palmer after selling his Rio Grande Western railroad stake for 6 000 000 distributed 1000 shares of stock then at 104 among the railroad’s employees. The total exceeded 1 000 000 with Vice President Dodge receiving over 100 000 worth.
General John C. Bates arrived in Omaha and becomes the permanent commander of the Department of the Missouri marking the first such arrangement since the Spanish American War. Previously General Fitzhugh Lee led in Omaha for six months with a temporary tenure.
The Ophir carrying the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York arrived at Durban from Mauritius. The mayor hosted a luncheon at the Royal hotel with high colonial officials. Afterward the royal party traveled by train to Pietermaritzburg.
Vice President Roosevelt with William Allen White left Colorado Springs after 11 days in the area. He travels east by the Santa Fe with a planned brief stop at Hutchinson Kansas to attend the Grand Army reunion.
Mrs. Thomas Siloya, a divorce suit witness, was killed yesterday in Springfield as she walked home from Kisze mills in Taney county where she had gone to give her deposition. A suspect remains at large. White River hills are said to be filled with armed men seeking vengeance.
The board of directors closed a contract with J. P. McCarthy to build 51 miles of track from the Missouri Arkansas state line near Poplar Bluff to Pocahontas Arkansas. Construction starts September 1 and ends January 1, 1902.
Mrs. Fannie Wadsworth of Bellwood Nebraska won a teaching post in the Philippines after her husband George Wadsworth objected. She claimed the children were his from a prior marriage and chose to proceed. She sailed from Kansas to Manila with other educators after transportation was approved.
The Dowager Empress Frederick was buried yesterday near Potsdam beside Kaiser Wilhelm I in the Driedenskirche mausoleum. The royal procession lasted twenty minutes as Emperor William II and Queen Augusta Victoria, King Edward and Queen Alexandra, and other royals attended the solemn obsequies while Potsdam tolled its bells.
In Santiago de Cuba the Punta Gorda battery two modern 6 inch guns were found missing then later recovered in a forest on the bay’s far side. Explosives had damaged the guns and prepared them for shipment as scrap metal. Sentries had been removed six months earlier and thieves are now jailed.
London August 14 The house of commons passed the factories bill to a debate after the government withdrew a clause extending to laundries within the bill amid strong Catholic convent laundries inspection objections. Conservatives denounce the move as a surrender and weakness.
The Knights of Columbus held its national convention opening in Plattsburg New York with 65 of 73 delegates present representing nearly every state. The group planned a four day session and began deliberating on constitutional revisions.
It was established that the shooting of Samuel Verplank and Laura Rankin near Fishkill landing was purely accidental. Stray shots from a hunter aiming at squirrels wounded both. Neither was as seriously hurt as first reported.
Chicago August 14 Dr Jacob H Smyser secretary of the board of dental examiners was arrested on warrants from Judge Cavanaugh charged with forgery and issuing forged reports. The case is described as a major Chicago sensation. Logan Iowa August 14 detective Fred Hans arrested for conspiracy in the Latta robbery admitted to bail of 300 with preliminary hearing set for August 20.
The Missouri Kansas and Texas train No 3 was robbed near Caney switch I T at 1 05 am by five masked men. The express car safe was wrecked. $1 50 from the safe and about 400 from passengers were taken. Several men were arrested at Caney and remanded to jail after a hearing in Atoka bonds set at 5000 each.
James Greene station agent at Otho misread orders sending a gravel train against a fast northbound freight. He collapsed into insanity after realizing the blunder as the trains collided on a heavy grade. crews escaped injury while engines were badly damaged and Greene is under chloroform with no clear recovery expected.
Salt Lake City saw hundreds of former volunteer soldiers from regiments in the Philippines welcomed at Assembly hall by General Irving Hale of Colorado, first vice president of the Society of the Philippines. Delegations came from Colorado Utah Idaho and other states. The three day reunion opened with a business session an informal gathering and a mass meeting.
From Christiana reports indicate Farsund was totally wiped out by a fire causing about 1,500,000 kroner in damage. The blaze left the town without buildings and prompted emergency measures across the region.
A damaged OCR fragment lists train numbers and routes including Des Moines connections. It mentions northbound and southbound services such as Dakota Express and Iowa Passenger with freight and way freight classifications and notes several trains running daily except certain 6 11 24 25 trains.
The Northwestern Line offers round trip tickets at one fare for travel August 22 to 31 with return until September 2. Tickets available through Chicago and Northwestern agents. Also promotes Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets as gentle, effective health aids sold by druggists.
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