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Newspaper
Webster City Tribune
Location
Webster City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1902
Page
6
Numerous visitors and residents are noted in Webster City Iowa. People travel to Des Moines Boone Humboldt Chicago Sioux City and other towns for business visits funerals teaching posts real estate and family visits.
We express heartfelt thanks to many kind friends and neighbors in Kamvar and vicinity who aided us during the last sickness and at the death of our beloved wife and mother.
G M Rouse returns from Chicago with a car load of bankrupt wall paper stock over 10 000 rolls to be sold at a small advance over cost. Packages of six rolls plus border priced at 60 cents each on sale day August 30. Also Venetian red paint ladders and other stock offered at bargain prices. Sale emphasizes large stock and wholesale-like savings for Webster City residents.
Carda and Verne Cutler announce a September 3 wedding at Popular Grove Hirshview. A double wedding last night united Oscar Kepler with Bessie Smith and Harvey Smith with Myrtle Smith at 520 Bank Street. Mrs. Edwin Garth hosted a dinner for Miss Mabel Garth and Miss McDonald of Dubuque with many attendees. Numerous names appear among guests and attendants at various gatherings and farm home socials across the city.
Tamaqua Pennsylvania August 29 reports say after a day of jeering and crowds the National Guard under Colonel Clement has imposed restraint. Company K of the Twelfth Regiment escorted nonunion workers to Lansford and Coaldale while authorities remind troops to enforce a new law penalizing obscene language.
Milwaukee August 29 Boston was chosen as the next meeting place for the National Postmasters association convention yesterday The bulk of discussion centered on rural free delivery service F B Dickinson of Detroit was elected president and William E Hull of Peoria vice president
A district agent of Equitable Life Insurance Company of Iowa promotes a plan offering installment bonds with death cancellation option, claiming federal tax exemption and strong protection. The pitch cites Iowa’s long-standing use and $ half a billion in first mortgage loans on farms, urging contact with G. W. Crosley in Webster City for full details.
Dedicatory services at Kamrar Iowa on August 31 1902 feature morning afternoon and evening programs. Speakers include F Hey Lemon Bert Martin A B Elliott and F Burns with solos by Miss Carrie Snow Webster City Iowa and recitals by the choir. Services run 10:30 11:00 3:00 7:30 and 8:00 with prayers sermons and hymns described.
Highview brief mentions T McDaniel arriving home from Kansas City. Stella Keelin of Lake View visited friends nearby last week. Mrs Cook of Webster City visited over Sunday with daughter Mrs J O Nelson. Geo Sparks shows white horses at state fair. Chauncey Sweeney attends state fair with Poland China hogs. Telephones now common in area farms. Frank and Charley Snow back from Minnesota. Smith Veach moves house for new modern home. Aug 27 Mrs Henry Tapper sick. Herman Ohden family visited Wintjes. Middenta and Ohden families host Carroll county relatives. Joe Tapper returns to farm J Winch place next year. Willie Heyer leaves Sept 1 for Vinton school for the blind. Many attended state fair. Threshing slow with lots of shock threshing left. Mrs G Naber of Lenox SD visiting. will return home soon.
Grain in the shock faces spoilage if rain continues. Fred Kesler and Selmer Adama return from Minnesota and South Dakota. Mae and Verna Groves visit grandmother Mrs Branch at Fairview. Mrs Layne and Bessie attend the Eagle Grove carnival. Charlie Kent injured cheek while playing. Dr Wyatt of Kamrar treated him. Dogs fatally injure nine sheep for Austin Kesler. Irene Shaw visits Webster City. Drucie and Masters Hill visit grandmother Mrs Kesler. Florence Guthrie and Ed Spurling visit Mrs Guthrie. Roy Riley hosts a visit.
The note mentions Mr and Mrs Humble and Frank Marks visiting relatives in Dows on a Sunday, highlighting a local family update and travel.
Mrs Stewart Wilde of Thornton visited relatives here last week. Families from Webster City Clarion Eagle Grove and Dows spent days with local residents. Ice cream social planned September 4 at Mulberry Center MWA hall. RNA Beghbors picnic set for September 6 at Clarion. MWA ball team formed. Violet Reid visiting Webster City. Schools start soon with teachers named for several districts.
The Silver party and Democratic conventions in Reno list nominees for lieutenant governor supreme judge secretary of state treasurer U S senator and congressman with John Sparks named for Idaho governor. The race for U S senator remains a hard fought contest between Republican and fusion camps led by Thomas Haley. Also a fatal fire in a New York flat killed a woman and injured others.
Webster City lost to Algona 10 to 6 as errors and absent players hindered the locals. Essick and Cadwalder were sidelined by illness and rib injury, leaving a crippled lineup. Johnson and Jones pitched, but the team could not overcome three errors and a lack of vigor.
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway promotes its extensive network across Illinois Wisconsin Iowa Minnesota South Dakota North Dakota Missouri and Michigan upper peninsula. It highlights luxury sleeping parlor and dining cars, block signaling, electric lighting and steam heating as rail travel leaders. Excursion rates to the Northwest are offered via the Chicago Great Western with ten day stop overs west of Minot North Dakota.
To Kansas City and the West via the Illinois Central. Train No 8 leaves Webster City at 6 p m daily and connects in Omaha for Kansas City and west. Arrives Omaha 10:85 p m and Kansas City 6:05 am. A Standard Pullman Sleeper is in Train No 3 at Fort and runs through to Kansas City. Inquiries to Illinois Central ticket agents. E J. F. Merry Asst Gen Pass Agt Dubuque Iowa.
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