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Newspaper
Webster City Tribune
Location
Webster City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1901
Page
6
Local notes from Webster City Iowa report many residents visiting relatives and friends across nearby towns. travelers include Miss Anna Lea Rhynsburger and Miss Edith Lee in town for visits, with others heading to Des Moines Waterloo and Chicago.
Mrs. C W Rummel hosted a Tuesday night gathering on Bank Street for Miss Daisy Tabor of Independence with musicians Hallie Smith Charlotte Crosley and Tressa Treat performing. A wedding of Ada Louise Horton and Eli R Dalton at B L Willis home on Walnut Street followed with Rev J O Thrush officiating and guests from Algona Spencer Titonka and Medway in attendance. A sunflower party at Mrs Alexander Groves’s featured vivid watercolored sunflowers and numerous attendees listed by name. A reunion at Mrs A H Wentworth’s Boone Street home concluded the social round with a shared dinner and many country guests partaking.
Mrs Bartlett and Mrs Singer of Blairsburg join Mrs Hathway of Independence along with Mrs Tuttle Mrs P H Morris Mrs C V W Hathway and Mrs Bentley of Webster City in a social list.
A list of residents and visitors includes G B Pray in Des Moines, Miss Jennie Cub Eldora visiting Rev Harter, J C Robinson and Fred Beerman at the state fair, D A Kent Jewell on business, Mrs Hartwig and daughter at Ryberg home, Miss Mamie Buehler Dubuque at Kepharts, Miss Leah Johnson returning from California, Mrs S C Eastman and daughter visiting Dows, the Sterlings visiting N F Howard in Williams, Miss Jennie Felt Eagle Grove preparing for school, Miss Maude Soule from Pan American trip, Mrs F E Jones and children from Fort Dodge, Miss Anna Lea Rhyneburger from Pella moving to Graettinger, Furman Tuttle and wife to Clear Lake, H A Richards Ottawa Kansas visiting, and Pan-American Exposition excursion tickets via Northwestern line with Chicago connection.
The 20th Century Colossus brings famous French duo Monsieur and Mile Devene in the carrying act with a man on a horse and a woman posed in graceful positions as the horse gallops. They perform both matinee and evening shows when Forepaugh and Sells Colossus visit on September 19.
A poem by Scott Otto offers comfort to blind readers, promising a heavenly future where blindness ends and sight returns on eternal shores. It urges patience and prayer as the reader endures a long, dark night toward a vision bright.
Death again entered our ranks and removed our worthy brother Thomas Frazier to a higher place. Webster City lodge No. 842, I O O F resolves that Hills death has cost the order a good and faithful member. We honor him as a sterling citizen, husband and father. We extend sympathy to his wife and children. Charter to be draped for thirty days. Resolutions to be spread on the lodge minutes and copies given to the family and city papers and Iowa Odd Fellows for publication. COMMITTEE.
Webster City Camp No. 416 M W of A passes resolutions praising Frank D. Carson for his kindness generosity and upright conduct and expressing heartfelt sympathy to his family The resolutions will be recorded and a copy sent to the widow and local papers presented by F J Greenwood H D Horsley and W J Hubacher Com.
Series of property transfers shows Mariah Wiltsey to Hannah Leopold for wd-lot 1 block 14 Park Add W City for 500.00 and multiple other deeds: Manon to Zitterell for portions of lot 14 block 108 D & P RR Add W City for 150.00. Taig to Simondson for two thirds of a se tract 23-86-24-8600 priced 4 00. Corbin to Hayes for wd-lot 12 block 6 Williams for 800.00. Solomon Osborn to Francis Osborn for wd-lot 7 8 block 6 Lawn Hill Add W City for 1 500.00. Osborn to Clifton for wd-lot 22 block 10 Funk & Co's Add W City for 800.00. Wilke to DeMouth for wd-a lot 9 block A Wilke's Add W City for 300.00. Shea to Swift for wd-lots 2 and 8 block 62 W City for 200.00. Hanson to Blake for wd-lots 8 and 4 block 14 Williams for 1 125.00. Ends with an unrelated tea advertisement from Rocky Mountain Tea.
Grain, provisions and market notes supplied by Martin and Slack. Private wires connect Chicago and New York brokers. Branch offices listed in Webster City Fort Dodge Marshalltown Iowa Falls Mason City and Hampton.
Mrs Curtin Baker of Bookwater Ohio recounts using Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy to treat an infant with cholera infantum. After two days the child recovered fully and remained healthy nearly a year later. She endorses the remedy and says it never fails when used as directed. Sold by all druggists.
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