Webster City Personal Notices and Local Visitors
The Webster City daily column lists many residents and visitors with trips to Des Moines Goldfield Eagle Grove Ames and Dubuque. It notes arrivals departures Christmas holidays schooling attendances and family visits including Miss Nelle Hoag Miss Flora D. Smith Miss Edna Little and more with several medical and family updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. A. Sackett
Gilbert
Chas. Weise
Goldfield
Elsie Wickware
Eagle Grove
Bro. Wallace
The
Williams Wasp
Webster City
Robert E.*jones
Des Moines
A. Harris
Des’ Moines
Frank Neel
Kamvar
Geo
Neel
Nelle Hoag
New Hartford
L. A. Chipman
Kamrar
Jin
Ralph Doak
Estille Karr
Chicago
Orr Business College
Jessie Edwards
Florence Neel
Jessie McMurray
City
Grinnell
N. F. Howard
Williams
J. R. Sterling
Irene McGriff
Dubuque
Mra. W. Ehrlich
Doak
Nogal
New Mexico
Mies Edna
Sachool
Society Events Card Party At Prospect Street Home
Mr Harold J Smith hosts a card party Friday evening December 26 at his Prospect street residence. Mies Dot Ometead hosted a select after the Maccabee dance with a swell supper. Ray Hughes entertained friends Tuesday at his Ohio street home with games and light refreshments. Misa Bertha Lyon hosted many young people two miles southwest of the city with light refreshments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold J. Smith
Prospect Street
Mies Dot
Ray Hughes
Ohio Street
Misa Bertha Lyon
L. A. Lehnhard
Water Street
Christmas Weddings and Society Notes in Ellsworth
A string of social notices covers Christmas weddings and parties in Ellsworth. Details include the engagements and planned ceremonies for Mies E Dot Robinson and Frebert A Pagel, Miss Virdie Buckels and George H Young, plus a whist party, a literary Round Table meeting, an Evening Bob Ride with an oyster supper, and a large six o'clock dinner hosted by Mrs. J B Hoff. The article also mentions upcoming postal service expansions and a new geography volume on the Philippines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virdie Buckels
J. C. Buckels
George H. Young
Ellsworth
Literary Round Table
F. H
Alexander Lon Second Street
Crome
Constable
National
Bowdish Kills Himself in Marceline Hotel
C P Bowdish of Alburn Illinois shot and killed himself in a Marceline Missouri hotel last night. He carried 865 in his pockets and after arriving by Santa Fe train at 7 pm he wandered the town spoke with a physician then learned he was in Marceline and asked his wife in Illinois to come at once.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gulcide
Miscouri
Illinois
Marceline
C. P. Bowdish
Alburn
Bowdish
Central Hotel
Ilinois
Elburn
Rick
DRAINING KANKAKEE MARSHES WITH BIG DITCH PROJECT
Preliminary steps in Indiana counties Laporte Starke Porter Lake and Jasper aim to build a major 60 mile ditch to drain Kanakee marshes totaling about 1 million dollars. An initial 14 miles in Laporte and Starke will cost 125000 with width eighty feet and depth sixteen feet. Assessments on benefits will fund the project as ranch owners back the plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Crown Point
Ind
Laporte
Starke
Porter, Lake
Jasper
Mississippi River
Kankakee
Illinois Line
Twice Arrested for Murder Erickson Again in Custody
Eriskson arrested in Iron Mountain Michigan charged with murdering his father John Erickson whose body was found last November after disappearing in May. A shotgun near the body and $346,000 insurance linked to the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erickson
Iron. Mountain
Mich
Nele Erickson
John ‘Erickson
Norway
Nels
Duel at a Dance Ends in Fatality in Beaumont
Beaumont Tez December 19 a duel at a dance left John Broach street contractor dead Frank Matthews fatally wounded and H M Matthews wounded with a bullet in his sex outside the dance hall only three shots fired. Iona Man Found Dead in Idaho Cedar Rapids December 19 Edward Bittle body found near Mountain Home Idaho left Cedar Rapids May 27 to buy land he had left the train at Granger Wyoming last heard of him Hoe a wealthy young farmer living at Lisbon eighteen miles east of Cedar Rapids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beaumont
Tez
John Broach
Frank Matthews
Broach
H. M. Matthews
Iona
Idaho
Cedar Rapids
Edward Bittle
Mountain Home
Ida
Granger
Wyo
Hoe
Lisbon
Mercy Hospital plan outlined with new building details
The Messenger of Mercy describes a hospital proposal including a seven foot basement, rock brick walls, and a 24 bed capacity. Donor Mr Funk funds steam heat and plumbing on a three and a half acre site with one fourth of beds reserved for the poor. A Hospital Sunday drive seeks subscriptions for equipment and operating costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnson
Mercy Hospital
The
Messenger of Mercy
Funk
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