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Newspaper
Webster City Tribune
Location
Webster City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1903
Page
7
Local gossip notes visitors and residents in Eagle Grove and nearby towns. People include C L Smith, Chas Bossert, J D Sketchley, B Kelly, J F Goodman, G M Rouse, Rev H F Burns, W H Wheeler, F A Conkling and others. Entries record travel, brief stays, and community happenings with multiple named individuals and places across Iowa.
Mrs. H E Randolph leaves for Muscoda Wisconsin for a month long visit. Ed ward and Malcome Whitfield are in Ames to work on Masonry at the state college. Eid Osborn returns to Aledo Illinois. Mrs Julius Op penheimer visits Jefferson before returning home. Frank Bonebright views Des Moines flood sights. Sara Wickware aids flood sufferers in Des Moines. Prof S T Neveln travels from Blairsburg to Drake University summer school teaching economics and history.
An advertisement from J. W. Pearce & Son of Kamrar Iowa lists riding surface cultivators six shovel at twenty four dollars and riding or gopher cultivators at twenty six dollars. Walking cultivators any kind priced at fifteen dollars. Extra cultivator shovels per set three dollars fifty cents. Also notes local residents and events with dates around early June and travel to Webster City.
Honest business methods fuel the Gentry Bros famed animal show now larger and more impressive than before. A street display launches the exhibition on June 12 with admission 25 cents for children and 50 cents for adults. Low round trip fares via the Chicago Northwestern line offer July 1 to 10 to San Francisco and Los Angeles with luxurious trains, stopovers, and escorted tours to the Pacific coast and beyond.
A collision near Stilwell Kansas killed nine people and injured six after floods forced trains onto Missouri Pacific tracks. Eastbound No 8 struck westbound No 1 despite orders to meet at Stilwell. crew negligence is alleged. Wounded and dead were transported despite flood obstacles and ambulance delays.
The Hamburg American Line steamer Deutschland bound for Plymouth Cherbourg and Hamburg ran aground in Gedney channels four hours after departure. No peril to the vessel beyond risk of collision in haze and smoke. It carried 750 cabin passengers and several hundred steerage, with gold worth $4,006,000 in the strong room. Passengers include Mrs J Ogden Armour Paul Morton Edouard De Reszke and Madame Sechmann Heine.
Reports from New Brunswick describe forest fires advancing through communities as 200 residents become homeless and losses exceed 106000 dollars. Piccadilly fatalities occur while attempting cattle rescue, and fires threaten broader provinces with villagers evacuated. A separate San Francisco affair notes a compromise in a mining title dispute involving A Morrison and others.
Firefighters struggle as fires spread across Adirondack region. Heavy smoke and ash fall reported near Lake George while flames threaten areas around Long Lake Newcomb Lake and Mount Marcy. Hundreds of men aiding efforts.
Philadelphia and surrounding areas are enveloped in thick smoke with a strong odor of burning wood. Officials attribute the smoky conditions to forest fires in northern and central New Jersey and nearby Vermont as reports from Burlington confirm widespread fires.
As rivers drop Topeka resumes normal activity with waterworks pumping murky water, streetcars in service, and rail repairs underway. Union depot floors clear, stockyards report 2500 hogs and 800 cattle drowned, and debris removal begins. Harlem village remains flooded while bodies found by Clay county teams total eight, with many missing already accounted for.
Topeka reports seven more flood victims found raising the known dead to seventy one with thirty identified. The Union Pacific depot serves as a morgue while many remain missing as waters recede revealing ruined shops and deep sand deposits. Sanitation measures intensify across the city. Nearby towns report gradual recovery and wheat losses loom from the disaster. Jefferson City faces rising Missouri River levels threatening Cedar City and surrounding areas.
Tarkio Missouri June 6 fire swept the Midland Manufacturing company plant causing an estimated loss of 50000 dollars. Fire officials report no injuries and investigation ongoing.
President Roosevelt closes his extensive tour with a 20 minute Danville visit and a Springfield armory speech. He praises national unity and calls himself a growing expansionist after travel from Atlantic to Pacific. 6000 greet him in Indianapolis under drizzle as crowds cheer.
The Ohio Republican state convention nominated Myron T. Herrick for governor with Warren G. Harding as lieutenant governor and W D Guilbert as auditor. The ticket also includes Wade KH. Ellis for attorney general and A N Summers for supreme court judge. Delegates adopted Hanna Herrick Harding and Harmony as a campaign motto and endorsed Roosevelt. The convention meets again at Des Moines October 1904. Cyrus Northrup was elected president and T C McClellan recording secretary with G S Bell as auditor.
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