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Newspaper
Webster City Tribune
Location
Webster City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1902
Page
5
J E Olmstead and partners announce readiness for cement work including sidewalls paving blocks sidewalks artificial stone curbing and retaining walls. Their movable paving blocks promise indefinite longevity and they solicit public patronage from Webster City with address F A Conkling or J E Olmstead.
W B Ripuarp agent lists train stops including Webster City and Fort Dodge with trains 1 2 3 and 62 stopping on signal. Chicago Great Western advertises Iowa Illinois Minnesota Missouri farming regions and seeks competent men for creamery mills hardware and other businesses with correspondence invited. W J Reed industrial agent offers maps and leaflets from Endicott Building St Paul Minnesota.
Neighborhood notes from Independence report rain delaying return from the carnival, visits by Mrs. Henry Arnold and families from Hamilton township, Miss Anna Ostrem finishing a term near Kamrar, and ongoing work by the Chicago and Northwestern replacing wooden bridges with stone through the area. June 9 marking a barn project by Henry Heins and Dick Kennedy starting work for T. M. Hughes.
L J Nott and Peter Schwebert each have a new buggy. O L Gilmore and family visited Sunday with Mrs Layne at Saratoga. Al Adams and family went to Boone for a few days visit. Pneumonia cases rise in Saratoga district including Helen Grover and Robert Guthrie. Pleasant Hill closes spring term as Miss Showmaker ends over three years of teaching. Rev Bennett of Kamrat preaches at the school house. Mr and Mrs Myers from near Stratford visit E H Claflin. W O McConnell debuts a rubber tired road wagon. Mrs Dyke visits Ruthven. Ice cream supper at Pleasant Hill school house Saturday June 14. All invited.
Blairsville items from last week include T Neveln traveling to Des Moines, Helen Robertson returning to Williams, and Stoufer with Hemminger surveying Minnesota land. Rev Myers resigns from Congregational church with final sermon planned. Garner will be his new field. Various locals attend schools, visits, and family events including christenings and commencements.
Mrs Braginton visited Sunday and returned to Manson Monday after teaching in Aurora Illinois. School closed Friday for summer. Kamrar visitors and Webster City visits noted. Children’s day well attended. Local people travel to Chicago and Des Moines. A Cedar Rapids wedding remarked and local carnival shows. Acetylene gas generator patent claimed by J M Flugstad Montana. June 9.
The 4th U B church quarterly meeting happens at Mulberry with a Saturday conference by Elder Cronk and Sunday services including baptism. Various local residents visit or finish school terms, a union school picnic is planned on the White Fox with several schools listed, and dances and Woodmen activities are noted. O. N. Ross and others visit, people travel, and local officials plan June construction contracts.
Quarantine restrictions were recently raised in Williams. In Wisconsin and Illinois coverage, notes mention Maple Street homes repainted by Mr. Caruth and upcoming Iowa Legion of Honor meeting and banquet on Friday night June 27. Historic Civil War flags, Confederate camp insignia, and remarks on public opinion also appear alongside miscellaneous maxims and observations.
The guidebooks have long claimed 3065 churches in Rome but the exact total is 352 including four grand basilicas outside the walls. About 018 chapels are tied to monasteries nunneries schools and private palaces plus many individual shrines. There are 6S monastic establishments 42 for monks and 26 for nuns.
A gentleman sheltering from a smart shower tried to share an umbrella with an acquaintance. As he neared, the other man abruptly turned, with a guilty look, and thrust the umbrella into his hands then vanished, as reported by the London Globe.
Notice records the incorporation of Randall Lumber Co a Iowa corporation with principal office in Randall Hamilton County Iowa. It outlines purpose to buy sell lumber yard operation and sale of building materials, capital stock 1000 shares at 10 each, first business May 1 1902 and twenty year term with renewal, board of seven directors including George Larson Ben Henderson John Sparboe Canute Phillips and others, provisional officers named, and liability limits two thirds of issued capital.
The district clerk announces that a will purporting to be the last will and testament of Maria K Johnson, late of Hamilton County Iowa, is on file for probate. A probate hearing is set for 2 p.m. June 17 1902 at the Hamilton County court house in Webster City.
Illinois Central announces excursion rates to Cedar Falls Spirit Lake Portland San Francisco Salt Lake City Dallas and other locales for events from June through August. Included are Summer School Grand Lodge conventions and religious gatherings with dates and special fares. For exact rates and sale dates contact a local Illinois Central ticket agent or J. F. Merry then assistant general pass agent Dubuque Iowa.
An advertisement touts Rocky Mountain Tea as producing a wonderful effect on the human eye and indescribable feelings of pleasure after consumption. The snippet cites "850. Keltz &" as a source or seller mark.
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