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Newspaper
Webster City Tribune
Location
Webster City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1908
Page
3
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Webster City residents announce candidacies for Hamilton County offices in June Republican primaries. Joseph A. Stover seeks county auditor and C. A. Cragwick also runs for auditor. W. H. Cunningham announces for sheriff with June primary decision by Republican voters.
The Freeman Tribune argues the GOP faces a decisive choice in 1904. It urges Taft or Cummins or Hughes as viable nominees, warns against a reactionary pick, and notes Georgia versus Iowa delegate influence, tariff reform talks, and Roosevelt's possible second term.
The Allison camp claims gains in county conventions that favored Cummins two years ago and boasts unlimited funds to organize across counties. Supporters note no bribery, but money covers rival campaign expenses while Cummins backers lack funds. The piece urges Republicans to stay hopeful as primaries approach and voters cast ballots privately.
In Rendsburg Prussia detectives revealed a hidden counterfeit operation inside the jail. A convict worked at night using dies found by the prison inspector who, with his wife and mother-in-law, laundered the coins. The inspector and kin were arrested.
Perry Iowa date Henry Tingwaldt bought five horses at Correctionville and loaded them for transfer at Smithland. A missing horse surfaced later after a broken car door revealed it jumped from the moving train. The animal was found alive and hardly hurt, defying the expected corpse.
Mrs Minnie Ross of Resner Indiana attempted to rekindle a supposed out fire by pouring oil in the stove. The flame flared and the can exploded, sending burning liquid over her face chest and hands. Medical help arrived promptly and she is progressing as well as could be expected.
Fire on the third floor of the Armstrong Cork company building at 20-22 Market Street spread to the fourth and fifth floors and to the Murale company plant at 24-26 Market Street. All workers escaped unharmed. Loss estimated under 30000 dollars.
Williams township resident S B Hancock about fifty years old died yesterday from throat trouble. He had lived in the area about fifteen years and was considered a prominent local farmer.
Mrs. Irene Dolph, 17, is held without bail on a murder charge in Clinton Illinois. Witnesses allege she confessed to her mother in Joliet, and police say the dawn killing followed a deliberate plot. Her mother and landlady testified, while Dolph waived examination and was sent to the grand jury.
In Moosup Connecticut a decomposed body weighted and bound in a bag was found in the river. Police say a bloody axe was found on the premises and Salvatore Catagello was arrested after his wife alleged he murdered a Brooklyn visitor named Peters.
Fire broke out in the Central High School laboratory with 1,200 students inside. The building was evacuated in two and a half minutes despite overcrowded stairs. The blaze caused little damage and the fire drill proved effective.
J I Knights of Green Mountain a 39 year old bachelor rented a room in a lodging house here yesterday. When friends asked for him today the door was forced open and he was found unconscious in bed. He was taken to hospital suffering from an overdose of a patent medicine believed to treat heart disease.
Pottsville March 6 a Pennsylvania freight train halted on the main track for ten hours after the crew reached sixteen hours on duty before being allowed rest under the new hours of service law which took effect Sunday.
Entertainment in District Three Friday drew a good crowd. Tobias Hansen leaves for the west to establish a new home. P W Reece of Elmore Minnesota visited last week to buy stock. The Helping Union met with Mrs Dorus Pearson. Frances Hawks teaching at Randall visited her parents. Henry Hendrickson plans a sale on Thursday March 5 and will quit farming. The girls society meets with Anna Haverston Friday. Peter Hendrickson moved to the Albert Britson place on Monday March 3.
John McCoy and family were guests at the W B Fielder home Sunday. Mrs B H Sutton and children visit Frank Hollis before moving to a new home near Duluth Minnesota. Grandma Simmons, returning from Illinois with Mrs J B Merritt, is on the sick list. Tennis Peterson and his mother moved to Eagle Grove. Tennis seeks steady work to return to Norway to be with his sweetheart. All qualified voters urged to attend the annual meeting Monday March 4 for road votes between Doty and Prairie farms.
Mr Henry Rethman and family moved from Illinois to work for Barney Wagner next season. Sam Beeman returns to Illinois and his property will be sold at public auction next Thursday. Miss Sophia Simon visited with friends at Eagle Grove over Sunday. Peter Morrow enjoyed a visit at the Lang home. Attorney Sayrs of Webster City was in the area on a business trip Saturday. J Beeman, recently in Galveston and southern points with his wife for health, has come home. Mrs B will stay in Kansas City visiting her sister. B Clifton and family left for Nebraska to settle there. George Wagner has gone to Nebraska and western areas to manage land interests. J Lenhart hosted a dancing party at his home Monday evening. Quite a number attended.
The Williams merchants vote to keep stores closed at 6 30 pm through April 1. Fred Johnson buys the Peter Rolling residence for 1200 dollars. A large audience attends Chas A Payne’s lecture Friday night. John Caruth sells his residence to his father for 3300 dollars. Mr and Mrs Paul Wille move to a Maple avenue home. Fred Minard plans to move to British Columbia to take a homestead after visiting his old home.
Walsh and others attended the Knights of Columbus meeting at Ft Dodge Sunday. P McCallum the Iowa Falls tail or was here Monday.
The Lincoln township school board held a special meeting Tuesday to appoint a director for district No 5, vacated by Ole Skrovig. Ea Hoversten was elected director in district No 3 at the Monday school election. Local residents and visitors were listed with social and business notes across the week.
J B Simons departed for Armour South Dakota with farming implements and stock to work the B D Busing farm next season. Earl Strever hosted a Wednesday party for friends with refreshments and fun. Arthur Blue added a new kitchen to his home. A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Skears last Friday. Arch Neese visited Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota for evaluation. doctors found appendicitis yet no operation planned. W D Chalfant left Sunday with two carloads of cattle to Chicago market. Mrs Woulsa Bauer spent Sunday with daughter Mrs Fred Ger.
Ber and family scatter after throat trouble. John Albright and family relocate from the Fred Bauer farm to the Bertha Schweppe place. Meade Hughes attended a horse sale at Williams. Lee and Dick Kennedy end their three year farming partnership on March 2.
Hans Barkema of Kamrar contemplates buying property in Jewell and moving. Arthur Millett returns from visit to his sister Mrs. B. S. Millett and John Millett travel from Maxwell en route to Sioux City to work for Western Union. Wm Anderson and Geo Chagshevlin shipped two cars of feed. Goldfield basketball visits Jewell Lutheran college and loses 34 to 13. Jim Benton, famed local sign painter, returns from Gifford. Sam Lingle resigns from J. P. Sherman’s staff. Bert Foral laid off from the depot. J. P. Sherman hosts a coffee and biscuit demonstration for Majestic steel range on March 5.
A major blaze destroyed the principal school building in Sturgeon Bay Wisconsin early today causing about 60060 dollars in damage. Fire crews battled flames and prevented spread to nearby structures.
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