Webster City Local Matters March 8 1901
The issue notes tax payment urgency with interest after April first. Local items include Varick Crosley offering low farm loans, Eva Major joining Richard & Thompson as stenographer, and Burleson Hoyt selling at clearing sale March 9. Several property moves and social notes fill out the page with obituaries, post office letters, and a church figure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Varick
Crosley
Eva Major
Richard & Thompson
T. M. Smiley
Burleson & Hoyt
Epworth League
Ethel Virtue
O. M. Garrett
Fort Dodge
Chamberlains Cough Remedy Endorsed for Children
F P Moran a Petersburg baker says Chamberlains Cough Remedy is best for children with bad and whooping cough. He notes it contains no opium or harmful drugs and has always given satisfaction. Sold by Holbrook Newman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamberlain
F. P. Moran
Petersburg
Holbrook & Newman
Kicked by a horse wounds Aug Witte in accident
Aug Witte suffered a broken leg below the knee after a horse kicked him in a barn while feeding it. G H Daniels and T F Hook helped pull him free and Hook sustained a leg wound. Dr Drake treated Witte and Dr Pond set the fracture with no serious prognosis. Mrs Mattie Grant warns of impending legal action over a newspaper item.
A. H. Austin Seeks Re election To School Board
A. H. Austin announces candidacy for re election after six years on the school board. He led the board on new ward school houses now under construction and agreed to run after urging from associates and citizens. The paper believes he will be re elected without opposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. H. Austin
New Ward
Austin
Pleasant Methodist gathering at parsonage reception
A large company of Methodist Episcopal church members visited the parsonage Friday evening and gave the pastor and his family a hearty reception. A. F. Houck led the meeting. J. B. Hughes and Miss Crosley delivered cordial greetings. prayers and songs followed before the group dispersed with tokens of support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methodist Episcopal Church
A. F. Houck
J. B. Hughes
Miss Crosley
Milinoia Central and National Good Roads Plan Mississippi Valley Drive
The Milinoia Central railroad joins the National Good Roads Association to promote road building from Chicago to New Orleans. A special eight to nine car train with road-building machinery will travel ahead to organize farmers meetings and demonstrate drainage and construction methods for better highways. Traffic Manager Hudson says the program aims to help farmers and the railroad, not sell specific machinery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milinoia Central Railroad
National Good Roads Association
Mississippi Valley
Chicago
New Orleans
Hudson
Railroad
Shipp Declines School Director Candidacy
J. H. Shipp refuses to be a candidate for the school directorship. He says his private affairs demand his attention, and he could not give the time and care to the schools that a director should.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. H. Shipp
Not a Candidate Declines Council Race
H. I. Thompson, urged by ward voters to run, announces he will not be a candidate this year. This leaves C. F. Miller as the candidate for re election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. I. Thompson
C. F. Miller
Pioneer Rice sells farm for 16000 dollars
S. W. Rice, a pioneer, has sold his large farm to Ole Hanson for 16000 dollars and will turn over possession on April 1. The Rices plan Oklahoma as a future home. As farmers they have been record breakers in the neighborhood and Mrs. Rice has exhibited poultry of remarkable quality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. E. Silvers
Cedar Street
K. Carey
Carey
Woolstock
Jewell
S. W. Rice
Ole Hanson
Oklahoma
Octopus Growing in Iowa City Targets Local Wood Trade
A new trust in Iowa City aims to expand across Iowa, uniting wood sawyers to curb the buzz saws. Sawyers offer sixty five cents to cut a cord, while splitters charge a dollar a cord and fifty cents for splitting. The union forbids members from splitting wood cut by patent saws, forcing some residents to split their own wood. The rise of machine saws may falter without a splitting crew.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
Iowa
Wood
Buzz-Age Trust
Woodsawers Trust
Anderson family leaves Maron for Webster City farm
John Anderson and his son Charley loaded a car with household goods for Iowa and departed by train. The family will occupy a 160 acre farm southwest of Webster City purchased last fall. Three daughters stay to teach and study locally before joining the rest at the new home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maron
Ill
John Anderson
Iowa
Charley
Anderson
Webster City
Ohio
Emms
Lala
Grace
Marea
Daisy
Decatur Business College
Letter From Minnesota From Mrs Albert Angstrom
A Fairmont Minnesota letter from Mrs Albert Angstrom dated February 28 1901 expresses satisfaction with the farming country around Fairmont Martin county and its lakes. She notes population about 3600 good small grain corn rents at one third or 1 to 2 dollars per acre and says many settlers from Iowa and Missouri would not return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairmont
Minn
Hamilton County
Minnesota
Martin County
Iowa
Missouri
Albert Angstrom
Larson Dry Goods Buys Keller & Stake Bank Stock
Hamilton County Bank completed the sale of Keller & Stake bankrupt merchandise to Larson Dry Goods Company of Fort Dodge. L B Larson plans immediate stock closeout with two or three Fort Dodge stores and a partial sale here. bank reportedly realized a fair margin over its original auction price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamilton County State Bank
Keller & Stake
Larson Dry Goods Company
Fort Dodge
L. B. Larson
Sad death of Ralph Smith boy 15
The 15 year old Ralph Smith, son of Mr and Mrs J Ed Smith, died Monday at about 2 am from lockjaw after recent vaccination and dental extractions. He became ill with abdominal pains after school Friday and worsened to a fatal lockjaw case. Funeral service was held Wednesday at 2 pm at the U B church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph
J. Ed. Smith
U. B
Wickwire Urged to Seek City Council Seat
The Second ward friends of B F Wickwire urge him to run for city council, noting his character and respect among neighbors. He expresses willingness if voters desire it. Separately, a discussion on American vs British locomotives notes American engines burn more coal and may not reflect mature American design, with disputes from the 1899 Institute of Civil Engineers debate cited by C Rous-Marten.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Second Ward
B. F
Wickwire
Institute of Civil Engineers
Aeen
C. Rous- Marten
Mareh
Obituary for John A. Felt of Webster City Iowa
John A Felt born January 28 18 percent in Earlville New York died February 28 190 percent aged seventy years one month. He lived in Iowa since 1863 apart from years in New York and left behind two brothers Geo J Felt and James H Felt seven children Walter J John H Mrs E Calkins Miss Kittie B Carle A Jonnie B Roy H and others. Funeral held Monday at 3 o clock at the Felt home Rev J A Clark officiating. Felt known as industrious frugal and upright. He desired his children reach full manhood and education and achieved this through his family. He was sometimes seen as eccentric but honest. An unrelated note mentions Chamberlain's Cough Remedy praised by George W Waitt of South Gardiner Maine for la grippe relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John A. Felt
Earlville
M. Y
Felt
Iowa
York State
James H
Minneapolis
Geo. J
Courtland
N. Y
Cynthia Perkins
Providence
Rhode Island
Addison Miller
Syracuse
Walter J
Helena
Montana
John H
Sault Lake City
Utah
E. Calkins
Eagle Grove
Kittie B
Yankton
Carle A
Davenport
Jonnie B
Roy H
J. A. Clark
Universalist Church
Webster City
Mr. Felt
California Excursions Weekly to Los Angeles and San Francisco
Des Moines to California trains offer two routes each week. One through Kansas City and Santa Fe to Los Angeles departs 8:45 p m. via a new sleeping car from St. Paul and Minneapolis. The other Saturday service via Kansas City Missouri Kansas & Texas San Antonio and Arkansas Pass and Southern Pacific to Los Angeles and San Francisco is the only through sleeping car from the northwest to Texas. Full details at Chicago Great Western agents or F H Hunter Des Moines Iowa corner Sth and Walnut Streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Des Moines
Kanaas City
Santa Fe
Kansas City
Missouri, Kansas & Texas
San Antonio
Arkansas Pass
Southern Pacific
Northwest
Texas
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Chicago Great Western
Waco San Antonio
Paso
Chicago Great Western Railway
F. H. Hunter
F. H. Hunter, Traveling Passenger Agent, Corner Sth
Walnut
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