The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-09-28

Calhoun county celebrated the semi.
centennial anniversary of the settle.
ment of The county at Lake City last
week
The Des Moues conference of the
Methodist church held Its annual
session at Atlantic last week, Bishop
Mcdowell presiding.
Will Wood, Jr,, of WHAT Cheer had
his fingers badly torn and bruised
while attempting to remove cartridge
which had stuck, with hammer and
chisel.
| Mrs. Herman Muecke, of near Lee
Mars was seriouly hurt iE a runaway
asst week. The team became fright
ened at an automobile and ran for q
mile, throwing the occupants out.
This week there will be celebrated
at Algona the semi-centennial anniver-
sary of the first settlement north of
Fort Dodge and east of Cerro Gordo
county in Iowa. Governor Cummins is
one of the speakers
7. F. Brewster, night watch at
Harlan, was caught beneath bill
board which blew down there last
week. 1t was some time before he
was discovered and released, however
with only slight injuries,
Cicero Rowelly of near Bridgewater
shot and killed his wife at the home of
neighbour after she had instituted
divorce proceedings against him. His
body was found at his home a few hours
later with bullet through his side.
A gale which swept through Oska-
loosa last week is estimated to have
done 100000 damage to property.
Roofs we're torn off buildings, plate
glass windows were broken, great
trees were uprooted and corn leveled.
Three inches of rain fell.
Rob Harding, a twelve.year-old boy
! was thrown from his pony on the race
track at the What Cheer fair grounds,
striking his head against the fence.
He was UNCONSCIOUS for eight hours,
but recovered and is little worse for
the accident
Mrs. Ella Barker of Story county,
after life of sixty years as the wife of
a poor farmer, unexpectedly came into
possession of one-third of an estate
estimated at over million. She has
gone east, where the estate is located,
and the family will soon follow.
Joseph Garfield Walleser. graduate
of Iowa College at Grinnell, and the
winner of Rhodes scholarship recent
ly sailed for Oxford, Eng. where he
will begin his residence at Oriel
college. Oxford university He will
stay at the university three years and
will be allowed $1,000 a year for ex-
penses.
Peter Lewis of Mt Ayr was shot and
killed by his wife last week. He had
been out all night at the bedside of a
sick neighbor and as he was returning
in the early morning his wife heard
him making noise at the hen house.
As they had been bothered with
chicken thieves, she opened the win
COW and fired.
hail storm at Fort Dodge last
week did great damage. An orchard
consisting of $50 acres of apple trees
was stripped destroying hundreds Of
barrels of fruit. The green house was
shattered and the hail and water made
inroads into the business houses dam
aging the stock and causing q Temporal
ry suspension of business.
Confined to his bed for six weeks and
refusing medical attendance at any
time during this period. John Henry
Trippe, of Dubuque, aged 80 years.
passed away. Mr.. Trippe was be-
lever in Christian Science and always
| had an aversion formedicine. Although
| ill many times in the last fifty years
he had never had physician attend
him since boyhood.
| Because colored children attend the
public schools of Red Oak and are
thus thrown in contact with the little
ones of white skins, the Church of
Christ is to lose Rev. A. r. Hunt as
pastor. He was recently called by the
congregation from Savannah, Mo-,
where he had charge, but when he
I, learned that there were no special
schools provided for coored children,
he Immediately sent in his resignation.
assigning as reason that he could not
allow his children to 60 to school
where negroes attend,
Geo w. Post & Son. grain dealers Of
Lehigh, have brought suit against the
Western Union Telegraph Company
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