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Iowa News from across the
Country
- 1909 -
Chillicothe
Constitution
Chillicothe, Missouri
March 9, 1909
Mrs. Clara Shaw received a message Tuesday announcing the arrival
of a baby boy at the home of her daughter, Mrs. F.J. Williams, at
her home in Dyersville, Iowa.
[transcribed by C.J.L., Sept. 2003]
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Daily Journal
Telluride, San Miguel co. Colorado
March 10, 1909
Mr. Taft's New Cabinet. Sketches of the Men Whom Our New
President Has Chosen as His Advisors and Assistants.
James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture.
If Secretary Wilson continues to hold the agricultural portfolio
until next November, he will have broken the record for
continuous cabinet service which is now held by Albert Gallatin,
once secretary of the treasury, who served twelve years, eight
months and twenty-five days. Secretary Wilson was appointed at
the outset of the McKinley administration. He was born in
Ayrshire, Scotland in 1835 and at the age of 17 was brought to
this county by his parents. He was educated in the public schools
of Iowa and Iowa college. He is engaged in farming and entering
state politics was a member of the 12th, 13th and 14th assemblies
of Iowa, being elected as speaker of the assembly at his last
term. He served three terms in congress. In the 48th congress his
seat was contested and the opponents of General Grant, who was
nearing his end at Mount McGregor, used the seating contest for a
filibuster to defeat the Grant retirement bill. Mr. Wilson saved
the measure by resigning on the stipulation that the Grant bill
should be immediately passed.
[transcribers note: according to the Iowa Official Register, James Wilson served in the Iowa Legislature from Jan 13, 1868 (start of the 12th assembly) - April 23, 1872 (end of the 14th assembly) and in an adjourned session of the 14th from Jan. 15, 1873-Feb. 20, 1873. He was Speaker of the House of Representatives in the 14th assembly. He was from Buckingham, Tama co. Iowa]
[transcribed by S.F., July 2005]
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Evening Times
Cumberland, Maryland
April 13, 1909
Three Sisters Killed by Train
Dubuque, Iowa, April 13 -- An Illinois Central passenger train
today struck and killed Anna, Mabel and Ruby Foldorf. The girls
were walking on the track toward the approaching train, but on
account of a high wind they had their heads down and did not see
the train.
[transcribed by S.F., October 2005]
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Laurel Ledger
Laurel, Mississippi
December 16, 1909
Society Notes
Invitations have been received from Mrs. Silas W. Gardiner,
announcing the marriage of her daughter, Charlotte Margaret, to
Mr. George Duryee Hulst, Wednesday evening, December 22, at
Clinton, Iowa.
[transcribed by S.F., February 2006]