L. E. Raines

RAINES, PAULEY

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Date: 5/3/2019 at 08:45:24

18 August 1916 - The Clinton Advertiser
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MAQUOKETAITE DIES IN SOUTH
(Special Correspondence)
Maquoketa, Ia., Aug. 18--Harry Littell received a telegram from Mrs. S. B. Pauley this morning that her uncle, L. E. Raines, had passed away at 5 o'clock this morning at Kansas City, Mo., with instructions to make final arrangements for funeral and meet remains at Milwaukee train Saturday morning. Mr. Raines had been failing in health for about a year. He had a sunny disposition and leaves the whole of Maquoketa to mourn his loss.

19 August 1916 - The Clinton Advertiser
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Maquoketa, Iowa, Aug. 19--In the passing away of Mr. L. E. Raines, Maquoketa loses another of her old-time citizens, who came here about 1871, when the railroad entered this city, and was employed by Mr. Baler, Wright Corners, who was an extensive manufacturer of carriages, buggies and wagons which had a ready sale all of the surrounding country, and later on Mr. Raines started a blacksmith and wagon repair shop and some new work about a block north of the Midland depot on Main street. There he employed quite a few hands--always a busy place. He had lived a retired life for perhaps twenty years or more and attended about all the world's fairs since the Centennial in Philadelphia in 1876, traveling from the Atlantic to the Pacific by daylight and laying off nights. His winters were spent in Washington, D.C., in Florida, New Orleans, California, etc. He enjoyed the beauties of Nature. His wife preceded him about 20 years ago.

Funeral services will be held from the M.E. church Sunday at 2:30 p.m., Rev. Bartholomew officiating. Interment at Mt. Hope cemetery.