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The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
Monday, June 01, 1953, Section 4

AGE OF THE IRON HORSE, 1879 - 1903

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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: Some of the language contained in these news articles are not considered to be politically correct by today's standards. They have, however, been transcribed as they appreared in 1953.

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AGE OF THE IRON HORSE, 1879 - 1903
INDEX of ARTICLES

1879	Horse Thief Associaton, Page 2 SURNAMES: Avery, Bates, Dike, Huntley, Maher, Pickford, Schell, Senior, Smith

	"Poverty Party", Page 2 SURNAME: Phillips

	Henry Shepard Family in 1879, Page 2 SURNAMES: Hitchcock, Shepard

1880	Controversy Over Saloons, Page 2 SURNAMES: Abbott, Bauman, Bickel, Brahm, Burdette, Collins, Higley, Kelly, McNider, Miller, O'Keefe, Page, Shephard, Turner, Woodford

	Had Strange Spelling, Page 2

	City Band Stand Sold At Auction, Page 2

	Twine Binder Improved By Floyd Farmer, Page 2 SURNAMES: Appleby, Webster

1881	Mason City Becomes City of Second Class, Page 4 SURNAMES: Baker, Brett, Church, Clark, Cliggitt, Cummings, Denison, Hughes, Keerl, Kirk, Lee, Lien, Page, Rule, Sherwin, Stevens

	G.A.R. Organized, Page 4 SURNAMES: Adams, Airhart, Baker, Beazan, Bemis, Clark, Colton, Daker, Doud, Florence, Gibson, Huntley, LeLacheur, Marsh, Poisell, Ransom, Roberts, Whipple, Willis

	Owl Club Organized, Page 4 SURNAMES: Hoxsie, Lloyd, Lucas, Marley, McNider, Ogden, Pennington

	Grand Army of the Republic, Page 4 SURNAMES: Adams, Brown, Clark, Dent, Farmer, Florence, Gilbert, Gillett, Grant, Hanlon, Harmon, Hill, Huntley, Lewis, Long, Magoon, Miller, Munson, Nettleton, Orr, Patton, Rankin, Ransom, Spencer, Stott, Stevens, Swift, Thorn, Tyler, Vanlone, Weigle, Yelland, Zerel

	Mayor Cummings, 1893 - 1898, Page 4

1882	Cliggitt Tries to Get Federal Court Here, Page 4 SURNAMES: Brightman, Cliggitt, Deering

	Bagley's C.O.D. Grocery, Page 4 SURNAMES: Bagley, Gale, Hawkins

1883	Mason City Gets Electric Lights, Page 6 SURNAMES: Brice, Clark, Fitch, Ong, Pennington

	Parker Opera House, Page 6 SURNAMES: Blythe, Cliggitt, Kirk, Parker, Telford

	Built Opera House, Page 6 SURNAME: Parker

1884	Report Gold Buried on River Bank, Page 6 SURNAMES: Nelson, Wheeler

1885	Women Form Equal Suffrage Club, Page 8 SURNAME: Chapman Catt

	Pioneer Matron, Page 8 SURNAMES: Glass, Remley

	Old Taylor Bridge, Page 6 SURNAMES: Brewer, Taylor

	Where Taylors Lived, Page 6 SURNAME: Taylor

	Bicycle Racing Popular, Page 6

	Students Carried Wood ~ Central School, Page 6

1886	Farmers Organize for Fire Protection, Page 8 SURNAME: Brown

	Two Other Railroads, Page 8

1887	Farmers Shift to Cattle, Page 8 SURNAMES: Emsley, Henderson, Martin, Miller, Pickford, Tenney

	Company A, 6th Infantry, 1887, Page 8 SURNAMES: Kirk, Rule

	Historic Buildings, Page 8 SURNAMES: Hoxie, Lloyd, Tuttle

1888	Idea Started Granary, Page 9 SURNAMES: Densmore, Dunn, Holman, Smith

	High School Cadets in 1888, Page 9 SURNAMES: Bagley, Brock, Currie, Dakin, Dougan, Dyer, Farrell, Hamilton, Johansen, Keellogg, Page, Parker, Renshaw, Robinson, Rule, Shepard, Swanson, Sweningson, Van Wie, Wilcox

	Boys Band Gives Concert, Page 9 SURNAMES: Anders, Beresford, Brown, Currie, Dyer, Foster, Keeler, Kirk, Lafferty, McIntosh, Robinson, Sale, Stinson, Thompkins

	Civil War News Slow in Arriving, Page 9

	First Pipe Organ in Mason City, Page 9 SURNAMES: Decker, Huntley, Raw, Robinson, Vermilya

	Young Bankers, Page 9 SURNAMES: Bagley, Decker, Keeler, McNider, Richards, Smith

1889	Early Court Scenes Depicted, Page 9 SURNAMES: Cliggitt, Dougherty, McConlogue, Rule

1890	Intimate Glimpses of Olden Days, Page 10 SURNAMES: Alexander, Armstrong, Becker, Bradford, Carter, Dotson, Ewing, Hunter, Marine, Martin, Peedan, Reeler, Stephenson, Taylor, Tyler, Watson

	Central School Built in 1890, Page 10

	Came in 1892, Page 10 SURNAMES: Boone, Tyler, Stratton

	Herbert Quick Lived Here, Page 10 SURNAMES: Armstrong, Coleman, Corey, Dillon, Quick

1891	Henkel Starts Building, Page 11 SURNAMES: Bruns, Decker, Henkel, Rule, Tobsing

	Pioneer Kindergarten, Page 11 SURNAMES: Hartzfield, Huntley, Konvalinka, Meachem, Merrill, Moll, Ramsey, Reiniger, Reynolds, Willson, Winter, Waughtal

1892	YMCA Organized in Mason City, Page 11 SURNAMES: Bird, Bond, Clark, Crabb, Currie, Daggett, Denison, Dyer, Fox, Gilman, Hanlon, Hathorn, Hull, Marty, Maudsley, McEwen, McNider, McNeil, Schwie, Steinberg, Stephenson, Van Ness, Wilcox

	Name Cerro Gordo for Battle in Mexican War, Page 11

	Romance in Naming of Nora Springs, Page 11 SURNAME: Johnson

1893	Dvorak in Iowa at Spillville, Page 12 SURNAMES: Dvorak, Kovarik

	Tiffany Grocery, Page 12 SURNAMES: Miller, Tiffany

1894	"Rainmakers" Bank Broke Drought, Page 12 SURNAMES: Fiddick, Glanville, Grippen, Keeler, Merkel, Page, Smith, Wilcox,

1895	Outing Club Organized at Lake, Page 12 SURNAMES: Inglis, Irons, Losee, Way

1896	First Baptist Church Dedicated, Page 13 SURNAMES: Barton, Brice, Brown, Glass, Ikenberry, Ong, Ramsay, Stilson, Strickland, Wheeler, Wilcox

	Young Businessmen, Page 13 SURNAMES: Bailey, Chambers, Cole, Dike, Murphy, Page, Parker, Potts, Pratt, Richards, Sawyer, Stinehart, Vermilya

1897	Elks Lodge Organized, Page 13 SURNAMES: Agar, Allen, Anderson, Babcock, Bagley, Balch, Barlow, Beacom, Blake, Breese, Brett, Caldwell, Calkins, Campbell, Capron, Clark, Clough, Cornell, Cosgrave, Crossley, Daugherty, Demming, Duffield, Dunn, Eby, Emery, Ewers, Felton, Fitzpatrick, Flickinger, Francisco, Gale, Gilbertson, Glass, Grippen, Grow, Gutterson, Hallbeck, Hamblin, Hanlon, Hanson, Hays, Hiam, Hines, Hoyt, Ivan, Johnson, Jones, Keeler, Kidder, Killmer, Koeneke, Koerber, Lincoln, Loomer, Ludeman, Malm, Martin, McAuley, McKeever, McMorrow, McNider, Miller, Mundy, Olson, Patton, Pool, Prince, Randall, Rate, Remley, Rule, Ruth, Shanahan, Shea, Sippel, Smith, Sterns, Stevens, Stewart, Stratton, Tait, Thompson, Wallace, Warren, Washburn, White, Wicks, Williams, Wilson, Wimmer

	Before They Went To War, Page 13 SURNAMES: Clark, Senior, Smith, Tenure, Thompson, Virgil, White

	Policeman in 1897, Page 15 SURNAMES: Coe, Young

1898	100 Mason Cityans Enter War With Spain, Page 13 SURNAMES: Clark, Dyer, Long, Nutting, Parker, Rankin,, Schultz, Tenure, Wolf

	Pioneer Nurse, Page 13 SURNAME: Gibbs

1899	Murder Trial Stirs Mason City, Page 14 SURNAMES: Brown, Chute, Clayton, Conroy, Converse, Decker, Gildner, Goude, Hughes, Marshall, McCullugh, Muse, Owen, Sherwin, Thomas, Thompson, Winthrup

	First Horse Drawn Fire Wagon, Page 14 SURNAMES: Bradley, Clark, Davey, Quinn, Simpkins

	S. B. Waughtal Was Cemetery Subscriber, Page 14 SURNAMES: Couey, Waughtal

	First Telephone Operator, Page 14 SURNAME: Reineke

	W. E. Gildner, Page 14 SURNAME: Gildner

1900	Mason City's First Football Team, Page 14 SURNAMES: Angell, Barber, Duffield, Hamilton, Stoddard, Stuart, Vance

	The Original Mohawks, Page 14 SURNAMES: Anderson, Barber, Cummings, Dimmick, Duffield, Hicks, Long, Pfahler, Roach, Roberts, Richardson, Sale, Simpkins, Squier, Stoddard

1901	Father Carolan Builds St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Page 15 SURNAMES: Brinks, Carolan, Duffield, Hussey, MacNider, O'Callaghan, O'Connor, Potter, Roach, Schriver, Seeber, Ward, Way

1902	Rural Mail Delivery Starts here, Page 15 SURNAMES: Doderer, Drake, Van Kleek, Waughtal, Watson, Wolf

	Mail Carriers in 1894, Page 15 SURNAMES: Arquette, Cole, McEwen, Terrill

	Mier Wolf and Sons, Page 15 SURNAMES: Wolf

	Served As Mayor, Page 15 SURNAME: Brett

	Clear Lake Cloudburst Sends Flood into Willow Creek, Page 15 SURNAME: Austin, Jacobson, Knutson, Sale

	National Guard at Clear Lake, Page 15 SURNAME: Lepper

Photographs courtesy of Globe-Gazette unless otherwise noted

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, November of 2014