Iowa
Old Press
Iowa City Daily Citizen
Iowa City, Johnson co. Iowa
June 18, 1917
J.M. Gruber Visits Friends Here
J.M. Gruber, vice-president of the Great Northern railroad came
in yesterday in his private car and will spend a few days visitin
g Iowa City people and old acquaintances. Mr. Gruber grew to
manhood here and graduated from high school here and will be
remembered by a large number of our people. He has with him on
the trip his sisters Carrie and Minnie.
Marriage Licenses
Alfred M. Bailey (23) and Muriel Eggenberg (22)
Carl A. Strohmeyer (27) and Margaret Ethel Laughlin (23)
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Mrs. Emma Osborne of Nashua, Iowa, died at the Oakdale hospital
Saturday afternoon, June 16, after an illness of several weeks.
Mrs. Osborne was forty years of age. The body was taken back to
Nashua where burial well take place today.
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New Undertaking Establishment
Mr. A.C. Harmon, formerly of Audubon, Iowa, has just opened
undertaking rooms at 112 E. College Street, in this city. Mr.
Harmon has been an undertaker for the past twenty years and has
all modern equipment necessary for the prompt and proper handling
of all cases. His equipment includes a motor hearse, while his
rooms are spacious including a chapal seating two hundred and a
commodious display room.
Quiet Wedding for Well Known Couple
A very quiet wedding was conducted at the Lutheran Parsonage
Saturday evening, by the Rev. G.Rollin Sherck. The contracting
parties were Professor Alfred M. Bailey of New Orleans, La, and
Miss Muriel E. Eggenberg of the West Side Iowa City. These young
people are well known in Iowa City, both having spent most of
their lives here and both having graduated from the State
University of Iowa in 1916, and both having taken the same course
in taxidermy and general music work. Professor Bailey is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Bailey of 228 South Linn street, and Mrs.
Bailey is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Eggenberg of the
West Side. Professor Bailey has been connected with the State
Museum of Louisianna at New Orleans during the past year and
after a brief honeymoon, among friends Mr. and Mrs. Bailey will
go there where he will resume his work and Mrs. Bailey will be
his assistant. Their many friends will wish them a bon voyage to
the Southland and many years of happiness and usefullness in
their chosen field of work.
Vernon Roche Given Medal for Heroism
One of the unusual features of the children's day exercises at
the Presbyterian church Sunday morning was the presentation of a
handsome bronze medal to Vernon Roche, ten year old son of
Attorney and Mrs. Thos. Roche, for "service to others",
is the legend on the medal was worded. On February 25th last,
Vernon pulled two small boys out of the icy waters of Ralston'
creek in the east part of the city, undoubtedly saving their
lives. The boys were coasting and John Buck broke through the ice
at a place where the water was six feet deep. Donald Deihl, his
companion, was also plunged into the water, but not under the
ice, and Vernon, with both presence of mind and courage, rescued
them both, dripping with water, from their involuntary bath. The
Ralston-Purina Hero commision, of St. Louis, learned of the
incident and made an investigation with the result that one of
the medals of the commission was awarded the boy, and was sent to
the pastor of the Presbyterian church for presentation upon a
suitable public occasion. the children's day program was very
interesting ahd the church filled for the exercises.
Ambulance Unit is Ready to Leave At Once
The ambulance unit raised at the University for active and
immediate service in France for the United States has been
accepted for active service, according to a telegram received
yesterday by Adjutant T.A. Wanerus from the Central military
department authorities at chicago. the same telegram directs the
men to proceed to Allentown, Pa., the location of their training
camp, just as soon as transportation money is furnished them. It
is expected that this will be within a few days, the unit leaving
within about twenty-four hours after the transportation is
received. All the men will start in a group from Iowa City, and
will be in charge of John T. Lonsdale, one of the members of the
unit, until Allentown is reached. Most of the men are in Iowa
City at the present time awaiting their orders to leave for the
east, instructions having been given that they should hold
themselves in readiness for immediate departure. those outside
the city were summoned by telegram yesterday.
The complete list of men, thirty-four in number, making up the
University unit, is as follows:
Amen, Harlan R.; Bailey, Dan W.; Brown, Bernard A.; Buchanan,
Arthur A.; Byington, William O.; Chamberlin, Harold; Crawford,
William C.; Dixon, George L.; Dodd, Willard A.; Furnas, Leonard
M.; Hamilton, Clarence E.; Hammer, Herbert H.; Harrison, Noel E.;
Hungate, Thaddeus L.; Johnson, Clarence L.; Kellsay, Harvey M.;
Levis, Harold V.; Lonsdale, John T.; Luscombe, Don A.; Matthes,
Will A.J.; Merry, Harold; Norris, Tom T.; Powers, Chas. O.;
Radklev, Carl B.; Reid, Don C. Richardson, William C.; Safely,
Robert, C.; Schulze, Raymond J.; Shimanek, John S.; Smith, Allen;
Smith, Ralph D.; Stanton, Del T.; Vogt, Robert R.; Wenzel, Amos
B.
[transcribed by S.F., May 2007]