Davenport Times Davenport, Scott, Iowa July 16, 1900 NEWS OF VICINITY LECLAIRE LeClaire, July 10- C.S. Simpson and wife left Thursday for Milwaukee, Wis. to make a short visit...Our mayor, Adolph Goldsmith, made a business trip to Davenport yesterday...Rev. Ellis informed us that the reopening of the M.E. church will take place Sunday, July 22. Announcement for the day will appear later on...William Thompson left town last week for Fountain, Ill. where he has secured a position in the government boat yard...Mrs. Fred Shur, who is suffering from a tumor in the side was taken to St. Luke's hospital in Davenport last Thursday, where she will undergo an operation. LONG GROVE Long Grove, July 14- The Star creamery is doing things up right this season...Clark & Doty are working overtime to keep up with the times...Tom Martindale, our blacksmith for 35 years, had his foot hurt by a horse a few days ago, but is able to limp around to his work...The railroad put in a new dump at their grain house here, to make unloading easy for the farmers...F. Schoolmeier loaded a car of ear corn here this week...W.D. Robertson and S.W. Curtis loaded a car of corn Friday...The barley is all cut about these parts...Dr. Maxwell is going to put up a windmill on his drilled well...P.J. Jackson Jr. and Max Behrens, from Davenport, put in the most of their week at Gus Lempker's camp, on the Wapsi, fishing. The reported a general good time...C.F. Jacobsen and his family were also there...Brownlie Bros. shipped a car of hogs Thursday...Dan Stevens & Co started out last week with their two threshing machines...George F. Horner, of DeWitt, is making a delivery of groceries here this week. CLAUS GROTH GILDE ELECTION Officers Selected at Recent Meeing for the Ensuing Year. The Claus Groth gild held its annual meeting on Saturday night and elected officers for the ensuing year as follows: Meester- Wm. Goettsch Vice Meester- John Hasel Secretary- Adolph Lepper Corresponding Secretary- John Steffen Financial Secretary-Paul Meyer Overseer- Joachim Koltzau Section Secretary- Hans Jacobs Watch-Fritz Wieckhorst Trustee for Three Years- Wm. Voss Society Flagbearer- Chas. Burmeister U.S. Flagbearer- John Willers Librarian- Fritz Langfeldt The society is in a flourishing condition, having 374 members of which 348 are active, 24 passive, and only two honorary members. The reports read at the meeting were flattering in the extreme and shows that the society is on the rapid road to progress. Several of the deceased members of the organization were remembered in eulogy during the evening. SENDS SPECIMENS TO INSTITUTE J.F. Boepple Dispatches Collection of Mussels to the Smithsonian. J.F. Boepple, of this city, the father and founder of the pearl button industry in this section of the country, and the man who discovered the uses of the Mississippi river clams has sent a splendid collection of the mussel shells to the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. EARLY MORNING FIRE ALARM Box No. 24 Summons Department to Third St. Confectionary Store. At 3:20 o'clock this morning box number 24 on the corner of Third and Scott streets was pulled summoning the department to the Brahms confectionery store adjoining the Klenze drug store on West Third street, where electric light wires had started a blaze which threatened the destruction of the building. The incipient conflagration was extinguished without much difficulty, ans with only trifling damage. SAIL BOAT CAPSIZES IN SQUALL Two Davenport Young Men Rescued by Several Fishermen. A sailboat containing two occupants, Bonk and Andrew Bollman, both of this city, capsized in a squall on the river opposite Christ Mueller lumber mill, in midstream at 6 o'clock last evening. Fortunately several fishermen, who were angling for carp, witnessed the accident and lost no time in putting out in a skiff to the rescue. It was a narrow escape from drowning for the two interpid sailormen. Cathy Joynt Labath Scott Co, IA USGenWeb Project http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm