The Fort Dodge Daily Chronicle: Sept. 19, 1910

Wahkonsa Open to the Public

General Reception at the New Hostelry on Saturday Evening

Six Thousand People Inspected the New Hotel

Sunday Breakfast was the First Meal Served and the Patronage Was Satisfactory to Management

Saturday evening The Wahkonsa, corner of Tenth street and Central avenue was formerly opened to the traveling public, and Fort Dodge now boasts of the largest and finest strictly fireproof hotel in the state of Iowa.

General Reception Tendered

R.W. Johnston of Waterloo, lessee of the house and Manager Fred F. Coles, tendered a general reception to the public on Saturday evening between seven and ten o’clock in the evening, and it is estimated that close to six thousand people were conducted through all of the departments of the new hostelry and were agreeable surprised that such a handsome hotel had been opened in the city of Fort Dodge. All departments were open for inspection during the evening and the visitors were conducted from the basement to the fifth floor, practically all of the one hundred and forty-eight guest rooms being thrown open for the evening’s inspection.

American and European Plan

The Wahkonsa will be conducted on both the American and European plan, and the rooms, all of whch (sic) are outside, will range in price form $1.00 up without bath and $1.50 and up wiht bath. The dining room will be conducted on the European, table de hote and a la carte plan, club breakfast, 25 75 cents, noon luncheon 50 cents and table de hote evening dinner 75 cents. A la cart service together with the above will be provided at all meals.

Opening Patronage Good

The opening patronage at the Wahkonsa was saisfactory (sic) to the management and from the large number of traveling men who were in the city to spend Sunday but demonstrated that the openng (sic) of the new hostelry will make this city more than ever the stopping place over Sunday of the knights of the grip who are in this section of the state during the latter part of the week.

Reception This Evening

This evening R.W. Johnston and Manager Fred F. Cole will give an invitation reception at The Wahkonsa, over one thousand invitations having been sent out for the affair. Special music will be furnished during the evening by the Quist Orchestra and refreshments will be served to all of the guests of the evening.

(Editor’s note: In the first paragraph, formerly should be formally. That is one error I still see as a copy editor today. Also, the manager’s name is listed as Coles and Cole, so I don’t know which is correct.)

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The Fort Dodge Messenger: Sept. 18, 1905

“Take Notice”

From and after this date I will not be responsible for any debts contracted by Mrs. Aroline Liess.

Fred Leiss

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The Fort Dodge Messenger: Sept. 18, 1905

Men’s Clothing in Subdued Colors

Many of the Changes in the Attire of Men are Radical in the Extreme.

Styles Varied For This Fall

None of the Extremes of Previous Years Will Be Reached – The Well Dressed Man Will Be Quietly Dressed This Year.

With the coming of the chilly weather the thoughts of man not only turn to the coal bin and the price of coal, but turn also to what he will wear this fall and winter. Ordinarily it is supposed that man pays but little attention to styles, but as a matter of fact he is almost, if not quite as particular about matters of this kind as womankind, whose desire to be in style are sometimes laughed at. If the reports from the fashion centers and from those who dictate the styles are to be believed, man will have plenty of opportunity for this is to be a fashionable fall.

Will Be Radical Change.

Many of the changes in the attire from last year are radical, through none reach the extreme of previous years. The well dressed man this fall will bequietly dressed as most of the suits will be in subdued colors, but it will be the cut that will determine the style. The prevailing blues of the summer will give away to worsteds of mixed colors and paid (plaid?) effects. The haberdashery supplies will be both of brilliant hues and subdued colors, allowing of a wide choice for the buyer.

The young man who delights in dress will have a fine chance this fall. The styles will be so varied that he can go to almost any length. The dressy young man’s neckwear will be brilliant to the extreme. When it comes to fancy vests the nobby dresser will be able to get the largest and finest selections of many years. Fancy vests will be worn altogether this season and it will hardly be worth a man’s while to buy a suit of clothes with a vest. the styles in fancy vests were never so brilliant before.

The coat appropriate for street and business wear will be of worsted, in subdued colors: grays and broken plaids of quiet, neat tones. The coat this fall will be cut long and full with a deep center vent on the back. The shoulders will be broad and more natural than in previous years, being slightly sloping. The lapels will be long and graceful and broader than usual.

The Length of the Coat.

In place of the box sack and the half shaped sack of last season as the extremes of looseness and closeness, the direction of amplitude and the nearly close fitting sack as the extreme in the other direction. The close fitting sack, however, is the swell thing and the closer fit hte better the style. Either the center seam of the side seams may be vented according to taste. The length ranges from medium to extreme, the unwritten rule being the closer the fit the greater the length.

The Cut of the Trousers.

The trousers will not be in the extreme cuts for the proper dresser. They will be cut to fit easily over the hips, with medium thighs, slightly tapering towards the bottom. The trousers of the correct dresser will have a slight break over the shoes. No cuff will be worn this fall by the nobby dresser.

It is in his vest that the careful dresser will shine. All suit vests will be single breasted and without collars. The opening in the vest will be lower than in previous years, allowing more of the shirt to show. At the corners the vest will be slight cut away. There will be plenty of fancy vests in net flannels, marseilles, mercerized and oxfords, in the single breasted style and double breasted with long, wide lapels. The vest will be longer in front than usual and shorter at the sides, which will give a dip to the vest. The correct vest will have but five buttons.

The Black Derby Again.

In hats the black Derby will be popular.  The crowns will be full, in heavy effects. The Fedora will be the stylish soft hat, and will be in pearls and blacks. The pearls will have white and black bands. In the golf shapes, the medium low crowns with slight crease will predominate for morning wear. The bands and binding will match with the pearl color of the felt. The silk hats are slightly higher in the crown and with a slight bell shape. The greatest change in silk hats will be the broadcloth bands in place of the silk bands.

More Fedoras of pearly gray, with black bands and pearl bindings, as well as the solid black stiff hats will be sold this season than ever before. Some of the golf shapes will be in demand. The golf shapes have a much narrower brim than heretofore.  The telescope in gray will come in for a good share of the demand on the part of the young man who wishes a good knockabout hat for all occasions and all times. There are no extremes in the Derbys and all will be of good staple shapes. The flat-brimmed Derby of last year will not be considered in style.

In the opera hat the newest thing is kidlined. The opera hat heretofore has been lined in silk and the silk lining has ever had a tendency to stick to the hair. This is where the kid lining will stand in good stead for it will not stick to the hari.

The soft hats are of a pearl gray color and have fine shapes that cannot but appeal to the swell dresser. The peal (pearl?) color will no doubt be the favorite in the soft shaped hats.

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The Fort Dodge Messenger: Sept. 18, 1905

Fall Hats Will Not Be Extreme

So Says Local Milliner Who Has Recently Returned From Trip to Chicago.

The fall hats are not to be extreme this season. This is the comforting statement made by a Fort Dodge milliner who has recently returned from the Milliners’ convention in Chicago.

“We won’t have anything extreme here this fall, though the tendency in the east is to go to extremes,” said one of the local hat-makers to a reporter this morning. “The hats this fall and winter will be neat and the colors in them will be the neatest we have had for a number of years. The Alice blue, which was the color of Miss Roosevelt’s inaugural ball dress, will be a popular shade, also the olive greens, the pearl grays and the peacock blues, in a variety of shapes and styles. We moderate our styles here as the women don’t dress as gay here as they do in Paris, where the gay colors originate. There the peacock blue will be popular and brilliant hues will be the rule. Of course, there are many American women, who with their good taste and discrimination can be trusted to choose from among the bright colors something that will become them, but many will have to be careful.

“There are many new features in shapes. An effort will be made to keep the small hat in vogue, but it will only prove popular for street and suit wear. Being so severely staid in style and small in outlines, it gives no space for plumes and colorings. Though the picture hats are not suitable for ordinary street wear, they will be quite the proper thing for dress occasions.

“Shapes will run from the close fitting walking hat to the voluminously draped picture hat. A very popular shape will be the turban, made of cloth to match the suit, fur or velvet with breast effects, a pretty shade or which is that Alice blue.

“Then we have the ‘Roosevelt’ hat, which is broad brimmed,” said this milliner, taking down a hat of fine material, resembling very much the headpiece which Col. Roosevelt wore at San Juan hill. It is white with a blue band and about every other shade of the rainbow. “We have the continentals, the polo hats, the French roll backs, and many other beautiful shapes, which will be sold at up to date millinery stores.”

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The Fort Dodge Messenger: Sept. 17, 1906

What They Say

“I wouldn’t give an acre of my land for any section of Canadian land.” – A Webster county farmer.

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F.J. Blake has gone to Illinois on a land business trip.

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James Barton and Robert Heath left this morning for Iowa City where they will attend school.

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“Rains keep the corn green and growing as it should now.” – C.E. Griffith.

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“Now that the cold weather has come on we get more to eat than we did during the hot weather. The family has been subsisting on cold meals for the most part during the hot summer months. The gas range was on duty creating bills for the end of hte month and was used as sparingly as possible. Now that the cook stove is on duty good warm meals are prepared.” – A Thankful Husband.

Tags: 1906, Barton, Blake, Griffith, Heath

The Fort Dodge Messenger: Sept. 17, 1906

Police News

The same old Bill Jones paid a visit to the city jail last night and remained over in order to interview the mayor this morning. Needless to say he was charged with being drunk, but his Honor was inclined to show leniency and he was discharged. With Jones appeared one Walter Scott, charged likewise with imbibing too freely of the bowling bowl. “Are you related in any way to Sir Walter Scott?” asked the mayor. “I don’t know, your Honor, I may be as I have a lot of relatives I have never seen,” the fellow replied. The mayor being in doubt and not wishing to insult the memory of the chivarous (sic) bard told him to take fifteen minutes and get out of town. He went.

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Bill Jones holds the championship belt in police circles in this city. He is arrested more than any other person. He cannot come to town but what he gets intoxicated and thrown into jail. There are a number of characters about the city who are arrested quite frequently but none of them come up with the same old Bill.

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The police have been requested to look out for a man who goes by the names of Wm. McCann and Ed Day. The fellow is wanted in Monmouth, Illinois for robbery.

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Everything quiet in police court this morning. one lone drunk was all the material to hold court with and the Mayor evidently didn’t think it worth while. The lone drunk is the same old Bill Jones. Despite his promises to shake the dust of Fort Dodge off his feet and give the community a much needed rest he gets full of bad booze and as a consequence has taken up a (t)emporary residence in the City Hotel, presided over by the Mayor.

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Eric Waldberg is taking the place of A.L. Nicholson who resigned last month. The force is short of men at present and no doubt a good man could get on the force at once.

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All was quiet on the streets Saturday night and the police had little trouble in keeping the best of order. But one man was arrested and he was an old timer who was harmlessly drunk. The crowd was one of the largest of the season too.

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Just a year ago this month Fort Dodge was having its epidemic of petty thievery and numerous robberies which broke out a (sic) suddenly and lasted the entire month. It is a period long to be remembered in police circles. But the majority of offenders were caught or chased out of town and finally the best or order restored. The local police wre the means of fattening the criminal docket of the Grand Jury for quite a few terms until the local desperadoes were finally all wiped out.

Tags: 1906, Day, Jones, McCann, Nicholson, Scott, Waldberg

The Fort Dodge Messenger: Sept. 16, 1905

The Graft Didn’t Work This Time

Fort Dodge Citizen Receives Letter From an Alleged Real Estate Agent.

A Fort Dodge citizen who isn’t very sleepy received recently an alluring offer of a real estate firm from an Iowa city to sell his farm for him. A contract was sent for him to sign. It was so arranged that a casual reading would lead one to think that the contract was to pay the firm 50 cents per acre for selling the land. The blank is really a request from the farmer to the real estate man to try and sell his farm, to advertise it, etc., for which they are to receive a commission of 50 cents per acre when the land is sold. Not sold by the firm, but when sold. The citizen wrote the firm that he didn’t care to give them $160 ($3,832 today) for trying to sell his land and he thought he could advertise it cheaper himself. He offered to pay them the commission when the land was sold by them or through their efforts. He has heard nothing more from this firm. We notice form newspaper reports that this firm is catching many suckers. These generally rush to an attorney for help but without avail as the contract says that they will pay the fifty cents per acre to the firm for trying to sell the land and there is no escape from the contract.

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The Fort Dodge Messenger: Sept. 16, 1905

Was Not a Relative of the Mayor

Frank Bennett, Up For Drunkeness (sic) Says He Must Be a New Member of the Family.

Three Caught in the Net

Wm. Wells Worked at Fairs and Carnivals; Mayor Thinks he Worked the People at These Places so Gives Him Ten Days in Jail.

The drag net thr0ugh the lower districts of the city last night succeeded in pulling in three transgressors of law and order. Lined up on the prisoner’s bench at nine o’clock this morning, with bloodshot eyes, and disheaveled (sic) hair, as the result of a few hours career of dissipation, and still a few more spent in the city jail, each faced the mayor to answer to his special offense.

Name Was Frank Bennett.

The first man called upon proved to be arraigned on the charge of drunkeness, and disorderly conduct. He gave his name as Frank Bennett. “I hope you don’t claim to be any relation to me,” said the Mayor, starting excitedly from his chair. “I don’t know,” answered the other, “If we are related you’re a new member of the family to me.” This interesting discussions as to relationship was cut short by the Mayor, informing his possible relatives that he could accept a position measuring the distance to the city limits.

Charles McCloud plead guilty to drunkeness and was fined five dollars and costs. William Wels (sic), stating that he was Springfield, Ohio, and that he had been working around at Carnivals and fairs, denied the charge of vagrancy and begging. “I guess you have been working the people at these fairs and carnivals,” said the mayor, “that’s the kind of work I would attribute to you, so I’ll give you ten days in jail, varied with a little work on the streets.”

Tags: 1905, Bennett, McCloud, Wells

The Fort Dodge Messenger: Sept. 15, 1905

Local Couple to be Married Soon

C.W. Iddings and Miss Tersa (sic) Cosgrove to be Married at Dubuque.

C.W. Iddings, the well known pharmacist who has been employed at the Sackett & Haire Drug Store for the past year, leaves tomorrow morning for a day’s visit with  his sister in Odeboldt, going on to Dubuque Saturday evening. Tuesday morning at the home of the bride’s parents, Miss Teresa Cosgrove will be u nited in marriage to Mr. Iddings, by Father Carey and the same afternoon, Mr. and Mrs. Iddings will leave for Salem, Oregon, where they will make their new home. Mr. Iddings’ people live at Salem, and the young couple will make their home there. They will stop at Colorado Springs, Denver, Salt Lake City and Porland (sic) on their way west. The many friends of both young people in this city will be pleased to hear of their marriage although all will regret to lose both of them from Fort Dodge.

Tags: 1905, Cosgrove, Haire, Iddings, Sackett