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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1908
Page
7
A jumble of short items from Eldora and surrounding areas noting illnesses names and visitors. Public gatherings at Odd Fellows hall a Presbyterian Ladies Aid meeting and several locals visiting relatives and farms reporting harvest activity and new arrivals.
Wall papers available at Schultz and Roths, buy what you return at full price. Full rolls lefty selection offered, urging customers to purchase remaining stock at listed rates.
A roundup of names and events across Hampton and nearby towns includes G W Roger of Hampton dating Carpenter work at Opeed Bluffs, R Wallace and wife headed to Helena, Neb, Mies Mae Grady returning to Bloomfeld Neb after a surgical operation in Iowa City, and Mrs O W Kent with children going to Hamilton Mont. German Lutherans of Shemeld build a 200 altar for their church as Methodists hold a crowded conference at Sheffield. Shofield’s election excites, Alexander’s grave for Prof Grave hired at Galt at 960 a month, wagon accident near Alexander injures horse and throws occupants, Bradford seeks more dual measures, Chapin’s Leap Year Social entertains, county fair dates disrupt Homecoming. Shell Rock fields two tickets in local election, telephone exchange reaches 400 subscribers, local church calls grow, J P Bement dies honored with Masonic rites, Rev Watson accepts Shell Rock post, and nursing a baby boy in Clarksville. Greene adjusts school building plans, Allison’s P B Miller weds Gertie Brinkmann in Sibley, North Dakota moves for B R Rice and Dell Boylan, dam removal impacts Greene’s mills, a fire at Carrington destroys $4,000 property, Chrrueville fundraiser planned, a Parkersburg baby swallows a tin whistle, and Hardin’s Eldora Herald will print.
H C Chapin and C J Wilson inspected the Grand Pacific fire in Chicago where twenty four engines fought flames. John I Hardin, father of J F and Davis Hardin, died at 87 after an accidental fall. A B Nesbit shot four wild pease in Jefferson township. Eldora Woodmen and Marshalston Woodmen initiated regalia. Louis Althouse of Waterloo connected with G F. The note mentions new shoes and town printing services, plus local merchants promoting eyewear and millinery offers.
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