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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1908
Page
4
Local notes record multiple community items including visits from Hampton Rockwell and Rockwell residents, a play produced by the Twentieth Century Improve cot Club, and a benefit from the Breazy Point performance. Other entries mention illnesses travel and relatives visiting, with several names and towns across Iowa and nearby states.
Daughters of Thos Dolaon, former residents, arrangements by Sunday school members to observe Easter Sunday. Earl Page and his daughter visited relatives at Union.
Local market prices for eggs and produce led by Abbott Bleeker’s store with hogs, cattle, and poultry values. News of church contributions, farewells as families move to Dumont, a death in Geneva for Mrs Crow, and visits by Ackley and Renville residents. Hogpounds and egg shipments highlight the economy alongside social notes and a jest from the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A sweep of short items notes A Jansen moving to Iowa Falls and Wilbur White being named justice, births and deaths in towns like Town Falls and Alden, a Memorial Day plan, Monte Christo at the Met in Iowa Falls, and various local civic updates. Also listed are school staffing shifts, church confirmations, new bank plans at Liscomb, resignations, property assessments, and community anecdotes from Hubbard, Radcliffe, and surrounding areas.
Mrs. W. J. Stonebraker of Hampton is ill with poor recovery prospects. George Harrison of Alexander reports a horse drowned in the roadside slough. Mileven children were confirmed at Hampton Luther an church. Dr. Hunter, burned out at Thornton, plans to move to Kansas City. Nevilla Gridley of Chapin will teach in Geneva schools. Miss Mary Vice and James Pope Joy of Aredale wed at Allison. Four Holstein cattle shipped from Chapin to Oregon last week. H J Henderson resigns Chapin teacher post, Ed White named successor. Hampton and Lown Falla school boys plan a field meet at Hampton on April 25.
The Hawkeye State reports a free new church dedication by LeMara Presbyteriana and a $10,000 Lutheran house of worship in Chater Oak. A vote rejects a $700 library book donation. Jefferson schools' F. E. Palmer has salary changes. A meat market fire causes $30,000 damage. Cattle deaths in Oreston cited as brain disease from overfeeding. Oakalooga city spends about $64,000 for year. The Modern Brotherhood of America, seven years old, claims a $1 million annual business from Mason City to Atlantic and Pacific voyages. Sac City plans an auditorium and Chautauqua grounds with five-year ticket receipts funding the project. Presbyterian membership in Storm Lake grows from 203 to 420 in four years while salary for one pastor rises to $1,600. Father Coffin of Ft. Dodge, aged 86, becomes a Benedictine after marrying Mrs. Nellie Jogalla in Detroit. Prohibitionists name several possible gubernatorial nominees. Ottumwa couples Lucile Elliott and Anna Robson are heartbreak rivals over a fiancé. A letter from J. W. Therghien to a hospital in Vicksburg and Civil War era politics surface as activists debate slavery.
A jumble of items recounts Lake City voting tax for a public library, a campus style assault in Qawalouea over an escort, a paroled ex-railroad worker to work in a Waterloo laundry, and a Webster City man promoting coupons to fund a $40 000 stock deal. Also described is a town gathering in Sioux City ending in a staged corpse vigil and a Des Moines court case about a city hall bond election and women voters.
Kate Aadg Grant visited her sister Mrs Lulu Ammann this week. Mattie Meyer called on Mrs Lulu Ammann Monday. Kate Hanig accompanied her home for a few days visit. Bete Ammann has been quite ill.
The Center school opened Monday last with Miss Mary Mahoney as teacher. The past week, under the doctor's care, Henry Thies will assist Fred GertFama with the big farm work this coming season. Beware of catarrh remedies containing mercury as they damage the senses and mucous surfaces. Hall's Catarrh Cure and Hall's Family Pills are advertised with cautions about mercury content and prescription use.
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