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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1900
Page
5
Brief rural report from German Township and surrounding areas recounts weather, farm activity, and community happenings. Mentions thresher work, school reopenings, German heritage links with Ackley and Osceola County crops, and local social events at Geneva and nearby towns. Several residents named including Jurg en Spieker Dick Spieker and Mr Husman with routine updates on illness, travel, and projects.
Large moving picture machine touted as the state’s biggest. Local business shifts include O H Tillman & Son selling to G Aldinger and moving to Minnesota. Residents move, visit, and prepare for Grundy Center fair while bands, churches, and clubs host events.
AUSTINVILLE reports rotate around family events and brief travels. Mrs Orr left for Buffalo Center to visit, her husband builds a church. Miss Faust returned from Dubuque. R B Rykena rushed to Parkersburg to care for his father in law Akker man who was kicked by a horse. Mrs Westendorf is ill. S Patterson drove to Ackley. Elmer Boss and Michael Limburg enjoyed a trip to Dumont. Mrs Austin and daughter Mrs Patterson visited Aplington. Marie and Jennie Bisbee, now residents of Aplington, visited Bade's in town Friday. Frank from the Bury stopped by to check political matters.
The Yakima Valley offers a prime irrigation proposition with tropical fruits thriving and alfalfa as a reliable crop. Twenty acre ranches go for $600 with easy terms, aided by the Northern Pacific Railway for transport. The area features good schools, churches, rural routes, rare storms, and a mild climate aiding lung and bronchial ailments. prospects invite inquiries to C W Matt, Emigration Agent, Northern Pacific Ry, St Paul MN.
Fragmented OCR shows Hall's Catarrh Cure advertisement with claims of internal action and testimonials. Nearby names include F J Cheney Co Toledo and West Traux plus Katrina Manvin wholesale druggists. other lines mention a Christian Scientist girl and various local shop references.
An American Baptist Missionary recounts a Sunday incident on the Kongo frontier near Lake umba where a canoe bearing a man bound for slaughter chased by cannibals was intercepted. Six pursuers fed by canoe paddlers chased four fugitives to the shore where one man was captured and released after a ransom of brass wire worth about four dollars. The tale ends noting the Kongo state’s ban on cannibalism and reduced slave expeditions, with occasional small forays still occurring.
An awkward exchange from the Chivage Tribune features Mr. Tucker trying to explain the word brace to Tommy during a hunting scenario. Tommy replies with a shy miscount, saying “Pitty,” after being asked how many pheasants he would bag if he killed 20.
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