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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1900
Page
4
Advertisement targets customers of other dealers. It presents a price list as a basis to build a customer base with emphasis on competitive pricing and value. The readable fragment hints at shifting loyalties and strategic pricing to attract buyers.
Reports show Herman Smith visiting from Ackley representing a Ciocinatti firm, Bulth boosting local merchants, Harlow busy at the anvil with horseshoes, and Kromminoga shipping steer carloads. Items mention Miss Mary Roos inviting relatives, wax figure entertainment by Congregational church raising funds, and several residents traveling or relocating to nearby towns.
Miss Grace Brennan of Aredale spent Sunday in town. E M Halloran traveled to Des Moines on business last week. Merlin Barnes returned to Nebraska with his mother Eva Barnes. J Hartgraves bought Mrs D Kluver’s eastern town property vacated by C Wilson. H Kelleher lost two cattle last week. Dr T A Dumnat shipped 240 cattle here last week to stock farm. Revival meetings began at U S church led by Rev Kramer of Chicago with Rev Smith assisting. M S Sunday School plans Xmas Eve program featuring a snow house. Town youth attended Miss Mary Zeller’s birthday near Bristow Wednesday. A party surprised Miss Glara Schmitz before her Belle Plaine departure. Fred Schmitz’s team ran away Monday. double-tier pin released Pred onto dash but no serious damage.
Geneva Orilia Reeve returns from Ames and teaches north of Hampton. A Clock came home via Cedar Falls. Fannie Nobles teaches Maysville school. Ella Patrick visited Nobles Sunday. Rev. Smedley preached Gilman funeral. George Johnston and Frank Wilder with stock went to Chicago from Hansell Sunday. John Boots heads to Munsey Indiana for a long relatives visit. Mrs Bertha Long visited there with parents Sunday. John Boylan rural mail delivery special agent laid out a route for December 15 operation.
Samuel Untermyer obtained an injunction in New York Supreme Court restraining trustees George Gould Edwin Gould Howard Gould and Helen M Gould from paying any portion of the Jay Gould estate to Anna Gould Countess de Castellane or for her debts or children’s support until further court direction. The suit, filed by assignee Anthony J. Dittmar, centers on drafts totaling over 885000 with 285000 past due, noting Anna Gould’s rumored 18000000 trust and about 900000 annual income. The plumbers seek to divert surplus income to the trustees’ debts, claiming 250000 yearly is sufficient for the couple’s needs. A test case backed by other creditors, it follows George J. Gould’s guardianship appointment for the Countess in French proceedings.”
Post Civil War cadets at West Point secretly set up a billiard table in the sixth division coal bin ahead of steam heating. A keg of beer and hanging lamps brightened the room as cadets played while officers, afterward alerted, raided the club. A third cadet overheard plans and informed on the setup, leading to a staged officers’ raid and a note presenting the table to the officers’ mess as the token of removal to their use.
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