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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1916
Page
7
Several local items span events and updates from February birthdays to concerts and lectures. Names include Humber, Bannats, Diemer, Pakeret, Ludemann, Mulkins, Meints, Nicholas Steffen, Flora Meints, and O. B. Parshing. Reports cover illness cases, dental meeting in Chicago, merchant visits, grain show closures, and municipal fund concerns with Waterloo officials cited.
The Ackley high school announces a declamatory contest to be held Thursday evening February 10 at the Presbyterian church. The program includes pieces by Wendell Phillips Margaret Althouse Nantel Webster Paul Althouse Ruth Althouse Mildred Hombd H. Van Dyke and others, with dramatic and humorous selections and a touch of local participation by Rev Pershing and town residents.
A Sunday evening theft at the Illinois Central station saw cash drawer opened between 6 16 and 7 00 p m with about 18 to 20 dollars taken. Entry was through a broken north door window. Two suspicious men were seen nearby. a stranger was detained by Marshal Pepperling but no further developments emerged.
Local notes report Mrs H E Abbas ill east of town and Mr Welser of Des Moines visiting with the Dauffenbach family at Hotel Ackley. Harmony church Methodist concert set for Tuesday evening February 8. Martin Bros Co prepare annual inventory in George IA. Tires rise ten percent due to war demand. competition keeps prices down. Center Point reports death of a shoe cobbler with estate valued at 260000. O Kromminga ill but hopeful recovery. Alexander IA couple Anne Blau and Dick Smith wed Jan 19 at bride’s parents home. Rev. John Schaefer officiates. Rural mail carrier Grant had a spectacular wreck but escaped serious injury. Summer fashion shifts to light dresses and return of Petticoats and hoop skirts, per style experts.
John Haller of Geneva, Bert Mapes, Chr ie Walter of Robertson, Don M. Lesch of Abbott, and Mrs. Theodore Cook of Frasport were in Ackley area on various Mondays and Sundays. Mrs. George Grusner of Des Moines attended the wedding at Waterloo. Candlemas services held at St Marys. Grand Army convention moved to June 20 21 and 22 in Marshalltown. Nettie Alsup visiting relatives. a baby boy born to Chester Van Noy family. Roosevelt brothers donate 620 to fire department after a fatal blaze. Sam Edgington, longtime aide at the county courthouse, in Ackley en route to Independence.
At the regular monthly meeting last Friday the school board approved bills totaling 81200 with 8873 to Carstone Brothers for a smokeless double boiler installation and related equipment. Cash on hand ranges from 4600 to 6000. Elections set for Tuesday March 13. terms of Charles Hembd and Sherman Rath expire.
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