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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1916
Page
5
A brief notice lists upcoming events including Sunday church attendance, Washington's Birthday on February 22, Lingolo's birthday on February 12, and that school resumes on the following Monday after the weekend.
Local news in brief lists routine city visits and errands. Names include Robert Francis W A Young C Lathrop Tevin Richtemeier and George Dentel with notices of travel to Eldora Mason City Faulkner Waterloo and Grinnell. A New Year greeting precedes church services at St Marys and St Johns.
Ackley news summaries include a new Marshalltown freight depot costing $30,000, 1916 Grundy Center homebuilding worth $125,000, and widespread grip. Local figures Wm Lindemann and Fred Fischer visited, the Butler County Institute starts in Clarksville, and multiple residents travel or recover from illness. Frequent social calls, school events, road talks, and memorials mark a busy period in Butler County.
O P Olmstead is listed among the seriously ill with the sick. Family and Hamp ton friends assist as additional cases appear. A 3 year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Sam Holender has scarlet fever and is quarantined at her grandmother Mrs Ben Spengler's home. Chas Papperling home is quarantined for the same sickness. Mrs D J Shugar, J A Scales and Mrs John Steffen Sr all show grip symptoms or are confined. The gathering at the Congregational church pas tor home after presenting the Messiah is noted with out of town guests enjoying refreshments.
Multiple short notes report Miss Ruth Althouse visiting in Waterloo, Mrs. Snyder returning from Osage, Miss Lillian Bretthaupt from Hampton, and several others visiting relatives in Alden Cedar Falls and Des Moines. Edits note school returns, new year greetings, a hairdressing opening by James Draper, and a few deaths of Franklin county residents. Also mentions Floranca Abbas recovering from tonsil surgery and a humorous tale about soil tasting.
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