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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1902
Page
4
Local column from Geneva and nearby towns recounts student return from holidays, subscriptions rising to 1.60 a year after Feb 10, and plans for a new home by Peter Kannegteter. Various residents travel to Maraballtown, Iowa, and Waterloo, with social events, auctions, and church activities noted along with grain buying activity and a cemetery society meeting.
Faulkner Jes Etta Myers of Beman guests at the Wagner home this week. Miss Frankie McKenzie holidays with her parents in Tarmp ton. Mrs Gertrude and Edna Kirkful stayed with Miss Shottle near Peasant Ridge. Dr Frank Boutin and wife of Hamp ton visited S A French. Blake resigns as town Clerk and plans to move to Minnesota next April. Mrs Wm Hayes ill with pneumonia. Wessels brothers saved a man near Adam Keipfel Saturday. W Watcch erects monument for his wife. purchased in Vermont. Kirby attended a dance at Hampton. Stock Brothers shredding care for L Bruns. Loomis bought a Dumont residence to move in spring. J P Kirby of Alligon visited parents Wm Kirby and wife. Hartson and J F Kirby at Ackley taking violin lessons. Dance at Mrs EB Coyle’s last Monday evening well attended and enjoyed.
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Wilder entertained about thirty couples at their Grant township home on Thursday night with dancing games and music. A late supper was served by Mrs. Wilder and Miss Caroline Berkley. Guests praised the hospitality and the hosts as capital entertainers. Local residents attended events and visits span Geneva and Algona areas with several trips to Chicago and other nearby towns.
Local items report a new free rural mail delivery plan taking effect February 1 with two carriers serving over 56 square miles and 1,000 people. The column notes community updates from Ackley area residents, arrivals and visits, market news, quarantine notices, travel ads, and short anecdotes, plus health and commerce notices.
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