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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1916
Page
4
The Waek's Review notes social rounds and updates on local residents, with brief mentions of arrivals departures gatherings and friendships shaping the community scene this week. Names and places reflect neighborhood ties and small events.
The Abbott Grist lists numerous local movements and visits. Wm Griffith visited Steamboat Rock, relatives hosted and traveled. Mrs Gimer left for New London after two weeks here. Mrs Gardner of Steamboat Rock visited relatives. John Kugel traveled to Marshalltown for medical care. many others shopped, traded, or called on family. Several births and illnesses noted, including a newborn daughter to Mr and Mrs Robert Johns, and multiple grip cases. News covers social calls, travel to nearby towns, and community routines across Abbott, Parkersburg, Mason City, and surrounding areas.
Mia Fox widow of Sheldon Fox aged ninety six died Thursday morning. Daughter Mary Fox died hours later and daughter Misa Ella Fox died Thursday evening, all victims of the grip. Triple funeral Saturday privately held. surviving daughter Laura Fox is the lone family member left in Cedar Falls for over sixty years.
Wellsburg reports Claus Primus traveled to Grundy while Karl Neesen toured Des Moines on business. Dr. Beckman and John Ross engaged in county seat tasks. Louise Doyen visits Andrew Meyer home in Holland amid many farm and skating rink notes. Shifts in travel, illness, and local commerce color a week in area towns.
The Iowa State College stock judging team swept the intercollegiate contest held with the Western National Livestock Show in Denver. Iowa placed first, Colorado second, Kansas third, with ten states entered. Team members were C. G. Mason, O. H. Tuttle, J. P. Eves, T. H. Roberts and G. A. Noble. coached by Prof. P. A. Pew.
New York Dec 29 Jrank Aldrich former congressman from Illinois hosted a Christmas tea and musicale in honor of Mme Mariska Aldrich prima donna of the Metropolitan Opera company who divorced him two months ago. Their two children and forty friends attended the gathering as if nothing had changed in the Aldrich home.
The funeral of Inte gra Scales was postponed and a public worship service with a sermon will be held next Sunday at Faulkner church at 2 30 with Sunday school at 1 30 A A Carstens was a business visitor at Hampton yesterday Carstens Bros have established themselves there and with Obbo Berg in charge are gaining public favor
Chicago markets report receipts and prices for cattle hogs and sheep with modest gains in pork and egg markets. A daughter born to Mr. and Mrs. David Meinberg is noted along with several local visits and travel notes. A death from typhoid fever is reported for Earnest Paley with family affected. An anecdote warns newlyweds against keeping diaries on honeymoons.
Thursday saw five patients receive attention for varied ailments with apparently good results. The home hospital concept is praised as a relief to locals. Also note ads: Hall's Catarrh Cure offered with a $100 reward for incurable cases. Testimonials for J J Cheney. 73 cent bottle. Barber college seeks students. boar pigs for sale. subscription for The Worn.
An American traveler Mr. Croy visits Hawaii and, after losing his hat, tries to replace it. A Japanese taxi driver misdirects him through a furniture shop, a bedstead sign, a barber, and finally a hat shop. He ends up paying twice the price, while the driver grins through the ride.
Four youths and two girls were arrested in Romney for alleged elopement attempts involving Hazel Lincoln aged eighteen and Mary Lincoln aged fourteen. The sisters fled from their father James Lincoln near Odell with companions Warness Van Camp and Riley, both twenty one. All four denied there was any elopement when found at a relative’s home.
Coroner tallies show 671 deaths in 1915 and 632 in 1914 in Chicago. The figures include multiple causes and note deaths from drowning and other incidents. The report cites numerous fatalities and references a steamer incident in the Rastland district.
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