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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1913
Page
6
A garbled notice advertises free homesteads in Iranka National Forest with lands to be entered by October 1 1915. It mentions maps for $2 and names J Tu sony civil engineer Broken How and Wm Sessler Ackley area. The fragment also references a cemetery, tax, and a sales offer for posts and old newspapers.
Scraps from Des Moines and nearby towns mention a range of minor items. Topics include local police tip raids proposed, a five day stretch ending with drownings, a juvenile shooting incident in Grundy Center, and town residents traveling to Eldora for court or visits. Community notices reference a tuberculosis death, a druggist retirement, a bar meeting in Sioux City, and a county old settlers reunion on Independence Day.
Local notes report residents at Tage City and Minneap olis trips. A downtown fire, farm land sales, court actions, and family visits are summarized with names like Eliott Sawyer Dows and Dyer. Community events include anniversaries, drainage ditch contracts, and railroad side incidents.
Local social notes list visitors and residents in Ackley and nearby areas. Individuals mentioned include George Diamond, Miss Jennie Hartema, H G Hardin, C L Pax and wife, E Wartzer, Rev W A Ramsey and wife, Miss Ida Philipps, St Loosa, Mrs C J Doapka and children, Ackerman, C R Horner, Petheram, Miss Jennie Seitsoma, Grace Shugar, Miss Grayce Blackstone, Mrs H Kramer, Mia V Roosevelt and Alice, Elmer Hiveley and A Hiveley. Several trips note visits to Rock Rapids, Waterloo, Geneva, Iowa Falls, Dav is South Dakota, Ganges Michigan, and Bird Island Minnesota. The tone reflects routine social and business visitation across multiple small towns.
D M Leach of Abbott neighborhood visited the Worn office on Monday to air views on recent law changes. He served twenty four years on the Independent school district. he claims the latest legislature offered no redeeming features. He argues treasurers must deposit funds in banks but lacks salary provisions, implying the treasurer’s role is unclear and questions the impact on teacher payments locally and nationally.
Last Sunday at the Presbyterian Church Mosars John Hunt and FB Trainer were ordained and installed as elders. When John Rath can attend again he and W A Young will be reinstalled. Next Sunday the Lord's Supper will be observed and new members received. The union service on the M & church lawn Sunday evening was well attended and will continue through August. The town of Roland, Story County, is described as a Republican paradise with 700 inhabitants and no Democrats in sight. Grundy Center's chautauqua began yesterday featuring Rev Robt Glenn of South Carolina, Dr O Nea l, Judge Kavanaugh, Thavin's International band, Miss Doyle, Trefz and Shungopayi, Dr Wiley and others. State Pure Food Commission enforces sanitary laws amid heavy ice cream use. tests show about 6 percent of cases with paints. Milk cans unwashed or containing refuse milk or cream are to be cleaned before return to producers.
The article notes numerous revered graves at Arlington National Cemetery. It highlights George Washington's gravesite with his wife and others, along with Mary Lee Fitzhugh. Dense oaks crown the area near a shadowed ravine in the private section.
The article notes a game in the city next Sunday featuring Ackley players with a Ft. Dodge club, tied to a site believed to be owned by the Alexander family where Gerald Alexander resided. The report emphasizes attendance and local interest in the matchup.
In a French village, Hinnie Breguery shot his wife Madame Breguery after she begged for death due to incurable cancer. Despite years of suffering, local sentiment leans toward exonerating the husband as doctors hid the severity of her illness.
A fastidious pickpocket, caught in the act, objected to the handcuffs as antiquated. He quipped to the officer that modern restraints like No Metal Cas Touch You would suit him better, challenging the traditional method.
Executor of the Last Will and Testament of Martin Janssen announces a court ordered public sale of estate property in Cleves Iowa on the fifteenth day of duty A D II at two o'clock p m at Bath State Exchange Bank Aveley Iowa. Items include grain elevators on railroad grounds lumber and fixtures scales and lines entire silo and crib structures with related sheds and stock of timber and brick. Two groups offered separately or together with bids evaluated to maximize total return. Entering bidders urged to inspect before bidding. Prep Fisher executor.
Ordinance 61 of Ackley Town Council vests parts of Worth Street to the Town of Ackley for erecting a power facility. The action vacates portions from the northwest corner of Lot 7, Block 21, running 25 feet west then 44 feet south then 25 feet east then 44 feet to the origin. Clerk Scoumien and Mayor J. Ruurgurs sign.
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