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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1908
Page
4
June notes from Dumont chronicle a busy schedule. Graduation exercises include five girls and a local class, with senior events at the opera house. Reports mention births, visits, relocations, and community gatherings, plus plans for a two day Fourth of July celebration and a cemetery society event.
The Steamboat Rock high school will hold commencement at the M B E church on Monday evening June 9. Prof Walter Athearn of Highland Park Normal College Des Moines will deliver the class address. The class of 1908 has eight members Bennie Wickham Florence Finater John Potgeter Minerva Oden Edw A Ruppelt Fay Greenlief Jacob Lamprecht George Morse. Also noted are local items about a one armed marksman and a town real estate trade, plus family visits and moves detailing local life.
Pleasant Valley notes list D J Fritzal leaving for Minnesota on land business. Mr and Mrs Fritz Schrage welcome a baby boy, with Mrs Schrage formerly Miss Mary Welghman. Will Lillibridge from Grundy Center visits Ray at home. Mrs Geo Harms not improved. O Getting and family visit Stout relatives. A land deal: Rudolph Harm Eckhott sells 80 acres to Mr Hook at 121 dollars per acre with possession March 1, 1909. Evangelical Y P A business meeting held at the church with Rev Hugel presiding.
QRANT TOWNSHIP reports Ben Williard drove to Town Falls where a horse died Friday afternoon, a champion animal. Conrad Molendorp lost three cattle to lightning Thursday morning. Mrs. Mahoney and sister-in-law Mrs. Elder visited Jobo Carroll Thursday. Rumor links Philip Flannery of Lake Wilson to a wedding. Ralph Jensen and Wo. Younker visited Meson City. Jobo Carroll left for Pipestone and Lake Wilson en route to Dakota before returning. Subscribe for the Woazp.
Miss Lena Schmitt, about 35, died after years of illness at her home near Holland. Other notes include Mrs. H Schmitt and daughters of Grundy Center visiting relatives, Wessel Weasels' death in Roca Nebraska, Voss of Bigelow a guest at Henry Peters, and various local notices from George Iowa with storm damage, new dining spot, funeral travels, and nearby visitors.
A scrambled Iowa digest reports four men total age 200 in Manchester chat. Ames moving picture license cut. price hike to 15 cents boosts audience. Albion Shetland foals weigh 15 and 16 pounds. Vera Brower saved from fire in Waverly. July 4th celebration noted. Emmett county widows lead probate filings. Spencer Congregational to buy a 43000 dollar pipe organ. Osceola Methodist pastor resigns amid calls for revival and Lincoln-bound travel.
The article notes an inquiry by the University of Iowa about restricting social gatherings after the next school year to Friday and Saturday events, aiming to curb a few students who waste many evenings on amusements. It also mentions unrelated items including a suicide attempt with amagia water, a car-fire at a Rolfe livery barn, a court acquittal in Gregory County, fines in Pocahontas County, and an advertisement for Hall's Catarrh Cure.
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