Local Notes From Hampton Area Brighten Week
Agnes Carroll visited as Chapin guest. Cedar Valley Telephone stringing poles along main road to Hampton. Martha Adams returns from south of town to Hampton. Dick Harteraves loses barn and contents by fire. children blamed for matches. Memorial Day exercises at Ackley draw large crowd. New railroad expected by early July. track layers and gravel moving. Fannie McKinzie spends Sunday with Hampton parents. Blake couple return from Spirit Lake trip. land near there purchased. Mrs S J French visits Rockwell friends. Fritz of Philadelphia visits Raisch home. Andrew Cole’s new barn under construction. large project. Funeral held for Mrs Thomas Reinsmith at Ackley. long-time local resident. Farmers plowing and resting, business men fishing. Tillman and Reeve visit Hampton. Clyde Parks from Cedar Falls visits. George Tucker buys Rock Falls elevator. possession July 10. Mrs Loren Imlay of Niagara Falls visits area. Cora Horner returns home from Titonia guest of Mabel Rector. Henry Reeve returns from Rome, Obito after weeks away. Dadawell visits home, then returns to Morrison to manage creamery. Edward McCarron home from Iowa Falls for summer. Mr and Mrs E Alexander mourn infant death. Inter-State Lumber to build office near Gilets Darber. Local youths entertained in pleasant gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agnes Carroll
Chapin
Cedar Valley Telephone Company
Sarge
Hampton
Mira
Martha Adatos
Dick Harteraves
Ackley
Fannie McKinzie
George Blake
Spirit Lake
J. French
Rockwell
Fritz
Philadelphia
Raisch
Andrew Cole
Thomas
Messrs. Tillman and
Reeve
Clyde Parks
Cedar Falls
George Tucker
Rock Falls
Iowa
Loren Imlay
Niagara Falls
N. Y
Misa Cora’ Horner
Titonia
Mabel Rector
Henry Reeve
Rome
Obito
Mr. Dadawell
Morrison
Edward ‘A McCarron
Iowa Falla
Shome
Mra
E. Alexander
Inter-state Lumber Company
Gilets Darber Hop
Local notes from town and region including church and social updates
A sequence of community items reports visits, marriages, travel, and local events. Mentions Rev Norton returning from Chicago General Conference, Mrs Bunyan’s illness, a sub district meeting in Mayne's Grove starting June 12 with Upper Iowa conference ministers, Mrs Bert Wickham improving, several residents traveling to North Dakota and Minnesota for land or visits, a local wedding to Waterloo, L A B meets with Mrs Wilkinson, road work on No 4, various townspeople visiting relatives, windmill and beekeeping notes, improvements to property, local preaching in George, attendance at Baptist convention in Sheffield, Ackley beating the home team 25 to 16, and a German Baptist missionary sermon by Geo A Schulte in town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. O. Horner
E. H. Haymond
Norton
Chicago
Joe Homan
Great discovery claims tuberculosis curable by sunlight
Fort Dodge doctor J W Kime argues consumption is curable through a simple method using sunshine and condensed sunlight on the diseased body. He cites years of study, notes actinic sun rays’ bactericidal effects, and describes a treatment of about thirty minutes daily, not exceeding eight months, with rapid health restoration. Surveyors near Britt map Des Moines and Northern railroad route from Boone to Britt via Clarion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Kime
Fort Dodge
Kime
Actio
Noar Road
Britt
Des Moines & Northern
Boone
Clarion
Knox Cornell Beloit form joint debating league
A new intercollegiate debating circuit links Knox College Galesburg Beloit College Iowa Grinnell College and Cornell College Mt Vernon. Each pair debates then winners meet. league meetings set for next year. Also notes on smallpox recovery in Fort Dodge and local social events as well as farm conditions and dry weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knox College
Galesburg
Beloit
Iowa College
Grinnell
Cornell College
Mt. Vernon
Iowa
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ernohhli
Newa
Faulkner
Geneva
H. Heetland
Aplington
William Dreyer
William Swyter
George
Sheffield
William Krantz
Charles Lowe
Cunningham
Clarkavile
Jennie
Gev. Geo. A. Schulte
New York
German Baptist Churches
Fort Nonge
Brits
Alton
Syramboat Rock
Peet
Aldeo
Gresser
Miss Ames
Eldora
Ettel Tracey
Radclife
Jennie O'Heen
Oskaloosa
Jennie Sharpshbair
Fred Passmore
Charles Wyatt
Rockford
Larkin
Wyatt
Congregational Church
C. J. Stearns
Maranalltown
Timothy
John M. Nix
Nix
J. B. Green
Mammoth
Eic
John Kourty & Brothers
Frey
Main Street
Clothiers
East Main Street
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