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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1900
Page
7
Readable items cover sales ads, unclaimed letters, and civic notes. From Des Moines import and local church reports to census rounds and flood of town activity, the column lists residents, property transfers, and plans for June weather, with several names and places named.
A busy week unfolds with a German school start next Monday, a street parade for Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, and the Sella-Forepaugh show set for Marshalltown on Monday July 2. Churches plan Children’s Day next Sunday, while local auctions, elections, and civic notices fill community life.
The annual Iowa Falls gun club shooting event closed Saturday with Central Iowa marksmen shining. Charles Hughes of Fonda won the first average with 96 of 13 misses over two days. Other top averages included Holden Marengo, Steege Waterloo, Linnell Eldora, Klein Spirit Lake, and Clark Marble Rock. A special round trip train to Union offered at 75 cents.
A jumbled Iowa notes page reports Mrs John Nason of Radcliffe dying by hanging last Monday amid ill health. Other items mention Eldora and Whitten debating a telephone line, a calf shipment to Pierre valued at 1800, tracklaying on the Omaha and Northwestern railway, and a barn sale tied up at Allison for 7700. Also noted are a June 14 Mutual Insurance meeting at Low Walls, a fire at Mickelwight farm in Franklin township, Eva Sharpe’s river bluff accident, a bible shortage in Hardin township, Alden Lutherans adding to a parsonage, Hubbard field day, a Franklin county primary on the 16th, vandals in Radcliffe, a Wright county cash balance of 1840200, potato prices at Bowen, Alden postmaster raise, the death of 12-year-old Rolf Wirds from bee sting, and a parade of local advertisements for groceries, furniture, wallpaper, and bicycles.
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