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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1914
Page
4
The week’s overview from Four County News highlights local happenings and notableFriend updates. Readers get snapshots of community ties, upcoming events, and brief personal notes from residents and groups across the area.
The Abbott Grist records visitors and calls around Abbott and nearby towns. entries include Mrs B Oelman and daughters at S Bullock, A Homan and wife shopping, Haye Fouta visiting William Johns, Billy Dalton trading at Abbott, Bertha Oelman on Ackley sailor day, Ed Howard family calling on 8 Bullock, B Bowman visiting Rev Mehnert, and a Sunday storm felling a cottonwood in Jess Johns barn yard. Other notes mention Geo Arends trading in Abbott, Mrs Waddington and A R Sleby at a Marshalltown district meeting, Mrs W P Stoddard visiting Newhall, and various visits to Marshalltown, Hampton, Geneva, and Grafton, plus rain and cold in Grant Township and local illnesses improving.
Dumont residents share visits and moves across Butler county. J B Moreley buys twelve Jotas and Zuhike house, A L Nowell plans to relocate from Aredale, and Ed Capper welcomes a son born May 4. Hospital stays, school hiring delays, and a new county livery loss mark a busy week.
A candidate for Congress on the Republican ticket, Bob Law of Waterloo, issues a letter posing pointed questions to his rival Sweet of Bremer County. The queries reference Sweet’s past roles in the Iowa legislature, including positions on primary election matters and progressive legislation supported by Senator Cummins.
Community notes recount daily events and small changes across Aplington and nearby areas. Mentions of visitors, sold houses, new contracts, medical and personal milestones, and multiple travel trips reflect a snapshot of small town life with names like DeVries, Ludemann, Stoner, Janssen, and Lindemann featuring prominently.
AS Allison May 10 The Butler county board of supervisors met Monday and adjourned to next week when bridge contracts will be let. Sunday morning at the Methodist church a Mother’s Day program was presented by the Queen Esther circle. George Metcalf of Kealey may seek county recorder on the Democratic ticket. Allison gains a new grocery store BR E Thompson manager. Rev James Rowe of Hancock Wis has been called to Congregational church pastorate. Junior class play slated for Wednesday at the opera house. H T Conn and wife moved to Roches ter Minnesota. Prank McGee and wife will occupy W 4 Codner’s former house south of the railroad. rank Waley and wife came over
A party from New Hartford spent last Thursday visiting at the E. W. Booton residence. They left Friday for Dumont where Mr Kaley has taken over the Dumont Journal as editor and publisher following his purchase of the paper.
A judge notes a dollar marked and circulated just the day before yesterday. The exchange leads to a brief dialogue about the value of money with a remark that a dollar doesn’t go far these days.
Cynlhus and Poo express mutual unhappiness in a terse Telegraph snippet. The exchange hints at hidden concerns and private burdens carried by the speakers amid a public setting. The fragment suggests a broader mood of quiet discontent in the era.
The World club rates advertise reduced prices on many publications. Subscriptions include Chicago Daily Inter Ocean, World, and other papers with varied annual totals. Inter Ocean alone costs 84, while package deals promote savings. The listing cites Iowa Homestead, Wallace's Farmer, and Times Republican among options.
A jumble of old notices describes onion peeling as a marginal East End job with many women earning small daily sums, plus ads for Hall’s Catarrh Cure, Hall’s Family Pills, and a 160 acre farm for sale near Ackley with contact details for H A Kolls in Merrill Wisconsin.
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