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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1906
Page
7
The past week brought clear weather aiding corn planting with farmers progressing hourly. Most have planted a large percentage, and the week’s close should see the finish for most fields. Temperatures ranged from 50 to 87 degrees.
Ackley and Round About report a string of local items: Kopacek joins Grant’s pool room, homes get improvements, Iowa Central railroad workers paid quarterly, Klein and Althouse sidewalk work, a baby boy born to the Wolf family, and wresting talk for Saturday. Community notes include church events, alumni planning a 1906 banquet, and various residents in town or traveling.
A stream of names records visits and movements in Eldora and nearby towns. F D Wait, Dick Ball, W H Lancelot, S Trainer, George Pattee, Herman Tool, E A Beemer, W J Berringer, Charley Johnson, A N Geerdes, C W Dillon, L Stanton, William Thomas and wife, John Hanig, George Bakker, Messie Walker and Shaw, J Vaughn, O B Hela, Mrs George Vietor, Mrs Swarts, Miss Hilda Schultz, and Will Roosevelt are listed as visiting, staying, or returning from trips from Iowa Falls, Union, Waterloo, Wellsburg, Hampton, Geneva township, Spirit Lake, Water loo, Emery, Moscow. Several are noted visiting relatives, conducting business, or returning from school or travel, with no further events recorded.
Dr FH role, intending to improve the property formerly owned by the Evans estate, has engaged contractors and will begin as soon as feasible. A one story structure six ty feet long will span the full lot, currently home to the former Dennis Evans billiard hall. Dr J J Miller will occupy part of the new building.
Roosevelt has received Bloch's first letter from Paris describing labor riots at their peak. Bloch expects a short stay, maybe returning to Ackley in July, under the Army Stars and Stripes. Also includes local assessor data for Ackley properties totaling 107,972 in taxable value and other property categories.
Maxon of Ames Iowa a former Iowa city school chief with Philippine service and Trollo training school ties, tours Wright county and joins a May 25 excursion to Ames. Local interviews with Sparks of Hidora and remarks on Dr Vida’s progressive Republican nomination. Parish gatherings and a lawsuit in Webster City noted alongside town well completion in Belmond and former Tealdeuts travel.
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