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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1900
Page
7
A jumble of fragments reports items from Ackley and Parkersburg including a pony for sale at a minimal price, bank and cemetery notices, a minister visiting, land sales in Minnesota, a new pump and windmill installed, and local tradespeople. It notes Wm Schultz erecting a monument, Orris of Janeaville health update, and an injury from an Illinois Central freight incident.
Local notes report schools closing for a three month vacation, a Tuesday city council meeting, post office hours, a new baby, many visitors and travels including John Bink and wife to Germany, and various town improvements. Other items mention local ball game results, plans to celebrate Independence Day, church repairs, market scales, gun club events, census work, and a ill resident recovering.
The Union Star notes Woodmen meet June 7 and K of P events on June 6 with Iowa Falls band providing music. Knights Templar honor a deceased brother on Ascension Day. Local lodge resists a new reserve fund. Grundy county officials face several potential clerk and auditor candidates. County Surveyor Crary marked town-site corners for Dike and Stout. Several marriage licenses issued. A commission insanity case and a busy criminal docket await.
Deaths in Ackley and nearby areas over ten days bring sorrow. Dick Burma, once bright and healthy, died Thursday morning after a quick decline from pneumonia. He was born 1869 in Washington township, Butler county, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harm Burma. Interment was Sunday afternoon after services at his parents’ home. Mrs. D. J. Cooney, an early settler who came from Ireland in about 1863, died Friday evening after weeks of illness. She was mother to D. M. Cooney, now reportedly in Oregon. The Presbyterian church to hold Lord's Supper next Sabbath morning with evening sermon, and the Ladies Aid meets June 6 with Mrs. C. H. Palmer.
A string of local social notes records visits and matches in Ackley, Cedar Falls, Iowa Falls and nearby towns. Names include R Bush, Arthur Bush, Miller, Purcell, Couse, Theodore Koch, Hisman, Pattee, August Neuman, Christ Beler, John Huisman, E H Kienlich, Miss Gay Smith, Miss Genevieve Beach, Miss Gay Beach, George andeary Smith, Will Welk, Cassius Bryson, O Kramer, Della McSwiggin, M J Pommer, Bakker Trey Pommer. The Algona opera house dividend is noted and readers urged to support Ackley’s opera plans.
An Ackley celebration urges selfless giving for independence and loyalty rather than profit from sales. Report notes a solar eclipse observed Monday morning with partial sun coverage from seven to around eight thirty, then obscured by clouds.
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