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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1908
Page
4
News from Titonka in Kossuth County outlines a fall from a bay loft resulting in a broken leg for Willem Braid’s son. The report mentions sick relatives, farm yields, births, deaths, and local court and business notes across Hardin and surrounding areas.
Our near neighbors report fair progress on the new Beardsley Theatre in Red Oak. The Methodist church in Ames completed a $45,000 building and was dedicated Sunday. A baby check room opened in Des Moines Methodist church. Promoters pursue an electric road from Ottumwa to Oskaloosa. Muskrats migrate by thousands from sloughs near Clear Lake. Walter Barngrever of Des Moines found a $27 pearl in a 20 cent bowl at a cafe. Paul Jamison of Butt fell while unloading hay, tearing muscles from his backbone. Jack French, digging a well at Grundy Center, was buried fifteen feet by a cave-in.
EL LS BURG Oct 25 The potato season to Wellsburg is near completion with 110 carloads shipped. Mr and Mrs W F Martin and daughter visited relatives in St Louis. Obituary notices and local movements include a Holland resident visiting a bank during an uncle's absence, Louis Melota visiting Buffalo Center, and P S Leibsohn of Norway visiting his uncle D Goldblatt. State Senator W DeWolf will speak in Wellsburg Oct 31. J Helkene bought the L Luit Jane farm in Shiloh township for 81th an acre with possession next March. A train fire destroyed about four acres of corn near F Terfebno. Miss Tillie Schrage returned from St Louis. Dora Sleyers and Martin Kruge married in German township. Mrs George Stanton of Missaourt invited at the Efyebroad home.
W W Mausa of Waterloo, presiding over the Iowa Dairy Separator Company, criticizes the Sharples Separator Company of Pennsylvania as a rival undercutting the market. He warns that if Bryan is elected and the Pennsylvania firm responds by laying off workers, his own company will hire them. He accuses the rival of ties to the steel trust and urges advertisers to finance nationwide ads to gain market share.
The report cites Iowa City State University enrollment at 2,820, with counts across departments and a projected 2,500 after the second semester. Chicago election samples note ballots with 428 names under eight parties. The rest lists patent medicines such as DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve, Osaca Sweets, Hall’s Catarrh Care, and assorted local ads with pricing and suppliers.
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