This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 9 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1895
Page
7
Fragmentary OCR of timetable items shows times like 12:45 p.m. and 13:10 p.m. with scattered words. no coherent event, names, or destinations readable enough to confirm.
Stock frames a new walk in Brooklyn. Mrs. O Berg ill with fever. State fair attendance noted. Iowa Central officials toured on private car Iowa. Chas Wanecke ill this week. Rev Earhart away. no Presbyterian service next Sunday. Miss Addie Donovan hosted Miss Lynch of Chicago. Illinois Central repairing pump house and relaying water mains. three weeks. New passing track planned. Boucher from Sheffield runs jewelry store during Frank’s two week farm vacation. Leach chosen band leader. Oriole Opera Company and Woodward theatre company visit. Ackley beats Iowa Falls 27 to 0 in ball game. no Iowa Falls player reaching first base. Beck acts as Illinois Central depot agent in absence of father. Sheriff Boylan escorts insane woman to asylum. Six transportation tickets to G A R encampment at Louisville issued. Tax levy set: state 24 mills, county 44 mills, bridges 14 mills, insane 1, poor 1, school 1, county board 1, county road 1. Illinois Central to order fifty locomotives. freight and suburban service. Miss Raymond resigns as primary teacher. home-applicant qualifications questioned. F. M. Barnard, former Ackley publisher, dies of peritonitis at Spencer Town. Left a wife and son.
Pfander owns a Blazemore stock colt. Seidl plans a 14 by 24 addition to his blacksmith shop. M E church ladies meet at Mrs Ed Overpeck's home on September 18. Miss Mary Taylor departs for Davenport to serve at a home for parentless children. One hundred twenty five train tickets sold for Eldora fair, plus more by team. Dan Bolender and Dolf Weber serve as jurors in Cedar Rapids federal court. Norma Thoren leaves for Des Moines to attend a business college. Council weighs electric pumping station plan by Breuning Bros but rejects it as costly. HF Richtsmeier reports a wheat yield of 45 bu per acre at $0.48 per bu. Local tax levies listed for several districts and funds. A Tohten vs Hardin County case heard at Marshalltown. verdict for Tohten amounting to 500 dollars after overnight deliberation.
An evening scene at Sinois Central depot shows a large crowd of aspiring teachers and escorts filling the waiting room and platform. Seventeen tickets sold. Miss Luella Meyers, Will Graves, Elmo Scales, Charlie Rath, Alan Fisher, Miss Sadie Faust, and Loren Thoren among those departing for Cedar Falls Grinnell Iowa City Coe Omaha and Des Moines to pursue education and training.
Mr Luke of Hampton visited Ackley last Monday. Miss Cornelius Harbin of Waterloo visits in the city. Jacob Bleeker leaves for Des Moines for the state fair. Rev K Welland of LeMars guest of Rev Kruger north of town. Miss Mary Fink leaves for Dows to teach in town schools. Miss Daisy Davis attends dedication of new M. I. church at Cedar Falls. Mr and Mrs John F. Lydon and son attend Des Moines state fair. Mrs Ezra Whiteside and Mrs G Nicklas spend week at Des Moines for the fair. Mr and Mrs Tangeman of Postville guests of Breuning representatives. Miss Mertie Lovell leaves for Cedar Falls for normal course. Sam Hampson among Ackley county timber to hear Robt. & Ingersoll lecture on Abraham Lincoln. Mrs O Wheeler and little daughter Harriet have visited with Mrs.
In the past month many residents returned home or traveled nearby. Names include Miss M. D. Mulder Mrs. Hoxte J. Q. Lusch Mary Riley Maggie McMahon Ren Barger Theodore Lusch Mrs. L. Schimp H. E. Williams Tom Ewing Dan Burke Pete Ebeling Miss B. Mullane Geo. Breithaupt Frank Wilson Mrs. J. H. Scales Robt. Ingersoll Pat Burke Lulu Beach Richard Cassidy P. J. Clancy J. McGuire Mrs. Kelso D. Leach W. Whitaker Matt Heiberger. The town saw visits, a shift to Cedar Falls and Marshalltown, a theater joining tour, and local business notes.
Frank Seidl opens a new blacksmith shop in the former Theo Schoenelch building inviting friends to visit. He offers thorough repair services for plows and related work with known diligence and fair prices. Also offering Poland China bear pigs for sale by P. Clancy of Ackley Iowa.
At the solicitation of many friends R Busi announces entry into the auctioneering business. He offers to try all kinds of sales at reasonable rates and guarantees satisfaction. Call for arrangements.
240 acre Salg or Rent farm with good water supply and improvements including a new house proper barn corn cribs and flowing water. Located in Black Hawk county near Waterloo. For further particulars contact J H Althouse Waterloo at Worzpolice.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.