Local happenings around Dickinson County week events
Mr and Mrs 8 O Spent visit Sioux Olley for the week while L B Anderson stays in Dickinson County at Mr and Mrs A A Call tee penile ing in Des Moines. Mrs Charles Ingersoll delegates at M E district conference in Britt. Mrs Roswell returns to Mason City after visiting her daughter. W G A 8 meeting postponed. L H Ingle moves. Lewis Nelson home under smallpox exposure quarantine after Ames college attendance. Rev Porterfield conducts revival at Bradgate. Rev Ward to fill local pulpit. W H Ingham turns 80. photo by Nicoulin every ten years since fifty. Abel Worster visits from Riverdale. G Capton from Swanzy, N A. Golden wedding attendees include Ambrose A Call, Mrs Elizabeth Hackman, William E Ingham from 1454. Q L Foss returns from Decorah trip. praises town cement waste. John M Vinson mentions brother stock raiser in White Heath Illinois. Chester White stock prize at county and state fairs. Norma Frost visiting sister Tribon. popular former local student. Mason City Grace Taylor reports three families to mourn Thanksgiving due to ice skating deaths. Mothers' meeting at Bryant building draws over fifty ladies. school program features Miss Wallace primary dialogue, Lily Bowen and Mabel Burbank debate daily two sessions versus one, and Mrs Ferguson on social life of high school students.
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Q.L. Foss
Decorah
John M. Vinson
White Heath
Linois
Chester White
Norma Frost
Tribon
South Dakota
Charles H. Taylor
Grace
Mason City
Bryant
Miss Wallace
Lily Bowen
Mabel Burbank
Ferguson
Irrigation and Prosperity in Yakima Valley Farms
The Yakima valley irrigation boom drives profits on small holdings. H L Stewart bought near Prosser for 56 dollars an acre and, after three years, earned 8 160 on six acres. J A Shadbolt’s 40 acre fruit ranch yielded 12 400 last year and over 24 000 this year. Other growers report 500 to 1 000 per acre profits and rising land values with irrigation. Numerous orchards and crops from pears to peaches promise high returns, with sensational yields and sales to local buyers.
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Tifteen
H. L. Stewart
Prosser
Yakima Valley
St Adies
Stewart
Klondike
J. A. Shadbolt
Parker
Wenatchee
W. M. Little
Wenatchee Valley
Webster
Osburn Russell
C. H. Rhoades
W. L. Thompson
A. C. Carpenter
Jonathan
Thompson
Toppenish
Washington
Spitzenberg
Granville Lowther
North Yakima
Isle of Spice at Call Opera House Delights Audiences
B C Whitneys Isle of Spice comes to the Call Opera House Monday night December 2 a musical comedy praised for its scintillating colors and elaborate stage settings. The show features twenty catchy songs and a lively chorus of young women, with John Mylie as masterful comedian keeping the audience in fits of laughter. The cast performs numbers including The Goo Goo Man Peggy Brady The Broomstick Witches Uncle Sam's Marines You and I Little Maid of Nicobar Take me home How Can You Tell Till You Try and more in a bright entertaining program.
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Isle of Spice
B.C. Whitney
Opera House
John Mylie
Closing Out Sale of Shorthorn Cattle at Rural Farm
The undersigned will sell at public auction on his farm four miles east and twenty four miles south of Burt on Tuesday December 3 1907 at 1 oclock. Seventeen cows and heifers and six young bulls plus the herd bull Royal of Kossuth a first prize winner at the Kossuth county fair and grand sweepstakes winner bred by G T Bunge. Thirteen cows and heifers will drop calves before April first. Also eighteen Duroc Jersey shoats one Litchfield manure spreader sixty bushels used one year. Frank Keibhott will sell three bulls and two heifers. Terms twelve months on approved notes at eight percent interest. J H REIBHOFP Prop P W Dahlhauser and Joe C Smith Auctioneers. C H Blossom clerk.
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Burt
Royal of
Kossuth
G. T. Bunge
Mount Vernon
Iowa
Jalsa
Litchfield
Frank Keibhott
J. H. Reibhofp
W. Dahlhauser
Joe C. Smith
C. H. Blossom
Harvest brings ten thousand from small apple orchard
Smiley Walden of the Walden ranch near Zillah sold the Winesap crop from a three-quarter acre plot at Toppenish earning 1200 dollars. The overall bearing orchard across forty acres realized ten thousand dollars.
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Smiley Walden
Walden Ranch
Zillah
Walden
Big Spuds and Heavy Fruit Crops in Yakima Area
H J Draggoo touts potato yields with Nettie Gem spuds weighing 74 pounds and 13 pounders among four others. He farms near town on power house road and expects strong results. Naches valley ranch owner Mrs W L Wright reports apple packing near completion with 5 500 boxes already picked and packed, looking to reach about 1 000 more.
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H. J. Draggoo
Herald
Mr. Draggoo
Power House Road
Naches Valley
W. L. Wright
Yakima
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First Ward
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Lewis Nelson
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