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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1909
Page
6
Articles filed to form the Iowa and Omaha Short Line railway with $1,000,000 capital. Planned 140 mile electric line through Iowa counties Pottawattamie Shelby Audubon Guthrie Dallas Polk and Nebraska Douglas, headquarters at Pierre South Dakota, business office in Walnut Iowa. Incorporators mainly from Treynor Adair Walnut.
Des Moines Iowa advances in wireless education at Land Park College and a Des Moines college laboratory. The schools showcase wireless telegraphy and telephony with modern equipment including a wirelessly powered dynamo experiment 26 feet from any wire. A new wireless operation course prepares men for future demand.
M D OConnell of Fort Dodge Iowa has served as solicitor of the treasury since Lyman Gage. He continued through Shaw and Cortelyou and is now assured to be needed indefinitely. He keeps in close touch with Iowa voters, canvassing the state in every campaign and maintaining interest in home affairs.
Polk county's new courthouse at Des Moines developed leaks during heavy rain exposing a $660,000 stove exhibit. Water dripped from painted skylights over stairs and elevator shafts as janitors set out buckets and cuspidors to catch the damp.
The first union soldiers monument in the north funded by popular subscription stands on Lenox college campus in Hopkinton. The Gettysburg monument, erected by the government, is the only one known to be older.
A musical man named four daughters with these names: Do-re, Mi-fa, So-la, Tido. The first used Dora as a nickname, the second Mitty, the third Solly, and the youngest Tiddy. Uncle Josh laments that many people fail to use wit and effort for a living.
Iowa leads in dairy and horse industries with 1 500 000 dairy cows and 1 400 000 horses. The state grows 4 700 000 acres of oats and supports many creameries and cold storage plants. Iowa hosts three state colleges and a large foreign-born population with low illiteracy.
Thiamana Luke Roberts, at eighty seven, is the oldest living member of the Independent Order of Good Templars. He joined Hemlock New York in August 1852, when the order was only a year old, and has worn a badge with four pendant bars for 25 30 40 and 50 years of Templar service. He could earn a sixth bar after sixty years. Roberts has served as Clinton’s weather observer for over thirty years.
George Knudson bought the M. W. Tatham eighty acre farm a mile east of Jewell for 12000 dollars or 150 dollars per acre. The sale marks the highest price ever paid for farm land in Hamilton county. The value would have been considered high at half the price a few years ago.
The text questions readers about charity and judgment toward a widower wearing an affable smile with an extravagant orchid, pondering whether death of a spouse or impending remarriage fuels suspicion. It notes climate affects food choices, claiming Moroccans live on fruit and Finns eat pork, while four great conquerors hailed from the south and preferred wine.
Stratford Iowa operates the only real high school bank in the region with 64 days of operation. It serves 66 depositors and shows 250.59 on deposit. Miss Clarice Swedlund elected cashier as the program plans to loan deposits back to the school in September under the school board.
Trustees of the Ames public library have enlarged the building five years after its opening. The project adds a restroom and extra rooms, with total cost about 15000 dollars. An assembly annex serves as a public hall for meetings and events.
Clinton police records show last year’s liquor curfew with saloons closing at 10 pm and no Sunday sales, resulting in extremely few intoxication arrests on Sundays. Opponents claimed tighter observance would raise drunkenness, but the data from Clinton disputes that view.
Atchison Globe notes that a fully dressed man uses ten articles including socks and necktie, while a woman requires nineteen items just for hair and at least 57 overall. It claims women spend about one third of their day dressing and undressing, versus roughly 20 minutes for men.
Seaside signal reports Miss Charlotta Church, an Oregon schoolmaam, teaching in a new Necanicum schoolhouse. She notes isolation in a cabin with no nearby neighbors aside from wild animals, highlighting frontier schooling conditions.
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