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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1908
Page
7
Totem Basketball club aims to schedule a game with Elkhorn soon and may arrange special train transport for about fifty spectators. May rival mayoral race features R J Kewin leading a full ticket as incumbent fights set. New spring hats advertised at Mrs Goodell’s store.
Griswold's political scene heats as M. J. Clovis, father of Clerk of the Courts Clovis, announces a candidacy. The development signals upcoming competition in local government.
The spring term of school begins Monday March 28 with Miss Mamie Ash as teacher. Mrs Swiger left for Omaha to visit daughter Mrs Signal. Clark Swiger shipped two carloads of cattle to Omaha. August Seaman, former Grove resident, is critically ill in Atlantic with no hope of recovery. Wallace Tobias installed a new piano and is repairing it.
Typewriter Supplies offers ribbons in various quality levels and touts Carnation Brand as the best made. The ad asserts the best typewriter supplies are the cheapest and promotes Carnation ribbon as the top choice.
J L Wyman of Griswold and Dora L Rudig of Griswold obtained marriage licenses. F M Goodell has been in Kearney Nebraska for some time and will remain there for several weeks.
Emery Burgner announces new spring goods arriving with the latest patterns. The items are made up in stylish artful fashion and offered at very reasonable prices.
A short advertisement notes a free demonstration by HIGHLEY & CO for Allen's Boston Brown Bread Flour and Pancake EF. The snippet emphasizes a promotional event likely hosted to showcase product uses and recipes to shoppers. The exact date and venue are not specified in the readable text.
Alfalfa hay priced at 45 cents per bale. Household goods in good condition for sale. Inquiries at 1203 Birch Street. Price listed as 301 dollars. Local ad notes contact method with property details.
A brief ad notes ROY HEDGES promotes the Oriental parlors with a specialty in dyeing ahoes.
At a council meeting in the pastor's study of First Presbyterian Church Council Bluffs the members selected Shelby as the site for the spring semiannual meeting of the Council Bluffs Presbytery set for April 14. Atlantic had extended an invitation but Shelby was deemed more accessible. The Woman's Home Foreign Missionary Society will meet there at the same time. The presbytery holds two yearly meetings, one in fall and one in spring. Members and officers including Rev. John McAllister Rev. Harvey Hostetler Rev. M. P. McClure and Rev. J. C. Orth attended in session for routine business.
Sheriff Chas. BE. Young of Beadle County South Dakota arrived in the city to take custody of Carl Anderson accused of selling mortgaged property. He plans to depart tonight with his man for South Dakota after a long pursuit that once sent him to Sandusky, Ohio for another offender.
Sherm Myers editor of the Anita Tribune and postmaster of Anita is ill at his home with a severe cold. The illness threatened pneumonia but he is reported somewhat better and pneumonia is not believed to develop.
The Evening News lists a complete assortment of legal blanks and will supply your needs at reasonable prices.
A brief classified style notice invites orders for monogram stationery and provides THE NEWS phone number 13 on either line for contact.
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