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Newspaper
Atlantic Weekly Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1898
Page
7
Seeding and farm activity dominate Grove City notes with many purchases and visits. Lou Fancolly and P Roe report recent farm buys. Shults seeds oats. Roe sells potatoes at 50 cents a bushel. Jim Woodale buys cows. Ed Gingery builds a fence. many locals visited Atlantic, Anita, or Dexter. Local school and town events accompany the lively rural update, including the election of town officers and a horsedrawn buggy trip of young folks.
Grant Numm sold hogs Friday while Fred Holcomb bought a dish. Will Macklin bought two cultivators. Cold spell keeps farmers out of fields as they work small grain. Farmers break worn stalks Tuesday morning. Ron Bailey of Anita seen nearby last week. Hargan and Renshaw traded horses last week. Will Bailey hired to drive for breaking it Mr Woodson moves to Benton township. Palm Bailey heads to Canada to claim a farm and future home. Farmers warn would be thieves as corn cribs and chicken houses prepare to be secured.
Lyman Dolch builds a new barn near y. Emma Suemisch works at Charles Frank's home. a girl noted with a smiling face. Pots Epplesheimer's children visit Fred Schueler over Sunday. Some Kuester milk route farmers quit due to test dissatisfaction. Mrs. Henry Pilger returns from Avoca with daughter Roos. Six youths confirmed at Lutheran church under Rev. O Krafft. Frank Buckley ships nine carloads of fat cattle to Chicago since September. Invitations go out for Adam Abkan Jr.'s 73rd birthday next Friday April 8. Presiding Elder Ramsey of Atlantic preaches at Pleasant Ridge M E church. Adam Kuester suffers finger injuries from a feeder chain. writer notes Fred Wollenhaupt.
Several residents are listed visiting relatives and friends in nearby towns including Kellogg Shelby Guthrie Center and Carroll. Notables include Miss Stella Murphy, Miss Grace Calkins, Miss Roberta Green, Mrs. Tidrick and children, and Mrs. J Bruce. A wedding notice for Melzena Morgan and Oliver Conway is announced for April 7 at the Worthing home. The Eastern Stars gave a farewell to Dr and Mrs Plunkett and a church musical featured a fine program by choir and juvenile minstrel.
Seeding runs slow with little grain reaching market. Phil Southwick picked up calves last week. W C Frazier reports hens earning five auger dollars daily. Mr Lunn died Tuesday and was buried at Valley cemetery. Assessors note more people than dogs in Pu mos a township. Candidates for congress draw chatter, not yellow dogs. Miss Oprah Kranck visits Hastings and attends Pallet dance with Porl Hastings.
Local notes from Brush College cover a range of small events. J W Lamb sowed oats Saturday while school starts in the grove next Monday. Easter lectures and frequent social visits mark a lively community week with garden growth and teaching duties.
The Galion post office has been discontinued. Various town items note residents traveling to Missouri and Maine, visits from Rev. Smith and Elder Ramsey, and local business changes including Ezra Marsh and John Baldwin's roller mills sale in Lewis. Minor anecdotes mention rheumatism and a new lazy man's grindstone with a seat and pedals.
Community items list illness updates for Dan Shultz and Edna Thompson, travel by J H Green and Ira Catlin, and Fitch studying law in Shenandoah. Births, marriages, transfers, property leases, business ventures, and a prank on April First are noted with multiple local names and places in Cass County and nearby towns.
Five Mile Grove notes five residents ill and visitors stopping by. Beosher is quite sick. Joe Haatlay’s family traveled to Wiota Sunday. Andy Boros hauled hay from the grove last week. Larimore’s brother is helping. Tahty's new hay barn looms in grand shape. Ballard has a new fence around the door yard. Walter Stoneking visited LoG. Atlantic college man Harry Howell and Frank Harris were guests Saturday. Misses Taylor Cavenaugh from Atlantic visited Mas Lamb last week. Misses Wilson and Madge, Atlantic high teachers, visited Della Lamb Thursday. Ed Gingery added a garden fence. Grace McFadden of Maine and Maude Howell of Brayton visited J W Lamb Saturday and Sunday.
John Fritz and family visited in Five mile grove Ed Welch shaked corn for Roland Crouch last week. The Brighton township school board is led by president J K Herbert. Bert Williams works for Al Alexander while John Stevenson and family visited Jn Stevenson Sunday. Several locals seen in the area last week including J R Hervelo and B Wilkinson. Walter Pellett family visited J R Welch. No. 7 school started last Monday with Miss Berry Munn. No. 6 begins April 7 with Miss Nellie Taylor. Al Williamson’s wind mill toppled in high winds. Saunders Neumeyer bought calves from Roland Crouch. Burris and Goeken dispute timber in Eight mile grove. Gus Hansen remains local, working for Nic Barnholdt. Will Freeburn resumes farming his previous land. O Blakesly bought calves from Saunders and Neimeyer. Peter Landmesser visited for Atlantic Creamery interests. Tommy Jones plans winter ant experiments. Forty-five neighbors celebrated Mr Harry Stevens’s twenty-ninth birthday with a jolly evening and Poverty Ridge Orchestra. Guests presented a rocking chair. refreshments included ice cream and cake.
Miss Gertrude Lamkin studies penmanship with commercial and shorthand tuition offered next term. New students include Miss O Roark F L Stillings Bert Pruitt Lewie Barnard and Alonzo Armentrout who leaves for Iowa. Several students begin teaching this week and exams run Thursday to Friday. The second spring term starts April 1 with new didactics physics civics economics and methods courses. Prof. W T Rink addresses students and Miss Hopper earns summer teaching offers but will stay to help Cass county teachers. Free circulars for the Summer School of Reviews and Methods will be available. The April grand jury convened with foreman A W Wy man and members H Myers H Blake J N Martin L W Wheatley N R Kenyon G Holdorf.
This column from the Political Equality club notes a Thursday three o'clock meeting at Mrs. Geo. M. Lyon to discuss Banking and a medla program. The Equal Suffrage Conference in Atlantic is postponed one week, with May 3 and 4 named. several national speakers are expected to attend. Also reports denial from Consul Lee regarding a leave of effects with the British consul general, and naval campaign plans against Havana being prepared for fleet officers. United States Consul Stewart abroad arranges coal purchases for government stock in the West Indies.
Easter Sunday program with morning and evening services features organ voluntries, anthems by Miss Mae Harris John Tibbets and others, and solo chorus pieces. The program includes Christ the Lord is Risen Today Now Christ is Risen and Glory be to God with diverse choir and solo performances.
The county issued marriage licenses over the past week with one per day. Names readable include John R. Jones and Minnie Milthaup, John Drummond, G Marker Vee, Milton R. Talbot, Augusta Adella Jacobs, John Purdy, Samantha J. Liston, Charles D. Barbar, E. White, Pearl H. Heath, Jennie Triplett, Orvill T. Bales, Bartha E. Abbott. Ages 23 24 38 43.
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