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Newspaper
Atlantic Weekly Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1899
Page
6
County and vicinity items report A H Kammerling and J B Swineburn visiting Atlantic on Monday on business. Numerous residents visit, shop, or travel to nearby towns. new awnings adorn Remien and McClees stores. a bridge project and town well work are in progress. many residents relocate or attend weddings and visits.
A survey of Lewis activities includes piano sales, home improvements, and new construction. Mentioned are Prof W T Rink preaching, Dan's Best bakery, a ten pound boy born to W J Burkhalter, church anniversary in Atlantic, and the Class of 1899 graduation with speeches on Cuba, navy, Hawaiian interests and suffrage. Community updates cover farming, road conditions, and local business moves.
The Lorah column mentions seed corn in focus and Mrs. Emmet Jensen reported sick. It notes shucking corn by Thomas Green, Elsia Russell as school mother at Snipe College, a forthcoming big wedding, and favorable weather predicting much corn ground plowed. Two surveyors traced the Wim Newton Frank Templeman line with fence disputes. Gardner reads Emerson on the Philippine question. Emerson serves at the front and is seen as capable for republican stump work.
Ed Long bought hogs from neighbors last week. John Biesser and sister attended church in Lewis. A new disk with roller bearings is praised. Residents attended exams in Lewis Friday night. Bear Grove was well represented at the Fairview quarterly meeting. Measles and whooping cough acknowledged as outdated. News from Atla n tic about grandson Fred Wilson. Trading horses paw and a spin of sorrels noted. Switzer reports spring readiness after Chicago trip. Osens’ mules ran away with Switzer’s wagon. Local repairs and wagon fences mentioned. McFadden visited Lew s to test the mill improvements. Jan Zentmyer hour-hour hour Hour Hour Hour.
Community items recount Miss Eddie Case missing a tardy due to a late south branch train. Farmers sow wheat. clover fields suffer winter kill. May Gerlach dies after illness, leaving two children and husband. Eugene Eshelman weds Nettie Saemisch. McCormick agents visit township. Henry Pelzer builds a new house. several Henries rent Rudig farm. Snow storm forecast questioned. old-time rural life documented in weekly notes.
This week for specials at Downs H Hs Everitt s house is nearing completion. For bees and bee supplies inquire of F C Pellett. John Gingery attended church Sunday. The Turkey Gobler blacksmith was in the Grove last Wednesday. Messrs Leslie and Lewis Gingery sawed wood in Turkey Grove Saturday. Mrs Wm WeGill of the city visited with sister Mrs W S Davis Monday. Willard Keller looked after his interests in the Grove one day last Fred Warren purchased a new riding plow. Fred says the walking is all taken up. Mr Wm Carver and family of Atlantic visited relatives in the Grove Sunday. A number of the young people of Buck Creek attended League in the Grove Sunday evening. Epworth League meeting next Sunday evening at seven thirty. Miss Mills will lead.
A well known young man overstates his past excesses and credits Hood's Sarsaparilla with curing rheumatism and restoring business focus. The note includes multiple readers praising Hood's Sarsaparilla for scrofulous ulcers, rosy cheeks, dyspepsia, poor blood, hives, and post measles dizziness.
Mr Moreland shipped his cattle last week. Mr and Mrs Ira Soper visited Atlantic. Mr and Mrs H Knop spent last Sunday in Morton. Thad Acker bought a new harness for his team. Spring work has begun early in the neighborhood. Harvey Scott of Ewls was a caller here last Sunday. Miss Amanda Bigelow visited friends in town last Monday evening. Mr and Mrs Berry attended a wedding near Cumberland last Sunday. I R Magarrell of Omaha was a caller here last Saturday. Mrs G Magarrell left for Winterset last Thursday due to her father’s illness. It is money spending time now with many planning economy in purchases. That's where Downs store helps shoppers test us.
Across Atlantic region residents report illnesses and visits as several towns share social events. Little Mildred Fish suffers pneumonia while Misses Juanita Thompson and Mildred Fish contract measles. Local visits include G S Worthing, Rev Wotan, and Maud Glass with daily social gatherings noted.
Rev. McCauley died Saturday morning at seven o'clock from consumption. Funeral services were held Sunday at Evangelical church at three o'clock, and the remains were taken to Harlan for burial.
Miss Hamill visits Anita. T O Meredith from Maine on business. Miss Sarah Campbell of Omaha visits sister Mrs. Ben Ash. Addie Antrim arrives from Omaha for sister visit. Mayor Tilden's baby not improving. Attorney F J Macomber of Lewis in city. Michel sells coal and trades Avorn Flour for wheat. Mrs E A Bougher returns from Portland. Myrtle and Daisy Frink of Audubon visit Atlantic. Ice cream social at German hall hosted by German Evangelical church. William McKvain of Des Moines band with excursion. Wheat for Avoca Flour exchange or grinding at three cents per bushel at Mickel's Elevator. W O Kerrick of Fort Collins visits brother Fred. Jacob Taylor of Maine visits Atlantic. Eli reaffirms TELE GRAPH as best paper. Laura B Morgan marries Charles A Walker at Cumberland. June Childs ships two cars of cattle to Chicago. misses connecting train, takes later flyer toward Stuart or Valley Junction.
A vintage advertising note promises a one day cure for colds using Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. The genuine L B Q label appears on each tablet and the price is 23 cents.
A compiled list of conveyances and deeds from April involving multiple Iowa towns. Names include Merriman Doty Jones Wilcox Pipher Ostrus Lane Evans Taylor Gould Gardner Stoner Kuehl Brockway and others. Properties cover Griswold Massena Cumberland Atlantic and Griswold additions with prices from $1 to $12,500.
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