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Newspaper
Atlantic Weekly Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1899
Page
6
Harvest near completion in the Five Mile Grove area. Many neighbors and visitors are mentioned including Tewpher, Gingery, McFadden, Lamb, Fitzsimmon, Ballard, Berker, Butler, and others. Local events include cemetery cleanup plans, threshing machine activity, a new store in Highland, school moves, quilting invitations, and farm improvements amid heavy rains boosting the crop outlook.
Mrs. Gaylord remains very ill. Many residents and visitors listed attend teas and socials. including Miss Zada Briggs in Stuart, Mrs. Chines, Mrs. Percy of Dexter, Miss Culver of Audubon, Mrs. F. C. Worthing, Miss Mabel Carr of Algona, and visitors from Atlantic. The Christinu Ladies Aid held an ice cream social. Edna Bruce hosted a tea. Various gatherings honor Mrs. Van Dyke of Des Moines, Mrs. Aldrich of Centerville, and others. picnics, lectures, and surprise parties mark the week.
Ed Limpus spent Sunday in town while L Bigelow sold cattle last Saturday. Charles Willard called on business Monday and Iva Soper traveled to Omaha for work. A Surveyor returned from Dakota trip. Jon Blake and wife welcomed a baby girl. A Pollock of Greenfield visited Grove friends Saturday. John White of Milford purchased cattle in Grove last week.
T L Kelly passed through here Saturday. Much small grain remains to cut. The Rothchilds plan to shell out their corn. Frank Gown has about sixty acres of wheat to cut. The harvesting machine will operate if weather stays favorable. Our mayor bought a new cob pipe. Ralph Gentle is sick. Excess harvesting and river bathing blamed for illness. Charley Laartz enlarging his home. Della Jensen knocked down by lightning while her band hung on the clothes line. Stoner and family plus Green and Jensen families visited Crystal Lake Saturday. Lightning struck the church Monday storm, damaging chimney plaster and north gable end, melted some pipe. Depot near completion aside from some furniture. R I Patterson of Menlo is foreman. first despatch from Atlantic noted Joel Perkins froze both feet last Sunday.
Montague & Co reports Atlantic market data for August including prices for new potatoes butter creamery coffee roasted spring chicken hens apples and related goods with figures shown for per peck per pound and per bushel along with Sagacity and retail provisions notes.
Local and personal items recount numerous residents and visitors traveling to Omaha Des Moines Council Bluffs and Des Moines again for conventions visits and business. Many names appear including Marsh Higgins Marvin Hover Link Wakefield Murnano Aldrich Scott Hatton Wissler McFarland Wilson and Grubb with plans ranging from conventions to family visits and holiday travel between Iowa Nebraska and Wisconsin. The piece notes a reshingling project at Shaw and Crombie lumber sheds and a band concert rescheduled to Friday evening.
The notice records a red heifer taken up in Grant township Cass county Iowa on June 19 1809 by Gro Tanty JR. It also reports July 1899 county recorder deeds mortgages chattel mortgages releases and fees with increases over July 1898. The piece notes Ringling Brothers circus coming to town with extensive equipment and logistics via Audubon and the Northwestern.
A Salt Lake divorce claim about former Salt Lake City schools principal George S Wedgwood is denied by Wedgwood in a letter from Omaha dated July 31 1899. He and his wife have coexisted for thirty years and expect to stay together, citing lengthy absences and minor quarrels but no separation. He also recounts a bicycle trip from Atlantic to Marion noting roads and scenery.
A clipped observation shows a clerk lamenting waning days as he brushes gray hair, while a confident voice from Geo. W. Toop urges courage. The notice ends with a rental ad for 603 Olive Street, with possession set for September 1 by Alfred Gheen.
A fragment notes John Beaumont's death in Clinton Iowa after a period of sleep following illness. It reports Bradstreet's July business snapshot with weather as key factor, noting 170 failures that week, versus prior weeks and years, in New York.
Robert Finney Cleeland was born in Clark County Ohio on July 12 1882. He moved across several counties including Louisa Pottawanle Cass and Adair before settling near Bridgewater. He married Chlon Ann Buffington in 1868 and had six children, three surviving him. He joined the Evangelion church in 1867 and remained faithful. Funeral services were held at the home near Bridgewater on Monday July 17 conducted by pastor L H Woop.
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