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Newspaper
Atlantic Weekly Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1895
Page
6
A lively local update from Lorah and surrounding townships Kanners Grove Cumberland and Clark. Mentions threshing machines gatherings and social events plus church activities and small community news including visits to Omaha and a Gypsy Encampment social slated for next week.
Ethel and Saphrona Gaylord visited Gear Grove a day or five ago. Many Grove residents attended a social at Mr Wallace’s last Friday. Mrs Patrick Watson left for Missouri as her mother’s illness worsened. Various locals are ill or busy with farm work. oats and hay harvests progress, and town folks travel to nearby towns and the county fair looms.
Aunt Sadie Jameson improves health and may be out soon. Mrs Hulette of Council Bluffs lectured at the M.E. church last Monday evening. Theo Fitch of Sac City visits his uncle F G Fitch and family. The hotel shows a new coat of paint and improved appearance. Mrs Gee Campbell of Cumberland visits over Sunday with Mrs J M Bourne. Rev McCulloch of Kangas preaches at Advent church. Jessie and Maude Hollie visit Extra with sister Mrs Marietta. Wiota suffers a small fire last Saturday. E M Bourne hires a boy to start a fire in the smoke house. fire destroys the structure. Mrs Eaton and children visit Casey and Stuart. Kiva Liston stays with Mrs Staller. Frank Whitney of Atlantic seen on the streets recently.
Anita W. Rk Myers attends to legal business in Guthrie Center. Mrs S S Watson visits daughter Mrs F H Townsend. Will Friedman reappointed as clerk at 8 Engleman’s. G W Dally travels to Los Angeles for Pacific coast tour. Musicale at C L Townsends under Eastern Stars draws large crowd. Oats yield 60 to 90 bushels per acre locally. Tabernacle meetings in Richardson grove discontinued with broad interest. Rev Enoch Hill of Adel preaches at M I Church. Dr Major moves drug stock to new building. Mrs J C Jenkins hosts party for Dr Arthur Jordan. Mrs Gee, Dilts, and children visiting Audubon this week. Mrs Jos Howard returns to Temple NH after visit with Dr R E Major family. Mixed team travels to Adair to play ball. Contractor Dilts pushing Masonic Temple work. lower rooms due by Sept 1. Miss Madge Smith visits from Des Moines with Miss Ash.
Buck Creek notes Mr and Mrs G W Ringle of Anita visiting the Creek Mrs Olney reported on the sick list Silvers lost a valuable horse Ld Odem and family visited A J Odom last Sunday Maud Triplett visited in the city late last week Sorah young people attended meeting here Sunday Doctors Cannon Emmett and Mullin seen in this vicinity last Monday J W Butler and wife and Mrs Ringle visited friends near Marne last Saturday
Miss Ruth Joyce entertained friends last Thursday for Miss Stanton and Mr Osborne of Eartham. A rain fell Sunday evening. Hans Tausen is having a well dug and says he cannot get along without water. Johnny Joyce returned to the Creek after months with Alva Williamson. Church services were canceled last Sunday afternoon due to rain.
Maud Dennis returns to town while Essex visitors crowd the scene. Farmers report oats averaging over sixty five bushels per acre and corn yields from seventy to ninety bushels. Threshing, picnics, tent meetings, and church movement fill community life as Baptists and Disciples vie for worship space.
Misses Mary and Martha Peterson drove to Elkhorn last Saturday. Miss Lydia Johnson returned from Sioux City where she visited two months and attended the monument dedication for the Indian massacre of '67. Jess Rogers and Will Hunt went to Dakota last Tuesday but returned at Missouri Valley. N Moon and Johnny Grove rode to Lewis last Sunday. a thunderstorm forced them to walk home from Maine after their wheels failed.
TheSunday rain lifts spirits as local residents share updates on families, visits, and farming near Springfield and Heber. Lutie Scott dies of consumption at Milford aged young, with funeral in the M. E. church and pallbearers named. Evening entertainments at Levi Downs home are announced, and Beaman Hardware stock sale to A J Hackett of Chicago completes for 19 500 with H M Boorman engineering the deal.
Mrs. T. DeWitt Talmage died at 5 00 am in Danavilla N Y Funeral services are planned for 2 00 pm Thursday Aug 8 in Brooklyn Also: Wyoming Gold Strike reports 18 inch vein yielding $500 per ton in Seminoe shaft and Myrs Murray aged 108 claims to have lived 116 years in Provineince Ontario or Ontario region
Tuesday listings show special sales at Downs for Vuragols and ribbons, Amos Moreland's daughter back from wear, Dr B D Wilkin ill, Mayor Jones and family en route to Omaha, and many residents visiting or traveling. Also reports of ball game result, local visitors from Menlo and Grundy areas, and notices of convalescence and community events.
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