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Newspaper
Atlantic Weekly Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1898
Page
2
Reports from Jol Perkins in Shelby and Mat Duval in Anita. numerous visits, business trips, and social calls across Atlantic and surrounding towns. Exposition attendance, lectures, and travel by flyer noted, with repairs at the county jail and local judicial decisions.
Readers catch brief items: Johnson travels to Omaha on a flyer, Hoyt and Gon of Anita visit, Rothchild Grain Co. at Sorah, various residents return from trips to Chicago and Chautauqua, sidewalks planned on Second and Third streets, Mrs. Dodsod visits from Omaha, W. W. Ramsey to lecture in Wiota, Misses Findley Tilton and Mrs Burton go to Marne, Chas Bogan and Mrs Clark depart Omaha, plus notes on DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve sales and One Minute Cough Cure endorsements.
Visitors including E Huchendorf A L Bostedo and daughters Mattie Katie Elizabeth of Chicago left for the east with Elizabeth stopping at Town City. Mr McPike of Alton Illinois departed for Omaha after visiting Silas Wilson. He praised southwestern Iowa as a farmer’s paradise. Also advertised English Spavin Liniment claims to cure horse blemishes and splints with savings advertised by F Parsons & Co Atlantic Iowa.
The log notes a September roll and a grand picnic of M W A lodges with noted speakers and amusements planned at this place. Gertrude Woodward hosted about twenty young people on East Fifth Street to meet Miss Jessie Gaston of Winterset, with ice cream lemonade and cake served.
Miss Martha Reed and daughter Jenny return home from Walnut after six weeks with W. W. Eller and others. John Long of Agoca, a member of the 7th Regulars, died at Santiago, Cuba, with funeral at Avcon Sunday August 14. The piece details local street work, visitors, a note on fairgoers, and a lecture by Hon. Lafe Young on Cuba.
An old advertisement notes that kidney disease claims more adult lives than any other illness and urges prompt use of Foley's Kidney Cure with guarantee or refund. A personal note from Mr and Mrs B F Parror Estherville Iowa thanks Atlantic friends for care shown to their father Henry C Herbert after his illness and funeral.
Three boys involved in mischief were arrested before Justice Wallace and released on bail until August 20 for trial. They damaged Geo. Jillich Jr.’s pumping engine near the tracks, planning to sell the stolen brass at junk shops. Repair costs exceed fifteen dollars. Offenders’ names withheld at parents’ request. Death of Mrs. Will Sawyer Formerly of Stuart. The deceased, formerly Miss Millis Fellows, died in Kansas City of typhoid fever at thirty four. Funeral held at Catholic church. survived by husband and two children. Sawyer was a former C. R. I. & P. mechanic now in Atlantic. Buckley’s Arnica Sale: The best salve in the world for many skin ailments. guaranteed or money refunded. Price 26¢ per box. For sale by Vic Emmert & Co.
A Kansas regiment at Chickamauga encampment forbade sale of intoxicating liquor at its canteen. The N W C T U praises the action and a Eureka Kansas church commends their moral principle and Christian courage, noting Kansas temperance and sobriety benefits.
A Kansas regiment, 21st Kansas, encamped at Chickamauga, is applauded by the W C T U chapter in Atlantic Iowa for not selling intoxicating liquor at their canteen. The group sent a citation to commend their moral conduct and to urge other regiments to follow this example.
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