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Newspaper
Atlantic Weekly Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1895
Page
6
The ad proclaims low prices as relief from cheap farm goods with overcoats and suits offered at about seventy five cents on the dollar. It urges readers to take time, read prices, and cut out the ad to bring to the store, promising substantial savings on suits or overcoats.
Lot 9059 a Melton overcoat 3.75 to 00 class value. Lot 7014 grey dress overcoat velvet collar 5.00. Lot 7006 Freize Ulster 5.00. Lot 7001 Irish Frieze Ulster 7.50. Lot 9144 Allwool black Kersey Dress Coat 8.00. Lot 6627 Irish Freize Ulster 9.00. Lot 6703 Black Irish Frieze Ulster 10.00. Lot 6643 blue Kersey 10.00. A few Wombat fur coats to close at 15.00. Pumpkin seeds counted next Monday at 2 pm. free guesses and a gold watch prize offered.
A mosaic of town news recounts Steinke's lining gloves and duck coats, local hog diseases at Winston, corn husking around Bear Grove, and community reports. Several residents attend church in Fairview, while school resumes with teacher Miss Shade. Thanksgiving visits, anniversaries, and local sales highlight a lively county scene.
Five Mile Grove reports include Steinke displaying the largest Ulster line at Atlantic while Mrs. Snooks remains very sick. Trent of Massena visits his mother. A J Fitzsimmons and family return to Harlan after Thanksgiving. Clarence Fritz offers skating lessons on pigeon wing cutting after returning to Winterset.
Miss Henderson of Atlantic teaches at Childs school just south of Atlantic. Steinke's advertises an overcoat for 1.50, promising savings to locals.
Snow melted as corn husking resumes with strong turnout at Hill church where Elder Franklin delivered a fine sermon and solo. Turkeys remain scarce since Thanksgiving as J A Lighty and wife dined with Mrs Lighty’s brother Leonard Soper and family in the neighborhood.
Nearby residents gathered for an oyster supper hosted by Mr. Krittenbrink with a lively evening. Mrs. Clements remains ill. J A Lighty and Van Judd return from Colorado where they buy farms and plan irrigation driven alfalfa projects. Miss Clara Wakefield teaches at Grove schoolhouse, Miss Fisher at Toad Leap. Harper Kirt attended the quarterly meeting as others from Wiota and Finch district arrive. Colorado fever spreads, Grace Gingery returns home from Five Mile Grove. O'Floyd appears lonely.
In Wiota, Charley and Jim Crowley caused trouble after drinking alcohol. Marshal John Henry and constable Link Waton helped officers, the pair were jailed in the calaboose until Thursday, then transported to Atlantic for grand jury action. Eaton suffered facial injuries, one man’s thumb was badly damaged but later improved.
Local items report corn shucking nearly finished and a lively attendance at Sorah school and Rev. Deitrich sermons. The opera house dance failed financially, neighbors discuss swine fever diet, Milwaukee railroad layoffs due to no market coin, and mail delivery woes amid community figures Ike Andrews Buck Creek Wm Lamb and Rev Wickersham and Rev Partes.
A mix of small town items mentions a Buck Creek camp incident with a knife wound to Joe Joyce, a secret Australian system joked about, and a smiling remark. Other notes include Mrs. Gentile improving after illness, Sarah school inviting parents to visit, Frank Stoner planning an opera house conversion to a skating rink, a Thanksgiving turkey shooting event, Gen Bryan’s Lorah visit, Blanche Gentle’s 11th birthday, and Rev E B Reed’s Lorah church sermon next Sunday at 3 PM.
A scrambled collection of rural items notes Brighton Mart Fudge loses his hogs. John Baird starts the week for Fair Play Missouri with pony and cart, recounting Iowa history to 1842. James Welton rents Upte grove farm in Shelby County for 1896 and moves to P J Staffords farm amid debts and corn in crib. Multiple farmers report crops, hogs, and cattle movements, with prices and shipments to Des Moines and Chicago. A secret marriage ends in death by suicide in Kansas City.
A flurry of small items notes A. L. Bostedo visiting, Joe Wanzel in Chicago leaving for work, Mrs. Andy France moving to Sterling Ill, Mae Harris teaching in Griswold, and Aldrich Guthrie Center visiting. Several notices list arrivals, departures, travels, minor mishaps, and social events including a Baptist fair, a December 12 visit by Robert Hendershot, and a court hearing on Anna Meges will.
An item listing Mary Ellen's Play from Times and a column on Baby's Birthday Songs by Grey with verses for babies and drawings. Also notes on Nimble Pennies lessons and Mother Goose style stories. Promotes sample copy and Alpha Publishing Co at 212 Boylston St Boston. Also advertises Niow kidney bladder remedy sold by F Parson Co in Atlantic Iowa for quick relief and cure.
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