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Newspaper
Atlantic Weekly Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1893
Page
10
City crews keep crossings clean as Chicago recount confirms Hop- Kins election by twelve hundred votes. Many locals noted visiting, shopping, and business in the city, with residents returning home for Christmas and holidays.
A stream of small town items recounts Christmas trees sent to the country, local residents returning from Des Moines and Iowa City, farm folk and merchants, a newborn death, court notices, club meetings, theater recitals, and county finances. Names include J M Triplett, W Bryant, Wm Zouch, Charley Galliher, Frank Harris, Rose Senderson, Carl Wiedner, Levi Mountain, Adien Benedict, Roy Evans, G A Gould, R H Bailey, Geo Voorhess, Oscar Peterson, Miss May Ruff, Henry Kregier, Justice Wallace, Mr Larg, J Kirk, Mrs Chas Levering, Beethoven Symphony Club, A Weaver, Cass county finances.
The Cass county Agricultural Society will hold its annual meeting at Firaman's Hall in Atlantic on Saturday January 6 1894 at 2 p m for the election of officers. A letter from Mr Gardner on the brood mare is reviewed. he is a practical farmer and horse fancier. Also notes Moorshell Bros store setup with Santa Claus in window. A whiskey shipment misread as groceries reaches Audubon, hinting at Christmas time misadventure.
Dr. W C Egan has reopened an office in the Opera House Block and will be available during business hours. Residence listed as 1301 South Chestnut. Woop for sale by the cord or car load, hard and dry. J O Wilkin handles charity drive notes, $110 raised with seven pledges of $10 each and balance of 30 from twenty others. Cass county residents praise Clerk Elmer Pellet t and Deputy McConville for honest, efficient work. The Telegraph endorses Pellet t as fit for the office and commends his staff.
J A McWaid calls donors to his office near Fisher's hardware tonight at seven to plan expending the fund. Today flour and potatoes were distributed to Atlantic families, with J C Yetzer delivering sixty sacks of flour and Mrs E A Shaw supplying twenty bushels of potatoes to sixty homes. Uncle Hilley Morgan and son William visited Atlantic recently as grippe weakens the aged patriarch who has long avoided illness.
An advertisement style line traces Castoria from infancy to motherhood. The nursery ad claims the product soothed a sick baby, comforted a crying child, and continued as a trusted choice for daughters and grandchildren.
R D McGeehon returns from Glenwood horticultural meeting praising the apple display with over sixty varieties. He recounts a banquet and his toast, recalling a Glenwood banquet from forty one years earlier. He notes the pioneer meal of corn pon e, coffee and venison and that hunger influences taste. His speech is well received.
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