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Newspaper
Atlantic Weekly Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1897
Page
7
The Black and Heyman Clothing Stock will be disposed of by suction. You can buy goods at your own price and a fine assortment to select from. Next Saturday January 1 1898 will be the greatest day for the auction. Avail yourself and attend this sale.
G E Linke visited Avora Saturday while John Drummond was seen in Grove Sunday. Stover of Nebraska spent Christmas with Grove friends. Mable Taylor and Miss McNes noted in Grove area visits. J B Thomason expected for Galion postmaster role but awaiting commission. Christmas entertainments at Gold Hill church and M E Sunday school candy treat are mentioned. Socials raise funds for Orphans Home at Council Bluffs with events hosted by Andy Graham and Ezra Marsh.
Cumberland correspondent reports on visits by A C Peckham and family to Prescott and Wm Grace of Beatrice Neb visiting relatives. The Wallace Theatre company performed to good audiences. Several residents travel, celebrate Christmas, and host gatherings. Miss Solas spends vacation with parents in Fontanelle. A surprise gathering honored GC E Thompson with oysters and merriment.
A five year old boy with scrofula on face hands and arms improved after taking Hood's Sarsaparilla. The parents recount red pimples that festered and itch, then faded after four bottles of the medicine. A family note from 418 South Williams Street hints at the remedy used.
S Allen and family move to Atlantic while E G Owen, home from Indianola, plans holidays with friends. Misa Morrow from California visits uncle Ben Morrow. Jane Cecil expected home for New Year. Mr. and Mrs. Sutter of Storm Lake visit J B Wellman. James Duncan and wife visit daughter Mrs J M Triplett. Lizzie and Serada Johnson visit J B Butler. Atlantic normal college students return home for holidays. Ruth and Clarence Joyce return from Earlham to holiday at home. cousin Elmer Lewis joins them. Mrs Rich visits Audubon. Benton Green ill. Grandma Howard returns to Hlinois. Area students take a one-week vacation. May Jansen seriously ill but improving. Mr and Mrs Chapin return to Prophetstown Illinois. Mrs James Wilson visits daughter in Carson. Marshall conducting general shake up this week. Carcass of a turkey framed by Edna township harvest. 25-car stock special travels this morning, Hallock’s of Brayton. Rev Buzzard telegram about brother’s death in eastern state. Christian Endeavor organized. first meeting next Sunday evening. New Year church coclable planned with oysters and chicken pie. all invited.
A rounded list of residents visiting, guests and illness reports. Dee Kieh and Dick Van Slack are noted as improving and sick respectively, with several families hosting relatives from Atlantic Creston Grinnell and Council Bluffs. Multiple social visits and holiday travel are mentioned, including Mrs. J Henderson, Mr. and Mrs. Hutton, and Misses Irving and Henderson spending Christmas and vacation time with kin.
Five Mile Grove residents report purchases of a bob sled and a driving horse, family visits and Christmas gatherings with neighbors, trips to Omaha, and a grand wedding feast for Letitia Emigh Thompson in Atlantic. The note highlights community warmth and upcoming housekeeping plans for the newlyweds.
Griswold notes Christmastide with visits from Emerson and Spencer residents and a New Year band social. Edward Ames Skinner displays crayon works at West Bros while John E Thompson partners with Dodson Stienmetz in Des Moines and pursues Alaska venture. A December medal contest at the opera house awards gold to top performer Ella Nelson and honors to William Smith and Dora Neeley.
Friday and Monday social and church items include visits by E P Passmore Henry Hanson J Roush Jr Prof Landrom and others. Baptism at Church of Christ. Travel to Atlantic Bear Grove Griswold listed with concerts revivals by Kneedy and Lundrum. Tabor gice club performed and planned further events with Lewis attendees and church revival successes noted.
In Benton Center on Saturday evening December 16 friends and neighbors gathered at John Rogier’s farm house to honor his 50th year with Ellen Howlett. Oysters, a bounteous supper, games and cheerful conversation filled the night as they wished the couple a merry Christmas and a happy New Year before departing.
A November meeting of Pymosa township teachers adjourned due to many absences. The January meeting will cover Chapters 6 9 10 and 11 with a program on quotations from the text attention in education and methods in education. A call goes out for twenty or thirty tons of jelover hay and the note is signed J E Hammond.
Washington Cor. Philadelphia Times surveys a parade of patents designed to force wakefulness and prevent absent mindedness. From alarm bracelets to bed frames and gas and coffin alarms, inventors seek automatic reminders for engagements, meals, fire, and even dawns.
A roundup of residents and visitors in Atlantic includes K VanGorder from Audubon, Blanchard from Av on, and social visits by J W Gray Hansen Sankey and spouses from Maine. Waddell travels to South Omaha for holidays. Della Lamb visits Omaha relatives. Ex Mayor Vollmer assists in a district court petition. Mrs Brooks of Audubon dies. masquerade ball at German hall draws crowds. Kenyon renews Washington Township subscription. a Dawes cattle purchase. Dr Agnew's Catarrhal Powder praised by actors and public speakers.
Mrs Kellogg aged 85 died at 9 o'clock Wednesday night at her daughter Mrs Oren Stone's home five miles north of Massena. Funeral from the house at noon today. Burial in Center cemetery. Survived by son Charles district attorney in northern New York and three daughters Mrs Stone Mrs Martin Smith of near Massena and Mrs Shoudy of Atlantic.
A late 19th century Atlantic item describes local trouble with trespassers and petty crimes. Break-ins target J. Pregsnall’s store and a Bible distribution case at the M C A rooms. Fires, water pipes, and door hacks are mentioned, plus other minor property issues and an ad for cattle trading and a clover root tea product.
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