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Newspaper
Atlantic Weekly Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1896
Page
6
County and vicinity notes show revival meetings led by Highland and Brother Miller aiming to save souls. The local school struggles with waning interest as illness and family duties sweep through households. Mentions of visitors, accidents, and community efforts at Morse schoolhouse and Victoria Aid Society reflect small town life and persistent, hopeful efforts.
Local notes from Cumberland describe upcoming meetings and a dedication on February 16 plus a steady stream of social visits, preaching, and community events. Names include Gov. Drake, Mrs. Dowell, Miss Mattie Hebing, and others with reports on schools, lyceums, and church activities.
Chris Laartz resumes duties at Brighton No 1 amid a prosperous district and reports of good skating at Bal isrd's pond this winter. Frank joined his brother at Highland Park last Saturday, making five Laarts at the park with Tom Boland, a noted Irish American community member.
The note marks Samuel M. Kerr as a leading figure in Brighton, his cattle described as white-faced and emblematic of a thriving home. Local life recurs with sickness, sermons, and social events. Rev. Potter’s Buck Creek sermon drew praise but disrupted by window peeping. many townspeople attend revival, school work progresses, and families report improving health.
Julia Harrison spent Sunday with her parents. Miss Jones visited relatives at Lewis Friday and Sunday. Miss Minnie Seymour left for Atlantic Sunday night. Dr. C. H. McClees is bedbound with rheumatism. Won. Trailer and sons bought cattle the past week. Mrs. R. S. Fudge and Miss Bearden rode to Walnut Saturday to visit over Sunday. O. Blakeslee drove three carloads of cattle to Chicago Saturday. E. Dunham joined him on Monday. Mr. and Mrs. John Ludwig welcomed an eight pound baby girl born January 30. The twin evangelists closed their meetings in Marne and will hold a revival at the Calkins schoolhouse in Clay township. Marne hosts budding sprinters as J. Smith Coberly and D. E. Fudge enter the ring with Coberly in lead. George Whitney, brother of F. H. of Atlantic, organized a Woodmen lodge in Marne last Friday night with nineteen members.
Snowfall noted with about ten inches of forecast accumulation. Jobo Fritz’s area reports a busy March for Joe Jensen and Billy Lamb counting dogs. Oren Green named U S marshal by the trustees. Rev Detrick to preach his last planned sermon. Inter township Educational meeting postponed to February 7 and 8 at the church. Buck Creek choir to provide music for the upcoming entertainment. Sarah told to take the back seat. J C Kelly planned cattle shipment to Brayton but is delayed in arrival.
Mr I H Low bought them and will place the stock on his farm to fatten. Elzie Gentle of Bowen, nephew of John Gentle, arrived in Sarah last week and contemplates making this country his future home in the coming year.
Grovetown reports a busy week with school events exhibitions and a shoe box social at No 1 Cass township. Several residents including W Matthews Frank Peterson and Miss Jenna McAfee are mentioned along with farm activity stock reports and a large Beekman house party hosted by Mr and Mrs Frank Beekman.
NODAWAY VALLEY notes Mr Mills near Massena plans to move to his Edna township farm this spring. Old father Maple, grandfather of Mrs Baer, visited friends in the Valley last week. Mrs J A Read has been ill with grip but improving. Philip Pringey sold his sheep at market for just over four dollars per head. Protracted meetings are under way at Germany and Wax, with strong turnout. Mrs Thos Williams of Extra visited with Mr and Mrs Ralph Baer. Noble township trustees met to set rules on disposing of stock dying from contagious diseases. Will Comer is moving farm implements and grain onto the John Magusen farm for the coming season. Spring Dale school plans a jam entertainment to aid the school library. B R Baer teaches. Evangelist at Wax reportedly moved people to quit tobacco in meeting house. Frank Jackson of Atlantic, now with Silas Wilson Nursery Co,visited the Valley. he seeks Cass county recorder nomination. Indians of the Omaha tribe encamped on the Seven Mile river last week, seen by many who had never met one, then moved on with wagons and belongings.
Mud and markets mark the week with M D Doll selling hogs Friday while Chas Hook and Floyd Lighty cut summer wood. Mrs Emery Smart recovers from illness and infant of Mr and Mrs Gunston Rice is buried Friday. Miss Clara Wakefield plans a flag raising at the Grove school house February 22. Dave Lighty prepares for Pomona Kansas farming, Charley Gingery hauls corn to the rented farm, and a new boarder arrives at Mr Clements.
The week’s events include a successful Yoodlenp entertainment raising $12 for a school bag, a large donation party for Rev Dietrich, and a Phantom social at the Masonic hall. Across towns, residents traveled, funerals were held, revival meetings continued, and a group of five local youths faced a jail term for misbehavior at Wishert schoolhouse.
Alma and Bertha Brooks visited over Sunday with friends in Atlantic. John Borah of Kimballton was shaking hands with old friends in this vicinity last week.
Local notes report illnesses in Pleasant and Noble lines with names like Grandpa Jacobs Mrs Henry Ackerman and Nellie Dolan. Cattle buying along the line James O Connor and wife visiting Sciola and Carbon. Stolen hog carcasses and woolen blankets noted plus mill exchange and six weeks winter superstition. A revival at Wax ends with good results and Pleasant Ridge M E plans a birthday social inviting pennies.
News items from Atlantic Cass County Iowa include short horn cattle and milch cow sales at Geo W Franquin’s farm on Feb 18 1896 with other livestock offered, a January 82nd Cass County Farmers Institute resolution urging hog carcass sale bans, a rural school meeting program, multiple village notices, and real estate transfers in Griswold and Anita.
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