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Newspaper
Atlantic Weekly Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1897
Page
6
When you can buy goods at wholesale cost you are cheaper than regular dealers. Fully half of sale cost covers the balance at actual cost. These goods are for sale without reserve at appraised value. Come early and get your pick.
County and vicinity items note Willie Janes and Lewis area plowing fades, corn promise rises after recent showers. Chas Fulton converts farm to cattle panels, Stevens Bros and J T Pierre show new barns. Residents mention outings to Lewis, visits from Michigan California and Chicago, and a Grove celebration with pleasant weather boosting corn growth and farmer spirits.
A list of local activities and people in Wakefield area including Advent meeting set for July 17 and 18. Mentions residents Agnes Robinson Milton Roe and family Massena Fritz of Austa at Frank Beebe’s, Charley Barrickman and wife, Bessie Roe recovering from bowel inflammation, D I Gs celebration at Anita, M W Church quarterly meeting led by Felder Ramsey, Finch's grove Sunday school picnic with Rev John Kirk, and a Saturday accident injuring James Maxidan and Miway with bruises and possible internal injury.
Des Moines visitors and Atlantic engagements fill the week as Miss Anita Bruce visits Des Moines and Miss Elsie Stranger drops in at the Woods home. Births, visits, and weddings thread through Atlantic, Kellogg, and Colo rado Spring with community notices, illnesses, and Fourth of July events. A young man named Lloyd Young dies at his mother's home, while local sales and cattle appeals round out the page.
Local residents listed visiting and traveling through Lewis including Major Curtis Clint Scott Mattie Fulton and Dr Campbell. The Fourth of July celebration drew about 10000 people with a grand parade and races, praised by Prof Beedle. The lake and steamboat traffic were busy, with receipts noted for the crowd and attendance. Also includes an ad for a dysentery remedy and a 1897 district court notice in Cass County Iowa about an absolute divorce case of Ona Bell Barlow against William Barlow with key dates and filing details.
Local items note Kodak cameras on display at Fred Alexander's, Casper Beckman's Omeha visit, W H Low departing for Wichita on business, Geo Franklin in Des Moines for state air work, and many social calls. Readers learn of Y M C A concert Friday, travels to Des Moines and Green Bay, visits with relatives, a lumberman arrival, and a Massena Creamery incorporation.
A picnicking party from Mee Ward Wilson and Lyman families faced danger when a dehorned Jersey bull charged them. The women climbed a tree and escaped with only nervous shock. Hammond drove the animal away. The incident marred plans for a Fourth of July event as rain drenched grounds and speakers prepared in the park.
In Vandalia a collision between Vandalia train 11 and eastbound No 6 killed R T Shehman and W F Coon. Fatally injured were Sam Parkinson Frank Owens. The crash followed a dispatch ordering No 6 to meet at Vandalia around 1 30 am after heavy Christian Endeavor travel. Other items note campus activities at a local college with lectures, arrivals of students, and a humorous table turning incident at the Commercial hotel.
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