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Newspaper
Atlantic Weekly Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1898
Page
8
A sales pitch declares Hood's Sarsaparilla as America’s greatest medicine that purifies impure blood and cures conditions from pimples to scrofula. It cites thousands of testimonials for scrofula, salt rheum, dyspepsia, malaria, catarrh, rheumatism, and fatigue, urging readers to choose only Hood's.
Harvesting is at the rage hay making is a thing of the past. Several Grove residents were out visiting in town and at social events. James Bigelow was kicked by a horse while making hay, but is resting and expected to be up soon.
Mr. Lemon went to Cumberland Monday. Joe Marsh visited Saturday evening. Miss Edith Marsh of Montour visits here. Ira McRae of Marion Indiana visiting. Bb C. Johnson harvesting John Chrapston's grain. Miss Hannah Marsh canvassing locally. Mr. and Mrs. John Cranston visited J. D. Marsh family Sunday. Jerry Thompson sprained ankle seriously. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Long hosted many friends to dinner Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Mark Potter passed through en route to Maine Friday. Mrs. J B Thompson and daughter Grace shopped in Cumberland Saturday. Iva McRae and Ed Long attend Trans Miss Exposition at Omaha. Mrs. Jim Drenner and Mrs. Lem Hunt of Cumberland called Friday. Gahon attending the exposition. Rev. Smith passed through Tuesday to meet two nieces in Cumberland. Smith Miller's team frightened and ran away but were caught before damage. Relatives of Mrs. Dan Catlow surprised her on her birthday with a gold watch and chain.
Miss Ella Johnson shows improving health. Mr and Mrs G F Marr spent Sunday in Adair. V Martindale was quite sick Saturday and Sunday. Dr E E Major visited Des Moines on Wednesday. Rev E H Wotan visits in Bluffs and Omaha. Mr Williams of Red Oak spent Sunday with son James. Miss Grace Clark of Dexter visits cousin Miss Vera Hook. Miss Belen Davis of Des Moines visits Miss Harriet Major. Miss Myrtle Jordan spent week with sister Mrs J C Jenkins. Mrs E Major returned home Saturday after visit in Iowa City.
Ed Roe's little two year old daughter died Wednesday after a long illness. The child had recently arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Richardson on Sunday. Several local residents and families are mentioned in visits and illnesses, including the Wotan and Tidrick families, and the Shorer family aiding in caregiving for a sick grandson, with social visits and tea hosting noted.
Mrs Scovill visits Lenola two weeks. Misses Campbell visit near Anita. Mrs Tan Bruyn of Chicago visits with daughter Mrs Cbus Hunt. Many attend Flora Palmer funeral in Lewis. E Thompson family in Bridgewater. Lefa Lattimer recovering. King family mourn for lost son to scarlet fever on July 6. G A Hebing adds brick kitchen. Sherm Grant and Louis Edwards return from Oklahoma trip. Wm Lucas and others go to Omaha. Cue family from Hamilton county visiting. Mark Brown improves farm with granary. S I Johnson does the work. Foot race between Chas Breneman and Robt Moore causes excitement and money changes hands. Chas Won by about ten feet.
Local column from Bear Grove recalls Char Kuester children visiting last Sunday and a strong sermon in Ruguizh at Center church. Farmers report good crops, hay stacking, a near accident with a hay fork, baptisms at H Sothman, travel to Colfax for mineral water, and new steam threshing gear. The District Sunday School convention is planned for August in Center church. Otis Nerz buys a steam threshing outfit and breaks down twice en route from Griswold.
Tuesday reports from the city detail Mrs. L. R. Hough's Omaha trip, Mrs. E. W. Scott's return from Anita, and Sol. Bryan's regiment passing through at midnight. Various residents visit, travel to Omaha or Blair, and harvest of spring wheat begins with good yields. The Des Moines Leader is praised for its editorship as lumber industry updates and local anecdotes fill the page, including a German carp caught by A Hostetler weighing 12 pounds.
By general execution to the clerk of the District Court of Cass County Iowa a foreclosure sale is ordered. Defendants Liston Collins and Walter Collins owe $180.40 plus $23 costs. The property is their undivided interest in the NE quarter and N half of SE quarter Section 36 Township 77 Range 37 Cass County. Sale to the highest bidder for cash on August 8 1898 at the Atlantic courthouse door at 9 o'clock AM. Deputy sheriff J P Hane and clerk C W Purcky certify.
Mr Grant Knox of Hxira enters Shorthand department. praised as honest hardworking. Mr Sarry Marsh returns to school. Chester A Smith of Massena prepares to become bookkeeper and office clerk. praised as upright and hustling. George Johnson visits Brayton. Mrs I 8 Andrews noted among Monday callers. Outlook is for large attendance as commercial and shorthand departments promise growth. next week ends term. Fall term opens Sept 6. Also news of Mrs Ralph Warner of Washington township, age 56, who died after long illness. funeral at Atlantic cemetery with Rev C F Crooks.
Hogs receipts 20,000 with tomorrow’s run 34,000. Mixed loads at 3.85 to 4.10, good heavy 4.05 to 4.15, rough heavy 3.95, high 3.75 to 4.02. Cattle receipts 4.00, prices 4.50 to 5.40. Market steady.
Corn dominated speculative pits with prices absorbing activity while wheat stayed dull though July and September contracts gained. Commodity quotes cover oats, corn, soy, and pork, with cash grain grades listed and varied live cattle and hog receipts across South Omaha, Kansas City, Chicago, and St. Louis markets.
July 13 report says secretary of war ordered extraction of all submarine mines protecting U S harbors. Cabinet says orders issued to explode mines to remove obstacles to entry and exit for ships, amid prior protests by commercial interests and wartime port restrictions.
Oklahoma soldiers at Fort Reno on second call. Insurrection in Eni gin China over new taxes. Cardiff miners talk fails. Welsh strike continues. A bat dispute ends fatally in Newcastle Indiana. Terrific hail and wind storms in northern Texas kill in Bosque and injure in Johnson counties. crops damaged. Jail dynamite blast in St Joseph Missouri shocks town. escapes thwarted. Columbus likely ends Western league baseball. team to Dubuque. Porto Rico expedition gear rushed. transports sail for fodder and uniforms. Correa reports Santiago de Cuba capitulation. Blanco timeline. Lightning fatal to Mrs Iver and two daughters in Bu a Ia. survivor critical.
In 1888 Colonel Peyton recalls meeting a young Ulysses S. Grant at Flat Rock Bourbon County Kentucky. Grant then 18, awkward yet industrious, helps in a country store, calms a frightened horse after a crash, and drives home to Georgetown Ohio with the horse tied and blindfolded.
From Washington July 19 Lieutenant Ahern reports the First Montana Regiment supplied General Gomez with dynamite guns rifles food clothing and equipment to arm and sustain his 6000 men in Cuba. Lieutenant Johnson of the Tenth Cavalry remains in command to distribute arms per U S government wishes and to keep Gomez supplied for further operations.
In San Francisco on July 19 crowds cheered as 1,500 men of the First Montana and 800 California volunteers marched to the transport Pennsylvania bound for Manila via Honolulu. Fareswells were hampered by orders barring women from the dock, though some officers admitted friends inside. Future movements include two battalions aboard the Rio Janeiro and additional units on the St. Paul to Manila next week.
Spaniards born lightkeepers at Cape Mays and Cape Lucrecea reportedly surrendered and burned their lighthouses. The Guantanamo garrison spiked cannons and blew magazines. News from the gunboat Machias says Nuevitas is blockaded and small Spanish ships bottlenecked. A French warship will salute the Cuban flag in Santiago with Rigault de Genouilly arrived at Guantanamo.
A Havana dispatch dated Monday reports seven American warships bombarding Manzanillo on July 19. Two steamers of the Menendez line were set on fire while gunboats attempted to defend the harbor and were stranded. The outcome is not yet known.
A movement formed in Port Tampa to present Admiral Cervera with a home on Tampa bay in recognition of his humane and chivalrous treatment of Hobson and crew and to spare him insult or possible death if he returns to Spain.
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