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Newspaper
Atlantic Weekly Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1897
Page
7
The Israel clothing stock is being rapidly closed out with summer lines selling and a large fall and winter selection remaining. Over two hundred overcoats priced at about half of regular prices, all sold at appraised values below wholesale cost in many cases. Summer coats and vests are bargain priced, and about forty trunks and values are available.
Daisy Dunlap and Mae Morgan return while many residents visit kin in nearby towns. The band concert at Reynold's grave draws praise and Harvest sees peak activity. A flood of visits, travel plans, farm work, and social calls fill the week as families host friends and attend services.
Revs Elliott Brown and Ramsey camp with families near F C Smiths. residents report no chicken roasts disturbed this week. Amish and out-of-town visitors arrive for normal events. Miss Enjid Swept turns eighteen. Anita band plays in the park. county normal classes begin. Fritz Saemisch favored for representative. Evangelical mission drive nets 400. local clubs elect officers and plan events at Noble Center and surrounding communities.
Grove social and agricultural news recounts Friday cattle shipment by Mr Limpus, Sunday calls by J Wilken and Miss Ellen Qathoudt, and grain cutting by Mr Odem. Carload cattle shipped Monday by L Soper. visits by Grant Swartz, Fred Low and wife, and Edna Hesselgrave. Visitors from Cumberland, Atlantic and Newton noted. local picnic at Crystal Lake.
College notes recount chapel exercises and student visitors, with final exams set for Thursday and Friday. Commencement is scheduled for Thursday evening in the opera house with a detailed program, and a lawn fete at Mr Moore's to benefit current and former students.
Noble township reports busy harvesting as Ww Barker buys a new steam thresher near Wax. Rev J H Baurenfiend and wife attended Metzer services. A daughter born to F M Shhueler and wife. F M proud of mother and child. Adam Kuester kicked in the eye by a horse and improving. Republicans urge countywide help to nominate Fritz Seamiseh for representative. Rumor says Chas Kuester and wife will visit next Sunday near Bridgewater with Adam Wollenhaupt.
The Cass County Normal Institute reports Dr C C Rounds leading a session for the professional division with a rule for teaching first know it then feel it then do it. He urged duties toward God and reverence for the author of existence. Teachers later questioned him at a round table.
The article discusses C H Laartz of the county, a young republican with rural and graded school experience who may run for superintendent of schools. It notes his education, energy, character, and potential to raise school standards, while summarizing his public reception and prior activities.
A jumble of brief items from Atlantic and surrounding areas notes visits by Mrs. Jordan and others, a sermon by Rev. J. B. Thomason in Gold-Hill, a marriage license issued to Henry M. Lembke and Pearl B. Miller, and various local movements. The partial solar eclipse occurs Thursday morning from about 7:80 to 9:46, while regional teams prepare for August 3 and firemen contest events next Tuesday at the Southwestern Tournament in the fairgrounds.
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