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Newspaper
Atlantic Weekly Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1893
Page
6
County and vicinity notes report tied results in sub district elections in districts No 6 and No 5. Local events include husking bee harvests, school movements, visits, and town changes with Griswold election outcomes and various residents returning from travel and illness.
W Z Lloyd buys the Reed house and will move it to Atlantic on lower Chestnut. Henry Graves and wife relocate to Pymosa township. School term ends with teachers in bloom. B Mills finishes assessor work. Miss Agnes Ross was post mistress last Tuesday while G W Ross visited Audubon. YP Stoner reports grocery stock improvements. Ernest Bourne ships six more green hides, twenty nine in two weeks. Louis Harris secures a clerk job at F Worthing's Atlantic store. A Dan Spry social hop with music by John Roberts of Hamlin. good time reported. A cheap boy wanted by the crab butcher to hold horses. James McGovern sells 80 acre farm near here to George Tripp for 60 per acre. Bert and Della McNutt of Hamlin visit Jessie McNutt and friends. Eva Wright closes a successful No 1 Pymosa term and will teach again this spring.
The late Mrs. Perry Disbrow, nearly 78, mother of eleven, thirty six grandchildren and four great grandchildren, died peacefully. Funeral conducted by Dr. Bevan of Atlantic. Remains taken to Atlantic for interment. Also notes I J Noyer’s recovery from paralysis, sale of big meat market, school flag renewal on March 9, upcoming dedication of bell and tower by Rev J B Harris of Denison, Ia, near future residence of H M Orton, school vacation planned, Epworth League to stage a literary program on Sunday commemorating its anniversary.
Southeast Massena briefs recount Geo Fish planning a 60 by 80 foot barn, Fred Ramsey returning home after wanderings, school closures and exams at Center and Denham, Rob’t Murray re elected Sub-director, several local illnesses and moves, weddings and sales, small notices on loans and political races in Massena area.
The city hosts a flood of visitors and locals from Grove City to Des Moines. Hogs arrive weakly at seven cents on the market while newsmakers crow in theatre and church circles. A wave of business talks and cattle shipments mix with weddings and new family arrivals as residents anticipate spring commerce.
Market brief notes Chicago and Atlantic prices for wheat corn oats and hogs with May July and other figures. Obituaries legal notices and public notices include probate of Jurgen Vogt and Sheriff sale in Atlantic. Local items mention Julius Caesar play booking and G A R resolutions for comrade Pierce Maher.
A jumble of notices advertises farm sales and hires, local business owners, and personal requests. Mentions Lew Pray, Erastus Lang, Sam Temple, and Lara Jones, with farm land for sale, wages offers, and hiring inquiries. Several entries reference Cumberland and Des Moines, plus cotton price changes and clothing needs.
Berg says he prefers newspapers with abundant news and little politics, while most papers today offer the opposite. Strittmatter shipped a large car of cattle recently and has about thirty hogs bound for Chicago. He is praised for German thrift and a survey note cites Washington’s age and a $10 offer.
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