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Newspaper
Atlantic Weekly Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1896
Page
7
Local items recount neighborhood movements and visits from J B Wilkin Charley Bates and various residents of Griswold Atlantic and Massena including school term closings Mrs Sam Peterson s death and a newborn daughter. Reports mention cattle shipments to Omaha and Chicago trips plus teaching assignments and upcoming term plans in Ames and Massena.
C M Curtis was seen in Five Mile Grove on Friday and Mrs Essington visited Tom Harris this week. Miss Lizzie McFadden leaves for Lewis on Saturday. A steam engine passed through last Tuesday. Jimmie Harris stayed with Albert Lamb over weekend. Tom Kelly drove a fine herd of steers past last Friday. Dr Butler of Buck Creek was in the Grove Sunday. L G Everett cuts Ed Gingery's trees on shares for three thirds. B W Lamb and Grandpa Shoudy traded horses last week. Mr and Mrs William Read visited John Hancock and wife last week. The spring term opens Monday March 25 in district 8 with Miss Della Lamb in charge. Berry of Maine and Melville Herbert of Buck Creek attended League Sunday. Epworth League met with John Hancock Saturday evening and Rosa Hancock arranged a program. Miss Hancock earned praise for her program and attendees look forward to April's first Saturday meeting.
Mrs. J White was a guest of Mrs. Neary on Tuesday. H. Anesty was elected director in the Green Dell district. Tom Madden made a business trip to Atlantic Monday. H. Huddleson and family will soon move to Ringgold county.
Joe Sanders and Jack Fletcher visited Atlantic Saturday. Mr Lawles and wife plan a land journey to Colorado Monday. Mrs John Neary has returned home and improves in health. John Burdette contemplates Colorado this summer. The mail man bought a cow at Mr Comber's sale for 27 dollars. Mr Robinson is improving and hopes for a quick recovery. Jack Sweeney and his dog Bruno drove fat cattle to market Monday. Fred Berry returned to Benton with many cattle. Miss Bert Neary joined her brother Matt to assist with moving. Pat Neary replastered and plans to move this week. Mrs Pat Dorsey went to Cumberland Saturday to his brother's sick child. Rev Brown's meetings ended strongly with seven new members. Green Dell district men met at the schoolhouse and dug a storm cave. Geo Wakefield builds an addition to the house of E Bruce and improves the farm with a new well and windmill. Father Enright holds Catholic lectures each Tuesday during Lent. A box at the door invites questions to be answered at the end of the lecture.
In northeast Brighton David Wortman associates well with friends while Grant Blake shows illness but improvement. Prairie Grove theater Friday drew a crowded, enthusiastic crowd with Fred Fell contributing to a lively program. Frank Herbert and wife hosted neighbors with a bountiful dinner and warm social hour. Upcoming wedding themes hint at a new life for two as the GPIO minister plans a six o clock ceremony.
J F Finch travels to Arkansas on business. Protracted meetings continue at the location. Geo Pennell of Atlantic seen on the streets last Tuesday. Mrs Finch and daughter Pearl visit relatives in Missouri. E M Brooks and C Nordman buy and ship potatoes. May Rowley staying with her brother S W Rowley and family. Infant daughter of Mr and Mrs James Stinemates is very ill with pneumonia. Mrs Kilgore and five children from Marshal county visiting. Mrs Hastings and son George of Pymosa township visit Mrs Campbell. Good Templars plan to attend district convention at Griswold next week. George Dalegll rests from ministerial duties visiting relatives. Albert Young and wife return to Nebraska. Niece May Young accompanies them for months. Married at Wiota hotel March 10 Miss Hattie Folley and Mr Joseph Brown with Rev Wickersham officiating. Bride and groom are highly respected youths. Master Ray Hemphill held tenth birthday party with about 38 children. Games, refreshments, and departure around 10 pm.
LEWIS. The Mail editor has had enough. H. White was on the sick list last week. Peter Hopley made a business trip to Omaha last week. Misses Mabel and Sophia Hopley were in town Saturday. Theo. Woodward is sick with inflammation of the bowels. Rev. W. A. Moore preached in Atlantic Sunday evening. The Jones-Shearer case was decided in favor of defendant. The M. BE. people are very pleased with their new church. Tra Dayton of Extra is working in W. H. Pierce's hardware store. Ed Smedley went to Atlantic to the Christian revival meetings Sunday. Burke of Wiota visited in this vicinity.
Monday's school election elected Frank Macomber and R C Kennedy. Des Moines trips involved W J Harris and wives Mrs Peter Hopley and Mrs Geo Mills. Emergent party lines praise the Republican stance on silver while Democratic leaders push gold standard.
Local notes report Charley Hunt hauling corn to Atlantic Kate Myers and a closing of a school Friday for vacation. Mrs. Emery Brown learned of her mother’s death. Grove neighbors visit the Winston family. Brown boys and Myers with D. A. Winston shell corn. Wayne Battersby breaks leg again. Laura M. Franklin ends a Grove Township Hunt school term with a noon basket repast and a spring teaching engagement.
Miss Alice Bower left for school at Indianola last Monday. Charles Robinson and wife are now of the Lincoln Center people. G Vierling and Estey King have rented a farm for the next year. Miss Clara Potter closed a successful term of school at No. 1 last Friday. Mrs. McMurray is still on the sick list. Ernest Vetters moved east of the church. Rev. Miller preached to a well filled house last Sunday. The League was led in the evening by Bertha Gordinier. Harry Johnson is back from Kansas, residing with his uncle C. B. G. W. Thornburg and wife moved to the F. Aggen farm. Horton elected director at Maple Grove, Reed at No. 1, Campbell at No. 3 for three years. Kate Jenkins to teach Lincoln Center, Belle Irving Blatner, Mac Morgan No. 6 this spring. Rev. Potter accompanied Rev. Wickersham and spoke warmly of old friends. A missionary campaign is planned with programs each evening Sunday to Tuesday. Co. B. Johnson and family home from Colorado Springs via Kansas. School closed at the Center with an exhibition. Ye scribe missed it. exercises praised for teacher Miss Alice C. Bower. Rev. Wickersham lectured on Day Dreams at the church, many attended though fewer than before.
North Benton notes school closures and relocations with Highland School closing last week and Center School now this week. Charles Blue advances construction on a new house west of Highland on the old Hinkle place. Teachers are urged to attend reading circle meetings and James Kenyon moves to Brushtown Col. with a new forty acre farm. Rev Wickersham delivers Chickens Come Home to Roost at Highland church to a large audience.
Last Wednesday at Grim home Miss Mando Cramlet of Brayton married Isaac Swanson of southern Audubon county. The couple began life together in a hillside home near Shulta schoolhouse with wishes for long happiness. Benton township school board met Monday and elected J O Walker president for the year. They set tax levies of 1700 for teachers fund and 700 for contingent fund and listed board members Albert Miller J D Walker Michael Kelly H H Bower James Jordan William Morgan G W Daughenbaugh Fred Hardenbech James Wishart.
Jim Burns moves to town and Pat Murphy sells his farm to Peter Nelson for 24 50 per acre. Major Curtis was through last Monday. Farmers face coming work per almanac. Jim Senson Dan Rich and Elzie Gentle head to Colorado on jack rabbits. Oren Green sells mortgage property next Saturday at Atlantic. School board sworn in new officers Joe Joyce F M Stoner directors Pickrell re-elected. Board approves 1800 teachers fund and 600 contingent fund. 2400 is a pretty good bill these times.
The column reports village life across Noble and Griswold townships with church attendance, visits to Reno, Carson, and Lewis, and social events. It notes a bank service change, a Wax exhibition for library funds, a phonology claim, and election of ladies’ aid officers. It also mentions youth misbehavior and calls for better conduct.
About fifty relatives and friends gathered March 18 1806 at Edward Butler's Pymosa Township home to celebrate his 80th birthday. Born March 13 1816 in Campbell County Virginia he moved to Randolph County Indiana in 1838 and to Cass County in 1869. The group arrived with baskets of food and shared a noonday meal with his children present.
In a Montana era family gathering the matriarch and four brothers lost to death, leaving five siblings. The group shared a grandpa birthday dinner with children delighted, then read the 90th Psalm and prayed. Sister Potter of Maine spoke kindly and an organ service closed the day. Funeral notes for a Mrs. Moore follow, with reflections on enduring memories and faith. Wheat prices drifted, corn and oats rose slightly, provisions fell.
Mrs Sarah Angeletta Bair born Warsaw Indiana January 15 1751 died at her home in Atlantic Iowa March 8 1896 aged 54 years 1 month 23 days She moved with her parents to Boonsboro Iowa 1856 then Rising Sun Polk County 1862 She married Byron Bair March 17 1874 and lived in Iowa County then Western Iowa until death Survived by husband two sisters three brothers and daughter Miss Marie The sons and daughters names appear with references to relatives and honors her pious and musical life highlighted by her daughter a noted pianist The bereaved were present from Des Moines and western Maine at the burial
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