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Newspaper
Atlantic Weekly Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1896
Page
11
County notes describe corn planting, dry conditions, and local farming activity. George Tripp’s route damaged by wire. Miss Henderson and Miss Andrews visit Anita and Audubon ladies. A Colorado fire destroys three houses owned by Lighty and Judd families, with no insurance. Community support rises to aid displaced families.
Winston introduces a new corn planter. Miss Ella Winston visited relatives here last week. Clarence Jones traveled to Atlantic Saturday evening. J E Bailey remains on the jury and commutes each morning. Readers attended the Aliwan entertainment in Lewis last Tuesday. The Washington nine are favored to beat Atlantic nine as they did Walnut’s.
Grove area reports hog market activity by Gus Mott, cattle shipments by O W Peterson A N Gaylord George Barry and William Hopley totaling about 120 head. Local visits include Miss Kate Beckman and Miss Edna Hopley while William Sims is noted for rain when visiting his west side sweetheart.
Corn planting occupies Bear Grove as residents report Sunday visits from Chas Beekman and friends. talk of caucus, church dedications set for May 31, and Decoration Day plans. Local people include Billy McKinney from Pottawattamie, J A B Myers recovering from illness, and Elmer Archer with George Shinley leaving for masonry work north of Atlantic. The Congregational church and school activities, a reading circle effort, and remarks on a loose horse add local color.
John Myers is reported better. Rev Varley sad wife of Lewis Ward, Atlantic visitors Eli Adams and George Cranston. Will McKinney from Pottawattamie county called, Gua Mott and a Grove woman attended Epworth League at Fletcher Chapel. Steena Thulin and Mrs Ezra Marsh joined Jesse Cranston and his wife in Chicago. Mrs Victor Vedene and Ollie Cranston were hosted by Svona Thulin near Griswold. Minnie Marsh Thresa Statzer and Ada McFadden visited Bertha Pratt. Quarterly meeting at Fletcher Chapel May 24 and 25, Rev L B Wickersham of Atlantic to preach May 24 at 8 o'clock.
Local items report Miss Syravine Wotan ill, Rev. Potter and Rev. Miller in pul pits, new Webster's Dictionaries for Lincoln schools, cattle sales, water and lawn care, and a Maine Reading Circle banquet. Mentions Harlan lumber move, Green Bay yard sale, and various visits, baptisms, and gatherings.
Edith Hartshorn of Atlantic attended services as Rev Beckhart preached at Five Mile Grove. A Ladies Aid recal was announced for May 15 at the I O O F hall. The I O G T held an open session May 5 with new officers installed. Local schools will be taught by G E Johnson, May Jones, and Miss Forsythe. Robert Turner had a wagon accident and was injured but improving. Various residents visited, shipped cattle and hogs, and planned trips to Marathon with hunting and fishing.
In Grove township on Friday May 8 a group of 29 neighbors gathered at L af Franklin's home to honor his fiftieth birthday. An evening of music and conversation followed a humorous fishing theme as guests presented a fine rocking chair with a playful speech likening life to an oasis on a traveler’s journey.
Atlantic notes a busy social scene with church events, visits by residents to Des Moines Kansas City and Maquoketa, and upcoming excursions. Local gatherings include a breakfast hosted by Mrs J A Shrook and plans for Macbeth performances at the opera house aided by the Melpomene Club. Parties discussed jury issues, a Grand Lodge meeting, and installation of a new Eastern Star chapter.
All members and officers of the Eastern Star Chapter in this city are urged to attend at the Masonic hall tomorrow. Those available in the afternoon at 8 o clock will meet Mrs. Jonnie Rule of Mason City. If unable to attend in the afternoon, please come at 7 30 o'clock in the evening.
About fifty of Elder P. E. Wickham's parishioners gathered last evening for a pleasant social. Each brought a pound of something and forgot to take it home when they departed after the rain. They plan a strawberry and ice cream festival at the pastor's home next Friday.
The Chautauqua literary and social circle concludes its course for the year with a May 22 Friday evening meeting. Members will open with roll call and name a hero of history who never existed, then speak five minutes on Thinking, Feeling and Doing. The agenda lists various chapter references and presenters, including Edith Cushing Maggie Burr W Hoagland Maude Glass M E Quint Maude Conrad Marie Bartley and Mrs. M E Quint.
Mrs Theo Preston hid a hundred dollars in a small tin box inside the stove fire box for safety. The money burned to ashes when the box was later retrieved. Two bills were known to be Atlantic National Bank currency. Mr Preston had left for Pennsylvania a month earlier to work in oil fields after moving from South Dakota seeking a farm rent.
Spring medicine guidance promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla as the best blood purifier for purge and vitality. Claiming winter impurities and debility respond to its warming effects, the ad asserts it cures scrofula dyspepsia rheumatism and related ills, urging buyers to insist on Hood's.
An advice piece urges husbands to be patient and loving, noting a wife may face trials and that a kind word helps. It promotes keeping Chamberlains Cough Remedy at home as essential for health protection and care, adding it is for sale by druggists.
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