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Newspaper
Atlantic Weekly Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1899
Page
2
The Odd Fellows at their meeting unanimously offered the library reading room to J. K. Powers for his real estate office. Books will be available for examination and checkout during Mr. Powers’ hours. Membership remains free to lodge members. others pay ten cents for two weeks.
Last night Marshal Wiesler arrested David Bennett on a warrant from Justice Wallace charging him with threatening to commit a public offense. The trial proceeded this morning, with Bennett admitting a razor purchase and denying drunkenness, while his wife and daughter testified to his violent temper and fear he might injure them. The case continues with written evidence awaiting correction and further testimony. A harness theft was recovered when found in an old well near the ruined elevated. John Henderson identified it as his stolen gear.
News notes list residents and visitors in Atlantic and surrounding towns including Mrs W J Harris from Lewis and J B Rockafellow to Des Moines. People seen include Supt Burton, Charles Higgins of Griswold, H P Bolls and A C Tilton of Maine, and S C Swart a sheriff candidate. The Hammond typewriter is promoted and a tin roof is being installed on the Curtis building.
Bert Powell returns from Germany with a doctor’s degree. Miss Fannie Dickerson’s remains are interred at Atlantic cemetery with P. E. O. sisters aiding services. Local visitors include John King and Byron Phelps. courthouse adjourned to May 31. numerous residents attend religious conventions and social events. community entertainment by C. F. for the Church of Christ praised for Miss Abrams and musical numbers.
Monday night raid by the office led to Don being brought in yesterday and fined 826 plus costs for paraphernalia. Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Davis returned from Des Moines for a lay ceremony and corner stone festivities. Albert Campbell, en route home to Anita, was in the city. A man sent to Clarinda asylum after an earlier mental illness has largely recovered. Sargent Will Frost returns from Cuba where he served in the Second Regiment U S Volunteer Engineers. Bert Petite is still in Cuba. H D Dean and son Claude of WL shall town visit Mr. Dean's brother M. Dean. Claude recently returned from Havana with the 49th Iowa.
Local applications fail for catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is a blood and mucous surface remedy taken internally. It claims to be non quack medicine, prescribed by top physicians, and combines a tonic with purifiers to affect mucous membranes. Testimonials are promised and the product is sold by druggists for 74 cents.
Notice to all concerned to appear at the Court House Atlantic Cass County Iowa on August 9 1899 at 9 o clock a m to attend probate of an instrument purporting to be the will of Sacket Sears late of Cass County Iowa deceased show cause why the will should not be admitted to probate affixed seal of the Clerk District Court May 1899 w H McCowinn M P Dat er
The passage notes Hood's Sarsaparilla ads using a proverb to praise the remedy, claiming wide attraction and favorable reception. J. D. Bridge, editor of the Democrat in Lancaster New Hampshire, quotes a reader praising One Cong Cure for a boy with coughs and croup, attributing trust to the advertised product.
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