County and vicinity frost and political rallies
A killing frost occurs Saturday night. Reports of residents visiting Atlantic and Lewis. McKinley Hobart club meets weekly. republican rallies planned in Pymosa Center with Major Curtis as speaker. Names include Emmert, Rich, Kerr, Worthing, Voorhees, Houck, Diven, Bradbury, McFadden, Murray Boller, and many locals attending events and visiting nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emmert
Lorah
Rev. Reed
Rich
Pymosa Center
Curtis
Local notes from the week in the county
Mark Byrnes threshed his grain on Monday. Jacob W. Franklin spent Saturday in Atlantic. Mrs. Ben Graham visited Atlantic on Thursday. A heavy frost Sunday will speed corn drying. Potato digging will begin soon. Joe Haworth rents a farm near Briscoe for next year. George and Dick Hawthorne plan a week long outing and batch. Mr and Mrs Mack Boures attended a Christian conference in Wheeler's Grove this week. Populists gathered in Lewis to hear a gun report. One young man took two girls to a speaking at Ellsworth and left them at home on the way back.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacob W. Franklin
Atlantic
Ben Graham
Joe Haworth
Briscoe
George
Dick Hawthorne
Mack Boures
Wheeler's Grove
Lewis
Ellsworth
Local notes and political slate in a township
Sunday reports from W G Link and N D Winston visit Grove while families and neighbors recount travels. A school board meeting occurred. A new culvert is installed below Peter Herbert's. The Bryanites nominate a township ticket with Ira Needles as clerk James Bailey as assessor and J T Franklin as trustee.
Meeting notes and local items from a blank period
A digest of college notes, student enrollments, staff changes, and community happenings. Mentions of Ehmer Pruitt filling a Maine vacancy, new furniture in shorthand, a McKinley and Hobart club formation, and various local visits, sicknesses, sales, and losses. The column notes social events, sermons, contests, and obituaries, with names like Louis Champlin, Rev. Dietrich, and Mrs. Harper Kirk.
Buck Creek community notes and events
Ray Odem threshes Monday. Miss Ruth Joyce and her mother back from Oskaloosa. Miss Rosa Hancock visited locally. Young people attend church and a city lecture by Dr Craven. Mrs Scott of Fonda returns home. Maggie Butler and Susie Hutchinson go to Fonda to visit a sick father. Church conduct criticized amid calls for respect. An oratorical contest at the church Sept 29 under Miss Billig with 10 cent admission. W S Norcutt campaigns for recorder in Herbert's country, promising to wipe him off the board. locals plan to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray Odem
Mr. Walker
Lewis
Ernest Oakes
Ruth Joyce
Oskaloosa
Rosa Hancock
Craven
Scott
Fonda
Maggie Butler
Susie Hutchinson
House of God
Billig
Normal and Business College
W.S. Norcutt
Herbert
Old Boy
Washington News Roundup and Local Notes
Jake Myers shelled corn Thursday and Mrs C R Hunt visited in Grove. O W Brown called at J Worley’s. Will Smack and Lew Strong did business in Atlantic. J Worley reports a single harness stolen two weeks ago. Tim McHenry was in Atlantic on business Tuesday. June Childs bought cattle in Washington. Emily Johnson attended Anderson’s dance north of Atlantic. Ed Zellmer’s double harness was stolen recently. Norcutt of Griswold stopped with Ralph Warner Wednesday evening. Herbert Brown and wife welcome a bouncing baby. Mrs D A Winston has fine peaches on a tree she planted years ago. Asa Brown, at Atlantic for most of summer, attends high school. Bryan club organized at Center school. Tim Morrissey nominated as lecturer but not seconded. meeting dampened by popu list tensions. Republican meeting at Ellsworth drew a large turnout with T B Swan, a lifelong Democrat opposed to Bryan and populist free silver. The meeting was a roaring success versus the Norcutt and Kelly meeting at the Cen- t er.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jake Myers
C. R. Hunt
Grove
O. W. Brown
J. Worley
Will Smack
Atlantic
Lew Strong
Tim McHenry
June Childs
Washington
Emily Johnson
Anderson
Ed Zellmer
Mr. Norcutt
Griswold
Ralph Warner
Herbert Brown
D. A. Winston
Asa Brown
Bryan
Center School
Tim Morrissey
Ellsworth
T. B. Swan
Funeral Rites and Lodge Resolutions Reported in Iowa News
Funeral held for Van Everly Cannon conducted by Rev Hill at his father’s Atlantic home. Interment in Bowen Cemetery. Wiota Lodge No 573 I C G T adopts multiple resolutions mourning Cannon and John Kirk. Lone Tree and Bear Grove items detail schoolities and teachers recounting nature study, playground ethics, and club work notes from September 12.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rev.Hill
Atlantic
Bowen
van Everly Cannon
Wiota Lodge No
Wuerwas
van Cannon
Wiota
LOGT
John Kirk
Lodge
Iowa ‘Temperance Magazine
Sunday School Convention Officers Elected in 1896
Admission 25c for adults. Cass County Sunday School Association held its 12th annual convention in Cumberland on September 15 and 16, 1896. Officers named: President W. S. Breneman, Vice President Ira Needles, Secretary Treasurer F. H. Whit ney, Cumberland. Executive Committee and township secretaries listed. a note quotes Capt. C. Mueller praising Ayer's Pills for bowel regulation. Various property transfers and a local hardware salesman note conclude the item.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cass County Sunday School Association
Cumberland
W. S. Breneman
Ira Needles
Atlantic
F. 11. Whitney
L. Mountain
R. Lawrence
W. C. Garman
Griswold
F. H. Sears
Grant
John Hancock
Pymosa
McCulloch
A. C. Fulton
Washington
Jennie Berg
Reed Love
Franklin
M. E. Lattig
Lincoln
Orin Stone
Massena
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Charlie Baxter
Jens Sims
Mattie
Mabel Hopley
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Vermont
McKinley-Hobart
Tom Elliott
Eliott & Grant
Kerr
Colorado
Anita
C. A. Russell
Newton
Bessie Henshaw
Dougherty
Henry Houck
M. E. Church
A. D. Beckhart
C. W. Miller
Anita Circuit
Bear Grove
S. D. Diven
J.C. Bradbury
Ed W
Emmit McCarthy
Howard Simkin
Joe Marsh
John Eger
Telegraph
Fletcher
Geo. Riggs
Arthur Andrew
Oliver McFadden
Mable Gaylord
Bethel
W.H. Norentt
D. F. Kelly
Fairview
Norentt
Kelly
Gravel Point
Lee A. Carson
Charley Clements
T. D. Carson
Conner
Maggie Boller
Atlantic Business College
Murray Boller
McKinley
Geo. Kirk
Issler
Ierit
Als Hood
Hood
C. I. Hood & Co
Lowell
Mass
Auldragétets
Iranistan
Mark Byrnes
W. GC. Link
W. Hopley
Nebraska
Dr. Hill
A.N. Gaylord
Peter Herbert
N. D. Winston
No. 9
Ray White
James Dunn
Hopley
Hamill
Ter
Atlantic Drum Corps
Glee Club
McKinley and Hobart
College Notes
Ehmer Pruitt
Burton
H. E Barnes
Illinois
David Snyder
J. B. Tharnish
City
George Johnson
Brayton
Five Mile Grove
Fred Anderson
the Andrews
Wyoming
Chas. Gingery
Harlan Saturay
F.C. Pellett
Lloyds
Ed Warren
George Pellett
John Archer
Beatrice, Neb
Ayer
Dietrich
Adams
McCall
Lorimer
Burtrum
Geo. Pratt
del Spry
Rice
Roe
M. E
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Charley Brown
LO. GT. Lodge
A. A.gaylord
Hall
Price
Harper Kirk
Omaha
Bessie Daughenbaugh
W. E. Cannon
Buck Creek
Lone Tree
Bryant
Georgia Marker
Miss Marker
Hattie Breece
Marie Chenoweth
Ida McFarland
Kate Myers
Miss Myers
Dole
Runte
Martin
Tice
Brown
Powell
B. R.C
E. M
Kerseys
Meltons
Cass County
East Side
Chestnut Street
Chas. Block
Frank E. Griswold
Railroad
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Company
Capt. C. Mueller
Jas E Bruce Etux
Sherm F Myers
Qed
Archibald Beaton Etux
Perry Woods
Jane Ferguson Et al
W W Haworth
Geo A Webster
Rachel D Webster
John Morton
Emily M Morton
Pat
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Gerhard H Bierbaum
E Perkins
Margaret Jonson
Trede
Jack Shuldt
Murnan
E J Bates
Archer Et
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Leonard A Engle
Harvey Read
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