Pleasant rural notes from Cass county and surrounding towns
Local readers recall visits and returns across Iowa and Nebraska. Jake Taylor from Maine sold cattle in town while Lewis hosts a farewell for Faye Harlan in Henderson. Leon Perkins reports good crops in Greene county as Ed Brown returns a wounded hero home. A lively account covers travels of Sim Moore, Laura and Clara Woodward, and W M Conrad plus a successful Ladies Oakwood supper with praise for simple, hearty meals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jake Taylor
Maine
Lewis
Faye Harlan
Henderson
Iowa
Cass County
C. H. Wilson
Joe Hopley
Sam Sprouse
Leon Perkins
Geo. Perkins
Bagley
Leon
Greene County
Jerry Murnan
Ed Brown
Local and Personal News from Atlantic Iowa Trading Notes
J W Gillett visits Anita to look after trade. Full blooded Shetland ponies for sale at Atlantic hotel. Fr M Tharnish of Audubon visits Atlantic. We buy and sell second hand school books. Fred Alexanders offers cheap bicycles and box papers. Many residents travel to Omaha for festivities and exhibitions. Pension raise for Samuel Turner of Anita. Campaign opener by Fred E White planned Oct 3 at the Opera House. Atlantic residents attend Ak-Sar-Ben in Omaha. Local clubs meeting to elect officers. John M Zane visits. now vice president at Waterbury Chemical Co. Miss Jennie Smith and Miss Kate Qur leave to teach in southern colored schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Gillett
Anita
Atlantic
Fr. M. Tharnish
Audubon
Fred
Fred Alexanders
W. E. Burke
Walnut
John Siegel
George Carver
Omaha
Fred E. White
Opera House
David Lighty
Wiota
Snyder
Colo
Sarz
Rock Island Railroad
P. O
Adair
Ows
John M. Zane
Zane
Waterbury Chemical Company
Pharmaceutical Chemists
Des Moines
Congregational Church
Colored Schools
American Missionary Association
Jennie Smith
Macon
Kate Qur
Chicago
Elgin Couple Wed at Victoria Hotel Chicago
At high noon today Fred M Adams and Miss Sadie M Downer both of Elgin were married in the Victoria hotel parlors Chicago. Rev Dr Merrill officiated with only immediate relatives present. The bride wore a blue traveling gown and carried roses. They will honeymoon in Toronto Thousand Islands Quebec and Montreal and reside at 36 Hill Avenue Elgin after January 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victoria Hotel
Chicago
Fred M. Adams
Sadie M. Downer
Elgin
Dr. Merrill
Adams & Seymour
Elgin News
Pickrett Discusses Land Values and Bible Sales
Pymosa township telegraph caller H T Pickrett talks about rising local land prices while comparing eastern improvements to Iowa soil prospects. He promotes a Bible sale with various sizes and prices, noting reductions and advertising aims, signed by Fred Alexander.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. T. Pickrett
Pymosa Township
Indiana
Pickrell
Iowa
Court in Session Again After Judge Green Opens
Judge Green from Audubon opens court after Johnson Emmert case. Next week’s trials listed: Jones vs Jones. International Food Co. vs Henshaw. Newton vs Templeman. State vs Cardio. Neimeyer vs Neimeyer. Bankers Town State Bank vs Hendricks. State v Cain verdict guilty on liquor nuisance charge. John Carvill pleads guilty. five months with costs, sentence suspended on condition of leaving state. Carl Phares pleads guilty. sentence pending Monday. Petition filed by State of Iowa seeks injunction against Carvill. Grand jury returns two more liquor nuisance indictments: Briscoe and Buckley. Sheriff brings defendants. bonds set at 400. sureties not yet found. For sale: six room cottage, three lots, near post office. Turkish Bath comedy at opera house Thursday Sept 25.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnson- Emmert
Green
Audubon
Jones
International Food Co
Henshaw
Newton
Templeman
State
Cardio
Neimeyer
Bankers Town State Bank
Hendricks
Va Cain
Frank Cain
John Carvill
Carl Phares
State of
Iowa
C. A. Meredith
Fifteenth Judicial District
John Briscoe
Cumberland
L. S. Buckley
Massena
Local Notices and Social Roundup in Lorah Area
Correspondence from Lorah and nearby villages reports social visits and upcoming events. Ira Soper and wife visited Morton. Mr and Mrs H Knopp hosted them. A school board meeting occurred September 18. Five threshing machines operate in Benton township. W H Low shipped cattle north. feed prices mention 20c for corn. Births include a son to John Shay and wife and a boy to Bam Keyes and wife. Preaching scheduled next Sunday at 3:30 p m. Dr Graham conducting calls in Lorah.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benton Township
W. W. Eller
Wm. Pratt
Hank Pearson
Cumberland
Lorah
Graham
John Shay
Bam Keyes
Pioneer Township notices and obituaries from local ledger
Lyman in Minnesota. Holdorf Bros shelled corn for F. H. Pelzer and Mr. Riedeman. Read and Read each bought 160 acres in South Dakota. Nick Fuhr rents his father’s farm for next year. GA BR picnic near Milford drew a crowd. Grandma Rudig and Rosas Eppelheimer visited. Simon Sunderman Jr sold a colt and three calves to his brother. Rudig drives mules bought from Bear Grove. James McMillan cuts corn for Edward Havens. Sunderman rents his house to a party from the east. Henry Kuester and family trip to Nebraska for next year preparations. Sunderman to swap engine for a compound one. Alliband returns from Lincoln township where he teaches on bicycle 27 miles in three hours. Blazer building addition for Geo Bell’s house. Nick Fuhr to receive a new house. John Eppelheimer injured when thrown from buggy. buggy demolished. New elocution students enroll. Belle Culver begins lessons. Newton and Stuckrath on business to Anita. Wallace Hodge plans return to Atlantic for studies. Nettie Steinmetz teaching in Lincoln No. 3. Roderick teaches daily physical culture. September 19. Transfers and land deeds listed. Obituary: Nellie Elvina Wyckoff nee Black born Oct 18, 1878 died Sept 20, 1899 at age 20. Married 1890. Baptised M. E. church at 14. Bible school leader. Survived by husband, mother, four brothers, one sister, grandmother and many friends. Services at Church of Christ. interment Reno Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. W. Luckensmeyer
Minnesota
Holdorf Bros
F. H. Pelzer
Mr. Riedeman
Chas. E. Read
Fred Neff
South Dakota
Nick Fuhr
Nellie Elvina Wyckoff
Black
Jesse A. Wyckoff
M. E. Church
Bible School
Church of Christ
W. E. Jones
Brown
The
Baptist Church
Reno Cemetery
Public sale of cattle hogs and farm implements near Atlantic
E M Bourne offers at his farm 60 cattle including 52 yearling steers 6 yearling heifers 1 cow and calf 40 hogs 2 mares four years old weight 2700 lbs 40 acres of corn in shock and assorted farm implements at 10 a m on Wednesday Oct 4 at the auction site 51 miles northeast of Atlantic 24 miles southeast of Sarah and 5 miles northwest of Wiota Free lunch at noon Jacos Lane Auctioneer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic
Sarah
Wiota
E. M. Bourne
Jacos Lane
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Lewis News
S. H.lefft
Wm.Burnside
Robert Shearer
H. G. Cotton
L. A
John R. Jones
F. J. Macomber
Henry Troup
W. F. Shindley
Adolph Woodward
Lady
O. F. Graham
George Bowman
Mr. Bobling
Vida Samson
Walsh
Claud Tice
Emmett
Rev. Kneedy
Mr. Taylor
Lute Myers
P. Hopley
Roy and
Anna Hawke
Livingston
Josie Lombard
Greenfield
Messrs. Dahl and Peoples
Griswold
E. C. McCarthy
Council Bluffs
Hugh McElroy
E. J. Bates
C. W. Lavery
Meredith
D. E. Evans
Ohio
Boston
J. B. Shultz
Jesse McCarthy
Earl Dunn
George Ebert
J. B. Tie
Albert Morgan
Nebraska
Clint Bickets
Cline
Kennedy & Gardner
A.N. Downer
J. E. May
Milton Funk
Qohie
Harlow Cotton
Mr. Anderson
Wm. Tieman Ha
D. ¥. Casad
L. C. Carson
A. 8
Woodward
Ett
Ben Bobbett
Sidney
Mr. Elsie
M. J. Davis
Laura
Clara Woodward
W.M. Conrad
Hayes
George
Vin
Travis
Pennsylvania
Climp Black
Sim Moore
Aurora
J. E. Heimbaugh
Albert Kunze
W. Theo. Woodward
Washington, D. C
E. Daugherty
J.H. Curry
Fred Alexandera
Ed. Young
John Johnson
Frank
Bishop
Lew Johnson
Nora Springs
B.S. Phelps
Fred Harvey
Lincoln
Neb
Nicholas Cullman
Mastsena
Chas. Rudig
Washington
Samuel J. Turner
Wm. Newton
Galion
J. A. MceWaid
Grinnel
Myrle
John Boyle
Creighton Medical College
B. C. Harris
Bank of Lewin
R. J. Lavery
BR. B. Newton and Son
Ella Newton
Fred Johnson
Fort Collins
Mrs. Meredith
C. P. Meredith
Allerton
T. W. Acker
Hardin County
Eldora
East Side Literary Club
Fred Alexander
Bargala
E. J. Young
Opera
Sittin
Nellie Morton
George W. ‘Todd Teac
Katherine Needles
Herman Hopke
Ives Anna Sherden
Chas. C. Horn
Amy BE. Woodward
Ned Hodgkins
Emma Faye Welsh
Charles E. Phelps
Emma C. Volstedt
Harry H. Egbert
Pearl A. Bruington
J. O. Wilken
Walnut Street
GROVE
Ira Soper
Mrs. H. Knopp
Morton
A.J. Scott
G. Riggs
Jimmy Walker
Fred Dennison
W. H. Low
Frank MecNalty
Lyman
G. A. BR
Milford
Grandma Rudig
Rosas Eppelsheimer
Grinwold
Simon Sunder Jr
Rudig
Mr. Marsh
Bear Grove
Jas. McMillan
Edward Havens
James
Simon Sunderman
B. B. Hayden
Henry Kuester
Louisa
John
Henry Sunderman
Noble Townships
Geo. Alliband
Lincoln Township
Has
Francis Blazer
John Eppellsheimer
Mr. Eppelsheimer
College Notes
Elocution Daaa
Belle Culver
Prof
Erwin
Messrs
Newton and
Stuckrath
Wallace Hodge
Wakefield
Holt
Hugh Waddell
Purdy
Laura E Whitman
Mary Jane Eastman
Gcd
Henry C Odell
Daniel E Roe
Franklin
F Drenner
George W Garlach
Clara J Potter Gardner & Daugherty
D F Drenner
James Haworth
Thomas R Williams
Edna
Noble
Hitney
B Aldrich
Arthur
Hamerick
Northup
Albert T Powell
Petitetux
RT & W
J Colter
Louisa J McIntyre
William M Porter
Rowley
Emil N J Geisler
AS Ruaden
Marne
P. T. Stafford
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