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Newspaper
Chariton Patriot
Location
Chariton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1909
Page
4
Derby residents and visitors are listed with many trips and greetings. Names include S. H. Gibbs Humeston and A Garland Chariton visiting Derby, J B Sydebotham and grandchildren Ruth and Floyd visiting Oakley, plus local moves and hospital news. The community calendar mentions Ice Cream and Cake by the Rebekahs, church services, school events, and a Coulter dog and pony parade at 1 pm.
The article explains that scarlatina and scarlet fever denote the same disease, scarlet fever being the common name and scarlatina its Latin origin. It notes scarlet fever is highly contagious and lacks a specific remedy, with mild cases sometimes triggering fatal forms in others upon exposure.
Oakley residents entertain visitors from Des Moines Chariton and Russell with weekend trips and parties. Miss Edna Vincent ends a Stewart school term with a picnic. The Redpath chautauqua set for Chariton August 9 to 15 and a local ball game results in 20 to 8. Local church Children Day plans and community social events fill a busy week.
Robt Miller sold a stallion near Atlantic. Trustees plan a concrete bridge by Ed Curtiss and reroute the road to the creek’s north bank. Ladies Aid served ice cream for U B church over $50 raised. Monuments set for Gray Brinegar Wallace graves. Kansas visitor Mrs Chas Puderbaugh at R O Miller home. Des Moines trip for Joe Gray visit. Jim Snuggs adds a house extension from Lucas. Frank Pennington injured in a horse incident. Indianola visitors Robi Clare and Worth Miller. Hendrickson family visiting Chariton with Art Wallace. Mrs Williams now with son Chas Dundy. Haltom and Cackler lose horses to lightning. Norwood beat Stony Creek 82 80 in ball game. A S Wallace at Smith-Howard wedding in Chariton. Wm Eubank visiting brothers. Jud Anderson buys John Blackstock farm.
An ailing wife and devoted husband in a domestic scene discuss his remarriage after her death. She insists he wed a young widow across the way to ease his grief, naming a red headed neighbor, before she faints. The next days she recovers, and life goes on.
A society matron who volunteers weekly runs a class framed as cooking for mothers. She visits homes, encounters a resident frying cakes in fat, and learns the woman prefers what she likes over what is healthy. The matron then starts a sewing class.
A guest notices the wedding music impressed by an air from a modern opera. The heroine enters to a sham Buddhistic ceremony that ends in a stark tragedy, while the church sets a tone of intellect in the critic’s eyes.
An Atchison man has lay in an unconscious state since ten o'clock last night. Efforts to rouse him have failed and his friends fear he may not regain consciousness. He left home after dinner yesterday, returned at ten, then collapsed as his wife sat nearby.
A Philadelphia scholar puzzled over the wine list noting sher ry priced at 75 cents and four dollars. He asks the waiter for the difference between the brands, prompting a witty reminder of basic arithmetic.
A seaweed invades French oyster beds and lifts 400000 oysters into the sea. Minute seeds drift from the Gulf stream to Morbian Quiberon and Belle-Isle beds, growing to duck egg size. When mature, water evaporates, leaving air to form a balloon that carries oysters away.
United States Fish Commission hopes to stock major eastern waters with Danube sturgeon and sterlet from Roumania. Horace G. Knowles, the American minister, arranged shipments of fry and cans of sterlet, with the plan to hatch them in U S hatcheries and release into the Hudson Delaware Susquehanna and Potomac rivers. Commissioner Bowers sees favorable odds for success as legal protection and continuous supply improve fish stocks nationwide.
A fable-like passage portrays Truth being dressed by various figures including the Grafter Scientist and theologian, each offering appearances that soon fade. Truth rejects these confected robes and ultimately hides at the bottom of a well amid germs, finding no rest in society’s masks.
A city salesman recalls a watchmaker claim that watches run faster when kept in the left pocket and that regulation is adjusted for this. He notes the effect is minor in fine watches but noticeable in cheap ones, though he cannot provide a scientific explanation.
A seasoned lawyer cross examines a stubborn witness over the assailant’s identity. Frustrated, he asks about hair color, pulling off his wig to reveal baldness and gain a victory before the jury. The episode turns on a simple trick converting doubt into certainty.
The New York Press notes how crows, called choughs, rooks, and jackdaws in folklore, are keen, sly birds prone to stealing. It cites a white string hung around fields as a superstition to deter corn thieves and describes a crow plundering a hen egg by biting the shell and carrying the prize tucked at its breast.
The passage reflects on the disappearance of old leisure as modern society busy itself with steam power and rapid transport. It contrasts idle time with a hunger for amusement, noting how travel, museums, literature, and sensational novels fill the void in a rapidly changing era.
A hunter recalls pursuing a black bear in the woods. He shot the bear five times before it finally dropped. The bear’s persistence and the hunter’s claim that the animal was still alive after the first impact highlight the rough encounter.
Redpath system presents top tier plays on Chautauqua platform to reach non theater goers. Albert Armstrong stars in picture plays such as The Bonnie Briar Bush The Little Minister Lorna Doone and The Sky Pilot a Ralph Connor western drama praised for lifelike scenes and strong rugged characters.
A single speaker asserts that someone who has never had a cold cannot know how many remedies exist for illness, implying a broader claim about cures and knowledge. No dates places organizations or named individuals are provided.
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