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Newspaper
Chariton Patriot
Location
Chariton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1902
Page
4
County correspondence lists visits and calls across Derby Chariton Lucas and Indianola. Mentions gatherings, birthdays, church services, lightning damage, a cyclone west of town, and upcoming rural mail routes along with school reopenings and patient illness notes.
Lucas notes report births and marriages, visits by residents to Chariton Des Moines and Council Bluffs, a carbolic acid accident with a recovering child, preparations for a brass band, a moonlight picnic at Cleveland, and local illnesses, retirements, and travel. Include placeholders for names such as John Rickey infant, Abe Corum, Alice Stinson, Adda Manning, James Galloway, Will Evans, Ern Evans, John Childers, Laura Fitch, F. A. Smith, D. A. Anderson, Mrs Maneely, Joe Maneely, Ed Roberts, Clark Nickell, G. W. John, G. W. Davis, R. R. Williams, G. L. Miller, and events at No. 4, Big Hill Coal Shaft, and a charity ice cream supper.
Oakley residents report several illnesses including Mrs. August Peterson and Mrs. Johnson’s mother. A span of ponies owned by Roy Bevens strayed near town. Visitors from Chariton and Des Moines noted. a Republican caucus convened at Piper Bros store to name township candidates.
Local notes report preaching at the M E church every Sunday evening and morning services on alternate Sabbaths. Mrs. Johnson died of pneumonia with paralysis. funeral at the house with interment in Oakley cemetery. Various residents visited, moved, and homestead updates follow, including farming, family arrivals, and minor community events.
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