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Newspaper
Daily Liberal
Location
Le Mars, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1881
Page
3
The Liberal Job Printing Office has been re-stocked with types and material and can now produce work in approved style at city-office prices. A trial is invited and the shop promises expert workmen and quality that meets demanding standards.
Rural and town items cover weather, local business talks, marriages, and travel. Reports mention J E H Israel shopping for fall goods in New York and Philadelphia, a single daily freight train delay, and a potential tannery and glove factory in LeMars with 25 to 50 workers.
Coroner Myers and family stay at the Revere House. Mrs. O A Kent leaves for Aledo Texas where her brother is dangerously ill. Mrs. J F Patterson returns from Webster City. A1 Struble journeys to Storm Lake on legal business. L A Williams back from Storm Lake recruiting trip. John Penallagen and family from Mineral Point Wisconsin relocate to Le Mars. P is father of Townsend's lumber bookkeeper. M B Kelley returns from Dakota. T M Tompson arrives from the east. J S Dunscomb and family reach town by Central train. W P Hunt at union depot plans two week vacation to Cedar Falls. Mrs Durston returns from Chicago area. G Norris worships at Clear Lake.
A city social last evening hosted by the young ladies at Mayor Woodard's grounds raised about eighty dollars, with sixty dollars clear profit. The event featured well managed tables, generous citizen patronage, and a fully carried musical programme.
The Revere Louse project in Le Mars is rapidly moving with a veneered brick exterior and roofing within two weeks. Senator Shrader of Iowa City caused a prank by labeling a box to A H Lawrence as Gen Ben gin Old Tom Gin with horticultural reports, disappointing local prohibition Republicans.
The Pomeroy News notes LeMars likely to become the region’s largest town outside Sioux City as Mainstreet rises with new homes and busy business. Plymouth county farmers shift to corn hogs and cattle. a pork-packing house is planned with Frost Heaphy Roberts to operate the park-house east of the depot. John Wilde’s duck hunt ends in a six hour wandering tale as he returns home exhausted.
A compact listing shows prices and figures including 5.50 3.50 5.00 along with 95 20 25 and 60 70 25, indicating a snapshot of recent market or trade data.
A reader reports a minor railway crossing mishap two miles south of town on Wednesday morning. The notice offers a reward through Frank Miller for information leading to a resolution of the incident.
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