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Newspaper
Dakota City County Herald
Location
Dakota City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1908
Page
4
The Dakota County Herald is a weekly Nebraska paper published in Dakota City. It lists a subscription price of $1.00 per year and notes mail transmission as second class matter. The paper provides telephone number 48 for contact.
W. J. Bryan urges a national resolve in welcoming home the Bryan Home Guards and Traveling Men's Club from the National Convention. He warns that losing this year’s fight would erase the spirit of My Country Tis of Thee and end July Fourth celebrations as American Empire rises.
Josie Mun dy and Rob Mun dy drove from Hubbard Friday with Josie receiving dental work from Dr Lewis while visiting. Judge Smith married Jovepl M Kice of Winnebago to Alta Lampson of Walt Hill. Emory Jeep visits Rev Geo Bray in South Sioux City. Dr and Mrs Young, Mr and Mrs Wm Mahoney and two sons spent Sunday at Crystal Lake Park. Gilson Wilson ships horse to Dr Ashley for treatment. horse improving. Ernest McDowell travels to Dakota City for a short visit. Jas Robins and family with O E McMonies and others plan camping at Crystal Lake next week.
A stream of social news from Homer Crystal Lake and nearby towns reports visits and parties. Dr Nina Smith visits Pender with friends. GJ Adams family camping at Crystal Lake. Miss Marjorie Van Valin and Miss Olinda Wachter connect with Homer visitors and hosting guests. Miss Mary Harty takes a teaching position in Pender schools. Emerson Enterprise notes a daughter born to Mr and Mrs Fred Blume. Grace Kroesen arrives from Cedar Falls visiting Reba McLavalin and E Cobb. Col Alia Davis buys a new Morrill piano for daughter Mike Julia. J P Davey takes vacation at Jackson and Lake Okoboji. FC Kenower assists in drugstore. County official P Berry protests Dakota County asset valuation increases. state board raises real estate valuations in several counties. John Jordan dies aged about eighty. funeral held at Catholic church. Local notes from City Record mention Hazel and Delaney Dakota City.
Tom Wyant of Navodra spent Sunday in Concord with his partner. Rafe Foote returned from Hubbard Saturday and visited his mother before resuming work Monday. Vida Leamer of Wakefield visited friends in Concord and Dixon last week and once lived in Concord. Mary E. Harty of Jackson, an experienced teacher, has been secured to teach the third room at Concord schools being added this vacation. she stayed with the James Paul family during her visit.
Dan Hartnett and wife attended the Knights of Columbus picnic at Sioux City last week. Carl Anderson's store features new apricots, coffee, vinegar, sugar, graniteware and summer underwear with premium offers and low prices. The wedding of Lucian Duncan and Bridgie Grown was held in Sioux City, with attendees from the Hubbard area.
Miss Lenora McNeil recovers after surgery in a Sioux City hospital. Carroll and children return home from the Monahan residence in Omaha. Mrs Smiley gifts daughter Helen a $300 piano and Helen joins Mrs Murphy's music club the sharps minors. Glen Miller sustains a crushed arm at Crystal Lake. surgeon reports steady progress. Eight month old child of Mr and Mrs T O Hoffman dies from whooping cough. services held at Dakota City home with Rev G E Von Hagen. interment Logan Park. Mrs George Lamb mourns the sudden San Jose death of her year old baby. cause related to brain over development. Invitations issued for the wedding of Barton Kroesen and Miss Reba McLaughlin in Emerson on Wednesday Aug 12. Kroesen to teach printing in Kearney Nebraska.
Lavion Dineen and Mies Bridget Green plan a morning wedding at a Hubbard Nebraska Catholic church. The bride born in Ireland, the groom the son of pioneer wagon maker J O Dineen of Sioux City. Attendees include local police and fire officials and family members as the couple prepares a Sioux City home after the ceremony.
Father English and Margaret English join May and Ligeie OConnor with Mr and Mrs Jobo Groen in a local notice listing multiple individuals associated with a community event or matter.
Local items list deaths and obituaries Brice Harris in Wisconsin with dropsy relatives James and Herbert Harris. Mary Campbell dies of stomach cancer in Dakota County. Mia Edison dies in Decatur sister of Oscar and Bert Lake. Community greetings guests include Grandma Priest and Marion Curtis. many residents visiting, traveling, or relocating to Iowa Nebraska and Wisconsin.
Fragments record visits and travels of residents including Frances Sawyer at Blair Nebraska and Margaret Mitchell at Goodwin. Mentions hogs on market, church institute in Dakota City, and a Jackson man James L Kramper wedding to Cecelia Merger in Omaha. Funeral of John Ahern at Carroll notes his death by a horse kick and details family.
A man formerly of Dubuque Iowa, who later settled near Carroll Nebraska and amassed 640 acres, died recently. He resided in Nebraska at his death and left one brother surviving. Funeral services were conducted at the Catholic church in Wayne with Rev Fr McNamara of Bloomfield delivering the sermon, and burial followed in Wayne cemetery.
The report notes rain boosting money making activity as residents share visits and sales. Eric Becermann injures a sprained ankle after a horse incident while others visit relatives and lease farms. A public sale is scheduled for September 16 at 10 o clock to settle debts in Dakota county Nebraska under the district court clerk.
Mae Heeney departed Wednesday morning for Fremont Nebraska to attend the commencement exercises at the Fremont normal. C Peterson and wife welcome a baby boy born Tuesday. Mr and Mrs L Dineen left town Wednesday evening for Omaha. They came to escape rice and old shoes at Hubbard but found all they needed in this town. Mrs James Heveney has been quite ill in recent days.
A Des Moines newspaper clipping recounts the Ayres family born in the same cabin on a farm near Fort Madison Iowa, but across Michigan Wisconsin and Iowa territories. It notes descendants in Des Moines Tropico California Springfield Missouri and Inkota Chey Nebraska and highlights the cabin's history and brick remnants.
Promotes sale of a 25,000 acre tract in Howard and Borden counties Texas with 15,000 acres of improved land. Describes rich soil, 30 inch rainfall, 40 to 70 bushels corn yields, towns Big Springs and Colorado nearby, price $15 per acre with $5 down and 10-year terms at 6 percent. August 18 opening sale led by W T Bartlett.
First publication August 1st announces a sheriff sale by order of the district court under a judgment in favor of Westman Tateman Company. The sale targets a described parcel in Dakota County, as specified in the February term order, to satisfy a debt of fifty seven dollars and four cents with additional costs.
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