Land for sale and farm listings across Iowa in 1919
A collage of farm ads and notices seeks buyers for 160 to 400 acre tracts in Palo Alto County and Lyon County Minnesota. Listings promise improved land with tiling, rail and road access, and bids from contractors for a district schoolhouse. Local obituaries note Hallie Henry Soper and a memorial address.
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Palo Alto
Cockleburs
Quack Graso
Tange
P.m
Palo Alto County
Iowa
West Bend
Range
Thos. L. Jarret
South Street
Springfield
Lyon County
Minnesota
Marshall
Villager
Ring
Cumberland
Duroc Jersey
Orion
Giant Invincible
M. Carroll
Balaton
Minn
Iowa Line
Linn County
Moores Lando
Brookfield
Freedom Township
W. R. Schroeder
E. H. Lagerstedt Co
Geerysburg
Dakota
Terril Creamery Fire Destroys Stock Affects Homecoming
A Terril creamery fire destroyed the plant with about 800 dollars of cream on hand. Insurance coverage stood at 2,100 dollars. A reception will honor homecoming soldiers tomorrow evening, promising generous hospitality.
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Terril
Birth notices list many newborns across towns this spring
In the district clerk’s records, a long list of birth reports since the last Democrat issue shows numerous babies born to families in Barbour West Bend Graettinger Mallard Emmetsburg Ruthven Cylinder Fenton Fere Valley Whittemore and other towns. Names include Barbour Besuy Doty Dunn Doore Wriows Fountain Fordyce Moran Fosner Goff Handleman Houseman Hewett Knudtson Knovp Kliegi Kollasch Lilligard Lilley Hession and McAllister among others with birth dates ranging March May and October 1918 1919.
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Clerk of District Court
The
Democrat
Messrs and Mesdames
Barbour
West Bend
Mary
Edwin Besuy
Graettinger
Chism
West Bern
Lea
J. Clare
P. D. Goff
Cylinder
N. W. Handleman
Fenton
Sobn Houseman
Fere Valley
Ue Hewett
Dickinson County to Vote on 45 Miles of Hard Surfaced Roads
Dickinson County residents will vote June 26 on funding for building forty five miles of hard surfaced roads. Meetings are scheduled in all towns this week and early next week with local speakers invited to address the gatherings.
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Hickinson County
Dickinson County
Masons Plan Club Rooms With Billiard Tables
The Masonic fraternity in this city will convert the front office rooms of their building into club rooms. They plan to install pool and billiard tables to provide recreation for their younger members. This initiative is praised as commendable.
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Masonic Fraternity
Freeman Buys Lot for New Enterprise in Emmetsburg
Will Freeman has bought the Patrick Lilly property where the John Box restaurant stood. He paid 3500 dollars and plans possible building soon. Freeman expects Emmetsburg to enjoy steady growth. Charles and Earl Sturges left for Sheldon to visit relatives, then Charles returns to San Francisco to continue submarine service.
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Will Freeman
Patrick Lien
Charles
Earl Sturges
Sheldon
Sheldon Charles
San Francisco
Wind Blows Down Fence Breaks Glass at Local Store
Strong Monday evening winds toppled the old McCarty and Linderman building fence, shattered a front glass at the electric light store room, and felled several trees around town.
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McCarty & Linderman
Electric Light
Finnestad Sells Eighty Acres at $210 Per Acre
L. M. Finnestad in the county's northeast sells an unimproved eighty acres to Phillip Weisbrad for 210 dollars an acre. James Walsh of the Terris neighborhood was killed in France while laying telephone wires.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LL. M. Finnestad
L. M. Finnistad
Phillip Weisbrad
James Walsh
Terris
France
Also Mentioned on This Page
Floyd
G. Brown
Charlesity
Traveree
Verse Land Company
Wheel Minnesota
Quity
A. P. Meyers
Rodman, la
Hallie H. Soper
Hallie Henry Soper
I. L. Soper
Way
LeRoy T. Weeks
Mr. Saper
Walter G. Middleton
L. M. Christiansen
Estherville
Pais
E Wasmins
Harding
Iure
U. S
Wet Bend
West Benders
Des Moines
Robb
768Th
Laurens
Jim Pierce
Emmetsburg
Minneapolis
P. F. Littleton
Mor
Wn. Fountain
J. G. Fordyce
John Moran
Alonzo Fosner
Mallard
May
G. W. Knovp
Emmetsbu Marels
H. J. Kliegi
Pr. B. Kollasch
Whittemore
E. Lilligard
H. G. Lilley
P. J. Hession
J. 8. McAllister
Richard McNally
Frank E. North
Whittemare
H. M. Oliver
E. A. Phillips
Olaf Pollie
Ruthven
Chester Skaar
RH. M. Thomas
Thomas White
E. S. Wallace
Wr. Thompson
Aprsiire
Schumaker
Freedom
H. B. Aldersen
Independence
Standard Oil Company
Standard
O21 Company
Indiana
Europe
Michigan Ave
Chicago
Ibyds
R. J. Dooley
Emmetsburg, Long
Prince Albert
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co
Winston-Salem
N.C
FISK
W. C. Richardson
Emmetsburg Auto CO
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