Wednesday JCNE 28 Office Hours Notice
A one day only office hours window is listed from 8:89 a m to 4:36 a m with a return cycle every 25 days. The notice directs visitors to attend during the specified day and interval.
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Newspaper
Emmetsburg Democrat
Location
Emmetsburg, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1916
Page
3
A one day only office hours window is listed from 8:89 a m to 4:36 a m with a return cycle every 25 days. The notice directs visitors to attend during the specified day and interval.
Choice farm for sale three and one half miles north and one mile west of Whittemore Iowa. Well tiled quarter section with excellent buildings and acetylene lights and a silo. Call or write for price and terms. M Esser Whittemore Iowa. 24-4x
A spate of county items reports a barn and shed blaze on the Schmeling farm near Whittemore, farm losses for Miss Beulah Odekirk moving to Bozeman, Montana, and a cave-in buries a Drain No. 2 worker. Other notes cover a draftsman from Estherville joining Purdue soldiers, a Milford teacher resigning for Montana, a farm sale near Pocahontas, a Detroit to Iowa auto tour, and a large fire at the H H Hansen stock farm with $4500 loss and $1500 insurance.
A column of brief notes from 20 years ago reports Mrs. Watson’s fracture after a cow incident, May butter output at Curlew creamery, and butter fat at 14¢. Mentions McKinley’s Republican nomination, July 4 celebrations at Dickens Ayrshire Curlew Whittemore, and speeches by W. J. Bryan at Humboldt. Also notes marriages, deaths, relocations, a telephone link plan, a fatal accident on Milwaukee line, and local events in Emmetsburg and area.
S. and Skow of Lamberton Minnesota spent a pleasant visit with Mr and Mrs Nels Skow in Emmetsburg. He toured via Eagle Grove Algona and Waterloo noting Emmetsburg’s paving surpasses Algona and Humboldt Grove. He reports a nearby six mile farm bought two years ago and valued gains in real estate with Slonicker selling land at 125.90 per acre from 95 per acre. Minnesota’s road fund from iron ore mining impresses him along with higher school funding. Small grains edge local corn in this area, and northwest ties remain strong.
Bankers J. Peterson and A. L. Anderson of Ringsted met the editor during a Saturday auto trip. Peterson praised the St Louis convention and Session attendance, while Anderson lauded the May commencement address by Fort Dodge’s 3. R. Files for Congress. Both predicted Files will tour every county in the district. Duhigg and Nolan handled business in Swea City and Ledyard by auto.
Mrs C E Riley of Mion New York reports six months of relief from indigestion using Chamberlain's Tabiets. The remedy is advertised as for sale by Bert Hughes with the date 23 4.
Charles McLean of Dubuque argues that liquor influence did not cause suffrage defeat in Iowa. He notes Dubuque county's 4,444 majority against the measure, cites East Dubuque saloon voting patterns, and condemns claims of liquor-aligned opposition while praising state leaders Grimes Kirkwood and Allison for the public stand.
Mosher and Jackson sold the gas farm to JL Lippold for 155 dollars an acre last week. Four years earlier Lippold had bought the property for 51 dollars an acre when it had few improvements and was not tiled.
The Emmetsburg chautauqua corrects Bryan lecture date to Sunday July 9 with a 2:30 pm start for the program on Sunday July 5 featuring Carmeling's Old Colonial Band. Admission for the Bryan talk is 56 cents for adults and 25 cents for children, with season tickets admitting to the lecture.
The notice states that a season ticket costs the price of the season and that a single ad mission for the evening events amounts to 3.40 dollars.
By virtue of a Special Execution from the District Court of Palo Alto county Iowa the property of Mrs Tula Dwyer is levied upon for a debt of 498 dollars 3 hundredths with costs and interest. The sale will be held July 2 1916 in front of the Court House at Emmetsburg between 9 am and 4 pm with sale at 2 pm to satisfy the debt. Emmetsburg Iowa May 19 1916. Sheriff Alex Cullen Deputy J W Jackson.
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