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Newspaper
Emmetsburg Democrat
Location
Emmetsburg, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1908
Page
6
A Whittemore update column reports on residents visiting relatives, gin club events, and multiple sales and land deals. Notable items include Carl Voight buying a 24 acre Whittemore farm for 13000, R. A. Hinton’s hog sale, and P. F. Conlon planning to quit farming. The piece mentions a Harmonia orchestra booking, a Kirby damage case appeal, and Uncle Dealy returning from Excelsior Springs.
In WhItemore a land dispute over chickens led to a midday clash between L. M. Gockley and John Munch. Gockley shot at a flock as Munch and Henry Hahn fought back, with no arrests reported. Also notes Rock Island depot upgrades and local train accommodations demanded by Iowa railway commissioners.
Promoters urge readers to send three or more performer names and twenty five cents or postage to receive postpaid the latest Popular Music Roll. It features 20 pages of sheet music with songs and waltzes for piano or organ, including Bud Runger’s Flight of the Butterflies and The Girl Are Seen.
A Dickinson county couple fought over a calf in Emmet county last week. Both were arrested and fined. The item notes a string of local notices and minor transfers from various Iowa towns including Emmetsburg Spencer Algona Estherville and Spirit Lake with several farm dealings and a public school teachers’ visit.
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