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Newspaper
Fayette Reporter
Location
Fayette, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1910
Page
2
Hanry G Baunt announces candidacy for County Treasurer subject to Republican Primaries while Gro M Simpson also declares for Recorder in Arlington Iowa with June Primaries. Local notes include community updates, obituaries, and notices from Fayette Reporter dated March 1, 1910.
Winter returns as Andy Yearous builds a barn and May Fritz visits the Richards home. Several locals visit friends, no service on Sunday due to stormy weather. Alice Humphrey calls, Mamie Humphrey visits, and Robins children suffer scarlet fever slowly. Decoration Day plans form as Rev Temple will lecture May 3.
The oldest inhabitant recalls two weeks of weather chatter while families and neighbors gather. Soloman Kohler were hosted at Will Murphy home. Helen Barr and others graduate May 14 in West Union. Sunday School attendance was strong despite rain. Rev D M Parker preached. families visit J I Miller home. Lane Miller returns from Kirkville Mo for goitre treatment. Mrs Starr injured in a buggy accident but recovering. details of horse and buggy mishap.
Bill Mcgee heads to the Soldier's Home in Marshalltown this week. The Whitley Brothers lose sheep blamed on wolves. Cam Wosbell travels to Grannis for Hollow hunting wolves. Tom Joyner seeks WH Crandall near Pleasant Ridge. Mushrooms flourish in woods, strawberry-hunting noted. Bert Crawford family recovers from measles. A recent storm damaged young pigs and a half acre of Cam Woshells corn was buried by snow. Charlie Jennings moves to Ezra Hastings house.
Miss Ellen Joyce is the latest victim of the measles. Mr Conrad Cline died April 20 after a lingering illness at his son John Cline’s home. The Leahy family spent Sunday at the Mat Kelly home. Verbena Tompkins spent Sunday with home folks. Walter Johnson helps his brother Andrew on the farm. Eva Oldfather and Chas Kiefer visited Mrs Donaldson and family in Wadena. D J Raftis spent Sunday at home. Dan Starr is doing paper hanging on the Ridge. Will Killerlain and family spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Kennedy. Edith Perkins 14 was at home after assisting Mrs Wry Jennings with housework. Invitations issued for the marriage of Miss Mary Ellen Raftis to Mr James Kennedy on Wednesday May 4 at St Joseph's church in Wadena.
A 19th century advertisement touts Hulls Catarrh Cure as a universal remedy for catarrh, claiming constitutional disease status and internal action. The pitch offers a $100 reward for failure to cure and directs readers to mail testimonials to Cheney & Co in Toledo. Also mentions Man's Family Milk for constipation.
Smithfield community updates list Mrs Herman Handy and her son visiting from Austler Wisconsin, Warren Woods visiting relatives, Will Brown and family at Clinton Burns home, a birthday card shower for Mrs I C Butta, and travel to Independence for a family visit. Also notes on D Peeper welcoming a boy, Miss Cassy Kimpaton and Susie Jones attending a spelling contest, Mrs H C Butts visiting, Henry Hinderbrandt helping with his mother's house, Willie Burns working for Francis Adame, Grandpa Burling illness, Frank Pattison selling a horse, Art Butts visiting relatives at Stanley, Floyd Coleman guests with John Bannitt, William Cross returning from Bethany, Shafer Cross stroke and war injuries, Mrs George Potts ill, Hazel Masters helping, School District No 6 notes with attendance and enrollments, and W L Timmerman traveling to Lincoln for his sister’s funeral.
Malissa Timmerman Allen and her sister-in-law Mrs Thomas Allen died after a freight engine struck between horses and a buggy as they crossed a busy rail yard near Lincoln. Mrs Allen survived, leaving a husband, three sons, two daughters, two brothers, and a mother who cared for two young girls afterward. The funeral was held at the Methodist Episcopal church with local church leaders officiating.
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