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Newspaper
Fayette Reporter
Location
Fayette, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1910
Page
4
West Union visitors, family guests, and local social events appear in a mixed notes column. Alfred Aierath of New Hampton guests Charles Aierath. Miss Anny Billmeyer of West Union visits friends. Rebekah Lodge holds installation with Mrs. Jepson of Oelwein assisting.__["
The item notes an oyster supper at the Randalia hotel with Fayette residents present. It lists numerous local officers and members installed, followed by editor remarks about the reporter's retirement, support for Miss Nellie Vanglin to continue the work, and small-town social updates among Fayette and surrounding communities.
Miss Edith Bacon returns to West Union for studies after holidays. Alta and Iola Boeckenhimer start in No.3 as their family relocates to the Mitchell farm. Miss Anna Smith of Strawberry Point visits North Center relatives. Vernon Hanchett resumes schooling as ankle heals. Mr. and Mrs. Smith visit John Hack in West Center. R. & Austin and P. Hoepfner attend lodge in West Union.
Garner's store offers wholesale prices attracting locals amid repairs and farm planning. Notes report horse deliveries by Rob Davia for 115 dollars and Will Thompson's 200 dollar horse, with other farm aids and social events at Cannell and Nod districts. A basket social is planned January 20. Cannell family activities and local medicine ads are mentioned.
Miss Blanche Foot of Hawkeye was a guest at the Bacon home. Alfred L. Smith visited West Union on Wednesday, urged by his brother-in-law Wesley Butler. Mr. and Mrs. Hatfield stayed at the County Farm Sunday, visiting the R. L. Austin home. Mrs. Williamson returned from Missouri relatives. Prof. Kitch resumed work at Houston Minnesota. Miss Jesuse Ploority of West Union started school in Campbell district. Sunny Circle January meeting will be at B. V. Odekirle home.
Dunnan notes a grand shoe sale at Garner's store with wholesale prices sparking local buying. The entry mentions several residents, visits, and illnesses. Robert Sherman improves and is outdoors, D A Holmes travels to Fayette, and others send regards from Arlington and Parker Dakota. Over sixty attended a ball at Walker's hall with depot supper, and visitors from Parker, South Dakota are staying with relatives.
Joseph Rucker Lamar, newly named associate justice of the U S Supreme Court, hails from a Georgia legal dynasty. His kinsmen include Lewis Q C Lamar, a former U S Supreme Court justice, and a Mississippi senator who died on the Georgia court. Lamar studied at the University of Georgia and Washington and Lee, was admitted in 1870, and served in Georgia's legislature before joining the state supreme bench.
The piece notes Morgan humor in London as he jokes about a coat of arms and Norman kin. It reports Connecticut's new governor Baldwin as the first Democratic entrant in the gubernatorial race since Morris, and mentions Durliog and Roosevelt in campaign and dinner controversies. Baldwin, a New Haven native, is seventy, son of Roger Sherman Baldwin, a former governor.
The fragment notes a Connecticut chief justice and Yale constitutional law professor, descended from Roger Sherman, with ties to New Haven. It mentions Yale graduation in 1801, Harvard study, tenure since 1872, and tenure as chief justice until retirement in 1910 due to age. It references Governor Baldwin and a political shift.
For sale a 55 acre farm northwest of Clermont offering 126 plowable acres, rolling but fertile soil, main road access, a schoolhouse on site, two springs, an orchard, a solid house and multiple outbuildings, all well fenced. Owner not a farmer, price 43 an acre with terms. possession March 1911. Rent options available.
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