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Newspaper
Fayette Reporter
Location
Fayette, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1910
Page
7
A Fayette county column lists community notices, sales, visits, and personal milestones. It notes poultry market quotes, farm and domestic ads, visits by Mrs. Norton and Mrs. Black, wood stove and furnace sales, upcoming club meetings, church and missionary activities, and recent obituaries and marriages, with names such as Berkhart, Mittlestadt, Budd, Whitley, and Linson among others.
Low round trip home seekers fares in effect on the first and third Tuesdays of each month through 1910. Explore opportunities along the Chicago Milwaukee Puget Sound Railway in the Dakotas Montana Idaho and Washington. Tickets expire 25 days from sale with liberal stopovers. Contact a Chicago Milwaukee St Paul agent or F A Miller General Passenger Agent in Chicago for details.
A four family party in October 1910 toured Bear Grove six miles southeast of Fayette on the Smithfield Fairfield line. They noted the burial place of the county’s first white child born in 1844, visited a lime kiln, an old spring, and the Shanty sheltering a mother and five children from an Indian attack, and recorded several Brooks family graves with epitaphs.
Mrs A E Kernahan is critically ill this week but improving. Her Bristow Iowa parents were summoned. Miss Mae Brown travels to Greeley for an evening concert. A student mass meeting backed a new athletic fee to fund expenses and urged board approval. A football game vs Lenox College is set for Friday afternoon. Senior class entertained A Earl Kernahan and wife and presented a cut glass fruit dish. Charles C Lewis mourns his father’s death Sunday. Johnny Barnes, Strawberry Point, who attended summer school, broke both legs in a fall.
A family history note describes Miss Alice McDonald receiving a portrait of Robert Emmett. It details kinship to Emmet, Caleb Lamb of Center Township, and long lineages linking to American Revolution and 1812, with many titles and honors from societies, royalty, and notable figures.
Wm Webster traveled to Wadena on Tuesday. Miss Beasussell visits Hawkeye, LD. Platt returned from Edgewood Saturday. The Milt Crow family are improving. Helen Paceidge of Maynard was in town Sunday. George Davia works on a porch. Dr. B C Armsworth of Volga was in town Wednesday. Miss Carrtee Bost journeyed toward Sioux City to visit her sister. Yella Pond spent Sunday in Oelwein with Bessie Roas. Mrs K H Lockwood stayed from Wednesday to Monday at Minkler. Mrs Dr Lewis and Mary of Maynard visiting. George Bailey and wife and John Bailey visiting St Monticello and Anamosa. Join Doughwis wife attended N S Parker’s birthday party at Randalia on Tuesday.
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