Ready family plans weeklong visit in city
John Ready and his family from St. Joseph are visiting friends and relatives in the city and expect to stay about a week.
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Newspaper
Fremont Democrat
Location
Hamburg, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1903
Page
1
John Ready and his family from St. Joseph are visiting friends and relatives in the city and expect to stay about a week.
The Barnes Bros Grocery Meat Market and Bakery promotes fresh staples and fancy groceries, seasonal meat buys, and bakery items. It invites customers to visit the new Hydinger building on Main Street in Hamburg Iowa.
By ordinance the city of Hamburg Iowa requires annual dog register fees one dollar for male dogs and two dollars for female dogs. Licenses issued by the city marshal include a collar tag bearing the year, to be worn by the dog. The marshal must kill uncollared dogs running at large after June 1 1903. O F Repshaw Mayor.
The Bazaar lie sale reveals a five day carnival in Nebraska City from June 2 to June 6. Collins Carnival Co. will provide amusements including loop the loop high dive Veloro acrobats and high wire acts. Pay shows feature Statue Turning to Life Royal Athenian Circus Electric Palace and dog and pony acts. A boxing match between Dick Green of Sioux City and English of Nebraska City is planned for June 5 at the Overland.
The Presbyterian church Womans Missionary Society to hold its regular monthly meeting on Tuesday May 23 at 3 o'clock at the home of Mrs. C A Highfield. Ladies of the congregation invited.
Fremont County Prohibition Convention met in Riverton to form permanent organization and draft resolutions. Delegates named John Zuck and others to the State Prohibition Convention. alternates listed. Resolutions urge repeal of mulct law, oppose post exchange changes, rebuke current Iowa officials, and urge county contact for unity. Thurman notes include farming, visits, weather, graduations, weddings, and a burglary at Leonard Ewell's store with a safe blown open and fifty dollars stolen.
Daughters of Rebecca members are notified that the degree work will be exemplified by the Shenandoah degree team on Saturday night May 28. All members are urged to attend. Mayor Redshaw reports a waterspout near Pacific Junction with widespread flooding last Wednesday. Dr. Barton Pitts operates eye and ear clinic in St Joseph Missouri. Robert Hawkins, formerly of the town, is visiting. W S Jones traveled to Nebraska City on Wednesday.
Two furnished rooms available for rent as advertised by Mrs. John Finnell. The item list notes lawn swings for sale by Davey at prices from $12.00 to $50.00 and tinware offered at the Bazaar.
Local bazaar features fine art pictures watches and spectacles with every jewelry piece guaranteed. Social notes mention Mrs Fowler ill in South Hamburg and Miss Bacon visiting her Indiana cousin Emma Towns. Ladies groups report earnings from a strawberry ice cream social while veterans are urged to meet for Decoration Day observance.
The G A R Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias plan a joint memorial day on Saturday May 380th with business houses closed from 10 am to 2 pm. Officers of the day include O F Redshaw president H H Clayton marshal Ed Hatch commander and Gun Squad W M Boyer captain Canton Everett Bronson captain U R K P. A. R. and I O O F lodge members will gather at city hall form a procession with the Knights of Pythias to the I O O F hall and cemetery for prayers music prayer by Elder Hall address by Rev. Geo Wood grave decorations and a return to city hall for disbanding.
Ten feet of snow blankets the Coutts Montana area near the boundary while temperatures run four to six below zero. Great Northern Railway traffic is heavily disrupted by drifts. Losses include two million dollars in stock and about ninety thousand numbers reported lost, with many people missing.
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