Atkinson News Highlights Local Life And Events
Local items report home made sauerkraut at Hays, visits by Maes Verbeck and others, property transfers, a church meeting, a leap year dance ado, and a plan for a Farmers Elevator co operative with stock drive and meetings. Includes sales at Lyon Weekley and door to door promotions.
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Hill-vicinity
Martin Farnam
Stickney
Chicago
Atkinson
Will Colby
Hugh Grier
A D. Cowan
Lyman Benton Andrew Alien
Abner_ Gray
Jacob Hoogerwerf
Frank Block
Mothers Meeting Highlights from January W C T U Program
The January mothers meeting of the W C T U featured a series of readings and talks focused on child development and morality. Ella Flagg Young sparked interest with How to Rationally Know the Child, and other pieces discussed bedtime prayers, home education, and youth virtues. The program emphasized nurturing physical and moral well being, with a closing story The Weston Children’s Consolation Prize and a social hour with light refreshments.
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Ella Flagg Young
Emmons Blaine
Blaine
SS Sconors
Jas. Wilson
Weston Childrens
Atkinson Chapter of Eastern Star Installs Officers
The Atkinson Chapter of the Eastern Star held an installation on Tuesday evening January 23 with Mrs D F Humphrey as installing officer and Mrs Milton Trickle as grand marshal. New officers include Worthy Matron Elizabeth Nowers and Matron May B Macauley along with Kay as treasurer, Jennie Emmons as secretary, Elizabeth Rush as warder, James Kay as sentinel. The five star points are Ada Lillian Macomber Ruth Ida Kay Esther Maurde Everett Martha Jessie Goodman Eletts, with Matilda E Clarke as pianist Edith Holzinger.
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Atkinson
The
Eastern Star
D. F. Humphrey
Milton Trickle
Worthy
Elizabeth Nowers
Normatron
May B Macauley
Con S. Kay
Sarah Porter
Jennie Eimmons
Elizabeth Rush
Sentinel
James Kay
Ada
Lillian Macomber
Ruth
Ida Kay
Esther
Maurde Everett
Martha
Jessie Good“man
Eletts
Matilda FE. Clarke
Edith Holzinger
Geneseo Briefs Highlight Local Trades and Health Notes
ABBA Lee Wheat worked as a business caller in Geneseo Tuesday. Peter Gripp hauled around 2000 bushels of corn. Mrs. King of Atkinson visits with Ceil Causemaker and her daughter. John Mapes has improved from bronchitis and is out again. Samuel Pritchard lost about 40 hogs to cholera, a heavy blow for his pork operation. vm Eckert visited Moline over the weekend and shipped twenty pounds of butter at 35 cents a pound.
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Lee Wheat
Geneseo
Peter Gripp
W S. Knowlton
Princton
John Devenney
Robert Gilbrarth
Mrs. King
Atkinson
Ceil
Ceil’’ Causemaker
John Mapes
Vic
Wi, Sauder
Farrisburg
John Sauder
Samuel Pritchard
Cbiolera
Pritchard
Vm Eckert
Moline
Wild Ducks and Swallows Flight Speeds Compared
A brief note contrasts wild ducks with swallows noting ducks at about 98 miles per hour while swallows fly faster. The comparison highlights speed differences among waterfowl and small passerines.
Seasonable Thought on Unchangeable Minds
A compact musing notes that a person who never changes ideas often has nothing left to modify. The aphorism contrasts rigidity with adaptability and hints at the folly of static thinking.
One Precious Possession The Gods May Rob
A brief quotation notes that the beam to endure remains even as the gods take everything else, attributed to George Meredith.
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George Meredith
As Dumb as a Fish Says Comment on Sardine Speech
A quote from Harpers Weekly notes that sardines despite the saying grow vocal when near death, drawing a feeble squeak akin to a mouse. The article contrasts human expressions with sea life and remarks on the sardine’s developed vocal organs.
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Harpers Weekly
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