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Newspaper
Hamburg Reporter
Location
Hamburg, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1906
Page
1
The article lists officers elected in Hebron Chapter R A M Pythian Sisters Knights of Pythias and other orders. It notes new officers for each group, plus social events at the Married Ladies club and local updates on public works, entertainment plans and personnel changes in Hamburg and surrounding towns. Additional items include church music, a new attorney in Sidney, and sheriff Kent’s improving condition.
Report from Washington states Col Hepburn recommended George A Danforth for a third term as Hamburg postmaster. He is praised for fairness and strong support from friends. The church sermon discussed baptism, immersion debates, and references to Peter, Philip, and Smoot case implications. Revival success noted with William Sunday in Illinois and Kewanee conversions.
Church of Christ invites worshippers to an evening service with a sermon on Basic Truths of the Christian Faith and a morning sermon How to Succeed in Life. M E Church South reports Sunday school at 10, Epworth League, and revival ongoing in Hamburg. Methodist Episcopal Church lists Sunday school at 10, epworth, public worship at 11 and 7:30, with sermons on the Lord’s Prayer and baptism, asking attendees to bring Bibles and submit questions.
School notes report dismissal for the death of Professor Stotler's son and a partial week off. Miss Lee out sick. Second six weeks cards issued. A note mentions a bound high school library book. A city tightens Sabbath laws amid Puritan nostalgia and a conservative newspaper deriding Puritans as unpatriotic.
Burlington Route announces excursion round trip fares from J Hainbure to Iowa Missouri and Nebraska points and many other states. Tickets available December 20 21 92 88 24 25 80 81 1906 and January 1 1907 with final limit January 7 1907.
W A Caldwell agt N W Davis received a telegram from Shreveport Louisiana Wednesday morning stating his brother in law Q O A Sharp had died and his body was being shipped here. The packing house exports to foreign countries have fallen by half affecting packers and meat raisers. The Mission Sunday school resumed at the K P building on Sunday afternoon. A granddaughter of Benjamin Franklin, now seventy two, is a nurse in New Jersey who rides twenty miles on her bicycle for daily exercise. T E Hines bought the old Bang Buckham farm five miles north of Hamburg for about 73 dollars per acre, and the Reporter notes Republican prosperity benefits.
Evangelist James Brown of Texas will preach next Sabbath at 11 oclock with special church music in the morning and evening. The pastor will address men in the evening on a topic of interest. Midweek prayer meeting is Wednesday at 7 30 pm.
The live voting altered standings with Maude Chaney of McKissick Island leading at 12109 points, followed by Venus Mowry Watson 11600 and Myrtie Conver Hamburg 7200. Prize notices offer a handsome $15 Russian brass clock set for new subscribers by Dec 15, as three former prize winners are barred from new drawings. Reverend Taylor preached at Emerson Baptist as revival meetings continued. contest closes soon.
The Reporter columns discuss issuing bonds for city improvements inviting careful consideration by citizens and taxpayers. Also notes an Oyster Supper by the Christian church at K P Hall on Saturday Dec 1 with oysters cake coffee and ham burgers from 2:30 pm with lunch all afternoon and supper. Grandpa W H Brown celebrates his seventy sixth birthday and James Medford is able to be outside during warm days after a long illness.
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