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Newspaper
Hedrick Journal
Location
Hedrick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1892
Page
7
Fragmentary OCR reads as a freight or market item listing with headings including Going East and Pro eo Ne. No coherent event or names provided to establish a fuller summary.
A jumble of Hedrick business items and public notices reports deliveries coal and grain prices. It mentions S A Zeigler in Painfield visiting Hedrick, hats from Mrs Suanson, and W C McWilliams footwear. Also notes Ottumwa theater goers J C Watts H B Dake M E Silvers saw The Soudan, plus plans for a new creamery with modern machinery and heating by steam.
Daily market notes from Hedrick Post listing Peoria Oskaloosa Burlington Muscatine Sioux City Ottumwa and other routes with times, stock numbers, and prices. Includes cattle hogs and apples quotes and weekly corrections by grain buyers and local grocers.
A jumble of local business notes and social mentions: Scott upholstery work, Spicer’s shop prices on dozes, Clover Seed, lamps, and goold quality goods. Mr Goldthwaite of Sigourney visiting W C Me Williams. Nurseries advertise fruit trees near Hedrick and Ottumwa with 10 000 apple cherry plum peach trees for sale. Revs Tracy Byram Jones attended a Baptist church council in Ottumwa to discuss the South Ottumwa church. Frit Trens mentions 3 000 frit trees for closeout. AL Me Vannoy’s nursery west of Hedrick.
Members of J. M. Hedrick Post 424 are urged to attend the regular meeting on April 9. The agenda aims to perfect arrangements to attend the State near Ottumwa in May.
A Hedrick news fragment reports G T Everett of Packwood visiting town while David Grissom of Martinsburg, and Jas Olmb of Sigourney, were in the city. I M Edwards purchased property on Martha Man Street and Gilstrap has moved to East Sixth. George Scott of Green County bought J B Raben's house and land. Raben plans new building. Hedrick horse trade prospers with forty head shipped, one car to Fargo and another to New York. Local buyers Cremer and Fleener Brothers are active, with over $5,000 in horses market. Ads note houses for sale, hides buyers Jacoby & Co. and Central House, plus injurious platform accident at Owen and Ritter’s well. Promotions for Downing’s cures and Early Risers pills appear as local notices.
A J Doggett formerly of Lancaster has located in Martinsburg and owns several fine stallions in his stables.
A Monday blaze in Creston wiped out a row of structures known as Budweiser Row, largely housing liquor saloons. No injuries were reported and firefighters secured the scene as investigators began work on the cause and total loss.
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