Neighborhood Letters From Locality Happenings
The Journal reports a week of small town activity including visits by Mr. and Mrs. Neri Ogden to friends in town, work by O W Glass on a Richland trip for commencement, and a new Mutual Telephone directory by U S Ubacey. Many residents travel, marry, or relocate and attend events from May 26 to May 27, with church, school, and social notes across Oskaloosa, Ollie, Sigourney, Otumwa, and nearby communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neri Ogden
Oskaloosa
O. W. Glass
Richland
U.S. Ubacey
Mutual Telephone Company
I. N. Ogden
F. Love
Mr. Love
A. A. Lynn
Ollie
Martinsburg
Imne
A. N. Redfern
Chicago
David Clark
W. K. Barlow
Sigourney Liveryman
Agent Beck
Beck
W.C. Bryson
LaPlata
Missouri
Earl Porter
Millie Lentz
Sigourney
Olie I
M. Ogden
O. O. Ogden
John McCurry
Ogden Farm
W. S.hogue
Ottumwa
B. Berridge
Prairie Telephone Company
Minerva McCreery
Burlington
Hayesville Corn Planting Near Completion
May 26 report from Hayesville notes corn planting nearly finished. Mrs. Mattie Conner and Miss Ella Gullett were summoned to Kansas last week due to a sister's serious illness. Miss Alice Lister and J. W. Hawk are mentioned as residents in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mattie Conner
Ella Gullett
Kansas
Alice Lister
J. W. Hawk
Local Happenings in Hayesville and Surrounding Areas
Social and school notes from Hayesville and nearby towns recount visits by Mrs. Grimes and others, a local colored troupe to perform Tuesday, and a sequence of Sunday gatherings at Nelson, Braden, Webb, and Shafer households. Miss Annie McClintic teaches west of town while No. 7 school resumes after measles. Nevada Gillett seeks eye treatment in Iowa City. May Gillett returns from Fairfield residence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martinsburg
Hayesville
C.O. Grimes
Starper
J. Lentz
Olive Jacobs
Frank Bracket
Sigourney
W. H. Duree
Ed. Weller
Starvey Hardesty’s
Otto Long
Bloomfield
Flayesville
B. D. Mowery and Family
Tiedrick
Joseph Nelson
T.gavon
H. Braden
Pekin
Susan Webb
Afton
J. B. Fye
Ollie
Isaac Webb
Miss Young
Hedrick
Christian Church
Walters
Vernon Jerrington
Marion Clevenger
Frank Shafer
Fairfield
J. O. Webb
Annie McClintic
No. 7
J. A. Webb
Union County
Nevada Gillett
Iowa City
May Gillett
Death of Keokuk county pioneer Mrs Nugent near Nugent
Mrs C J Nugent of Keokuk county died Monday night at her home near Nugent after a long illness. Funeral at Mt Zion church today conducted by Rev F N Byram. Remains to Mt Zion cemetery. Susannah Lister born in Clark county Indiana about 76 years ago, married to C J Nugent in 1853 and moved to Iowa. Nugent survivors include husband age 84, children Mary Smith Eliza Marshall and one infant death. Aunt to W H J M G F Young and Mrs Anna McGee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. J. Nugent
Keokuk County
Nugent
Mt. Zion Church
F. N. Byram
Ollie
Mt. Zion
Susannah Lister
Clark County
Indiana
Iowa
Great West
G. F. Young
Anna McGee
Hedrick
I thought she was a woman of unbreakable will
A dialogue from the Philadelphia Press features two men in period dress debating a wife's independence. One notes she married a lawyer, who “broke the will,” implying subservience to her husband through legal influence or pressure, in a witty social aside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Press
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D. Smith
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the Woods
Rev. Harrington
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T. D. Cuddy
Brighton
John McCreery
Ray Goodman
M.n.smith
Black
Ola Ewing
Competine
H. D.alexander
David Mesgersmith
John Hughes
Columbus
Ohio
Wil. E. Shaffer
First Nat,Bank
J. W. Jennings
Onawa
G. Smith
B.walker
Abingdon
Adam Decker
Lizzie Decker
Batavia
Lena Foster
Kellerton
Della Silvers
Blanche Hayes
Jairkville
Sward
J. C. Filler
O.M. Wyckoff
Jas. McNew
Mt. Pleasant
A. H. Dennis
Highland Center
C. Powell
Hix
I. Silvers
H. F. Davis
J. S. Fryer & Son
India
Primrose Batiste
Climatis Dimity
Gabrielle
Batiste
Castillon
M. E. Silvers
P. James
T. M. Phelps
Ritila & Llugeon, Reanch, Ewa
8. A. Spillman
J. D. Henry
Scott Bros., Furniture and Undertaking
Scott Bros
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G.h.fleener, Mer
Ant Goods
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Pollock & Fleener
West Second Street
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