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Newspaper
Humeston New Era
Location
Humeston, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1908
Page
8
A religious verse praising gratitude for earth’s bounty wealth health and peace. It thanks God for loved ones present and for the absence of grief and for grateful hearts rising to bless Thee from every hearth and home.
Rhudy s promotes fresh bread and a new line of post cards. Dinner with the M E ladies planned for tomorrow. Revs Campbell and Speer visited Leroy Friday. Dr McCulloch traveled to Des Moines on business this week. Mrs Susie Mariette visited Van Wert Thursday. Hutchinson and Son sell a large line of three ply stamped bass wood. Grace Robenhouse starts the winter term at Bentenville. McCulloch Hyde guarantees the best value.
Local items mention Hugh Crawford aiding in a barber shop, GHW Yard visiting Chicago, church programs at the M E church including an evangelism sermon, and visits by Miss Olive Washburn of Derby and Mrs. Emma Thomas of Des Moines. Advertisements invite fur buyers in Garden Grove and a telegraphy course in Davenport. Also notes about state lawmakers’ occupations, a sermon and an Epworth League delegation to Des Moines, plus postal and medical notices and a travel letter from Rangoon Burma.
Prospectors drilling for coal at Dainsville Missouri report a rock strata about thirty feet deep yielding an excellent whetstone material of superior grade. Several have tested it with promising results and the town expects future growth. Multiple drills are active drilling coal prospect holes while another probes for oil and gas.
The first annual show of the Appanoose County Poultry Association will be held in Centerville on December 1 2 8 and 4. Over four hundred dollars in special premiums cash and merchandise has been posted by the association in addition to regular premiums ribbons and cup prizes. A $25 award will go to the best ten birds in the show.
For sale is 160 acres located three miles south and half a mile west of Humeston known as the Vail farm. Inquiries should be made to John W. Aten in Garden Grove Iowa.
Local notice urges customers to place orders for coal and wood with W J Taylor. It specifies the supplier as the point of sale and highlights prompt ordering for winter needs.
A Friday evening gathering at the home of Mr and Mrs D P Northrup celebrated their niece Miss Mabel Jones before her return to Mount Ayr. The group includes Myrtle Clark Cleo McGuire Ethel Shaw Marc Berry Miriam Ross Fred Kyner Carl McGuire Butler Sullivan James Mallette and Ralph Ross who enjoyed games and refreshments.
The twelfth grade begins Milton's Minor Poems, the eleventh studies Tennyson's Idylls of the King, Hawthorne's House of Seven Gables, and the ninth reviews Longfellow's Evangeline.
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