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Newspaper
Ireton Clipper
Location
Ireton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1891
Page
8
Market items show mixed quotations for grain and livestock. Whest Nog Flax and Corn shelled appear with unclear formatting, while hogs and cattle are listed with uneven figures and fragmented captions from the period trade page.
Rock Valley and nearby towns see frequent visits and commerce as Barker and Harden implement houses improve fronts while residents visit kin in Remsen Brainerd Sheldon Wisconsin and Tama county. Prairie weather hints at a strong corn crop with gardeners and farmers reporting good growth and prospects.
The article notes new grain has begun threshing with good yield and quality. A southwest town farmer reports thirty bushels per acre. It also covers varied local news including a large encampment in Detroit, land purchases by McKeever, a buggy accident, staffing changes at a lumber yard, an upcoming Independence Driving Park meet with $90,000 in purses, and a baseball game rain delay. A copper specimen found by J P Gilbert is described as pure copper and weighing 42 pounds, with its origin unclear.
Last Friday evening Star of Ireton Lodge L O G O B elected officers for the ensuing term. Mrs. O S Cobb was chosen W G, Bert Wing and Millie Wing were named T. Millie Wing as Sec, Robert Brown as Sec and Financial Sec Delbert Post, Estelis Arthur as Geard, Harry Lesher as Sectinel.
List of unclaimed letters at the Repton Post Office for August 1891 includes Bergstro, Evans James, Beary Robert, Kircher Henry, Mahood Joseph, Maxwell S, Neilson Harold, Rerick J. L. Esq, Sebeoders Hernea, Porter Schoffenberg, Panel Vitus Jag, Levit ML Brack, P. M. Handle.
To Borrowers Bank of Nostmwestern Iowa had plenty of money to loan on long or short time on all kinds of approved securities.
A fragment record notes an infant death from cholera last Wednesday and a Thompson returning from Kia Minnesota. It mentions a new sidewalk fronting Hotel i and plans for main thoroughfare pavements. Social visits, housekeeping, a hog show, and a drunken incident ending with the marshal directing a man to leave the vicinity are also briefly reported.
Jamestown Dakota Alert reports farmer J W Moher, a Ramsey County veteran, urges frost protection by night smudges. He explains a single strong smoke cloud over fields can shield crops, noting past success in 1888 with straw and green vegetation burning to extend protection far beyond the fire.
The Chicago and North-Western Railway offers round trip excursion tickets to Sioux City for the Knights of Pythias annual meeting. Tickets go on sale August 10 11 and 12 and are valid for return to August 26 for voters. Inquiries to C N W R agents. Also advertising local remedies and products from Hofman Co and Hoffman Co.
Des Moines hosts the State Agricultural Society fair from August 28 to September 4. The event features nearly $35,000 in premiums, eleven cattle barns for 528 head, twelve horse barns for 384 head, sheep barns for 120 stalls, hog pens, a 264-coop poultry house, and an expansive exhibition hall complex. A half mile race track and a two story amphitheater seat 6000, with electric night lighting and concerts by a forty-member band. Notable attractions include hippodrome races and daily grand trials of speed. Free admission for soldiers Monday and Tuesday. Sunday service and sermon August 30 at 3 p.m. Official info from Jon R, Supervisor, Des Moines Iowa.
Specimen cases report brief cures using Electric Bitters for neuralgia rheumatism stomach and liver troubles with weight loss. A running leg sore and fever sores on another patient also improved after treatment. Local druggists advertise Bucklen’s Arnica salve and Shiloh's Catarrh Remedy as cures, with Hackmetack perfume offered by Hoffman & Co.
The Sioux City and Northern Railroad announces an August 4 excursion sale with a single round trip fare to all Minnesota points north of Fergus Falls and Breckenridge and all North Dakota points east of Beresford. Jas V Mahoney traffic manager. Also noted are De Witt's Early Risers pills.
Advisory lists habits to resist including buying goods away from home speaking roughly to friends forgetting allegiance to home enterprises and finding fault with a wife. It urges readers to travel via preferred routes and to request full information from Jas V Mahoney Sioux City Iowa traffic manager.
Roger Q. Mison Tariff and Roger Q. Millis of Texas to feature at Rock Rapids Aug. Std. The Sisax City and Northern Railroad will run an excursion train leaving Maurice at 8:58 p m arriving Rock Rapids at 9:08 p m. Returning schedule 4:40 p m to Maurice about 6:30 p m. Round trip ticket priced at 1.65 dollars. Onsale August 3. W E B Wakefield agent for C and N R RB Maurice Iowa.
An old advertisement touts Dr King s New Discovery for coughs colds and lung trouble with a money back guarantee and a free sample bottle at the drug store. Also promotes Shilohs Cure for croup whooping cough and bronchitis with a nasal injector free with each bottle and pricing around 50 cents to a dollar.
Wm DrevesKracht and Detler advertise selling farm implements. They offer Himpire and Buckey Binders, Racine Buggies Carts and Carriages from a large carriage company known for first class goods. The note invites buyers to inspect goods and promises honest pricing. Located one door north of the Clipper Office in Ireton Iowa.
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