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Newspaper
Ireton Weekly Ledger
Location
Ireton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1906
Page
8
Local notes from Ireton and surrounding townships record visits, family events, and farm business. Reports include Mr and Mrs Houlton and others visiting relatives, children’s church services, school term ends, and various farm shipments and sales. Community members attend events, travel to Esterville and Le Mars, and engage in repairs and purchases.
Flora Wiley visited with Airs J Morey on Friday while Anes SMcNally contacted Mre T A Hatten Jr last week. Hog prices appeared in Treton market Friday and Frans Negusard family left Monday for Rees Island Tilt after visiting Mrs Frank Buskirk. The group plans stops at Council Bluffs and Brookies Iowa near Tingey 28. Rev Pilbern led service at Pleasant Prairie Church as Lena arrived from Mueleberg Wisconsin.
Willis T Morgan of Rural Route 1 Concord New Hampshire recalls two wars and says Dr King’s New Discovery kept him healthy in the Philippines. He touts the remedy as the last medicine for coughs colds bronchial troubles and lung diseases available at Waite & Co and J B Preer Co druggists with a 59 cent price and a free trial bottle offer.
Sunnyside residents gather for weekend visits and reports. Mr and Mrs W G Brown and Mr and Mrs Watson spent Saturday with Mr JQ Miller who returned from Hanover reporting an enjoyable time. Misses Florence and Edith Wiltson visited with Lit and Als Findley. Rush and Raymond Steele seen driving north Friday. Mike Johnson begins work on a large cattle and bay barn. Frank Taylor plans a hog house on his farm. Housewives prepare strawberry jams and preserves. Mrs DeVries, mother of Mrs Laroia, dies in Sioux Center and is buried there. The Cester township delegation leaves for county contention via Ireton route. The Meey imitations of DeWitt's Witch Hazel salve are advertised as best.
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