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Newspaper
Ireton Weekly Ledger
Location
Ireton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1906
Page
8
Rev. Robert Seyle and Don Willeou met for a quarterly conference at Evans West Sunday afternoon at three. He will preach and administer the sacrament of the Lord's supper.
Local residents report farming activity and social visits across Pleasant Prairie and nearby towns. Mentioned are harvest progress, planting deadlines, house repairs, and Sunday gatherings, with multiple households and farms named in the parade of community life.
The text markets Dr King’s New Discovery as a universal cure for coughs and colds with claims of permanent cures. It mentions a druggist in Livonia Tod and references various products and sellers, including Waite & Co and a Northsesters outlet, in a fragmented promotional notice.
A varied village column reports residents and visitors across Eagle township. Gossip includes weddings being planned, music studies, dancing at John Law's home, and neighbors calling on friends in Hawarden Sioux Center Worthing and Barizeli pasture. Several farms sell stock and repair work is noted on windmills barns and hogs.
Miss Edna Stoltenburg enjoys a surprise sixteenth birthday party on Saturday with about thirty five guests. The event ran late as attendees listed include Annie Schhumbobhmn Emma Bauder Eda Witt Eva Witt Mary Pareboom Dora Pareboom Hazsl Wood Edna Stoltenburg Amanda Stoltenburg John Jahnson T Mason Arthur Hildeman Albert Steltenburg Warren Reuinters Wm Pollock John Triber Theodora Schiefer Gro Neiland Chris Search Clarence Hiler Clarence Qfiler Wo Haines Louis Knott Jerry Schlumbohm Herb Wood Fred Siller Jobo Pred Willie Heuer H W Garratt Persboom and others.
River ton Ta postmaster Robbed of comfort and nearly lost his life as he describes in a letter. He recounts a two year chronic liver complaint that worsened to jaundice and led to yellow nails. He credits Electric Bitters as a cure improving health for eleven years, noting it as a remedy for biliousness weakness and digestive issues. The letter mentions B E Waite Co and H Pryer Co offering the tonic at fifty cents.
Orange City May 16 The following transfers of Sioux county real estate have been made during the period week Brink OW to A J Risinger 67 block 13 Bdo. $1400 Burkett Ste FoF Medt]ster Disek 2 Hed. Sseed Ref Ch to F Schemmer 7 S Finch's sub RO . £ 2960 738 Schemmer A F to Ref Ch w 28d fh a 280 ft fot 2 wi IS all 17 1 subd colt Bw. 2500 Jinkerbail W Eto d R vd Senact ow ned 65-465. E4980 Otterloo SV ito DA Muldersen 2w nw 11-86-4. E1200 Teskehenato D Sesolan aw 1997- 46. 28724 Scanlan Dto WL Roggman- Saroe. $9371.
Mrs. Lucia Wilke of Caroline Wis found lasting relief after using a 25¢ box of Bucklen’s Arnica Salve which completely cured a running sore on her leg that had troubled her for 23 years. The product is promoted as a powerful antiseptic healer for piles wounds and sores. Waite & Co J A Pryor & Co advertise.
Over 2 million acres on the Shoshone Indian Reservation will be opened to settlement on August 15, 1966. The land draws settlers via the Chicago and North Western Railway from Chicago and other Mississippi Valley points. Promotions advertise pamphlets and maps, with mail-in stamps requested.
In Lenox, 1577 summer heirs of Hawthorne era desk sold at auction. Congressmen Wy Robwell and Stevenson testify the desk belonged to Nathaniel Hawthorne and was used in the red house on Sisickridge Bowl. Auctioneer announced works including The House of the Seven Gables were written by Hawthorne.
The Chickasaw Nation archive describes the old tie hut once used as executive mansion during Chief Chigley era. Now repurposed for turkeys and chickens, the 1854 house sits behind ex governor Chisler’s home. Guthrie and Girla-T he Chickasaw statesmen met there to decide tribal matters amid social powwows and feasts.
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