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Newspaper
Ireton Weekly Ledger
Location
Ireton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1906
Page
5
Local notices recount G McCrory visiting Sioux City and other residents traveling to fairs and events. Births, sickness, and social calls appear with names like Mrs Walter Strubie and Mrs P Peebles. The piece lists sales offers, band engagements, church meetings, and staff changes at nearby offices and colleges.
Classified items offer a four horse double harness by Henry Heeren for easy plowing. Local guests include Mr and Mrs Jos Keen and Miss Funice Keen. Rev Schwenk moves into Mra Everhart's residence during church parsonage expansion. Satterles and Peebles advertise carpets curtains linoleum and stock. Mrs Dirks injured milking, sprained back. Ira Klinefelter ill with typhoid fever. Ireton ball team beat Alcester sixteen to two. Captain Beerman injured. Frost risk recedes as corn crop looks good.
Community updates report several residents visiting relatives in nearby towns including Monroe S D and Alcester S D. Inter-State Pair events draw crowds to Sioux City while Rev J Edwards to give farewell sermon at M E church. Local commerce highlights new carpet and floor coverings as well as land prospects in North Dakota for Martin Toft and family.
The Okmulgee Kansas newspaper denounces nonpayers in a sharp critique. The editor ridicules anyone who returns a newspaper unpaid, comparing thrift to a national mockery of courtesy and urging readers to settle accounts.
Two duck merchants shared stands with 60 ducks at mixed prices. One priced 3 for 4 dollars, the other 2 for a dollar. In a brief absence one sold all ducks at 5 for 2 dollars earning 24 dollars. If sold separately each would have earned 15 and 10 dollars totaling 25. A discrepancy of 1 dollar arises. where did it go?
A London author used self destruction to boost his latest novel sales in the past. The tactic reportedly worked as copies sold well. Current reports from his base say he is now careless about money and smokes constantly.
Captain Frank Ben King of Lawton commands the Oklahoma National Guard engi neering corps and has been named coach of the Oklahoma squad for the Sea Girt National Shoot in New Jersey. He began as a private in 1888 and rose through Arkansas and Oklahoma units with multiple promotions and training at Fort Sill and Fort Crook. His enlistment lasted until 1899 and he later led engineer efforts in the national guard.
In May 1905 Snyder is praised for cyclone relief services. The piece notes 590 prominent London women in trade, led by Lady Granville Gordon who opened a millinery shop under the pseudonym Lierre and managed finances while not personally working, inspiring others.
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