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Newspaper
Jackson Sentinel
Location
Maquoketa, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1920
Page
2
In Brandor township the Democrats won both Justices of the Peace seats and the township trustees despite a Republican landslide. Voters elected J. Nissan and S. Hardin as the two squires, noted as honest road business men with broad local support.
A brief notice states three of Chamberlain's Tablets and a quick recovery are certain. Sold by Broxam and Hinckley and Stasek, Luckiesh druggists, Mequoxets in Iowa.
Stony Point residents the John Reed family near Spragueville were visitors at the Wr. Walp ho. Wro. Kokemail returned from Ohiowa Nebraska to attend his mother's funeral. Roads workers McMurray Crane Weeks Maquoketa and Bridgeport are active. W. Poole sold coal to Hurstville market Saturday. Robi Pontsler family visited Wmn Kokemuller home Sunday. Some corn husking done despite poor weather. Leinberger public sale poorly attended. Leinberger family plans to move to Wisconsin. Adam Moeller visited Garl Moeller home east of Maquoketa.
Red Cross fundraising sale set at Kegley's Hall on Saturday afternoon November 13 noted with sewing machine and yarn prizes. Local residents Ruth Kegley and Alice Kegley home from Cornell College and Epworth respectively. Community updates include shoppers, dances postponed due to weather, a banner for the bereft parlors, a chicken pie dinner November 18, and school cancellations for a teachers meeting in Des Moines.
A hospital patient is recovering from an operation while Will Hurlbert of a south town farm seeks materials for a large modern house with hellow tile and slate pebble dash. Scout activities, health notes, and a brief medical ad paste accompany diverse tidbits including tennis history and early congressional prayer.
A Bedouin marriage is swift with a bridegroup slaughtering a sheep and spilling Mead on the sand at the father in law’s threshold before the ceremony ends.
In a snippet of a California travel tale a child named Billy gazes at distant snow-capped peaks and asks his mother if the little mountains will ever grow up. The dialogue evokes a playful scene of rural wonder and youthful imagination about mountains forming in childhood.
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