Christmas news and social notes from Mitchell and Plano
In Mitchell area neighbors share holiday visits births and gatherings. Families welcomed new babies including a Gleason girl. John Berry and family visited relatives in Mitchell. several dinners and church events occurred in Bethel Barton Rowley and surrounding farms. In Plano winter thaws the season with school events Christmas Eve programs and a social at Rowley’s for Sunday school fund raising. Notable incidents include Phoebe Weeks breaking a leg and Mrs. Miles spraining an ankle. The column closes with New Year greetings and local weather remarks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Peery
Tula Clark
Mitchell
Aleck Lockhart
Gladden
Jos. Czopska
Martin Gleason
John Berry
J. D. Jackson
Bethel
J. B. Martin
Mrs. Wales
Community invited to social gathering and festive events
The report describes a social evening where Moan and John Watkins with their wives hosted an elaborate oyster supper for friends. Guests enjoyed a merry time, and wishes for a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year were exchanged. The note also mentions Phoebe Wheels breaking her leg while coasting, Miss Lizzie West’s school vacation and a fruit candy treat, illness among J. Hail and Mrs. Grove, a dance at Fred Schrader’s, and Beulah youths attending a dance near Badger. Joe Smith shot a white owl, and Miss West’s students sketched a squash model donated by J. Austin Clark, illustrating irrigation and farming efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean
Richardson
Will
Floyd Swartout
Burton O’mealey
Yankton
Asa Tyler
Miss West
Beulah
E. D. Watkins
Watkins
Clay Young
Marwell
Mrs
Messrs
Moan
John Watkins
Mr. Watkins
Phoebe Wheels
Lizzie West
Badger
Beulah Land
Joe Smith
J. Austin Clark
Elders Cole advertising and closing sale movement
Local notices advertise child overshoes at 40 cents and 75 cent price, closing out sale at Elder and Cole with genuine bargains. Also: invitations for a Cham peny opera house dance, theater stage work in Milwaukee, ASa Dodd purchasing bakery and grocery, Sunday shop closure, Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters praised for digestion and health, card of thanks from Goon family for support after illness and death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elder & Cole
John Michals
Champeny’s
Opera House
Toce
Sioux City
Asa Dodd
G. W. Brown
Mr. Dodd
Dodd
Christmas church festivities spread joy across city
Christmas Eve visited Baptist Congregational St Marys and Methodist churches as gifts were distributed to Sunday school scholars. Rev McConnell Rev Burleigh and Rev J H Babcock led services with trees, music, recitations, and electric lights. Holy Family saw large attendances and Knights Templar collected for the needy. Hoods Sarsaparilla ad follows with travel tickets for 1897 from C P M O Ry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baptist Sunday School
McConnell
Burleigh
St. Mary's Episcopal Church
A. H. Daniels
J. H. Babcock
J. J. McDougal
Holy Family
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Milwaukee
Hostetter
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O. T. Huyck
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