Local Notes From Casuim Grove April 26
April 26 Casuim Grove reports green fields and active activity. Residents including W I Smith on sick list J A Wowie building barn addition W A Hogan traveled to Anamosa Geo Henderson re shingled barn James Cruisinberry moved into Gulligan house. Hog disease returns. A citizen captured a young robin shipped to Monticello by overland express.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Casuim Grove
W. I. Smith
J. A. Wowie
W. A. Hogan
Anamosa
Geo. Henderson
James Crusinberry
Gulligan House
J. A. McLaughlin
Chicago
Margaret Noble
Arthur McDonald
Peter Kehoe
Monticello
Overland Express
Local Notes From Oxstow and vicinity
Oxstow reports many Odd Fellows and others traveling to Maquoketa on April 26. Mrs Joseph Wasson and daughters relocate to Stanwood. FE A Green builds a fine farm residence in Clay township. Rev Palmer swaps pulpits with Rev Cooper of Wyoming. A boy is born to Landlord Woodyard. Miss Ida Chase recovers from a sprained ankle. Mrs J B Lyons injures a limb and arm in a chair accident. Walter Noyes has left Fort Sherman Idaho for Chicamauga park. Robt Scroggie to wed Ella Neelans tomorrow. townsfolk extend best wishes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oxstow
Odd Fellows
Maquoketa
Joseph Wasson
Stanwood
FE. A. Green
Clay Township
Rev. Palmer
Rev. Cooper
Wyoming
Woodyard
Ida Chase
J. B. Lyons
Onslow
Walter Noyes
Fort Sherman
Idaho
Chicamagua Park
Robt. Scroggie
Ella Neelans
New buggy for H L Smith and local notes from Cass
Cass notes reveal H L Smith owns a new buggy. Fred Mann returned from Chicago last Saturday. A telephone office opened at George Thomas residence. Frank Plume tends a injured thumb from a felon incident. W W Bray welcomes a new recruit and their first bay. Mrs P Hanna returned from Illinois after weeks away. Charles Byerly recruits Mark who will join him. Geo Ketcham Jr returned from New Jersey after two months. Walter Austin ordered to report for duty as a member of the Iowa National Guard at Vinton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo. Ketcham, Jr
New Jersey
Walter Austin
Vinton Company
Lowa
Center Junction News Breezy With Weddings Deaths and Local Gossip
Center Junction daily notes several visitors including Mrs. Carr of Clay and Geo. Sutherland. reports on tonsillitis and plans for a minister at M. Ff. church. Local highlights include Wim Tomlinson expanding his restaurant and a funeral for Wim Smith. mention of Samuel Alexander and a wedding bell soon.
Blunt honesty praised as eccentricity for better world
The speaker endorses bluntly naming faults to anyone's face and views such candor as a virtue. They argue that this plainspoken eccentricity, if widespread, could improve the world by fostering openness and accountability.
Local Notices and Community Briefs from Ampema
Sanford paid 72 cents for March milk. John McDonald shipped a carload of hogs today. Bert Clark bought hogs in the vicinity last week. Dr Chysm formerly of Canada has located in town. Chas Rhue of Anamosa called on friends today. A Sunday school will be organized at Black Oak next Sunday. W M Smith died Monday night after months of illness from stomach cancer. Funeral at 11 tomorrow. Rev Bock to conduct services at the deceased’s home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J.¥. Green
Topeka
Kan
Bert Clark
Chicago
Maggie Walsh
A. L. Trip
Wheatland
Duncan
Anamosa
McNeilly
Jimmie Hall
Monticello
Bodenhoffer
C. B. Hall
G. C. Weber
Register Life Insurance Co
M. O. Felton
Oxford Junction
M. Ff
Wim. Tomlinson
David Smith
Hopkinton
Wim. Smith
Samuel Alexander
Alexander
Sanford
John McDonald
Chysm
Canada
Chas. Rhue
Black Oak
W.M. Smith
Bock
Jones County Teachers Association Spring Meeting Program
The program for the Jones County Teachers Association spring meeting in Anamosa on Saturday May 7 lists morning and afternoon sessions with speakers including Miss Nettie Sleeper and Mr B F Moore. Highlights include musical solos, writings on education topics and a final grand chorus The agenda names numerous local participants and committees led by Warren B. Grace president and Vinnie Ingram secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County Teachers’ Association
Anamosa
Reces
Lillian Joseph
Stella Beam
Bessie Mwin
Mitte Langan
Willson
Feacher
Clara Wood
Margaret Wood
A. N. Palmer
Cedar Rapids Business College
W. B. Grege
Winnie Sherman
Julia Quigley
J. M. Sokol
Gertude
Mary Henderson
Lawrence Young
Josephine Rubin
Dr. Gray
Mary Davidson
Anna Marnst
Marie Ki. Camper
Tyrus Peck
Vest F. W. Hicks
Center Junction
Jennie Gilroy
Hattie Rogers
Harry Buell
Hattie Selder
Agnes Watt
Horace Miller
EJ. Wood
R. Benetele
Annette Anderson
J. A. Sheean
B. H. Miller
Mrs. Alspaugh
Enlistment Circular From Governor Shaw Appeals to Applicants
Governor Shaw issues a circular letter addressing hundreds of enlistment requests for the National Guard. It outlines age limits from 18 to 45, requires military training, emphasizes no raw recruits, and notes commissions via exam. It also mentions limited vacancies for surgeons and chaplains and denies cavalry or artillery enlistment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shaw
National Guard
Towa
Music on the Graphophone Promises Wide Entertainment
The article extols the Graphophone as a versatile entertainer offering inexpensive access to any music from bagpipe to grand military band. It highlights instant recording and playback of user words or sounds and urges writing to Columbia Phonograph Co. in Chicago for a price catalogue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia Phonograph Co
State St
Chicago
Iil
Commemorative Trans Mississippian Stamp Series Detailed
Government to issue stamps for the Trans Mississippian Exposition in Omaha with values from 1c to 2c depicting Marquette Eads Bridge Indian chief buffalo hunting Fremont emigrant wagon scene with family mules and a $2 harvesting scene in the Northwest Also a 10c Emigrant hardships painting by A G Heaton and a 50c old prospector scene.
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Omaha
Marquette
Mississippi
Lamprecht
Eads Bridge
St. Louis
Frederick Remington
Schoolcraft
Fremont
Rocky Mountains
A. G. Heaton
Philadelphia
Great
Northwest
Nickel Plate tickets for Baptist anniversaries and Royal Arcanum meet
Rochester and Cleveland events authorize Nickel Plate road to sell round trip tickets at one third fare on certificate plan. Departures from Van Buren Street Chicago with vestibuled sleeping cars and dining car service. J Y Calahan, general agent, Chicago.
Nickel Plate Round Trip Tickets To Rochester NY
The Nickel Plate Road offers round trip at one fare and one third to Rochester NY on certificate plan for Baptist anniversaries May 16 24 12808. Three through express trains depart Chicago daily from Van Buren Street station with fast time and first class equipment. Contact J W Calahan general agent 111 Adams Street Chicago IL for details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rochester
N.Y
Chicago
van Buren Street
J. W. Calahan
Adams Street
Missionary Heaven Question Stuns Boy in Sunday Tale
In a Troy Times anecdote a boy asks if a missionary goes to heaven after being eaten by cannibals. His father answers yes, then the boy wonders if cannibals go there too. The boy concludes he cannot see how the missionary can go to heaven if cannibals don’t, when he’s inside them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Troy Times
Humble Cloth, Clock, and Box Discuss Honest Habits
A collage of quotes from newspapers and a quip about household life. The dialogue sketches modest behavior and honest talk, with line about sincerity and a Tacitus adage on truth and anger. It closes with a note on sewing techniques to prevent trousers from stretching.
Odds of death in daily life from the law of averages
A humorous exploration of how government statistics supposedly predict risks of everyday hazards. The piece cites railway travel, cycling, football, street accidents, bridge construction, shipwrecks, and insurance claims to claim the inevitability of certain deaths or injuries over time with a satirical tone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bome
Great Britain
London
Liverpool
Manchester
Exeter
Swansea
Forth Bridge
British Isles
Series of Thomas Jefferson portraits in McClure's May issue
A noted series of life portraits of Thomas Jefferson with sentences and notes by Charles Henry Hart is planned to appear in McClure's magazine for May. The item signals classic biographical illustration alongside Hart's annotations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Jefferson
Charles Henry Hart
McClure's Magazine
A Curious Exchange Over a Cantankerous Remark
Two men on G street hear a remark about a certain wife described as cantankerous. The front man confronts the speaker, misunderstanding arises, then the man apologizes and departs humbly, revealing only sympathy and no identity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G Street
Washington Star
The Phoenician M Origin as Water and Face Imagery
The article traces Mem the Hebrew M to a water symbol in ancient manuscripts. It suggests Phoenician M may derive from a pictorial human face with strokes for facial features, noting the old form bears a comic resemblance to a face.
Administratrix Notice in Jones County Iowa Estate
Public notice that the district court appoints L as administratrix of Belanh Be Ryan deceased. Creditors must file sworn claims with the Anamosa clerk within legal time. debtors should pay promptly to avoid costs. Dated Anamosa Iowa April 6 1898.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
District Court
Jones County
State of
Iowa
Belanh
Ryan
Anamosa
A.D
District Court of the State of
W.S. Carr
Joseph S. Moody
Mary Harrington
A. D
J. A. Hartman
Clerk District Court
Jones Co
Tian
M. W. Herninox
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Atiber
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N. Y
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Adams St
Supreme Council of the Royal Arcanum
Cleveland
Ohio
Mickel Plate Road
Via
van Buren St
Chicago Times-Herald
Times-Herald
Indianapolis Journal
Tacitus
Corse
Erastus Pinkley
Miss Miami Brown
Chicago Record
W. I. Rony
Ik. I. Hicks
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Balin
Sally Ann
Father
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Good Housekeeping
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M. Ryan
M. W. Inrick
Doxsee
P. O. Babcock
Dctioneer
Own. Wilkery
America
Baby Bliss
iPall
Tam
Victor Bicycles
Lee
C. W. Brown
Eagle Drug Store
A. Kempf
Deutsche Apotheke
Jaxamine the
Wheel
Eastwood & Chase
Floraplexion
Franklin Hart
West 32d St
J. P. Franklin
Nelson, Ga
J. H. Bacher & Co
Jericho
John L. Prouty
Scotch Grove
Jericono
W. L. Ellwood
de Kalb
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ST. P
Traine
Sind
Sioux City
Cedar Rapids
Punt
Minneapolis
Davensport
Farley
Davenport
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