Wyoming Notes Reflect Small-Town Life in Jones County
A mixed roundup from Wyoming Iowa highlights visits, weddings, a skating pond plan, and community events. Notable items include John Thomsen’s housewarming, the Lyons and McDonald anniversaries, a G A R W R C dinner, and the DeWitt family funeral in Wyoming with relatives attending from nearby towns. Also reports dates and movements of local residents and travelers.
Center Junction Social Ledger Rapidly Recaps Local Visits and Events
Center Junction notes a string of visits and social happenings from December including Merlin Moses going to Garryowen, George Courtney transacting business in Monticello, and W S Garrison visiting Wyoming. A Presbyterian Christmas supper is scheduled, dances occurred, and Griffen H Munger delivered a lecture on Peculiar People.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Center Junction
Merlin Moses
Garryowen
George Courtney
Monticello
W.S. Garrison
Wyoming
J. L. Club
C. W. Preston
W. R. Keough
C. A. Burmeister
M. L. Hill
Anamosa
Anti- Saloon League
Nelle Livingstone
Farley
Dubuque
J. H. Courtney
James Hinon
G. A. McDonald
Norway
Iowa
K. K’s
D. J. Bevins
C. A. Burm
F. E. Fowlie
Waterloo
F. W. Jones
Finley Hospital
Harvey Young
Grinnell
Iowa College
J. F. Livingstone
Anna
Northwestern
Horace Barto
South Dakota
C. M. Barto
Olive Preston
Chicago
Griffen H. Munger
Local Notes Highlight Social, Religious, and Deaths in Cascade
Cascade notes December 20 Report includes J W Skahill of Dubuque visiting and Bertha Faber on vacation from Pella. OBEW reception for Mr and Mrs Crawford. Mrs James Cooley wintering with daughter in Farley. Revs Coffey and Farley assigned. Farmers plan February 1 1911 meeting. R H Beatty returns from six months travel. Incipient fire at E M Kearney store contained. Masonic lodge elects officers and Mystic Workers appoints officers. Mrs John Burk, longtime resident, dies aged about 80. funeral at St Martins church. QO HH 8 Chapter elects officers. Chapter praised as in good condition.
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Eleanor McDonald
Hopkinton
McDonald
Scotland
Perthshire
America
Madison Township
Center Junction
Wyoming
Catherine Bender
Pennsylvania
Thomas Bender
Jones County
Presbyterian Church
A. P. Cooper
Mechanicaville
B. H. Miller
Anamosa
Isaac DeWitt
Canton
Onslow
Lutie DeWitt
DeWitt
Diamond Creamery Company
DeWitt & DeWitt
Pierson
Iowa
Springfield
South Dakota
Will DeWitt
George DeWitt
Melly Griswold
Alice Davis
Logan
Albert DeWitt
Monticello
Clinton DeWitt
Stanton
Nebraska
Fred DeWitt
Laurel
Garryowen
M. Farley
Clearmont
Temple Hill
R. H. Beatty
E. M. Kearney
Masonic Lodge No. 127
J.T. Bevans
W. M
G. W. Craft
J. L. Faber
J. W
J. W. Beatty
W. L. Crawford
R.H. Beatty
D. A. Beatty
J. D
Alex Beatty
T. Mystic
Monitor
John Knox
J.W. Beatty
Thos. Kingsley
A. F. Leffert
Eunice Bryan
John W. Beatty
J. P. Lane
John Burk
Peter Koster
Ireland
St. Martin’s Church
Julia Craft
Lulu Higgs
Lettie Crawford
Hila Vogel
Ed Gonpaware
J. P. Hunter
Birdie Baldwin
Ada
Clara G. Wise
Ruth
Bessie Crawford
Hsther
Myrtle Gosden
Martha
Augusta Winter
Electa
Election notices list and booth arrangements across towns
The notice compiles names of clerks judges and booth arrangers for elections in Cass and Anamosa with pay amounts and rental notes. It also mentions Christmas goods at Stickford’s and Soetje's, and reports Dr Moore’s leg injury after being kicked by a colt with a compound fracture, now in an Omaha hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oxford Mirror
E. A. Grimwood
Moore
Naponee
Omaha
Prairieburg Social Notes and Church Decision
Prairieburg residents share visits and travel to Marion Monticello Cedar Rapids and Anamosa over the week Measles keep Esther Luse from boarding place Mildred Titus assists in Joslin store and Jennie Burnside helps in Hanold store Christmas shopping Baptist church votes to skip services on Christmas devotional services of some individual involved noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prairieburg
M.S. Knapp
Marion
Ed Burlingham
Monticello
T. Loder
Anamosa
Sue Benson
Harley
Cedar Rapids
Leta Whitney
Mayme Hill
Mansiloe Rowley
M. E
Hanna Washington
F. McLaughlin
Esther Luse
Mildred Titus
Mary Holub
Joslin
Jennie Burnside
Baptist Church
Castle Grove Roundup: Visitors, Sales and Local Happenings
Castle Grove notes a busy week with Peter and Herman Caspers in Chicago, A F M Caspers shipping hogs, and John Hennessey’s sale drawing crowds in Boulder township. Local visits include W H Laude from Monticello, Alfred Pillard of Coggan, and Mr. and Mrs. McVey of Hopkinton. The district No 1 school resumes under P J Kehoe, while a horse scare at Luken Bros sale ends with minor injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Castle Grove
Peter and
Herman Caspers
Chicago
James London
Joe Brady
A. F. M. Caspers
W. H. Laude
Monticello
Alfred Pillard
Coggan
Henry Ladehorff
Scotch Grove
the Express
Mrs. McVey
Hopkinton
H. N. Appleby
Walter Appleby
Miss Maud Shepherd
W. D. McLaughlin
Henry Monk
Luken
George Davidson
Stamford
South Dakota
John Hennessey
Boulder Township
J. A. Howie
John Tiel
Fahrni Bros
Richard McLaughlin
Wylie Eberhart
Laredo
Kansas City
Missouri
Kansas
P. J. Kehoe
Miss Fleming
Garret Grass
Luken Bros. Sale
I. A. Heiken
Lost Brown Collarette Reported By Mrs. Ervin Chaplain
Mrs Ervin Chaplain reports a brown collarette lost last Friday evening on North Cedar street. Finder should leave it at this office to claim a reward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ervin Chaplain
North Cedar Street
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W. Doxsee
J. H. Guthrie
Mildred Dennis
Hattie Eichborn
Stena
Miles
Nashville
Opera House
Oscar Erickson
Britt
J. L. Franks
Los Angeles
California
Harold Wilcox
Jessie Guthrie
Cornell
August Wolf
Ray Heasty
Elden C. DeWitt
New York
John Thomsen
Mr. Thomsen
C. B. Shaffer
C. HE. Wherry
A. N. Reade
J. W. Rhodes
Baldwin
Rhodes
Carsten Lorenzen
John D. Rhodes
G. A. R. Hall
B. Gridley
Harvey Baldwin
Mechanicsville
Wyoming Cemetery
Frank Baldwin
Woodbury County
Nial Hamilton
George Walston
Salina
Downs
Glidden
Lyman Baldwin
Michigan
Ilinois
Margaret Crawford
W. J. Lyons
John Tompkin
Minnesota
David S. McDonald
D. S. McDonald
Madison Center
John H. Smith
Etta McDonald
Margaret Davis
Mary Ellen McDonald
James McDonald
Washta Town
Will McDonald
Les
Cascade
Doutrick Dry Goods
FOR
Doutrick Dry Goods Company
Supervisors’ Proceedings
Cass
W Bray
S H Lawrence
Simon Day
E M Hanna
Mike Marek
Andrew Watt
J I Hay
A E Walton
D M Strawman
G A Thomas
C A Larson
T M Burch
R E Giltrap
F P Donnelly
Rent
Light
Anamosa 4Th Ward
John Fisher
Adam Kratzer
JH Miller
A J Byerly
F J Fuller
Stone City
H K J Dearborn
J A Green, Jr
Geo M McLaughlin
C M Rowen
H F Dearborn
H Dearborn
John L English
J L Carpenter
J A Orr
B W Streeper
Jas Lowham
J L English
James Lowham
James F Hogan
J A Deischer
E F Hiben
M A Waddick
John H Lubben
Greenfield
Uriah Barr
Lewis Kohl
Henry L Peet
Virus Boxwell
O H Brown
CH Brown
G Booths
Hale
Henry Kruse
E H Levsen
E Kirkpatrick
John Inglis
Louis Rohwedder
G Ballote
Jackson
W G Ristine
Dan James
Frank Porter
Nathan Carter
John Landis
Jackson Center
Lovell
Herman Harm
Stickford’s
Xmas
Soetje’s
Edison
Victor
Locer Brothers
M. Eby
Town
C. W. Brown
Peter Young
Poland
China
G. H. George
D. E. Pond
Lowell Bank Building
John Clark
Simpson
Harr & Gibbs Co
Senter Junction
Condon
EH. H. Reed
Martin Guyan
Colorado
Texas
J. A. Voorhees
Perkins, Eclipse and Star Windmills
Leroy Clark
Procter’s
Samuel Eby
Locher Bros. Music Store
Singer and Wheeler & Wilson
Buchanan County
A. N. Todd
Independence
Towa
Scotch Grove Township
Haly
C. O
Jacobs
Kk. A. Hubbard
Cravenette
Selves
Sue
Methodist Episcopal Church
The
Rickiefs & McNeill