Wyoming Correspondence Highlights Local Visits and Events
Wyoming September letters note L A Leek and wife with relatives near Anamosa. J J Bender of Cedar Rapids visiting. Miss Ida Fishwild named assistant principal in Tipton. several residents traveling to Davenport Des Moines and Sterling Kansas. cemetery board elections and community updates on autos budgets and upcoming sports day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wyoming
L. A. Leek
Anamosa
Peter Broderson
Davenport
G. Franks
John
Miles
W.O. Shaffer
Brush
Sterling
Kansas
J. J. Bender
Cedar Rapids
J. L. Richardson
Ida Fishwild
Tipton
Dickerson
Des Moines
L. W. Benbow
Ft. Madison
John Thomegen
John Thomsen
Board of Supervisors
F.L. Harrington
North English
Cynthia Hunnicut
Marie Wherry
Monmouth
Iinois
Elsie Garrison
McKinley School
Waterloo
R. H. White
Soldiers’ Relief Commission
R. A. White
R. M. Heasty
George W. Field Jr
W.G. Krouse
Palisades
Mt. Vernon
Mr. Krouse
R. M. Corbit
Wyoming Cemetery Board
John Thomson
Robert Norton
Raymond James
G. W. James
Madison Township
George Loudermilch
Chas, Westphal
Loudermilch
Grace Gay
Minnie Loudermilch
Collins
C. F. Hoffman
U. P
Brookings
South Dakota
Socialist Party
C. E. Cohoon
Party For Justice
Jones County
W. G. Wherry
Onslow Social Notes and Local Moves
Belden Dennison visits Hopkinton from Onslow to see parents. William Leonard ships a carload of his raised hogs. Local attendance grows at the Maquoketa fair. L. E. Brown shows steady improvement and plans to be out soon. W. T. Cameron travels to Kansas City to visit his son John. Dr Knittle and wife with H. H. Robert and wife take an auto trip to Cedar Rapids.
Center Junction Notes and Local Short Takes
Center Junction notes record local society, travel, and moving events from September 14. Includes names of residents visiting Cedar Rapids Monticello and Mt. Vernon, sales of land, illness of a child, and a farewell for Frank Ford and family moving to Fairbury Nebraska. Also mentions a paralytic stroke affecting Mrs. James Young and final lines on the remains of Dr. George Duncan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Center Junction
Ward
Bryant
Gerhard Antons
Frank Ford
Chicago
Maggie Thompson
Delhi
W. W. Loomis
Monticello
Jennie Matthiessen
J. B. Moses
Cedar Rapids
James McNeilly
Stapkinton
Lenox College
Robert Platner
Wyoming
John Langston
Garber
Iowa
J. M. Harr
Ethel Kyle
Mt. Vernon
Gladys Smith
J. L. Club
John Letze
K. K's
R. A. Wallace
John Hughes
Our City
Amos Westbrook
Sargent
Nebraska
James Mead
Verda Taylor
Cornell College
G. W. Dunham
van Horn
A. S. Melkelvey
G. A. Courtney
F. H. Woodward
Central City
James Young
J. N. Smith
Paul and
Stuart
Alonzo Porter
Maquoketa
A. F. Dawson
Preston
Thos. Dawson
Anna Livingstone
Emory Leggett
Cascade
Joseph Leggett
John Lubpen
Castle Grove
Maquoketa Fair
James Carson, Jr
Sanborn
Jim
C. M
St. P
Harvey Young
Olin
J. M. Young
George Nillinger
Nancy Frost
Ethel
la Motte
Anaheim
California
Fairbury
Ford
Will Leech
M. K. Dodge
A. F E. Porter
Will White
H. M. Hart
Strawberry Point
Doreas
Billings
Missouri
George Duncan
Prairieburg Local Notes and Visitor Headlines
The notice lists residents serving on a Marion jury and several local social visits. It mentions Mrs. Effie Whitney at the Church home in Coggon, Esther Lindley and children in Anamosa, Amy Whitney visiting Springville, and Jennie Conklin and Iva Wollmut at the Wapsie Valley fair. Updates include Ed Burlingham’s health improving, a visit by Editor Bowman to Anamosa, and Frank McLaughlin Jr arriving from the East for a month with family. A nurse came for Amos DeLancey, J. S. Henderson’s ten days in Shellrock, and a mail route inspector with a permanent carrier promised. J O Walker joined N J Benson on a Texas excursion, Pinch couple welcoming a son, and school dismissed to install a fire escape as carpenters worked. A barn fire near C Hanold was narrowly stopped after children played with matches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prairieburg
G. W. Schoonover
Marion
Effie Whitney
Coggon
Esther Lindley
Arthur Percy
Minneapolis
Rogers Home
Amy Whitney
Springville
Iva Wollmut
Jennie Conklin
Wapsie Valley
Amos DeLancey
J. S. Henderson
Shellrock
J. O. Walker
N. J. Benson
Texas
R. O. Pinch
C. Hanold
Castle Grove Community Notes Include School Openings and Farm Trades
Castle Grove September 14 summary lists John Fiben renting H B Deischer farm for next year and local residents making farm deliveries. Mrs Haley sick, veal calves delivered in Prairieburg, porkers marketed in Hopkinton, cattle shipped from Prairieburg. Ladies Aid to meet Mrs E J Noble Thursday. Central City fair attendance noted along with two school term starts. Florence Hubbard and Grace Nance named as teachers in Nos 6 and 4. District No 1 lacks director and teacher. delay caused vacancies and closure with students going to neighboring districts. Local group attended Patrick McAleer funeral in Independence last Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Castle Grove
John Fiben
H. B. Deischer
Haley
A. F. M. Caspers
Prairieburg
Arthur McDonald
Hopkinton
D. J. Hogan
Ladies Aid
E. J. Noble
Florence Hubbard
Grace Nance
Epworth
John KB. Zimmerman
Monticello
A. E. Laude
P.J. Kehoe
J. F. Delay
Delay
Joe O’rourke
M. A. Waddick
Thos. Fleming
L. O'Rourke
S. A. McAleer
James Haley
M. F. Byrnes
Independence
Patrick McAleer
Local Notes from Clay and Nearby Towns
News brief from Clay area on September 12 notes Mrs Grinshaw visiting in Chicago, John Neelans improving after illness, Grace Green recovering from pleurisy and resuming drives, Miss Green leaving Enid school for winter. Obituary mentions the death of a young child of Mr and Mrs Wiggins of Clay Mills, burial in Wyoming cemetery. Mrs W S Orr visiting in Colville, Washington with relatives. Mr Perry Scroggie and Miss Jennie Streeper plan South Dakota visit to stay with Mr and Mrs Coburn as Scroggie becomes Coburn’s son in law. Miss Laura, longtime Clay teacher, praised for character and teaching. congratulations offered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clay
Grinshaw
Perry Scroggie
Jennie Streeper
South Dakota
William Coburn
Scroggie
Coburn
Laura
Mr. Scroggie
George Scroggie
Amber Local Notes Reflect Farming and Visits
Amber on September 14 reports Daly is constructing a silo and James Robertson is drilling a well. The George boys visited T A King Sunday. Mr and Mrs Alex Robertson visited friends near Springville over Sunday. Mr and Mrs J R Bradley returned to Lamont last week after visiting daughter and relatives. R C Stirton sold the Jake Grown farm in Madison township to Willie Huseman. W F McNeilly sold his farm to parties in Wyoming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amber
W. . Daly
James Roberston
George Boys
T. A. King
Alex Robertson
Springville
J. R. Bradley
Lamont
R. C. Stirton
Madison Township
Jake
Willie Huseman
W. F. McNeilly
Wyoming
Dr William J Coughlan Adjudged Insane in Jasper County
Dr William J Coughlan once a Monticello dentist for thirteen years has been adjudged insane and committed to a state hospital. He lived on his mother's Jasper county farm before being moved to Newton for the insanity hearing. He had shown signs of unbalance and threatened neighbors, spoke ill of Governor Carroll, shot holes in a senator’s picture, and later studied law at Drake University without completing it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. J. Coughlan
William J. Coughlan
Monticello
State Insane Hospital
Jasper County
Newton
Commissioners of Insanity
Carroll
Senator Cummins
Coughlan
Drake University
High School News Roundup Delivers Illness Absences and Plans
The issue notes Ralph Baker Cecil Cross and Ed Sargent absent for illness or Cedar Rapids trips with funerals. It reports lavender lips from grape season, no high school football this year due to lack of interest, a push for sweaters with monograms, and hazing among upperclassmen. A new east side playground with a basketball court is planned, plus safety near Beery Bros. store after a near accident with Doc Lightfoot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Baker
Cecil Cross
Presbyterian Church
Ed Baker
Agnes Stirton
Ed. Sargent
Cedar Rapids
Harold Podhaski
Miller
Doc Lightfoot
Beery Bros
Doc
Beery
General Willich Fights His Boys at Chickamauga
General Rosecrans orders Willich under arrest before battle. Willich insists he must command and fight with his brigade, claiming the men know him and he teaches them. Rosecrans relents, and Willich leads the brigade to a successful fight. Youth's Companion
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Chickamauga
Willich
Rosecrans
Henley’s Sufferings and the Saving of a Leg
Born 1849, Henley endured lifelong pain from a disease that led to one leg’s amputation. Doctors warned the other leg might be removed. He traveled penniless to Edinburgh Infirmary, trusted in Lister, and his leg was saved. His courage inspired a literary portrait by Stevenson linking him to John Silver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henley
Lister
Edinburgh
Robert Louis Stevenson
John Silver
How Good News Spreads and Health Remedies
An elderly reader from Elizabethtown, Kentucky, touts Electric Bitters as restoring health and vitality. The testimonial claims cures for stomach, kidney, liver, and nerve issues and pledges guaranteed satisfaction. The note also mentions fabric sellers and a doctor offering a painless rupture cure with no work disruption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. F. Tolson
Elizabethtown
D. H. Soetje
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Monticello Express
Wm. Overley
Noyes
BE. L. Anderson
Madison Village
B. F. Walters
J. R. Green
Jed Green
Vera Paul
Marengo
Jackson
Carnegie
Orly Seeley
Wm. Coney
North Yakima
Washington
J. EB. Duncan
Columbus Junction
W. F. A. McNeilly
J. E. Duncan
Willich and Rosecrans
Doutrick Dry Goods CO
Kathryn Drees
First Street
E. A. Hubbard
Undertaker
Oxford
Stuhlers
Deutrick’s
Puleston
Frank Carroll
Dalbey & Carroll
South 3Rd Street
Tod
H. M. Rewer
James Remley
Remley & Remley
Tiorneys
Avamosa
Main Street
Willengees
W. E. Daly
Novioneer
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