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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1897
Page
3
Prairie City scenes include public lectures by Mrs Bodly on India and church missions, a curfew debate at WCTU, weather and spring activity, local trials, repairs on Main Street, and a wedding of Ida Hotchkiss to Roy Darr with social turnout. Community services, fires, and arrivals fill a dense town chronicle.
Churches listing Sunday services, Sunday school times, and midweek meetings for M E, Congregational, and Christian churches. Pastors Rev W G Rimeldaffer, Rev J J Mrreeney, and Rev J A Bennett noted with service times and prayer meetings.
Des Moines Valley Division of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railway and Participation. Efforts outline schedule details for passenger and freight movements, with divisions, connections, and stopping points. The timetable lists trains, departure and arrival times, and route alignments for the era.
Rev Z W McDade of Des Moines spent hours in the city Friday on his way home from Pierce where he assisted Ev Knepper. Miss Emma Butters visits Mrs E H Dowden in Mitchellville. Mrs A Hetzler of Wasco Ore arrives to visit daughter Mrs W H Price. Emma Chandler, long bedridden, is now able to be out briefly. Saturday water covered the roadside after rain, children rowed boats. Miss Dolly Butters came from Des Moines to visit her mother Mrs Dixon. Mary Marshal heads to Knox ville then Indianola for the summer. James Patrie returns from Arkansas to Prairie City with family and stock, remarking there is no place like home.
Vandalia report notes a successful literary entertainment at Collins school house last Saturday. Rev. Wright to preach there next Sunday at 11. Baptismal services planned in the river afternoon. P C Adams, mail carrier, had a Monday accident when a broken double tree caused his team to run away. he sustained no injuries. The report ends with mention of James’ home.
A heavy rain hit Thursday and Friday nights delaying farming with oats still being sown. M L Sanders filled Rev McBlain's pulpits at Taintor and New Salem. Rev and Mrs McBlain visited Grinnell, returning Tuesday. Singing schools start across places and wheat praise notes. A Richland township S S convention set for Peoria on May 9.
Elery Scott, telegraph operator at the Central depot, married Mrs. Mary Bailey Kendig, daughter of Dr and Mrs William Bailey, by Rev C C Harrah at the Congregational parsonage on Wednesday evening April 28. The couple kept the plans private until the ceremony, then went to a cottage in East Newton furnished by the groom and hosted a wedding supper for intimate friends and guests.
Delta Lodge K of P announces its annual May dancing party in Castle Hall next Thursday evening May 6. The program opens with the Winding of the May Pole at 8 30 and the Fritz Orchestra of Oskaloosa provides music for the event.
A package containing an infant's clothes and a baby's hood was found on the prairie road between Baxter and Newton last Tuesday. Finders should leave it at the Newton Record or Baxter News office.
Miss Sarah Burns of Des Moines, an experienced dressmaker, will open a shop May 5 at her sister Mrs S L Dennis’s home in the Mother Hunter property. Newton ladies are invited to call, see her work, and become acquainted. Cyclone Insurance Wright & Lufkin, Tornado Insurance Wright & Lufkin.
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