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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1897
Page
4
In this county wide glance the Record reporters share brief items from various townships. Notes cover community events, mild incidents, upcoming meetings, and routine civic updates. Readers gain a snapshot of local life across several towns.
Esa Dooley plans an addition to his house. John Cook rents his farm for the year. A. W. Weeks dines with the Enfield family near Killduff. Mrs. Andy Emmert of Killduff visits her parents. Jacob Rood visits at his son George’s. Howard Frizzel from Newton visits friends. Paul Phillips returns from Newton for a weekend at home. A youth sleighs with friends. Mr. and Mrs. Asher Dunn plan a holiday visit to Mills County. Farmers cancel Mutual of Des Moines policies over high dues. James Lee and family sleigh to Alec Davis’ place. Charley Porter and Lon Livingston report hog cholera losses. Valo Alto farmers face heavy hog losses this fall. Sam Thompson and wife visit Monroe. George Hill runs cattle on Ken Livingston farm. Wellington Jackson travels to Davesport to aid his creamery. Jim McKinney hauls cordwood for William Kay. Mr. Gibford of Newton builds a barn for S. H. Rees. School shows progress under Miss Ella Spellman with 22 scholars. Mrs. J. F. and Miss Emma Tait enjoy a sleigh ride. D. Bishop poisons wolves. beware of dogs. Herman Schnathorst returns home. J. P. and W. S. Tait install a wind mill for Adolph Klopping. Miss Lena Hoerling of Monroe home for holidays. Henry Tait busy repairing bicycles all summer.
Murphy people plan Christmas meals with relatives and friends. Joe Foltz and family celebrate with Murphy Russell’s kin. Alma Dunn of Newton visits friends here for the holidays. Ray and Glenn Fugard visited near ideology last Friday. The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society hosted a pie sociable at Mrs. J. W. Murphy’s home. Protracted meetings continue at Sully led by Rev. Kirkwood. Uriah Davis shipped a carload of hogs from Murphy last Friday. Frank Russell's family will spend Christmas at Henry Russell's in Newton. Community messages end with a merry Christmas and Happy New Year wishes.
Miss Maggie Danotter remains on the sick list though improving. Harry Wasner boasts a new sleigh for sleigh riding with his best girl. Miss Alice Elred enjoys two weeks off from school duties and Miss Mary Danotter visits friends. John Van Maren and sister with John S. Johnstone and sister spent Sunday with the Wasners. Carter schoolhouse Sunday school to close due to winter cold. Mr Hammond praised as superintendent for success. The largest funeral in Pleasant Hill was for Elozora Cowman, with Rev. Shea of Des Moines preaching and Rev. Loring assisting. The community sends sympathy to Elozora’s parents and sister as they mourn.
Henry Hoerling, Malaka head man and Jasper county farmer, plans to sell his farm and relocate to Washington territory. Call True Eaton for buckwheat flour trade dogs, 34 miles northeast of Newton. P O Shields, Harris and Co creamery foreman, Horn, invites butter buyers. August Tait Jr returns from Minnesota where he ran a threshing machine. Henry Tinnemeir teases a sleigh ride for Malaka girls. Rabbits to euifer, says August Tait Jr after his trip.
Local news reports Frank Broise finding his cow Oscar Kono working in a Colfax blacksmith shop Chas Watt of Mingo returning to his farm via the spring while engaged in hardware Rev Blood of Mingo visited Silas Bales house Lee Patterson rents the TH I Witmer farm and will move about February 30 Literary societies meet at Old Daxter Henderson and Kelly school houses Protracted meetings at Sand Hill closed Rev King of Colfax led the current meetings Henderson Lyceum held Thursday nights Officers elected at the Friday meeting Frank Keasey president C O Rider vice president M I Hammer Jr secretary Bert Beals treasurer A Christmas tree planned at Sand Hill Friday December 4 with speaking and singing invited attendees
Trout, our hardware man, has teamed with Wm Taylor to enlarge stock and offer a full line of implements, buggies, wagons, windmills, and pumps. Mr and Mrs Samuel Reasnor leave Tuesday for Des Moines to visit children, eight to ten days. K Bean to load 100 tons ice on Prairie City cars, ice about 12 inches thick. A protracted meeting starts at Tools Chapel next Sunday evening with Rev Dunlavey and Rev McBride of the M Bechurch.
Wilson and Co purchase poultry as three pickers and one packer handle shipping. A Woodmen gathering near Reasner produced about six hundred bushels of corn with twelve teams and twenty men. Reverend McBride’s ill family improves while Jacob Williams returns from St Paul after seventeen years away. A Christmas Eve tree at M EF church invites all, and Dr. Engle visits December 24 for eye exams. Newton Fire Department benefit at Opera House on December 25 follows a cigar ad from La Commercial.
Read the week’s holiday ads and place your order to join the push. Advertisers urged to act to be seen in the seasonal campaign at Hargraves.
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