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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1896
Page
12
Prairie City society and businesses report visits from residents, travel to Adair and Des Moines, church services, and community events. Local trades, telephones, and farming activities are noted along with school notes, translations of sermons, and civic meetings.
Mr. and Mrs. George Simbro were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Will Smith last Thursday. Mrs. Taylor ill two weeks improving. A carpet rag sewing was held at the Bruin home last Thursday. Mrs. Frank North visited Mrs. T. Kane Thursday. Ethel Taylor improving. Miss Gertrude Besack closed her third term at Pleasant Hill Friday Feb 7. Miss Claude Shankland sick with la grippe. Mr. and Mrs. Will Smith visited C. Taylor’s residence. Mr. and Mrs. E. Gifford moved to Monroe Tuesday Feb 4. Mr. and Mrs. Cooper of Adair visiting here. Papers charge $1.50 yearly for a smaller paper. Record offers 12-page full paper for $1.90.
The Sheledy Post presents an itemized Monroe village update with church dedications and reorganization. Readers learn of gifts, sales, revivals, entertainments, family births, illnesses, and shifts in local business ownership and social clubs.
Local notes report visits, illnesses, and family events in Prairie City and nearby areas. Mentions include Dell and Osj visitors, Charles Schaeffer returning from Newton, infant illness, a sick baby, and hog shipments. Protracted church meetings at Walnut Bridge Dunkard church, with topics and attendance noted. Several residents incur health concerns, including Mrs. Blair and Mr. Cotrell. A wedding is planned with church authorization for vows, and a leap year note concludes the item.
Miss Maude Clarke and Gertrude Macy attended the teachers association at the Methodist church. Max last Saturday. Mrs. Willis Campbell visited her parents near Newton. Ben Brown of Colfax seen in this vicinity Wednesday. Home elected officers: president Hiram Marg, with Grant Hickman. Memorial services attended for aunt and cousin at Congregational church Prairie City. Singing school held Mondays and Thursdays at Vangilder schoolhouse. Ice arrangement planned by Hiram Marquis and Mr. Bell. Nellie Buy.
Miss Viola Cary returned from Newton visit. Mrs Henry Weideman able to be out again. Cary and J Hall were Newton callers on Wednesday. William Eichner finished filling his ice house. Grace and Etta Watts visiting locally. Six cars of stock shipped this week: five to Chicago and one to Peoria by Mobberly Bros Moore Bros and Macy and Gove.
The Vandalia singing class gathered at the home of Mr. N. P. Bailey on Saturday night marking their return after a several week hiatus. A recent bombardment of the city prompted reflections on the mingled relief and tension felt by residents.
Chester community items report repair delays from Jack Frost by midweek and revival at New Salem closed last Wednesday. Birth of a girl to Mr. and Mrs. Jonas Ver Steegh on Wednesday January 29. Several residents listed with illnesses including la grippe and typhoid pneumonia. Funeral held for Tommy Vanderpol at Dairy Grove chapel. he died at twenty after recent conversion. Community extends sympathy to the Vanderpol family as they recover.
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