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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1897
Page
3
Local notes report Charley Shelley settling onto the Geo Denniston farm south of Murphy and various family movements. Several social items mention visits, farm relocations, and church meetings with Kellogg and Newton area names appearing among residents and attendees.
A stream of local notes records residents changing homes and farms, sales of Dr Scales Liver Pills, school terms ending, weather talk, and social visits. John Price, Geo Valentine, Chas Holden, Silas Holden, and others shift houses as chains form. A Dille obituary, parties at Ben Quinn’s, and farm activity across the area are noted.
Reverend H V Adams began a series of meetings February 21 at Prairie Bell Chapel and will run two weeks. Jas Patrie plans a public sale March 1 then moves to Southern Arkansas, shipping live stock and household goods. Will Bruner buys and ships potatoes at the Switch, shipping thirty car loads of murphy's this season from near Mitchellville. A February thaw ended with temperatures dropping ten below. Clarence and Henry Patchin returned home from Des Moines where they attended college.
The excerpt reports bound over youths for court, Bail arrangements for Kent Mitchell Jones and Seay, mayoral and council nominations on dual tickets, and closes with obituaries for Dr James Corr and Maria Whitehead. It notes funeral details, local deaths, and community notices including sickness, a new newspaper expected, and local ads for Pillsbury Best flour and Dr Scales Liver Pills.
Mrs S A McGriff visited Newton while Strater Bros shipped Plymouth Rock chickens to Grinnell and Herman Orcutt sold Chester White hogs to western parties. Butter theft from Mr Chase's creamery occurred last week with Seay brothers and Bert Kent implicated. Jones and Mitchell confessed after arrest. four youths were arrested and preliminary trial before Mayor Crane held Friday and Saturday.
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