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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1898
Page
4
Record correspondents report diverse local happenings across townships with brief notices on meetings weather crops and community events. Highlights include small-town incidents updates and upcoming schedules reflecting daily life in multiple locales.
Lou Hackney visits with the Trout and Hinshaw families in Amboy then returns home Monday. Ella Carnahan of Prairie City visits relatives here. Lucy Shriner returns from Des Moines. Barber shop changes hands Gust French to James Carnahan. Mrs. J. J. Smith dies aged about 65 buried Mount Zion. Mrs. Hiram Williams visits Killduff. Protracted meetings at Tool's Chapel grow in interest. Dr y goods merchant John Stillwell ill. Mrs. Stillwell unable. Robertson Highland photographers praised. Blacksmith Mr Shaw ill. partner busy. James Pollock returns to Des Moines. James Ross leaves for Des Moines. John C. Waring visits Grand Junction. I. France ships hogs to Chicago. another load leaves Tuesday. Writer visits Richland township with family. O. UL France returns to Clark Co. Newton visitors. Van Saunders and son Charles visit from Newton. L. France travels to county seat. Will Fraker builds hog sheds and plans spring move. S R Russell buys oats. Welington Jackson’s son born Dec 20. Sleigh ride to U P church hosted by Cora Mel Patten. Hixson Bros start ice work with twelve men.
Frank Scarbrough and family visited Scar brough of Newton on Thursday. Sam Squires and wife and D W Murphy and wife were guests of Mrs G E Maund. Tom Phillips of Newton visited Harry Maund’s hospitable home with a party of ladies. George Maund sold several hundred bushels of corn to C W Hart of Newton at 19 cents per bushel. U B church meetings continued with Rev. Snyder. Neighbors surprised Alex Davis in Adamson Grove with a rocking chair as a token of esteem. Ken Livingston rents half his farm to Mr Monsa near Reasnor for the year. L will farm the east half. Mrs Dutton and Ollie visited sister Mrs A E Drew in Jewel Junction Sat to Tue. Allen Weeks helping Hixson’s set up ice. ice 14 inches thick and extra quality.
Fairmount notes invite all to the Epworth League Reading Circle at the home of Mr and Mrs Ira Smith on Saturday evening January 8. Prayer meetings at the M E church continue each Wednesday. January preaching dates at the M E church are listed with times. Miss Estella F E Vaught and Mr Robert K R Schenck wed at the Newton M E parsonage last week. W O Connor and daughter Katie were Newton visitors Tuesday.
Rev Blood closes a four weeks meeting in Ira with no visible result. Rev Laurence preached at Union Chapel and Mingo. Frank Butterbaugh returns to North Manchester after four months in the county. Walter and Miss Rawstern visit grandmother Mrs Margaret Jones. Mrs J A Campbell of Manning attends bedside of mother Mrs A F E Crawford who has improved. Miss Edith Sadler from State Normal enjoys vacation at home with Joe Wright. Mrs Mabel Jordan and Des Moines visitors spend Christmas with Sk McIntire family. Mrs E V Skinner and Harvey and Lettie visit from Colfax over the holidays. R A Smith and son Max of Marshalltown visit Hon J H Smith.
John Davison visited Mr. and Mrs. Madill briefly. David McCosh stayed with W. A. Craig overnight. A. L. Beatty and family spent Christmas with a sister in Bagley Iowa. John G. Craig and Miss Ida Green visited James Stark. Ira Shields family celebrated Christmas at his mother in law’s home. Al Byerly hauled wood from Rock Creek Grove. Miss Allfree teaching No. 8 spent Christmas in Newton. Edith Stark of Grinnell returned home to help Clarence. Lizzie Madill of Grinnell celebrated Christmas at the paternal home. John Planalp of Storm Lake visits his parents. Stark couple left for Worth Co Missouri to spend a week with Mr. Stark’s parents.
Charles Mason and family spent Christmas with Thomas Mason north of Newton. John Breeden and son visited Kellogg last Friday. Mr and Mrs Lewis Green celebrated Christmas with Elias and Mrs Green at their home. Miss Callison, No 7 teacher, spent Christmas in Kellogg township. J W Craig and Fred Walker enjoyed a week touring Poweshiek county. Richard Walker and family were with his brother last Sunday. Meetings closed at No 3 schoolhouse last Sunday. Rev Nichols aids Rev Colin at the Mar rett church this week and began in Richland township on January 2. Ros Roy.
From the London Mail account a Russian convict ship sails from Odessa to Saghalia in the Japan Sea. The article paints a grim scene aboard with priests, clergy, and officials, convicts in fetters, a brutal daily routine, improvised gambling with painful stakes, and a violent clash between Christians and Mohammedans on the fifteenth day.
A New York wholesale hosiery dealer explains seamless hose output at about 100000 dozen pairs daily and total annual stockings sales ranging from 75 to 125 million dollars. The industry employs 16000 in New York mills, with 3000 dozen pairs produced daily per factory, shipping mainly to New York, the South and West. Imports from Europe decline as home production rises, while finer lines are imported for wealthier customers.
Parmenter offers 12 inch rough boards at low prices while Jasper & Sons advertises large stocks of 10 and 12 foot boards for corncribs sheds and other rough lumber. They promote coal orders via Iowa Central depot and a phone contact, urging customers to examine prices and stock.
A forum recounts cases at a dispensary where patients tried to exploit charitable care. In one instance a woman claimed city funding required treatment, and in another a disguised charity patient revealed herself as a millionaire’s wife after using a poor identity. Close observation and billing followed.
Cy DeVry animal keeper at Lincoln Park Chicago fought a desperate duel with a large brown bear. Armed with a whip he barely escaped as the bear attacked in the crowded pit. DeVry struck a heavy blow and escaped but was bitten on the leg and fainted from blood loss. He will be laid up for two or three weeks.
A fragment from a Philadelphia item mentions Nell and her father in a cryptic nautical mishearing. The sliver hints at a sea captain and a bank transaction, leaving readers with a puzzled tease from an old page.
Breathitt county constable J Wooten, scarred from multiple moonshine raids, orders a bulletproof undershirt. Cincinnati firm builds three ply steel ring mail after a Winchester test at fifty yards. Wooten believes moonshiners would need a head shot to stop him, raids mostly at night.
Beginning Saturday October 23 the Iowa Central in connection with the A T S F Railway runs a through tourist car to Los Angeles via Kansas City. The car is first class and porter supervised with tickets honored in both classes. Berth rates range five to five fifty. Reservations through company agents or THos P Barry G P A Marshalltown Iowa.
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