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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1898
Page
4
Local Happenings as They Occur across townships are reported with brief items on community events, notices, and small news items of interest. Each township provides short notes highlighting neighbors, meetings, and daily life happenings in a compact local digest.
A farm and community miscellany, listing visits by McRae to Mound Prairie and Des Moines, relatives in Highland Park and Central Illinois, local business, rail and bridge work, farm offers, social events, obituaries, church services, and local officials. Mentions Ed Roberts oats load, Mrs Smith death, protracted meeting at Tools Chapel, and local transportation updates.
Ada Stock aged 17, youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs James Stock, died Sunday Jan 2 1898 in Jasper County Iowa from organic heart trouble. Funeral from home Monday afternoon with Rev King and Rev Laurence. interment at Ashton Cemetery. Relatives from Newton Audubon and Mingo attended. G A R and W L R C held a supper and installation in Mingo Jan 1. church meetings and school literary events noted.
REASNOR. Leslie McGregor, little son of Mr. and Mrs. B. L. McGregor, is on the sick list. Emanuel Masteller and his daughter Ida visited last Tuesday at the home of E. R. Latham. Melvin Smith of Sioux County, Iowa, attended the funeral of his mother, Mrs. M. J. Smith, last Wednesday and returned home Saturday. Mrs. Morgason is growing weaker with little hope of recovery. H. K. Wright and wife visited Newton on business and to see his father, James Wright. Frank Cavel and wife visited with Frank's sister, Mrs. L. France and family. B. B. Trout & Co. have erected a wind mill for John Boat, a wealthy farmer owning over 1600 acres in Marion and Jasper counties. Rev. Dunlavey to fill his appointment next Sunday at 11 a.m. in the M. E. Church. Sunday school at 10 a.m.
Miss Jessie Winslow visited Oskaloosa friends this week. Mrs. J. B. Eyerly hosts sister Mrs. Mary Kilgore of Grand Island Nebraska. J Edward Mershow of Moines attended funeral of Dr. E. H. Mershow. Charlie Murphy son of Samuel ill with appendicitis. Dr. W. H. Austin attended a veterinary surgeons meeting in Des Moines. Mrs. D. L. Lyon of Metz spent day with Mrs. B. R. McLellan and Mrs. George B. Hunter. Miss Gertrude Parsons received a gold watch from her father as birthday gift. Mrs. Billie Morton of Nevada visiting parents Mr. and Mrs. Freeman Drew. Mr. and Mrs. Pat O’Brien of Killduff visiting Mrs. Mary Moran in feeble health. John A. Seaton and son J. E. Seaton in Hardin County seeking farm purchase. Auditor Frank Fisk and Supervisors at state convention in Des Moines. Mrs. George Pardoe of Yankton returned home. Born to Louis Jorgenson a son weighing about 10 pounds. A German baby boy born to Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Griebeling. Matt Gardner and family to return to Long Beach California soon.
A compact survey notes each president’s pastime from Washington to Grant. Washington enjoyed horseback riding and dancing in Alexandria, Jefferson played the violin and tinkered with inventions, Tyler loved poker, Andrew Jackson bred cockfighting birds, W H Harrison shopped for produce, and Grant favored fast driving and Boston in the evenings.
A Montgomery Street restaurant keeper sold a so called genuine $20 gold piece that later split in two revealing a hollow interior filled with a baser alloy. A banker who owned a similar piece tested it with a sharp rap and exposed the fraud by uncovering a concealed composition inside the coin.
A nostalgic vignette from Pearson's Weekly describes a worn tiny shoe cherished by a bereaved mother. She recalls a babbling child, imagines an elflike dream child, and laments the loss as she clings to the faded keepsake. Her sigh reflects fate and memory.
A violinist plays to animals as cubs react with joy while the lioness and her brood watch. The cubs dance, tumble, and beg for more music, while hyenas retreat in fear at the sound. The scene, described by the Philadelphia Times, contrasts playful animal response with the hyenas’ dread.
A New York Ledger critique urges careful hospital staffing The piece calls for a physician with thorough conservative methods capable of rapid differentiation between brain illness and alcoholism It condemns a cold bath for a consumptive patient with hysteria symptoms and demands investigation and accountability for ap professional inhuman conduct and better qualified replacements for such roles.
Edward W. Bok argues in The Ladies' Home Journal that opportunities for promotion in business are greater in large cities but not better. He notes more openings and applicants, higher salaries offset by higher living costs, and concludes moderate success in a small community can yield greater overall satisfaction.
Beginning Saturday October 23 the Iowa Central in cooperation with the A T S F Ry runs a through tourist car to Los Angeles via Kansas City and the A T S F. The cars will be upholstered and in first and second class. berth rates range up to five dollars and fifty cents. Reservations through company agents or T W Hos P Barry G P A Marshalltown Iowa.
Reed, a young man, is alleged to have forged an 836 check and passed it on a Colfax hotel keeper. He is said to be in a frenzy over pursuit for a crime in Montana years ago. He was arrested Tuesday night in a Des Moines hotel and brought to Colfax yesterday morning.
A Keokuk County News reader recalls finding a stamped envelope and letter head that looked rough. The writer notes that spending a few more cents on printed envelopes and letter heads would make a store appear far more professional and appealing.
Large stock of 10 and 12 foot boards at low prices for corn crib cover. Jasper and Sons invites calls to inspect lumber for cribs and sheds. Pekry lump coal and steam coal available by order of C. H. Jasper & Co. Iowa Central depot phone 46-9117. Also notes La Fleur de Parmenter cigars and mince meat at Efnor's market. Law office of E J Salmon moved to Gorrell Block over Winn Carrrier's dry goods store. 24-4.
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