Monroes Week in Mt Pleasant and Area Notes
Monroe notes detail Doc Lyons taking his sister to the asylum in Mt Pleasant, Prairie City caller Mark Bateman, and several social events at L. P. McCroskey's. Mentions visits, births, injuries from a storm, a train accident, and local shop updates including new furniture in a Jasper county barber shop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doc Lyons
Mt. Pleasant
Mark Bateman
Prairie City
L. P. McCroskey
Donelson
T. Honnold
East Mo
John Taft
Mary
John Vandermast
Leila
Falls
Mitchel Ix
Payton Stillings
Glenn Chase
Master Riley
Joe Rodgers
Eliza Kennedy
Belle Kennedy
Manning
St. Joe
Missouri
Lirson
Kansas
Miller
Jimmie
Judd
John
Charlie
Ed. Keipp
Ne Cooney
Atehi
Lynnville Area Social Notes and 4th of July Preparations
Lynnville area residents report visits from Cattell and family and Homer Rayburn with trips to Newton. Mrs. Nicholson visits old Lynnville friends while Seph Arnold recovers. Crops look splendid and farmers expect corn harvest soon. Bert Howerton opens new stock in Meredith Br room. Local ports attend a ball game and John Dryden and family visit parks home. Blacksmith Robert Farmer completes shop. Alex Mathews visits from Colorado after 10 years. Preparations for the 4th include a large crowd and improved sidewalks and streets for the old settlers reunion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. S. Cattell
Arnold
Homer Rayburn
Newton
Nicholson
Lynnville
Seph Arnold
Bert Howerton
Meredith Br
Masons
Murphy Community Notes Highlight Socials and Visits
The Will Eaton sociable drew a good crowd with ice cream and cake, netting nine dollars for the society. Mrs. Charley Scoville received a surprise from Kellogg Rebekah Lodge, while neighbors shared meals and sewing rags. News covers visits, teaching plans, upcoming July 18 Normal Institute in Anita, League convention at Newton, and various local family happenings around Murphy and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will Eaton's
Rebekah Lodge
Kellogg
Charley Scoville
Hay Field Activity and Local Health Updates
Rock delivered at Murphy to pave stock yards before winter storms. Mrs. J P Ervin shows improvement after illness. friends hope for full recovery. Robbie Livingston recovering after a horse accident. Graduating exercises held by ten college. many attended. Hay is plentiful. haying season ongoing amid frequent showers. Various community notices: teaching at Pilot Grove, church services, travel to Monroe and Metz, and visits among neighbors. Local officials and delegates attended League convention and college commencements at Newton. reports indicate a good time. Upcoming events include an 4th of July picnic at Miss Nannie Miller’s grove and a quarterly church meeting at Utter Chapel with basket dinner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Murphy
J. P. Ervin
Robbie Livingston
Rae
Ten
D. W. Murphy
Nellie Reynolds
Pilot Grove
S.G. Russell
Rouze
Sully
Retterson
Jasper County Recorder and Auditor Candidacy Announced
Multiple residents including W Fallot Joseph Horn and A G West announce candidacies for Jasper County Recorder and Auditor. All seek Republican Convention nomination and accountability to party decisions. Campaign mentions include Frank Fisk W A Livingston and D. Record as auditors contenders.
County Officials Seek Party Nominations in Jasper County
County Clerk candidate J A Mattern announces for the Jasper County Republican convention while County Attorney contender Ep RecoRD asks to be named as the party choice. Notices include household goods ads and a spouse debt disclaimer from E E Landis of Newton Iowa with a price offer on aluminum ware.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J._A. Mattern
Jasper County
James Stark
Repub
Weddings and local life mark a small town edition
The week brings two marriages Joe Awtry and Lizie Weideman plus Henry Minor and Ida Holm. A Tuesday shower, D J Loveridge's last day of school, haying in full swing, and a Council of Masons event in Galesburg frame a lively sequence of farm, church, and civic updates with local vendors and prices, a riverfront Fourth of July plan, and pest notes in Sherman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Awtry
Lizie+ Weideman
Henry Minor
Ida Holm
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Cora
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Adkins
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C.K. Tool
Wife
Moines
Tool Sr
Warren County
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C.E Tool
Herman Orcutt
Ais
Isaac Waldruff
Butte
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Seterville
Lyte Martin
Sellers
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J. Pred
Leaf
Green
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Darkey
Greenleaf
Patroniz
Worm
A. M. Hough
John F. Baker
Iowa
Vaughan
Hoosier & Co
Moline
Schutler W. Baker
Bergman & McHinley
Old Settlers
W. A. Mobberly Wellie
Ethel
Dexter
Ea. Miller
Nebraska
H. J. Wheeler
A. A. Peterson
Stella Murphy
Anita
Omaha
Li * City
Osceola
Normal Institute
Clara Porter Davis
Jena
Porters
Davises
League
Lo Murphy
Iserall
Newburg
Oregon
John Woods
Pleasant View Church
Margaret Geddes
Des Moines
Kate Ammons
Mound Prairie
Jas. Downing
Florie
Metz
Nora Dales
Geo, McCullough
Andy Wilson
Sunda
Lettie Hurst
Sand Hill
Grant Hickman
Susie Hunter
Greencastle
Geo, Curry
Eva Macy
Fannie Meade
Prairie Itar
Oliver Wilson
Cannon
Turner
T.E. Wilson
Lon Nicholson
Keiling
Wm. Robinson
Mesh Bell
Jim Lewis
Jim Nelson
Texas
Egis
Arthur Moss
McKinle
Warner Fraker
Frank Graham
J. B. Kerr
Robert
Ohio
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Esther Beatty
Colfax
H. D. Parsons
J. R. Crawford
H. M. Reasoner
Reasner
Myrtle Drew
Knox County
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Swihart School House
G. A. Drew
James White
John Moyer
James Beatty
Mell Miller
Nannie Miller
Otterbein Chapel
Utte Bein Chapel
C. A. Lovetac
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The
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Recorder
Jasper Co
Jos. Horn
Republican Coun
Paret Mulhern
Hecord
Viease
Hte
Corder
W. 1. Price
Publican
A. G. West
Ep. Aecorp
Frank Fisk
W. A. Livingston
NewTos Recotto
Jasper Wart.d
Eustic
Mercorin
Hough's
Della Landis
E. E. Landis
Newton, Ia
Kincebach & Gat
P. D. Carp
Chicago
Com
Monroe House
P. D. Carper
M.ay Box
Chicago, Ill
Gan
Tom
East Side Book Store
D. J. Loveridge
Richland
Wm. Loveridge
Sherman
William Watt
Ali Hopkins
C. C. Sherman
Mr. Early
Ira
Frank Kendig
H.R. Witmer
J. W. Preston
Henry Miller
Geo. A. Goodrich
Baxter
Epworth League
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Killbutt
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