Colfax and Newton Community Notes Highlight Quarter
Local notices report baptisms and births, road trips and store openings, church services and sermons, civic meetings, and community events across Newton, Colfax, and Des Moines. Highlights include a July Fourth wedding, a camp meeting trip, a Reformed church dedication, and parade day civic pride with window displays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rabbit
Des Moines
Blazer
Reformed Church of
Galesburg Fa
Dr. Harding
Eastman & Son’s
Marriage Licenses and Board of Supervisors Adjourned Session
Marriage licenses issued for John W. Clay and Josie Moses and for Arthur Gearhart and Grace Ware. Board of Supervisors adjourned session, first day, June 20 1898. Auditor Frank Fisk notes petitions for road grading referred and a $4.10 property tax rebate approved for J W Walters. Second day reports iron bridge inspection and acceptance before siue die adjournment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John W. Clay
Josie Moses
Arthur Gearhart
Grace Ware
Davey and Cross
W. J. Miller
J. W. Walters
Jasper County
Frank Fisk
Kellogg
Siue Die
What kind of dime museum freak he must have been
A dialogue excerpt reports a character reacting to a claim in a novel about a heroine falling at a hero’s feet and him catching her. The exchange prompts a sharp dismissal of the portrayal as sensational dime museum fluff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J.C. Thompson
Helen
W. Baker
Waterloo
Frank Upham
Cong’s
Christ
Katie Wright
Chicago
Margaret Rebekah Lodge
Nettie Scott-Carpenter
Des Moines
East Newton
Omaha Exposition
Knights of Pythiar
H. L. Poorman
Suwanee River
Cuba
New York
Miss Balle Henderson Proves Fine Fielder
The Philadelphia Press notes Miss Balle Henderson as a capable fielder and implies a straightforward, practical background with a mention of farming.
The Wise Bachelor Reference Card
A collection of humorous outdated lines about men and women from the New York Press. The quips poke at pessimism love and daily small truths about marriage and mistaken beliefs. It reads like a dated social cartoon caption from a metropolitan humor column.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Press
Fragmented Finest Wisdom From Distant Papers
A collage of rural aphorisms and snatches from newspapers shows sayings on happiness work and war from Atlanta Constitution and New York Journal. It includes quips about not fearing weather or war and a comic exchange about a dog and a quarrel.
War poems and enlistment cries in a Georgia paper
A fragmentary poem from the Atlanta Constitution by F. L. Manton laments wartime longing and enlistment. The speaker cherishes the prospect of earning the first month's pay and the lively day it will bring, while recalling the civil wartime strain and economic worries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waling
Molly
Atlanta Constitution
Also Mentioned on This Page
Newton and Vicinity
Morran
Colfax
J. B. Burton
Eli Hackman
Bob McKinley
A. M. Behner
Winona
Minn
J. P. Newell
Montejo
Cervera
Camara
the Oval
the Baptist Church
H. L Stetson
Hermina
Marie Korf
Parker, Mo
Newton
J. W. Allfree Esq
Arthur T. Gearheart
Bert Benjamin
McCormick Harvester Co
John Peterson
Indianola
Judge Winslow
Judge Ryan
W. G. Clements
W. O. McElroy
State Bar Association
Mason City
Joseph Stevens
Pacific Coast
Gertie Stover
Walpole
New Hampshire
Fannie Holland
E. Handy
Gun Club
Marshal Dixon
Mr. Dixon
Free Methodist Church
Wilson School
I. H. Gorrell
J.S. Rinehart
W. Flower
Geo. Hummel
N. M. Lewis
Harry Gilbert
Prairie City
Chautauqua Park
Iowa
West Iowa
Tom
Co. L
Jacksonville
Fla
Oplah
Foster & Callison
Southland
America
Congregational Church
Columbia
Baumgardner
Phemeeseees
Florence Bergman
Dee
Miss Grace Beard
Harry Lamb
Elba Carl
Travets
George Hall
George Townsend
Mabel Livingston
Board OF Supervisors
New York Journal
New York Weekly
Cholly
Hattie
Boston Transcript
William
Ammons & Allen’s
Strouse Bros
Baltimore
U. S
Hirsch Elson
Northwest Cor. Square
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