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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1899
Page
5
Prairie City Press Local Notices and Social Long Reads
Railroad timetables and local notices fill the Prairie City Press with travel data and community events. Levi Springer sale leads to Moller moving in June while social notes mention a Colored Concert and Cake Walk at Union Hall Wrable City on May 20 with 15 25 and 35 cent admission. J Simonds returns from Kansas City trip. J Stoner ships stock to Chicago. Rev Small lectures on The Bridge of History with small attendance. Mrs Oggle guests Vandermast home. Mr and Mrs Allen Brown visit from Indianola for commencement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Hall
Wrable City
Newton
J. Simonds
Kansas City
J. Stoner
Chicago
Rev. Small
Oggle
Vandermast
Mr.b
Allen Brown
Indianola
Mr. B
Mrs. Brown
Local notes and arrivals from Newton area
The column lists train times with morning east arrival at 7 58 and various departures for the passenger trains, followed by visits and social updates including Mrs Ward of Des Moines and Miss Minnie Rawline of Newton. Also noted are property mentions, new awning at Riddle Bros store, home improvements, a new baby girl, porch additions, and a botany field trip to Wolfax along with a Newtown area death notice and property tax sale warnings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rockieland Division
KE. Ward
Des Moines
Parker
B.C. Ward
Minnie Rawline
Newton
Arthur Graham
Riddle Bros. Nave
Ira Coy
Keene
Zachary
E.rameey
Edgar Draper
J.C. Bisbee
D. B. Gill
Colorado Springs
Sally Thom
Mies Steele
Wolfax
Rya
County printing contest tied to subscription standards
In Iowa several counties held annual contests for county printing rights. Van Buren County ruled newspapers must show bona fide subscribers under Judge M A Thomas. The county awarded printing to a paper with valuable content rather than just large subscriber lists. Library funds supported school purchases and gifts from patrons aided school needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Jasper
van Buren County
Democrat
Keosauqua
Herald
Farmington
M. A. ‘Thomas
Board of Supervisors
Celebration at Emma Amos Eleventh Birthday Party
Twenty five children gathered at Mrs W Sargent’s home in West Newton on May 12 to celebrate Emma Amos’s eleventh birthday. A cake with Emma’s name adorned the center of a long dining table with games, cake walk readings by Bernice Agnew and Anna Shaw, and gifts. Attendees included Clare and Veba McDaniel, Fern Dennis, Ella Woodrow, Anna and Maggie Jenkins, Madge and Nellie Hollingsworth, Lolo Coon, Katherine Gant, Hazel and Lillian Held, Viola Scarth, Helen Taylor, Daisy Heckman, Bessie Dinsmore, Lillie Gant, Rose and Hazel Graham, Geneve Ewing, Mable Whitcomb, Lucy Neal, and Emma Amos.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Folke
W. 8
Sargent
Weet Newton
Emma Amos
Emma
Jared
Bernice Agnew
Anna Shaw
Clare
Veba McDaniel
Fern Dennis
Ella Woodrow
Anna
Maggie Jenkins
Madge
Nellie Hollingsworth
Lolo Coon
Katherine Gant
Anna Show
Hazel
Lillian Held
Viola Scarth
Helen Taylor
Daisy Heckman
Bessie Dinsmore
Lillie Gant
Rose
Hazel Graham
Geneve Ewing
Mable Whitcomb
Lucy Neal
Deco ration Day plans by local posts and corps in Jasper county
Fatlon Day Services report committees from Garrett Post and Woman's Relief Corps have arranged Decoration Day observances for May 30. They invite ex-soldiers, the Knights Templar Band, Military Company, Spanish-American war veterans, civic groups, and all Jasper county residents to honor Civil and Spanish-American War heroes. Charlie Woodward of Kellogg is hired as clerk in Axtell & Cox's store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fatlon
Garrett Post
Woman's Relief Corps
Knights Templar
Jasper County
Charlie Woodward
Kellogg
Axtell & Cox
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A. H. Braley
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