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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1898
Page
6
Newton Electric announces June 1 to begin all night operation with no rate change from midnight service. Rates remain twenty percent below former daytime night rates. The shift from all night to midnight ran was to cut costs, but customers preferred true all night lighting. Contracts offered from one month to three years for full all night service at reduced rates.
N Townsend and wife transfer to L A D Andrew part of lot 3 Newton for 1500 dollars. A T Fields and wife to Geo Richards lots 5 6 block 2 West and Weavers add Colfax for 1000 dollars. Thos Dinsmore and wife to Martha W Millers quarter 4 northeast sec 20 part southeast and southwest of section 21 Clear Creek Township for 2850 dollars. S D Butters and wife to J C Bisbee and east south corner lot 8 block 6 Prairie City for 900 dollars. E H Bailey and wife to Josie Wright 16 feet east side lot 7 and 24 feet west side lot 8 block 7 Newton for 775 dollars. John A Seaton and wife to Geo W Parsons part lot 10 block 1 LSE add to Newton for 2500 dollars. Nettie R Reid and purchaser to Delia Reid within win win fre southwest section 9 Kellogg two for 5300 dollars.
A letter from Rev. J J Moran praising the Trans Mississippi and International Exposition to be held June 1 to November 1. He says the grounds and Midway surpass Chicago, notes the Grand Court, State buildings, Moolah Palace, Cairo street, Horticultural Hall, electric lighting, and a large annex for exhibitors. Moran predicts it will rival and exceed past fairs.
Joseph Stevens reports an enthusiastic Grand Lodge meeting in Waterloo where amendments to the constitution were adopted. E Duke Naven is chosen Grand Master and will devote himself to the Order now named The Iowa Workmen. The Waterloo Daily Reporter notes Stevens delivered cheer from Rev J E Ryan of Newton, ex mayor of Newton.
A Tuesday night blaze at the Brick and Tile works owned by Chas Hull in Lacey totally destroyed the facility except a feed grinding machine saved from the main building. Loss estimated around $2,000.
Monroe May 19 The twenty months old child of Mr and Mrs Gus Swartz drank a quantity of gasoline yesterday and narrowly escaped death.
The Record highlights weekly merchant notices and the value of perusing ads to save money. It also notes The Record Law Book availability for long-time subscribers, rental signs for sale, Tycoon Tea at the Hub Grocery, cyclone insurance, Eva Fay’s move to Hargrave’s, and a clubbing offer bundling The Record with other papers and the Code of Iowa for $2.
In the opera house block Newton Wheel Works offers picture moulding at low prices and a fine line of bicycle sundries. East side millinery store advertises latest novelties and lowest prices. Mrs Eva Fay signs the notice. Any merchant with Newton storeroom can advertise in the RECORD.
The RECORD has arranged with a first class bindery to provide patrons top quality magazine and book binding at low prices. Century size six months bound in cloth 55 cents per column leather 60 cents 4 leather 70 cents. Ladies Home Journal size 85 cents to 1.00. Rebinding old books 50 to 75 cents. Bring in your magazines and books.
The firm of V. W. Skiff & Son is dissolved with settlements to be made with V. W. Skiff. Frank V. Skiff signs the notice. Also advertised are War Portfolios No 8 now ready at 10 cents, receipt and note books at 10 cents each, and Homeseekers Excursions to southern western northwest points on April 5 and 19 for two dollars more than round trip fare, with W. H. Long as Chicago Great Western Agent in Des Moines available for inquiries.
Frank McAvoy, longtime employee of the L N A C Ry, testifies he has used Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for over ten years and regards it the best for bowel disorders. Sold by Wagley & Smead in Westfield.
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