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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1898
Page
4
Local happenings as they occur are reported by Recon correspondents across townships. The column highlights community events, notable incidents, and everyday activities shaping nearby areas.
Monroe area notes report the death of Mia Henry Nelson at seventy with husband and five sons mourning. John Hall and Idabale are improving after illnesses. A quarterly M church meeting is planned with Elder Sensency. A store gasoline scare and nearby bonfire caused excitement. Social events include Epworth League at Jessie Honnold and gatherings hosted by local families.
The column records multiple small events including a hog shipment from Reasnor to Des Moines at eight forty per hundred, residents traveling for business, election attendance by stockholders, a Tuesday marriage in Fairville, a new foundation being laid in Reasnor, and local residents visiting county seats and churches.
Mrs A W Rizzell and friend run near Grinnell. Rev D R Martin and wife attend District conference at Barnes City this week. Methodist parsonage to be repainted. Young ladies of the M E Sunday School plan a mush and milk sociable at Mrs R Birchara’s home Saturday evening.
Newton section reports Mrs Fannie Morgan and others attending local religious meetings. Rev. Thompson from Des Moines preached, with Mrs Kate Alford a Miller visiting Newton. Farmer notes describe corn husking, potato shipments, rye and corn to eastern markets, and a revival planned by Rev. Martin. Community ads praise a farm paper club offer and cold remedies.
Advertisement notes a free gold fish with an 11.0y purchase at Thompson and Westbrook East Side Square Drug. lists perfumes toilet articles and brushes. promotes Skift's Cough Cure as medicine. Also includes a notice granting son Marvin Stotler full wage collection rights and disavowing support or debts, signed W M Storns we ll, 1808.
Community notes recount a poultry buyer trading silverware for poultry, a Colfax professor delivering a Jasper county C E society lecture at Hixson Grove Chapel, and residents like Willie Hixson Amzie Hixson and Will Cross attending a Grinnell concert. Nearby families dine at Frank Russell's, and Prairie City kin extend family congratulations amid a busy period of gatherings, church activities, and corn-picking plans in Newton and Sully communities.
An advertisement touts Beggs Little Giant Pills as superior and effective for indigestion and liver issues. It claims the pills are easy to take, do not grip or gripe, and offer a speedy cure when others fail. Thompson and Vo distribute the product.
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