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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1897
Page
6
In Newton, shoppers find dark gray all wool Cassimere suits and dark plaid all wool options offered at the same strong prices. The ad emphasizes value for money on durable, formal wear.
The M. E. church in Monroe reopened for divine service led by Rev. Dr. Thomas McKendrie Stewart from Charl ton. The sermon at 3 p.m. drew a large audience and urged followers to live by Christ. The church showed notable improvements including exterior repainting interior refinishing a raised floor a single lecture room new carpet and stained glass windows.
Local notes list families visiting relatives in Vandalia and nearby towns. Mrs Jane Newton returns from Missouri to visit her mother Mrs Dewey. Des Moines visitor Orval Wilson calls on Mrs Lizzy Roshorn. Rhoda Underwood visits Dessie Noon. Telfer travels from Prairie City area. Monroe county visitors to Miller family. Lilly Brashear spends Sunday at home. Neal Murray hosts with Charlie Murray. singing at Ed Vanhorns praised. Mrs Andrew Collins celebrates 53rd birthday with about seventy guests, gifts including a hanging lamp from Henry Collins of Bendurant. attendees include Metcalfs, Plummers, Danleys, Sours, Pricer, Puson, and others of Bondurant and Pleasantville.
Kellogg residents and visitors are listed in a flurry of social updates from a Kellogg town page. Names include Lewin Pringle, Boone Morgan, Luella Fisk, Emma Slagel, Sadie Ratcliffe, Mae Ratcliffe, Charles Orebaugh, Richard Davis, A. E. Starrett, James Tomleson, Harlan Woodward, Simon Woodward, and others. Upcoming events include a Sunday school convention at Pleasant View and various visits, trips, and rentals around Kellogg and nearby towns.
Garrett Kersbergen announces a public sale slated for October 8 amid hot dry dusty weather. Neighbors report strong attendance at last Friday’s Newton speaking event, praising it as good. Mrs Lyons of Monroe stopped by Monday. a wedding is anticipated nearby soon as Mr and Mrs Tom Cooper plan to move to Monroe this fall with Rev Lowry recently named the M E church preacher.
The Nineteenth Century describes early playhouse customs with hoisted Boomers, torchlit interiors, and musicians armed with trumpets and recorders. Audiences played cards, drank huffcap, and mocked scenes while preferring gaslight absence and rush-strewn floors to heighten illusion.
William Cratty famed abolitionist and underground railroad conductor died at his Marysville home at age 92 after a four day bed confinement. A key figure from 1835 to the Civil War, he aided about 3000 enslaved people to reach Canada and once carried a bounty of 3000 on his head.
A widow, Mia Mary Shannon, has led the Duluth and Winnipeg section gang since her husband’s death, with the road master calling her the line’s best section boss. She wears bloomer overalls and cowhide boots topped by a broad slouch hat.
The Rev. Frank C. Bruner of Minneapolis is elected chaplain-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic at Buffalo. A distant note describes a Chinese bridge 5.25 miles long across an inlet of the Yellow Sea near Sangang, with 300 masonry piers and a roadway sixty four feet above water, said to have been built by Chinese engineers 800 years ago.
The text cites statistics claiming two thirds of global postal letters are written to English speaking people. It then notes last year only four states produced asphaltum: California Colorado Texas and Utah. It ends mentioning Indian Territory alec arriving at some.
The Union Life Insurance Company of Omaha celebrates twelve years since 1885. Despite uncertain business conditions and a presidential campaign, the company reports a 181% income increase and assets gain. Net assets rise to 831.82 with policyholders surplus of 126,491.82.
The Nebraska backed insurer shows premiums up over 2 percent and total receipts up 28 percent while net assets rise over 20 percent and net surplus surpasses 120 percent. Interest collected exceeds death claims and expense ratio on new business sits at 3 percent. Mortality is under half the expected rate, supporting policy holders through liberal loans and paid up values. See E M Giles in Iowa for policies and dates.
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