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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1899
Page
4
Local happenings as they occur are reported with brief notices from multiple townships. The column highlights community events, small incidents, and ongoing local interests, reflecting everyday life in the region.
Local items: Eli Slagle windmill erected over a deep well. Morgart’s house burned. Mrs. Fenner dislocated wrist and broke arm, Dr Hammer treating. box social at A B Johnston for Pleasant View Epworth League. corn gathering underway. Keeton and Murphy family news. quarterly meeting planned at McKinney school house. Laura Wilson closes district school. Haines prospecting in South Dakota. Squires visits Des Moines. trips to Garrettville and Oskaloosa noted. multiple farm and church updates plus school closings and C E Convention preparations.
Albert Haines bought the Emery Adkins property in the northwest part of town. A. B. Craven was chosen as township trustee candidate at the Democratic caucus held last Saturday. Emery Brown dug a well this past week while everybody digs potatoes. Newburg creamery directors met last Friday and report prosperous conditions. E Myerly bought a farm in Colorado. John Simpson returned from a business trip to Carroll County last Saturday and sold 420 acres there while retaining one 80 acre tract.
A New Jersey couple, Mr and Mrs a jes Ponder, arrived last Friday with plans to settle on the Sproals place in Rushville township. A fire from a defective flue about 9 am Monday destroyed the house and much of the contents. Neighbors aided in removing goods. Mr M. expresses thanks and reports insurance through Jasper County Mut.
KILLDUFF residents and neighboring towns share visits, relocations, and illness updates. Elmer Guessford suffers typhoid fever. Maggie Blakely and mother plan a two week stay with relatives. Mrs. Fox arrives from Grinnell to winter with her daughter. Bir t hday and address changes appear as neighbors move to Kellogg and take over farms. Ella Andreas and Fred Sherman wed at the bride’s home Tuesday evening.
Prof. Chas. T. Schenck of Monroe and Miss Maggie Gebhardt were married yesterday afternoon October 11 at the bride’s parents home in Knox. Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Scharf returned from their wedding trip in Illinois last Friday. G. A. Holland and R. W. Finn planned a Rebecca lodge in Pella. Wallace Minnick, a Manila Bay veteran, visited his uncle and was gunner No. 6 aboard the Concord.
Realnor reports a Woodmen of the World social event with W O W wives and children, nineteen ladies invited to a restaurant supper. Two large tables served fifty one guests a varied bounty. The gathering ended late with fond memories and merriment. Amos Carnahan and family moved to a new home. Craig Ross to occupy. Harry Bisom ill with typhoid at Chris Broderson’s home near Reasnor, slowly recovering. Nellie Wheeler ill but improving. Mrs. Kline the milliner improved from critical condition. daughter Lillie called home from Indiana. Rev D Stiles, new M E pastor, moved to the parsonage.
A string of short items notes visits, moves, and events in Lynnville Colfax Grinnell and Des Moines. Movements include Rev Hanna and family to J H Lyday property Dr and Mrs Palmer in Iowa City Major Lacey speech at Colfax Mrs McCord and friends in Grinnell and Grinnell college alumni return George Kelly travels to Wyoming Ladies Missionary Society meeting at Presbyterian church Aunt Elizabeth Gardner visiting Kellogg Vincent Gray the barber spent time with parents Mrs Conrad Schaumburg in Marshalltown and other social calls. Also farm for rent Sixty acres pasture available near town and a chicken pie supper at the Christian church next Tuesday October 11 with a note about invitations.
12 000 acres of Jasper county land offered for sale along with Newton property. Advertising by Fugard and Brown and Wagley and Smead. Trust price of goods compet ing with our line will be met.
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