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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1896
Page
5
A casual note from the shop reports steady demand for sales events, parties, and weddings. Located two doors east of the Ramer block, Harvey's Bakery remains ready to fulfill growing orders with its usual offerings.
Seaview Virginia promotes Chamberlains Cough Remedy with testimonials and low priced 25 and 50 cent sizes through Kellam and Curren Wagley and Smead. An Iowa Central line excursion offers cheap round trip tickets to many western, southern and midwestern states via the Chicago Great Western with 21 day validity and stopovers. agents provide details.
Timetable fragment lists MONROE BRANCH and DES MOINES VALLEY DIVISION details with speeds, times, and station names including Monroe Newton and Fairmount. Notes indicate various train numbers 53 8 202 201 203, times around 9:30 am and 3:40 pm, and fare references amid incomplete OCR.
A fragmented OCR entry shows Chicago Great Western Railway timetable details with southbound and northbound designations and scattered times and station references. The legible elements point to schedule notation and station markers, but the full context is unclear from the fragment.
Walter Norman and family went to Newton for pleasure. School begins at No. 5 with Miss Retta Mendenhall and Miss Addie Poots as teachers. Doane represented the township at the state fair. Many local residents attend the Des Moines state fair and events. Bridge crews work in the township as threshing continues and farm news dominates.
A Kellogg area digest reports fall plowing progress, school openings at No. 7 and No. 8 with teachers Miss Woodward and Mrs. Englecher, and community events. Camp meeting attendance at Rushville, weddings rumored, visits between Rock Creek and Newton, arrival of visitors from Ottawa and Marshalltown, and local notices on church, rail, and farm life. Several residents travel to Kellogg, Des Moines, and Grinnell for events, with illness and recoveries mentioned and civic updates on schools and churches.
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