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];ftWe notice very flattering comments In our exchanges regarding the entertainment given by the Alba Heywood Concert Company, which is to be at Opera Hall next Tuesday evening.The following marriage licences were issued during the week: C. II. Calkins, age 20, to Mary A. Kane, age 22; Fred Butterwick, age 25, to Nancy McClanan, age 25, and Richard Campbell, age 28, to Jokana Dahl, age 22.day of September, 1858, having lived in Hardin county 37 years and one day. He joined the Christian church in El-dora, and lias always observed a large faith and hope in the blessed Savior He was a lt;piiet and peaceable neighbor, ready to lend a helping hand to the needy. lie was a kind and loving husband and fathe.Notice has been received at the state land office that the claim of Hardin county for indemnity for 7100 acres of swamp land amounting to $8,050 has been rejected, the land office holding that the claim that it was swamp land was not well founded.William Jass and Wilhelmina Stine-feldt were married on Tuesday. .1 n the evening the usual dance, with which the wedding days of our German friends are celebrated, took place. A special feature of this dance was the attendance in. a body of the :87 club.G. Dolph, publisher of the Lkdchbr, is the owner of a hen which has attained fame as a layer of large eggs. Ono of her eggs laid last Sunday measures 0,b; by inches and weighs a quarter of a pound. The egg can be | seen at J. M. Furman's grocery.Tlie Great, St. Louis Fair.The Iowa Central R’y will, from October (f to 11. inclusive, sell excursion tickets to St. Louis and return at half fare. The Mississippi Valley Annual Fair will be held October 6 to 11. This is the greatest agricultural, industrial and mechanical exhibition iu the United States. Sunday. October 5, is German l’arade day. German Progress in America, illustrated, eleven gorgeous floats. .50,000 men in the great parade. October 7 the Veiled Prophets Pageant, consisting of thirty handsome floats and brilliantstreet illuminations. The most magnificent spectical ever presented in the west. Excursion tickets good returning until October 13, inclusive. Call on agents of Iowa Central R’y for tickets and further information. T. P. Bauky, A. G. P. A.A F. Banks, Traffic Manager.“Tim” Gleason, who escaped from the jail here, was out only two days when he was arrested for petit larceny committed in O’Brien county, and lodged in jail at Primgar to serve a ten days’ sentence. Sheriff Mender goes to Primgar to-day and will bring “Tim” back here for trial.Oil account of a wreck on the northern Iowa division of the C. N. W. this morning, their passenger train was run over the main line to this city, and thence over the Central to Gilford, whore they proceeded over their own line again. Conductor Keefe piloted them to Gifford over the Central.—T, It., Sept. 28.There was some sneak thieving going on fair week. The residence of Otis Hall, east of the river, was entered and the children’s saving bank containing about SI.50 was stolen. And now Aaron Porter lias discoveVed that his house was entered and a purse belonging to his daughter and containing between $11.1)0 and $12.00 was stolen The purse was in the clothes room, and as nothing else was disturbed the loss was not discovered uutil a few days since.Miss Lina Pickett, daughter of Mrs, .1. IV. Pickett, died at her l.oine in Union Sept 27 of consumption. Miss Pickett’s father, who was well known throughout tlio county, died from the same disease about four years ago. Miss Pickett had made for herself many friends who sincerely mourn her death. She was 17 years of age. The funeral services were held in the Christian chapel at Union on Sunday. A number of relatives and friends from Eldova and vicinity attended the funeral.Not Enough Democrats.However, Major A. B. Cox, of the Tremuut IIouso, Marshalltown, is the same genial landlord that he 1ms been for years, and no one who eats at his table objects to his democracy. The major says Ilardin county is alt right except tiie scarcity of democrats, and he thinks there will be plenty of them soon. He speaks highly of Hardin county fair. So long as the major continues the same affable gentleman as at present and makes ids guests feel cheerful in the dining ball and in the sleeping room lie can vote as lie pleas i s and no one will object.The .Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Iowa State Brunch of the Women's Board of Missions Will bo hold, in the Congregational church next Sunday and Monday, Oct. 5 and (i. Delegates from auxiliary missionary societies are oxpected from ail points of the state. Rev. Dr. and Mrs. D. Z. Sheffield, of the North China Mission, and other missionary workers will bo present. Dr. Shefllold will occupy the pulpit Sunday morning, giving the missionary address. In the evening he will speak on “Educational Work in China.” Sunday afternoon Mrs. Sheffield will speak at the children’s meeting on “Child Life in China.” The program for the entire meeting is one of unusual excellence and the public are most cordially invited to attend all the sessions and to participate in the enjoyment of the good things that are said and done.Samuel Surles was born in Logan county, Ohio, Juno 20, 1817, being at the date of hiB death 73 years, 3 months and six days old. Samuel Surles and Mary M, Palmer were married April 4, 1841. By this marriago one child was born. 'The mother diod Augusts, 1842. Samuol Surlns and RutUO. Bayles wore married June 23, 1843. By this marriage wore born 15 children, one diod and 14 are now living. There are now living 32 grand children and 5 great grand children. The deceased with his family emigratod to Hardin couuty in the year 1858, landing here on the 23dMiss Annie Miller.From her earliest childhood this young huly has shown a great desire to become the mistress of the king of instruments, the violin, and at the age of four she commenced to play on a lifty cent fiddle with a bow made of rosined lath. She was opposed by her parents and brothers, who were all musicians, but when they saw her remarkable perseverance they bought her a live dollar violin and she at once began practicing steadily. At the age of 10 Frof. Lawson, of Grand Rapids, Mich., heard her and at once took tier into his conservatory and gave her instruction. She also studied with the celebrated Jacobson. Endowed with nature’s very precious gifts, beauty of l’aeo and figure, the grace in which she handles the work of the great masters, has made her a favorite wherever she appears. Opera Ilall, Tuesday evening, Oct. 7.While standing in front of the hotel one of the Ellsworth House ’bus horses made a too vigorous kick at a blue bottle ily and shipped his liindermost inside leg-limb over the hack tongue, and then cooly and deliberately proceeded, in spite of the urgent and per-sistout protest of Landlord Barnes, to lie down across the aforesaid tongue, in the mean time tangling his heels in the whifiletrees. Landlord Barnes, with the assistance of a dozen or so of the guests, n half dozen of whom confined their efforts to tlie giving of sage advico, succeeded in getting the team loose from tlie hack and getting the horse on his pins withon t any serious damage. The horse, however, proved to be a little lame in tlie off hind foot and was takon to tlie stable and another animal with loss antipathy for dies and u smaller amount of inclination to sleep on hack tongues was substituted to pull the haw hand side of the hack.Deputy Sheriff J. W. Peppeinmn, of Grundy county, brought Lon Wilson, an acknowledged horse thief, to jail hero this morning, charged with stealing a horse from George Bartholomew last Friday night. The officer had quite an exciting race to capture his man, hut after a long chase succeeded in taking him in. Wilson lives in the timber near Grundy Center, and when Pepperman approached the house from the front Wilson ran out the back door with tlie officer in hot, pursuit. Wilson was about four rods in advance and refused to halt, when ihe deputy drew his revolver and attempted to shoot, hut for some reason the revolver would not go off. The race continued for about sixty rods through the brush, when Wilson ran a twig in his eyo and gave up. lie admitted having stolen three other horses, but the last oiie has not been found and ho refuses to say anything about it. IIo was arraigned before ’Squire Haradon this morning. ~T. R.A bad wreck occurred on the C. lt;N, W. R’y about oue mile east of Eldora Juuction Sunday aftornoon. Freight No. 406 from the east struck a cow about Qfty yards from tho bridge and carried her to the bridge where she rolled off the catcher, and under the trucks, throwing the engine from tlie track. The engine and eight ears smashed through the bridge and were piled in a heap in the creek. Six of the cars were loaded with coal and two with lime. The water getting into the lime caused a fire which totally destroyed all the wood work of the cars and the bridge. But for the efficient work of tlie Eldora boys, who went down from hero in tlie early evening, much more damage would lulvc been done by the lire and the entire train would have burned. Fred Edgington, Joliu Weeks, C. Buchanan, Lew Brown, Mark Furman, Will Cross, Milo Wood and Jim Scurry arrived at tlie wreck about 7:30 and shortly after William Osborn, F. P. Merrill, Vern George, C. Warren-tine, F. DoPron, Rosol Ediek, Will
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Eldora Weekly Ledger
Eldora, Iowa, US
Thu, Oct 02, 1890
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