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Newspaper
Perry Advertiser
Location
Perry, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1898
Page
5
Perry Iowa columns report weddings, moves, and social events. Local church activities, postmaster vacation plans, and business notices mingle with road and school updates. Residents include Rev. Morrison, Prof. Wright, and F. L. Morgan relocating to Des Moines amid community happenings.
Retiring postmaster Dunlap turned the Dunlap office over to successor F. M. Hoeye last Saturday evening. Mrs West and Miss Minnie Jackson join the new force with Fred Hoege. The oak office furniture with modern features will be installed by Monday. Chas. Rife reports his son Gird in Spain aiding the First Cavalry near Santiago. Soldiers face extreme heat and sickness as they await relief and return to Long Island.
Local items list numerous residents and guests in the area. Fred Anders of Millbur e and C D Madey of Shelby visit. Mrs Will A Ball travels to Chicago. Mrs Chas Lutze and children return from Van Horn. Miss Kate Russell visits from Adel to attend Normal. W L Asher of Coon Rapids is in town. Miss Vica Oliver goes to Macon Missouri. Miss Anna Bowman and brother Chas return from Marion. Aug 31 county convention in Waukee scheduled.
Dallas county normal in session at second ward school building as promoters report $1 in attendance with a goal of 200 to 250 students. County Supt Hutchins leads precollege instruction in didactics reading and orthography while Principal Turr teaches arithmetic algebra and civics. Prof L A Blesek handles geography grammar and physics with Homer Miller from Dallas Center teaching history and economics.
Mrs John Leaf received a letter from her husband who travels with the Perry contingent toward the Klondike. He includes a mosquito to illustrate the dangers facing gold seekers. He notes they passed the Yukon Rapids safely, but other boats were capsized and lost. The party remains in the gold regions and will prospect for gold.
E. O. Kinser who has served Milwaukee for over three years is transferred to Coon Rapids replacing A. B. Clark who resigned. H. C. Modlin from Neola becomes new local agent. District shifts follow with Hart moving to Neola Mouser to Woodward and Neely to Earling as offices are checked by the auditor.
A case over the Potts Lake drainage east of town proceeds in district court. Trustee W S Russell seeks to set aside Adelrirtha Reassell’s contract with Tate and Henderson for use of forty acres drained for thirteen years. White and Clarke represent the plaintiff. Shortley and Harper defend. A related suit by J R James to block cost collection, based on inadequate drainage, previously favored Tate and Henderson. Disturbance over drainage length and value lingers as court action continues. Also, a large barn belonging to M To Finley at Dawson burned last Friday morning, discovered around five o’clock by Finley while cow hunting. neighbors assisted.
A man escaped a collapsing barn after moving a horse out, suffering a severe forehead burn. A possible arsonist seen fleeing the area before the discovery of the blaze. The barn, insured for 100 dollars, held little hay or grain. Drs Criley and Hanawalt visited Pat O'Malley's home to review Mrs. O'Malley's runaway injury from months earlier, which now risks shoulder joint stiffness. Climate report notes heat relief and showers improving corn, potatoes, and fruit yields with some wind damage offset by rain. harvests for wheat rye barley oats look favorable if weather continues.
H C Griswold was struck by apoplexy last night near midnight and is described as sinking with no hope of recovery. He had suffered a protracted typhoid fever that progressed to asthma but seemed to improve before suddenly becoming paralyzed and slipping into coma. His son Otis is en route from Newton.
A list of Petit Jurors for the August term 1898 is announced with many names including Wm EH Fenner Perry MN Orban Waukee Anthony Porret Booneville ELF Frush Perry I N Aldrich Gee Stall Waukee W HU Robertson Dallas Center Enjamian Wise Dawson JIL Burgess Dexter George Barrett Dallas Center HH Bishop Perry Booneville Linden Woodard HJ Barton Dallas Center Lewis Heckett Linden RY Stiles Redfield L B Welch Dexter Gil Turner Greenvale Atd Crannell Minburr Henry Thomas Van Meter Chas Schuhart Perry 43 0 Van Meter DeSoto Wm Todd Perry. A limited number of persons may write at homes. Twenty five cents paid per hundred words. Promptness and good work needed. Applications must be with ten cents for particulars. Address The Sioux City Business College Sioux City, Ia.
The undersigned will sell at public auction at the C M and St P stock yards on August 11, 98 at 1 30 p m. Sharp. Top head includes 2 year old and yearling steers stock Heifers and some stock calves. Cattle are high grade Durhams. Sold to highest bidder in lots to suit purchasers. Time given on bankable paper. Stose and Lewis Dave Wixzis Aucts.
Ridexorr property in Dawson offers a six room house with a seed barn and outbuildings. Nearly men will sell cheap for cash. Engrize C L Andreus Perry Iowa.
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