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Newspaper
Perry Advertiser
Location
Perry, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1899
Page
12
The Perry Advertiser page lists local business notices and prompts, promising baby photos, wood and coal, legal blanks, and dental services. It notes deliveries, auction dates, property exchanges, and upcoming lectures by Dr Bartlett, with several residents moving, traveling, or engaging services.
Dallas Center initiates a bid to relocate the county seat from Adel. Petitions circulate for the board of supervisors to put the relocation question to voters at the next general election. Dallas Center touts strong local organization amid Adel’s long countywide presence, signaling a likely heated contest.
Perry’s Prospects from Perry to a Des Moines paper objects to reports that the town will lose its railway shop. The antici pated move to a distant center is dismissed as unreliable by locals. The editor notes Marulin and Hurndun rumors have circulated but Perry will remain a key central town for the foreseeable future.
County editors elected a new vice president for the state organization at their meeting. Licenses issued include Libert Summerson with Vivian Robson, Brows with Grace Hester, Yhos Morfoot with Lina Brown, Seaton with Verthe Daniels, and Dr. Rogers sought to move his sister Julia from Des Moines to Minburn amid typhoid fever. Fire destroyed W H Wright’s Van Meter home, with two boys escaping. neighbors started a subscription fund. A Linden Gridon farm sale to M. J. Morris at 1 acre south of Linden for 1750 dollars was announced. Pred Gallup, formerly of West Point, graduated fifteenth in a class of seventy-two. Wesley Wright of Linden, former county treasurer, visited on political business in Meaugay. AL Thornburg of Linn township runs for county treasurer. A sightseeing excursion by WT Chandler departs March 7. Ads tout the best prairie lands along Minneapolis d St. Louis line. wheat yields claimed as under three bushels per acre elsewhere. </S>
County politics continue to heat as Adel Republicans fix the June primary date and candidates tour voters. Sheriff hopefuls include J. Hanes of Waukee and T. J. Deato of Addai with Joe Payne possibly weighing in. L. H. Jones withdraws. Treasurer candidate A. Thornburg begins active canvass. Representative race sees Wragh and Clarke campaigning. Overall, voters may be satisfied with either leading candidates depending on future outcomes.
A new variation on Old Folks at Home by J R Lerman is described as grand and showy, suitable for concerts and parlor entertainments with a Negro Play Time finale. Adelina Patti portrait in Geville page. price 73 cents retail. order via Union Mutual Music and Novelty Co., New York.
Fairview items are scarce but roads are good. A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs James Yaney. R B H Mays visited town last Monday. Butchering is common. Meli Sexton visited Mr Will. Infant son of Mr and Mrs J W Keevier is sick. Gr Dodge of Peny was in the area last weekend. Rix and Mrs John Doughiman planned North Dakota trip. Will Sexton and wife in the city the rest of the week. Bir Will Sexton will work for Ma Aaron Peters next season. Rob Oliver and Meli Sexton intend to start for Montana soon. A wedding is rumored but not confirmed. Ma Willetts visited Mr and Mrs Aaron Petersom last Monday. Alred Higgs is very sick with typhoid fever. Walter Knapp’s father from Nebraska has returned home. Frank Foy visited his farm last Sunday with his new wife from Des Moines.
A chatty miscellany notes a deer bone shoe polisher, the vast Ascurial palace spanning many rooms across 120 miles, Werda Dahomey serpents temple with about 41 000 snakes, Sweden bans yarns with arsenic, carpet safety limits, rising Konga export mainly rubber, Pickering’s Formosa notes on aborigines, Italian harvest festival scenes, and Montevideo dispatch on a court absolving Arredondo amid political unrest. prosecutor to appeal.
A downtown merchant recalls a train smoker incident where a man’s pipe stem and tobacco pouch were discarded as part of a playful, philosophical wager about the greatest good. The tale ends with the man noting a future impact, while other clipped lines reference various newspaper quips and historical figures.
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