Perry Advertiser City Officials Paper Note
By 3am E. and Frank M Carrell. City official paper content appears in this fragment.
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Newspaper
Perry Advertiser
Location
Perry, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1898
Page
5
By 3am E. and Frank M Carrell. City official paper content appears in this fragment.
Friday June 34 1893 Perry Iowa items report Dr Ii M Stevens trip to Chicago Dr Miller family at lakes Yant Maxwell carpenter in city Mrs Edwin Coles and son at Dilenbeck home Dr I N Paul in Omaha for American Institute of Homopathy Mrs John B Swearingen and Irene at lakes A T Swearingen and granddaughter Mabel away at Fairmont Ming Fred Walz visiting sister Macy in Los Angeles Roy Bailey new clerk to Trainmaster Morrison Company B soldiers request tent gear Mrs Sutherland and Mrs Masser raise thirty dollars for supplies Rev Morrison sermon topic Dewey Hobson Heroes regular services What is Religion Mrs Ed Larson music studio open for instruction Knowledge of best method noted Dallas Center Cycle track opening Perry wheelmen attend Mrs Wimmer and Norman visit lakes Chas Brown Iowa Gay College Cedar Rapids visiting Little Miss Florence Buckingham Marion entertainment at Christian church June 28 1893 Epworth League ice cream social Mr and Mrs Roddan host George H Brown Omaha Barber Burkhead new cottage mayor Breed in Chicago for business Epworth League steeple church event Ben Giles colt in Valley Junction speed noted Des Moines jobber secretary BEJ Russer visits Perry Stereopticon graphophone Epworth League entertainment Robt Richhe drowned at Gilmore City funeral at Dallas Center Body transported to Perry for interment да
A.T. Morrisons wife and daughter arrived from Des Moines. County Supt Hutchins and Bert Parmenter drove to Perry last Friday returning in the evening. Rev G C Morrison of Perry visited his father. Mr H T Morrison the furniture man at this place last Thursday. Sheriff Payne attending an interstate sheriffs convention at Council limits this week. Don Snyder returned home Saturday after injuring his right thumb playing ball for Newton the day before. He is now at Perry. Recorder Cole suffered a severe bilious attack last Friday and spent days under a doctor’s care. Burton Russell will enter the law school at Ann Arbor resigning Linden school principalship. Adel boys considered strongest high school team in Dallas County, scheduled to play Polk county Eastside high school winners of a game here June 9. The game, at this place, next Thursday, June 39, should draw a good crowd.
A high‑level party led by President Miller and General Manager Collins visited Perry on a routine annual inspection trip. The contingent, traveling in Gibson’s car, arrived at ten minutes after noon, inspected yards and stockyards, then continued east after Kansas City line work and bridge reviews.
At about 9:40 PM on a Wednesday Dana awoke to a terrific explosion followed by a fire that destroyed the Leggett grocery, the adjacent boot stock, town hall and residence, Cop erly carpenter shop, and Ferguson drug store building. The blaze, started by a keg of powder, overwhelmed the town without an organized fire department. Grand Junction engines arrived too late. Losses include Leggett double building and stock about 3300, Cop erly shop, Ferguson drug store at 800, Dr. Rogers stock and furniture 2500, insurance totals 1200, with partial coverage on some properties. Souvenir 3200.
From the New York Recorder the union of Adam Forepaugh Sells Brothers and Barnum Bailey creates the largest show empire. Bailey now owns Barnum Bailey Greatest Show on Earth and co-owns Buffalo Bill Wild West. Forepaugh additions join the Sells Brothers outfit. The three enterprises promise unprecedented spectacle and value, with a grand Perry July 1 debut. The merged operations boast vast menageries, cages, horses, and performances, including rare beasts and aerial and hippodrome acts, in a single admission price. The parading pageantry and overall enterprise reportedly set a new standard in show business.
A reflective note recalls a dull baseball score with Perry strong early, Jamaica’s capture, and hints at plans for a Northwestern series. It lauds Jefferson and Omaha’s Transmississippi Exposition, praising Illinois’ state building and the expanse of the fairgrounds while noting limited Klondike expedition news and ongoing peril in gold rush efforts.
From Olympia, Wash., Tap Exris Cai writes of the capital on Puget Sound, its boom era, cheap living, plentiful fish markets with salmon and halibut, cheap fruit, and a view of the Olympic range. He details boats, docks, local industries, and seems to hint at civic changes and travel to Seattle, Tacoma, and Victoria.
The Ridenour property in Dawson includes a six room house, a good barn and outbuildings. It will be sold cheap for cash. Enquire of GL Andrews Perry Iowa.
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