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Newspaper
Perry Advertiser
Location
Perry, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1899
Page
8
Perry Advertiser page lists local vendors and notices including photos, auctions, seeds, loans, and a Congregational Easter fair set for March 28. Mentions W H Chandler selling town land, Des Moines Register subscription, and upcoming musicales, with personnel changes at local businesses and schools.
Walter Brooks, a milk route driver north of the city, died after drinking poison at his home. Coroner's jury investigates alleged forged note and marital strife as possible motive amid rumors of forgery. Family says no recent quarrel. poison suspected to be tandanum. inquest underway with local witnesses and doctors.
Fragmentary OCR notes sketch a Kansas incident with an unnamed winner and near relatives present. A speaker named Cline allegedly claimed a long line at a site amid anger, though details are garbled and uncertain.
Adjutant General Byers oversees muster as Perry forms a new Company B 2nd Infantry, LW G. Officers chosen include McKean, Donahoe, Koperick, Marckres, Bailey, Bishop, Burnette, and 20 others. many from the old Company 13. The town welcomes the drill, and Gen Byers departs for Sioux City to muster in additional recruits as neighboring towns reorganize guard units. Nearby rail wrecks and large land deals also appear in the Dallas county notes.
The Perry Improvement Association has secured a proposal from W D Simons of Jamaica to start a modern brick and tile factory near Perry. The plant would produce 16 000 to 30 000 bricks daily, use ten acres of clayland, and require five acres of land from Perry residents to locate. Simons plans to operate with new machinery and only move after ten years if successful.
City council designates election officials for Monday March 26 in three wards. First Ward judges IF M Fy Doc Resser Sam Carroll and G W Tohnzon clerks. Second Ward judges WB Robinse Zimmer Harry Nash Judy McColl and Ton Courtney clerks. Third Ward judges P E O Connor D Bine Warvey Thou Elliot Jim Walters and Rd Jerks as clerks.
Registration boards will be in the different wards on Thursday and Friday of next week and the Saturday before the election. First Ward Sam AlcDonough and Robt. Cro. Second Ward Robt. Ginn and A. W. Parmenter. Third Ward Wmo. Iseshart and Bart Smith.
A caucus of the Second Ward is scheduled for Saturday evening March 11 at 8 o'clock at the city building to nominate a candidate for councilman.
A caucus will be held at the Milwaukee depot on Saturday evening March 11 to nominate a candidate for councilman in the Third ward.
Land for sale offering 16 percent sections of fertile land in Central South Dakota at 1.25 dollars per acre. Tithe per acre. Also note farms near Wichita and an invitation to see them this month. Seeds including Timothy, Clever and Blue Grass advertised, Perry Steele's Hardware.
Mr and Mrs Geo Pyle returned Tuesday morning from a visit at Youlon. The trip centered on their brother’s Selden wedding and a family reunion with seven children present for the first time in nearly forty years. Four daughters and three sons, including the baby Georg, span locations in Ohio and Wisconsin.
Listing of names with unclaimed letters at the Perry Indiana post office for the week of March 7 1890 including Anderson Charley Beers Miss Cora Alary El Knox Miss Mattie L Mathews Mrs Mattie Mitchell Miss Bertha Piesson V E ed Edward Streete Mrs E Steb i E Sparks Ars Irene Stevens Miss Nancy Wessel Winnie White Lester E. Patrons must say advertised to claim. OAM Horve P.M.
Subscriptions and local ads fill the page including Angus lump coal at 2.50 per ton and a mare for sale near the sorghum mill west of town. Civil engineer te Caras eyed Brown block corners from Des Moines. Various locals praise school director B F Elliot and report births deaths and resignations. Shamrock lore and St Patrick’s Day emblems from O F Roddan Co. round out the column with school news, meetings, and a republican caucus result plus a new baby born Monday.
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