Local notes from Webster City area in 1900s column
A sprawling mix of social notes, visits, travel, and small town business. Mentions Miss Eigi at LaVerne, Mrs H B Cole in Minneapolis, land prospecting by 8 C Packard, trips by Fred Witzig and J Lacy, and many local residents from Webster City and nearby towns. Also references to coal prices, a Rebekah Lodge instruction, farm work, birthday gathering, and a shopper plea to buy local.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma Chapman
Rebekah Lodge
H. 3. Rice
Celia Rice
A.A. Packard
Eva “Packard
P. H. ‘Thiel
Bertha Thiel
Eva Rice
Emily Rice
E. J. Martin
Dora Martin
F. Bootz
Meda Mack
Eva
Packano-Gravespie Tie Themselves To Boone Township Home
RENWICK MARKET REPORT notes a Wednesday October 4 wedding at Clarion M E parsonage uniting W A Packard and Pearl Gullspie both of Boone township. The article also reports new baby at Loobey home, hay purchases, large cattle herd, store expansion progress, immigrant wagons passing through Renwick, and local moves among residents and families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Pearl
C. A. Packard
Renwick
Peas.Bros
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Wanted girl for general housework at A C Thompson
Classified ad invites an experienced girl to perform general housework with good wages. Local notes discuss changes in station agents, a stray white boar found on a farm, and a sensational misdeed involving two Eagle Grove women facing possible penitentiary terms after a missing infant and a discovery in a cellar. The town caretaker remains hopeful for steadier leadership and better city relations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. C. Thompson
Eagle Grove
Marshal Fisher
Clarion
Bradfield
Local notices and business chatter mix in Algona update
A scattered Algona column notes a pestaurant display by A C Thompson, funeral attendance for Dr Hraecker in Goldfield, and several health and travel updates. Gov Shaw passes through on a route to Germania and Bancroft to deliver addresses, coal shortages rumor persists though Renwick has coal, and local plans include Mrs Fulton and John Schmidt leaving Renwick in November. Also mentions vandalism risk at Clarion, brick-building plans, hot stock at Hart’s Grocery, millinery at Mrs Lockwood, and a joke about a Bermond citizen at a Fort Dodge fair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Merson
Gov. Shaw
Germania
Bancroft
Also Mentioned on This Page
Tome
Bogals
Eigi Waa
LaVerne
Black Bros
H. B. Cole
Minneapolis
Mru Lane
B. L. Willig, Lumber Co
Webster City
Moat Sherman
Boone
Bert Sherman
Peterson
C. Farmer
FEO
Goldfield
Mr& Geo. James
C. “W.olden
Stoddard
Anda. C
Thompson
Otteson
Dressler
Webster
W.E. Harvéy
Dastanather
Duluth
Gus Roemer
Callesen
Ars. W
Jon Hebscke
Baumgartner Bros
Eagle Grove Times-Gazette
Frank Ward
C. O. Lewis
John Carr
Dick Gaughen
Hank McCurry
Hans Martinson
Claus Helmke
Criel
Thrall
Mable Richardson
Miss Richardson
Olden
Lolks
Henry Martin
Lucy
Pease Bros
Exekiet Grandon
Chris Bootz
M. E
Olden’s
McKinley
Dubuque
Iowa Telephone Co
E. A. Martin Telephone Co
Martin
Jnsis
USA
Jo Hart
J. Ms Sherman
J. W. Hillyard
Sherman
Hillyard
Parson Bros
Bro. Miller
The
Livermore Gazette
Bert Olden
Renwick la
Times
St. Paul
Des Moines
Renwick Market
Ed Loobey
A. A. Gad
Howard Criel
A.B. Richdarson
Harts Grocery
Dick Gaugten
Town
S. C. Packard
Beil & Thiel’s
Mr. Hotchkiss
Chas. Mulls
Agt
Wood
C.J. McLure
C.N
Overerick Elmer
A.C. Thompson
Pestaurant
Dr. Hraecker
Hardy
A. S. Fulton
John Schmidt
Princeton, Ky
Southern
Louisana
Qlden
Humboldt
Bert Olden’s
Bermond
Fort Dodge
Parsons Bros
Chester
H.B. Cole
Fred Southwick
W. B. Persons
State Bank
J. W. HiLiyah
Burt-Sanborn
Algona
Chicago
Gity
John Callesen
B. L. Willis Lumber Co
Cement and Coal
Fahrion & CO
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