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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1898
Page
7
Local items report the Sewing Circle Bazaar on Saturday evening and an Experience Social at the Opera House. Other notices include cattle trading by Tanck and Lack of exposition coverage, renwick real estate turnover, a pastor’s baptismal service, a child’s fall with minor injuries, and transfer of stock from Renwick to Alton.
Local notices list residents traveling to Humboldt Omaha and Des Moines to visit court, attend expositions, or teach, with several family and social visits noted. Citizens from Renwick attend court at Humboldt, others plan trips to Mt Vernon and Cleveland, while farm and harvest talks fill the page.
The Epworth League hosts an Experience Social at the Opera House next Friday where members earn a dollar by odd jobs and share how earned. The issue includes obituaries, school notes, and local business ads plus commentary on anarchists, prize money, and a grain market tale from G. Bliss about selling in Chicago vs local markets.
Market update notes unsettled conditions with fat steers heifers and cows and grain in flux. Wheat and corn quotations unavailable as figures would be outdated before publication.
Nelson Hoss writes from Colfax Washington describing arrival at Spokane Falls and the journey west from Renwick Toward Colfax Whitman county. He notes prosperity wages in Washington higher than Iowa, harvests including wheat oats and barley, fruit near Fruitland, Peaches and the Bad Lands scenery in Dakota and eastern Montana, Steptoe Butte and Camine Butte, the Rockies experience, and train details with wages for local workers. He closes by preferring Iowa if breeze becomes strong.
Dimrerick, Manager, invites customers to the Soth Side Livery Barn for first class rigs and careful drivers. Blacksmith, plow, wagon work, horse shoeing and general repair services offered with all work guaranteed. Call in at the Dean shop W. HL Rexsrow & Sox.
Notice to all persons indebted to the firm of Olden Son to call and settle at once as all accounts must be settled as soon as possible. C W Olden and Son author.
Resolutions express heartfelt sympathy to Lewis Jacobson after the death of wife and mother Ella Jacobson. Minutes to record the bereavement and publish in the Renwick Times. Committee members J N Keeney J McCullough G H Stoddard sign and order.
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