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Newspaper
Reporter
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1897
Page
5
Local store advertises a clearing sale set for Saturday July 17 offering steep discounts on ladies shirt waists with prices down from 75c to 50c 60c to 38c and 130 to 90c Also signs all culinary goods at or below cost and trims hats priced near nothing urging customers to hurry before stock runs out
Local items report M McCabe visiting Orange City on business. Farmers begin cutting grain with a promising small grain crop. Editor McCarty shopped at Boyden. Numerous visits, sales, and social calls noted across Hull Sheldon Hospers and Orange City. Observations include market goods, furniture sales, illness, and early infrastructure work.
Miss Florence Bell visits Des Moines while Charles Knapp in town with his new location. Orange City beat local team 11 to 7 in an exciting ball game. Miss Mary Hazard daughter of E. W. Hazard dies after a life noted as estimable. Rev J B Chase won t move to Hull amid absence of Gus Satterlee. Beggs Diarrhea Balsam advertised as a remedy for bowel inflammation. John Winkler and Lyda Wagner wed in Congregational parsonage. Ww. Hecker repairs a local store building.
Beggs promotes Blood Purifier and Blood Maker as aids to digestion and blood flow, claiming they transform digestion into a pleasure and increase rich blood in the veins. Brink sells the products.
The Minnesota Board of Pardons met to review pardons for Cole and Jim Younger with no action taken. It also considered commutation for Lewis Kellihan, once of Rock Rapids, tied to the Sherburne bank robbery, with execution set for August 11. The petition cites youth and weak mindedness. Kellihan was twenty, his brother eighteen. two others were killed and the death sentence commuted to life.
Lyons county farmer says Mud Creek soil is the globe’s best and most productive. He notes tall five foot eight inch stalks of wheat oats and rye and a forthcoming bountiful crop likely to profit the producer. He recalls a local anecdote of mowing the yard before the wife could find the baby and twins sharing one cradle.
A Canton Advocate item claims a Kansas wind twisted a straw stack a mile, replaced straw, siphoned sixty gallons of molasses from a barrel, and distributed it to households with milk buckets. It says the wind blew fence cracks, uprooted a cistern, moved a township line, and altered the day of the week.
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