Local Field Highlights From Four Days of Gleaning
A broad herald note recounts busy days in Hardin County and surrounding areas with weather shifts, farm updates, and civic notices. It mentions Macbeth at Wisner, new post office contractor F. X. White, a May day breakfast at M E church, and a commercial association forming in Hampton. Also referenced are several residents moving, a rectified election plan, and local business openings amid ongoing spring planting and stray items from Alden and AckleyWorld.
May Day Breakfast Planned by Local Auxiliary Circle
The Auxiliary Circle of the Mr church schedules its annual May day Breakfast for Saturday morning April 1. Mentioned events include the anti-saloon league convention in Eldora on Monday at the M and E church with several notable outside speakers. Also notes remarks on John D Rockefeller and weather predictions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Church
Anti-Saloon League
Eldora
M &E
Purely Personal Points As People Come And Go
A local column records visitors and residents in town with brief notes on movements health and social ties. Mentions C B Davis Chas Foote C W Strother F A Petterson E H Lundy A P Wilson C A S Wilcox Oliver S Wildman J H Smith Emma Slack W S Porter J C Jackson E M Hulbert Virginia Richards Selby Moran and more. The piece hints at family ties, candidacy for county offices, and upcoming visits to St Louis and Los Angeles.
Soldier Boy Letter From Fort Flagler Amid Puget Sound Forts
A young soldier writes from Ft Flagler near Seattle describing life in the Puget Sound forts. He notes 26,106 soldiers on the island, eight large mortar batteries, eight 12 inch guns, and eight rapid firing guns. He mentions Ft Worden and Ft Casey, the fort network, and the presence of the Sixth Artillery band. He discusses desertions to British Columbia, travel by the Marion steamer, climate, and his intent to reenlist after three years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ephora Tne
Hardin County
Eldora
Ft. Flagler
Seattle
Puget Sound
Port Townsend
Flagler
Ft. Worden
Ft. Casey
Department
Sixth Artillery Band
United States
Tracy
Hope
Black
Vaters
Hancock
Chapelier
Ft. Dodge
Waterloo
Iowa
Marion
British Columbia
McLelan
For Sale Farm Listings in Iowa and Minnesota Markets
Real estate ads describe Franklin county Iowa stock farm of 30 acres with 200 cultivable acres, timber, big barn and outbuildings, artesian well, 14 miles from town at 805 per acre. another Mower county Minnesota farm of 224 acres at 846 per acre with house, barn, well, wind mill, grove. a 144 acre fruit farm with orchard, barn, well, wind mill, value 2500. Contact F. A. Rinageway, Hampton Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin County
Towa
Mower County
Minn
Iowa
Rinageway
Hampton
Re-Go Tonic Laxative Syrup Promoted in Eldora Iowa
An advertisement argues that cure lies in the medicine, not name, touting Re-Go Tonic Laxative Syrup as effective for biliousness constipation indigestion and stomach trouble. It notes it is sold by Wilson Drug Co successors to Eleworth Drug Co Eldora Iowa at the temperance drug store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson Drug Co
Eleworth
2 Ug. Co
Eldora
Towa
Tamperance
Mrs Theo T Roosevelt Dies After Appendix Operation
Ackley reports the sudden death of Mrs Theo T Roosevelt age about 47 40 after an appendectomy. A respected church and society figure active Presbyterian worker and soprano singer in the local choir. Her daughter Miss Ray remains critically ill with lung troubles. Dr B E Purcell notes practice at Emergency hospital on April 6 and 19.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ackley
Theo. T. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Presbyterian Church
Herald
Ray
Sleeping Beauty Comes to Opera House May Night
Opera House program on May 9 at 8 p m promises a brilliant evening. The Baptist church ladies collaborate to present tableaux music and drills featuring the Sleeping Beauty in a fairyland spectacle. Audience is urged to attend for a delightful entertainment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Opera House
The
Baptist Church
Fairy Land
DeWitts Little Early Risers Start Night and Morning
Advertisement notes that any person suffering headaches biliousness or drowsiness should take one or two DeWitt s Little Early Risers night and morning. The pills are promoted as a tonic and digestive aid cleansing the system while strengthening the liver and bowels. Sold by Smith Reed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DeWitt
Smith & Reed
Church Services Next Sunday Across Denominations
Announcements list Presbyterian preaching by Rev X S Cross at the church morning and Point Pleasant afternoon. Baptist union service Sunday 7:30 pm at the Baptist church, no other evening services. Congregational preacher at 11 am, no evening service. Webster City Assn meeting at Clinton praised. next gathering set for Belmond with Rev C C Warner delivering the sermon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Presbyterian
X. S. Cross
Presbyterian Church
Point Pleasant
Webster City
Clinton
Belmond
C. C. Warner
Resolutions of Respect for Comrade M Peyton
At a regular meeting of E C Buckner Post No 154 Iowa department G A R held April 20 1904 resolutions of respect were passed for Comrade M Peyton late Post Commander. They note Peyton served in Co H 20th Ill Vol until wounded at Fort Donaldson and honor his service and leadership. They express sympathy to his widow and family, order the post charter draped thirty days, and authorize sharing copies with the family and city papers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
Ft Donaldson
E. C. Buckner
Republic
W. E. Svanory
Henry Tharmen
Dr McCash to Speak on Sunday in Eldora
Dr J N McCash of Des Moines, superintendent of the Iowa Anti Saloon League, will be in Eldora next Sunday. A former ten year pastor of University Place church his ministry built a 2200 member congregation, the largest in Iowa. He will preach temperance at the Christian church in the morning and speak at a joint church meeting at the Baptist church on the League’s work in Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. N. McCash
Des. Moines
Iowa Anti-Saloon League
Eldora
University Place
Iowa
Christian Church
Baptist Church
Anti-Saloon League
Greatly Reduced Rates To The West And Northwest
The Chicago Great Western railroad offers daily March and April ticket sales at very low rates to Montana Washington Utah Idaho California. For full particulars write J P Elmer G P A Chicago Ill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Great Western Railway
Montana
Washington
Utah
Idaho
California
J. P.elmer
Chicago
Ill
Also Mentioned on This Page
Herald Logal Brevis
the Herald For
Blanks
Herald Office
the Herald
Panhandler
Macbeth
the Wisner
Crescent Lumbad Company
Dieh & Kier
Smith
Hubbard
M.E. Church
Meat Producers Association
Union
F.X. White
G. A. R. Hall
J. M. Stout
Mr. McNeil
C. J. Warthow
New York
Hearst
Ee Neon
Ithis City
Sana
Ben Stoehr
Parks
Ackley World
Howard Moser
Swea
Spokane
Wash
Richard Clarkson
Des Moines Register
Persons
Nebraska
Geo. EB. Gilman
Leo Marks
Grant
Kent
Dunlap
Lyman
Jerusalem
Alden
Annals of
L. G. Kinne
Board of Control of
Albia
C. A. Clark
Pleasant Township
Jake Reece
John D. Rockefeller
John
Cedar Rapids
Weather Bureau
Bro. Cole
Insurance
National
Hartford
German Alliance
Aachen & Munich
Germany
Merchants & Bankers
Des
Carl S. Newcomer
C. B. Davis
Des Moines
Chas. Foote
Shaler
C. W. Strother
Oskaloosa
F. A. Petterson
Northwood
Messrs
E. H. Lundy
A. P. Wilson C. A. S. Wilcox
Oliver S. Wildman
Radcliffe
J. H. Smith
Colfax
Mr. Smith
Emma Slack
Winchester
W.S. Porter
Electrical Association
Iowa Falls
Mr. Jackson
E. M. Hulbert
E. R. Seaton
Virginia Richards
Marshalltown
City
Selby A. Moran
Ann Arbor, Mich
Jno. W. Peisen
G. G. Felton
Mr. Felton
J. W. Madden
H. H. Hendryx
St. Louis
Sterling, Ill
Hendryx
Selby
S. B. Moran
r.Moran
John Crippen
94Th Co .Coast Artillery
Theodore T. Roosevelt
B. E. Purcell
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