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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1903
Page
1
Four days of gleaning in Hardin County fields are noted along with local events. The column covers weather, civic meetings, church notes, school and sports, a carnivals and entertainment in Marshalltown, and health and personal news including deaths and surgeries.
In Dundee Minnesota and Eldora Iowa, Mrs Celia Perkins and her ten year old daughter Retta drowned when their wagon was swept by a Des Moines river washout during a visit trip. The ten year old son survived by clinging to a tree limb for three hours until rescue. Funeral services in Eldora mourned the loss alongside the older husband and father. Surviving children Libbie Rezin Claud Alva and Lee attended with many relatives and friends.
The Marshalltown district announces church leadership changes with presiding elders and ministers moved among Ackley Albion Beaman Chelsea Conrad Eldora Faulkner Garwin Grundy Center Hampton Iowa Falls Laurel Le Grand Rockwell Sheffield State Center Tama Toledo Whitten and other communities. Reassignments include Rev T E Fleming continuing as a presid ing elder of the Decorah district and Rev L C Clark moved to Osage. Dr J B Albrook becomes Cornell College agent succeeding Dr Crippen.
Medy and several members of her immediate family attended, living in the county near Town Falls and Owasa. The passage presents a striking illustration of life’s uncertainty and its recurring lesson.
Thos Diven of Abingdon aged 90 died September 14 1903 at the home he had occupied since 1853. Born January 3 1813 in Cumberland County Pennsylvania he moved to Illinois in 1848 settling in Canton and then Abingdon in 1853. Married in 1835 he left ten children including Mrs H L Huff and Mrs J W Zeiger of Eldora. He was widely esteemed for his honest life.
Rev Geo B Shoemaker arrives in Eldora by conference appointment to lead the M E church. praised as a strong statewide preacher and capable pastor with active Sunday School leadership and community reform spirit. wife Mrs Shoemaker described as ideal partner. writer has known him for over twenty years. Jay B Newcomer Hardin County Auditor commended for integrity and avoidance of mixed ticket schemes. calls for lawfulness and loyalty to Republican principles. asserts no inclination toward irregularities.
A careworn listing of visitors and departures highlights the week. Iowa Falls resident Coffee spends Sunday with Eldora friends while H W Fannon travels to Chicago for goods. Des Moines figures appear with Mrs Reynolds and son visiting Chicago. John Bruch of Pawnee City guests Jas Bruch. Local social and church figures move through Cedar Rapids and Joliet as Rev A Sale is named conference evangelist and Rev Father Convery returns from Europe. A string of health and travel notes ends with a sales prompt at Jenssen Krause.
National suffrage lecturer Dr Frances Woods will deliver The Microbes of Injustice at Mt E Church Friday evening next Oct 2 at 8 o clock. The talk is free with a collection to be taken. All are urged to attend regardless of views on suffrage.
Real estate transfers listed include C McKeen Duren to Joseph Spurgin in NW 23 86 20 for 5200. C McK Duren to E W Lundy in nine 23 9620 for 5200. OF Austin to J M Balantyne sw 13 89 22 for 12800. Frances Carpenter to B D Surfs Its 1 2 and parts of lots 7 8 in bk 37 Steamboat Rock for 8675. DeGroote to Walter Tarned part lots 123 and 4 bk 69 Steamboat Rock. Wm Luscomb to Wm Keating lot 3 bk 7 Buckeye for 100. J Harkin to EH Jones pt outlet 23 Eldora for 2500. Geo Iisk to A Koeningsberg parts Its 2 and 3 bk 32 Steamboat Rock for 8400.
Father Henderson died at his daughter Mrs Mark Fenton home on the old home farm East Side Sunday last at the advanced age of nearly 80. He was buried on Tuesday afternoon with Heralds not able to provide further particulars today.
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