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Newspaper
Spencer News
Location
Spencer, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1910
Page
5
Spencer residents share holiday visits and updates. Iowa State student Wilson Cornwall returns home for vacation, along with many townsfolk and students from Town State University. Local sales, farming notices, a Christmas reception for Durban missionaries, and upcoming club meetings fill the town newspaper page.
The Dakotas Montana Idaho and Washington offer golden opportunities for farmers business professionals. New towns along the Chicago Milwaukee Puget Sound Railway have seen rapid growth with openings in many lines of business. Thousands of acres near the line await cultivation and Montana offers 160 320 acre government homesteads. The railroad will offer low round trip fares in 1911 for homeseekers to visit and study the region, with literature and fare details available from F A Miller Chicago.
Joe Baker bought about 35 head of cattle from Douglass. Del Marker visited from Gillett Grove to spend Christmas with family. Thomas Lacy and wife visited with Mr and Mrs Ted Johnson of Lincoln. Lawrence Whalen pursues the meteor sighting with new pumping gear to reach the object after 18 years, hoping to bring proof and a specimen to the News. Randall Tuttle, ISU student, returned home for vacation. Friends celebrated the twenty fifth wedding anniversary of A H Rhodes and wife with a warm, well received gathering and tokens of esteem.
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