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Newspaper
Spencer News
Location
Spencer, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1914
Page
4
The editor and proprietor wish readers a happy new year with thanks for loyalty and kind words. They note advertising rates, publishing schedule, and a commitment to improve the News in the coming year. The message extends good health prosperity noble ideals and true neighbors in the community.
A whimsical 1915 New Year greeting looks forward to better days. The note imagines midnight arrivals, shifting tones, and hopes readers will rise on stepping stones to higher things as the year 1915 begins. It ends with a playful cheer to readers and a nod to Welcome to 1015.
A reflective piece marks 1914 as a pivotal year of promise and defeat. It recalls a bright beginning with opportunities and high hopes dashed by war, urging young men to build noble character and seize enduring ideals amid fading chances. It notes militarism rising then sowing its own graves.
A North Iowa editor extols Eugene Secor of Forest City as a potential post laureate. They praise his poetry collection The Shelter and a monthly poem calendar for Young Folk, hoping for a complete volume. They describe Secor’s retreat and poetic surroundings.
In the early nineties the narrator, a former pastor at Llambolde and Dakota City, recalls Carl Hibbard, son of Rev J Estly Hibbard. The story centers on a family on a Humboldt area farm and a treasured book titled Deacon Ely, detailing a deacon and his wife who consistently aid the pastor with steady generosity.
The text recalls how Carl and his wife received offerings from parishioners including birds and other provisions after Christmas. It notes ongoing generosity of ministers’ supporters, praising 1914 as a great year that widened horizons and inspired loftier aims.
A foot and mouth disease improvement prompts Iowa State College to broaden a farmers short course in Ames. The program adds soil, crops, horticulture, poultry, farm dairy management, and livestock health lectures for teachers and youth, with nightly rural questions and a ban for residents near infected premises.
Letter from 1914 endorses sending The Spencer News as a Christmas gift. Samuel Frenon of Peterson IA encloses payment to Mr Glasgow for a one year subscription to James French in Peterson IA box 166. The writer praises the paper and notes it as a good Christmas present for his father.
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