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Newspaper
Spencer News
Location
Spencer, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1909
Page
5
A long list of Spencer notices covers Decoration Day events, lectures, meetings, and local visits. It notes cemetery ceremonies, parades, confirmations of speakers Milford H. Lyon and C. S. Carroll, and various church, lodge, and school activities with arrivals and travel plans of residents and visitors.
A playful piece portrays the telephone girl as listening to every voice and gossip in town. It suggests she could ruin reputations, spark divorces, and stir conflicts if she ever shared what she knows, and ends by noting how astonishing it is that we owe her secrecy.
Des Moines Iowa weekly weather crop bulletin reports warm week with little rain across most of the state. Average temperatures near normal to above in west and below in east. about 75 percent of corn planted with early stands good. Pastures and crops show rapid growth and promising prospects though showers expected to continue statewide.
To all concerned in Clay county Iowa you must appear at Spencer Court House August 26 1909 at 1 PM to attend probate of the will alleged to be that of Gunder Simonson late of Clay County deceased show cause if any why the will should not be admitted to probate. The Clerk of the District Court CO 8S WAVER signs the notice June 1 1909.
Wilford C. Thorley presents a springal ode in the Spectator describing renewals in nature. The verse paints snowdrops anemones and daisies against thawing borders with wind luminous gorse lamps and a bridal metaphor for late-widowed earth.
A total solar eclipse is set for Thursday June 17 visible across most of the United States except the deep south. It will begin around 6 10 PM and last past sunset, obscuring about half the sun at maximum. last total eclipse noted in 1869 amid folklore and wartime memory.
A Michigan country school teacher, Prof Holden, tested pupil observations by counting rat tail hairs and corn yields. He demonstrated careful observation, seed selection, and irrigation to raise corn yields from 40 to 70 bushels, transforming farming at a Bloomingtion farm and later leading to a large Illinois Agricultural College role.
The act targets pharmacists with liquor selling permits. It seeks to cut unlawful sales by requiring permit holders after July 4th to obtain authorization for each sale, limiting access to those legitimately in need for medical purposes.
The county auditor will bind blanks for liquor permit requests into books, numbered consecutively with a star for each request. Printing and binding costs are initially paid by the county, but applicants reimburse the cost of the books. Each blank must be countersigned by the auditor and legally valid only if signed personally by the applicant, who must fill the entire form in ink while the permit holder fills and preserves the stub.
South Summit and N. Riverton residents attended the Decoration Day exercises in Spencer on Monday. Grace and Fred Lily hosted many friends last Friday evening and reports describe a splendid time. Reverend Carroll of Spencer conducted service at the Enterprise school house and will hold services every Sunday until further notice. Miss Minette Bonyfield returned to New Concord Ohio after teaching in Summit township. Blanche Goldsworthy completed two years of schooling at Albert City and plans return home. Mr and Mrs West from near Freeport Illinois are improving a South Summit farm near Lou Louck's and will reside there temporarily.
Rain hindered corn planting across the Belknap place with much water delaying field work. A valuable mare at C W Belknap’s was treated by a veterinarian for possible bowels inflammation. Hays visited his daughter while Thomas and Thomea traveled to Jefferson. EB Holmes returned from Green County at week’s end.
Mrs Z Reed of Omaha died last Wednesday at 11 o clock with husband and daughter at her bedside. Funeral held Friday at Osborn school house, then burial at Burs Oak cemetery with Rev N R Bisby in charge. Mr Reed and two daughters returned home Saturday. Mrs P Williams and daughter Elsie left for Kansas Monday. Also noted is mention of Clay County history delivery and Civil War veterans recalling wartime memories.
Mrs. O D Jenkins departs Spencer for Phoenix Arizona to stay with her brother Clinton Greene and sister Clara Greene and keeper of the house for the Greene family. She plans to travel to California to visit relatives after arriving in Phoenix. Mrs A W Greene will return to Spencer when Mrs Jenkins arrives back.
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