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Newspaper
Sumner Gazette
Location
Sumner, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1893
Page
3
Corrected market notes for Thursday April 13 1893 list hogs at 1.50 Timotty oats 24 to 25 cents corn 30 to 35 flax 90 to 94 butter 25 cents eggs 32 cents and hides 2. Prices shown for week from $5.50 to $0.25.
A concise note describing diligent customer care and collaborative teamwork. The message emphasizes efficiency, reliability, and cooperative effort to satisfy diverse requests. It signals readiness for varied tasks and high standards in service delivery.
O. J. Ludwig the Jeweler and Nellie Rule clerks for Cass Bros. Mrs. Jas. Fiester visits West gate. Various local updates on millinery at Miss McHugh's, Fague's furniture, house additions, garden and farm work, school openings, births, visits, and moves. Families travel to St. James, Nashua, Oelwein. clergymen attend conferences. a new rotary swing purchase announced for Sumner with steam power and a 20-tune organ.
Last Tuesday during a shower, lightning struck the Wismer house causing a chimney to collapse and three branches of damage to the northeast, southwest and north corners. Miss Nellie Barnard and Miss Martha Wismer were inside but escaped injury as the girls quickly controlled a house fire from the strike. The home, insured with Bremer County Mutual, will be repaired with minor loss and inconvenience.
A western country widow, aged long service in the community, passed away at her home in Winge shie county. She bore eleven children, five surviving. Surviving relatives include Mrs. Bing ham and J. D. Horton. Her remains were taken to Ft. Ackinson for burial with old soldiers as pallbearers. Souvenir Half Dollar promotion notes adjoin obituary.
The Fayette Glee Club opened at Ziegler Hall Saturday night to a fair audience considering counter attractions. The banjo and guitar club pleased the crowd, and audience calls for encores followed each number. The program featured several modern Specialty selections that drew tremendous applause. The Argo hopes the group fares well on their tour as the entertainment was first class.
Local items report farm sales and stock, with notes from Shavano Texas about peaches and hay, farm weather and family moves. Also advertisements for Murray farm sale terms, various farmers and merchants, and a dissolution notice for Sumner Hardware & Implement Co with settlement by Jos Copeland and L Hazen.
The Iowa Editorial Association travels to St Louis on a special Wabash train with 164 participants including editors wives and daughters. Sleeper cars Tolva Nisa and Bagdad carry 58 per coach for a fourteen day Florida and Southeast tour coordinated by Lafe Young publisher of the Des Moines Capital and Iowa Press Association president.
Westgate society and business notes cover travel by Mr and Mrs S A Sylvester and Mrs R P Baxter to Nora Springs, pupil moves to Des Moines and Independence, local hires and job plans, visitors from Elma Chicago Farley and Sumner, school openings at Center with Miss Nettie Dickman, and newsletter promotions for the Dubuque Semi Week Times with subscription details.
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