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Newspaper
Sumner Gazette
Location
Sumner, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1893
Page
4
Old Mr Hursh, Frank Cass at home, rental inquiry, and daily health updates. Several visits, sales and leases, school teaching, and church assignments. Beach and Bowers acts, new bicycles purchased, snowfall then warm promises, obituary for Maggie Roberts Aldrich, and local business moves and social notes.
The editor and his wife returned Tuesday evening after a 16 day trip through 11 states and 12 railroads. They traveled 4500 miles, spent eight days on the southern border, noting blooming flowers, mosquitoes, and a stark climate contrast between winter in the north and summer in the south. They stopped at many places, but promise no full travel account, focusing on the country’s vastness and transitions.
A travel letter from a Mississippi reader recounts a rapid Florida swing in April 1893. After Savannah and Tybee Beach, the party visits St Augustine with Fort Marion and the old fort’s dungeon. They cruise St John River to Jacksonville, then Palatka and DeLeon Springs before reaching Tampa Bay and Port Tampa. The diary details orange groves, cigar factories in Ybor City, and the opulent Tampa Bay Hotel, with warm coastal weather and lively local scenes.
A. Ritchie and daughter spent Sunday in Independence with relatives. Katie Quin visited Fairbanks last week and returned Monday. Mrs A W Bafie left for Newell Monday to visit her son, with Mrs Hart Spears accompanying to Oelwein. Robert Maley visited Oelwein Monday. W D Tift went to Sumner Monday, returning the next day. Mr Spears of Hazelton appeared in town seeking horses. Several couples attended a wedding at Maxfield Saturday afternoon, returning Monday. O T Burrow bought the Hartsough place and moved in early week. A good farm for sale, the Murray farm a quarter section on easy terms at 5000 dollars or a little over 31 per acre. inquiries at this office.
Advertisement for 200 acres of pasturage with permanent water and ten acres of shade grove. Fences present. stock not guaranteed against loss. Cattle 200 per head. horses 3.00. The Dubuque Semi-Week Times promotes market reports and stories, eight pages Tuesday, four Friday. Subscription $1 per year. trial 73 cents. Iberal club discounts. sample copies free. Published in Dubuque Iowa. subscriptions at Gazette office. tf.
The Ga ZETTE announces a promotion in April offering Rand McNally Atlas of the World to the farthest in advance and farthest in arrears subscribers. Anyone paying for one week in advance or settling all back arrears qualifies, with two atlases to be given away in April and May.
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