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Newspaper
Sumner Gazette
Location
Sumner, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1900
Page
2
July 19 1900 Sumner Gazette notes market corrections for hogs oats corn eggs hens and roast, local business shifts including Farrand Bros ad offer, several residents' visits and movements around Sumner, Waverly and nearby towns, changes in advertisements and civic notes, and a local railroad and school camp scene.
The Upper Des Moines Editorial Association held its 20th semi annual session in Des Moines over Thursday to Saturday. Report details leaders Aindy as president and A M Adams as secretary, plus a hot auditor ium setting and lengthy debates featuring Dolliver and Clark.
Westgate notes detail Theo Knief's trip to Chicago and local ball game results with Aurora. visits from residents to Oelwein, Cedar Falls, Sumner, and townsfolk travel to Hawkeye. The piece also covers a fatal storm event at Albert Fridley's barn, a Mrs Sylvester funeral procession and a long obituary noting Mrs Sylvester’s Norwegian origins and family.
Unc West was in Waterloo negotiating for a gasoline engine. Buck Creek Lutheran Church has a fine new 800 dollar pipe organ. it was taken out yesterday and made five Wagon roads full. Mesdames Frat Frank Wescott J H Noon R H H Stafford and Miss Maude Blodgett went to Waterloo this morning to attend the Chautauqua. Four ladies in town are quite sick Northampton includes A B Reif J F Cass O O Tibbitts and Miss Martha Cass. none are able to sit up.
The finder offers 60 cent notice for ownership proof and payment. A debate in Waterloo was skipped by Clark of Missouri, while Dolliver spoke two hours in the afternoon. The African Boys Choir performed at Chautauqua. The Sumner Scrubs beat an opposing team 28 to 22 after nine innings. A boy, 11, died at Parkerburg in a freight-car incident in the Sinois Central yards.
Miss Ella Craine remains on the sick list while Miss Ethel Farnum attends a institute in New Hampton. Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Barker visited Nashua recently. Mrs. Fred Fulcher hosted visiting relatives last week. E. G. Stevenson and Ralph Countryman went to West Union for a Ringling Bros. show last Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Cal Morse and children from near Fredericksburg called on Mrs. C. Countryman Sunday. Mrs. Wm Farnum and Mrs. W. B. Farnum of Fredericksburg visited Mrs. F. W. Swale last week. Ada Farnum of Sumner and Hartiet Countryman of Marengo visited their aunt Mrs. C. Countryman and relatives all last week. Mrs. G. H. Fay of Fredericksburg and her father E. R. Pratt stopped with F. J. Fay last Friday. they were bound for Waverly.
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