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Newspaper
Sumner Gazette
Location
Sumner, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1893
Page
3
Corrected every Thursday morning. Pricing details listed include 3.55 to 6.75, 0 Ld 4 to 25 cents, Oro 35 90 to 94 25 cents. Page fragment shows a classified style notice with dates and small monetary figures for items.
Local items list numerous names, purchases, travels, and happenings. Mentions include C. J. Ludwig jeweler, Ed Madden planting corn, Cass Bros. promotions, World’s Fair trips, farm sales, and road scrapers. Social visits, church notes, and minor incidents fill the wide-town snapshot.
Lou Linstrum returns from the World's Fair with a good time report. Mrs Schoonmaker and children home Tuesday to a happy reunion after three weeks apart. Hart Spears is cleaning house and store per his wife’s urging. Fresh bananas at Schoonmakers and Dwyer's. Murray still in place but awaiting walking papers. Transients at the hotel. Theo Stall improving for store work. Frankie Keiron sick. Corbin improving after a Tuesday town visit. Mrs P L Hartsough visiting parents. Miss Mary Ritchie rusticating in the country. Grandma Latimer visiting friends. Ferris of Sumner visiting the Wilber family. Nettie Dickman closed school for Toledo commencement. Hart Spears selling screens and hardware cheap. Ritchie's store offers baking powder and dishes. Baxter moved salt downtown for farmers. Col Knee telegrams Hart Spears to meet at the afternoon train. Free trial of Dr King’s new discovery for coughs and consumption at EG Trump & Co’s Drug Store.
Advertises a dirt cheap pasture rental near Sumner with a flowing well. Call on J. F. Cass at the Bank of Sumner for details.
Fremont observes Decoration Day at Murphy U B Church paying tribute to those who aided the government. The program blends music, recitations, and flowers, followed by graveside honors and baskets of food. Notable speakers include Rev. W. B. Arble and Mr. C. Lewis, with performances by Miss Nina Baker and Miss Lily Harris.
An uneducated youth from Fyzabad killed a calf by accident and faced Brahmin excommunication. He must lead a mendicant life for six months, wear a rope and calf tail, perform pilgrimages to Hindu shrines, and endure social and religious penalties for the offense.
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