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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1917
Page
5
Spencer residents discuss a proposed city hall a new fire house and fire equipment cost about £20000. Newspaper notes local events including defeats by the town basketball team and a high school game, plus several community updates from residents and visiting locations.
Native of Athens Julius Caesar Nayphe delivers an extra number of the Lecture Course at the M. E. church Friday night January 26. A superb illustrated entertainment with costumes and interpretative passes. Season ticket holders admitted at the door. Single admission adults 50 cents and school children 25 cents. Herman Graaf of St Paul aids in Hugh B Lawrence fire sale during visit.
Mr and Mrs Ira Stanley depart for Chicago for business and pleasure. Herman Oransky visited from Cedar Rapids. Mrs Ben Rugti of West Bend called on relatives. Andrew Smith toured Spencer. Several residents returned from trips to Emmetsburg Cedar Rapids and Superior. A fire sale promo drew Robi Neville to town. The column lists numerous social calls, visits, and travel to and from nearby towns with family, work, and hospital notes.
Suspicion centered on Geo. Gruwell after bound volume misdated January and February 1898 as 1897. The error caused items about twenty years old to be read as current. Readers noted the misprint after a couple celebrated their twentieth wedding anniversary, prompting corrective action.
Social notes recount bridge party hosted by Mrs. E W Bachman and a Womans Club meeting led by Mrs. A I Haldeman and others. Mr John Johnston hosted a storm evening concert for Gardston hotel guests. Mr and Mrs Fred White plan a six week trip through the south and east visiting Florida Washington and New York. Mrs J B Foote of Albert Lea visits her daughter Mrs W J Warner. Catherine Packard celebrated her tenth birthday with friends, games, coasting and refreshments. L Heffelfinger and A L Butler attended Estherville lodge meeting. Mrs W E Maben of Portland visits Dr W P Galloway’s family. Roy Ridley bought the Pedro cottage on Spirit Lake shore. The Armstrong Journal notes Harvey Felkey’s illness.
The column notes numerous individuals on the sick list with grippe or illness including Esther Marriott and Augustine Anderson. It mentions John Peeling shelling corn, Elmo Long delivering cattle, Earl and Mrs Clark shopping in Estherville, a show at the King, a sale attended by neighbors, and students missing school due to sickness or drifted roads.
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