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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1909
Page
4
Rural paper summary lists editor Nichols, city notices, and multiple civic items. Mentions Senator Cummins and Dolliver discourse, church societies meetings, a drug store ad, Panama Canal film, and a big ad push for a subscriber contest run by Vindicator and Republican. Also notes court actions, egg prices, a race match, personnel changes in schools, and local hires for school year.
Practical measure compels townships to drag main roads including rural routes with up to ten cents per mile, bans driving on identified roadside halves after dragging, and sets penalties. Cities must maintain dragged major routes into town. April meeting to contract dragging with preference to adjacent landowners. Taft Panama Canal reference and local ads follow.
Classified ads offer first class modern furniture at half price including an $850 piano. Also notes about a Luverne car with extensive recent maintenance, tires, and a seller seeking to use the car in distant territory. Also a trustworth y person needed to handle New York Mail Order House orders. home in Oklahoma land sales offer multiple acres with a financing plan.
Local residents report numerous visits and travels with names and places including Colfax Maple Hill Cedar Rapids Des Moines Armstrong Hampton Mason City Worthington Estherville and Spirit Lake. Notable movements include lawyers, postmasters, and clerks visiting or returning home from several towns while social events and professional duties are noted. Six ushers in white will help at the Skovgaard concert Friday night.
A fragmented list records several real estate transfers including Vouverse and wife vouching to OB Murtach for 610 acres in section i ANS Holmes GW and wife to OB Mur tach. Nivison J and wife to Tatler Bwitt. Pullen H F B and wife to JH Hale part lot 7 bik b Avrtleth. Sharp Amand and husband to Lewis with land described. Skinner Mary E K and husband to tel P Kirby. Jossh W Pond wife to 4B Regd W Dxept. Wallace William and wife to Her mapd Tadon. White Elmer H and wife to Hugh Voun. White N H and wife to P HH Paul. and other entries with dates around 1900.
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