Buchanan County Pioneers Celebrate Anniversary
Independence, Sept. 12. The article honors Buchanan County's earliest pioneers J. N. Barr and his wife noting their 1893 marriage and trip to the Chicago World’s Fair. It recalls their 1846 Iowa settlement, frontier life, and their 410 acre farm now rented as they age. Also mentions Henry Turner welcoming a baby girl last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Independence
J. N
Ching
Chicago
Barr
Buchanan County
Mr. Barr
Thomas
Eleanor Barr
Tuscarawas County
Ohio
Iowa
Quiroad
Local Notes From Dewar Area Include Visits and Harvest Work
Aug Koester Wm Perry Ed Schmitt and Alvin Schmitt attended the Minnesota fair. Mrs M Lillig hosted relatives from Eagle Center. Miss May Metcalf returned from Excelsior Springs Missouri after about three weeks. Frank Brown and Robert Nesbit bought new corn binders this week. Mrs F J Schmitt visited Eagle Center last week. Farmers began filling silos this week. Deil Fridley and family auto traveled to Freeport for a week visiting. E J Sigely C R Moyer N S Heiple and John Anderson put up new silos. Mrs Win Lindley returned to Waterloo after visiting her son Frank for three weeks. Miss Marshall commenced teaching.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. J. Schmitt
Eagle Center
Deil Fridley
Freeport
E. J. Sigely
C. R. Moyer
N.S. Heiple
John Anderson
Gresham News Briefs Mention Fair Trip Sales Plans and School
Gresham residents report a rain soaked Minnesota state fair visit and return home. The town notes a Sept 22 sale posted by D L Reichert and son Nathan. Gresham School opened with eleven students taught by Miss Gertrude Coale of Waterloo. Various locals visited or traveled to nearby towns, a birth announced for the Annis family, and a community thimble bee with musk melons ice cream and cake observed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gresham
Minnesota
Gresham School
Gertrude Coale
Waterloo
Beatrice Reichert
Frank Holdiman
Charlie Boehme
Oswald Smith
Louis Pettmiller
Dubuque
Gresham Church
Local Notes From Mooreville Community Shoots and School Openings
A round of small town events spans Sept 10 in Mooreville. A. D. Sawyer presented his daughters Hazel and Ada with a new plane. Cortney Sawyer nurses a sprained ankle. Cortney and Ada Sawyer begin duties at Dysart High School. The Wilk and Wheeler schools open with Kate Murphy and Harriet Clough as teachers. W. H. Smith and family attend a soldiers reunion. J B Clough crews completed a large double corn crib for A J Meeker. The community fills silos and many residents travel to nearby towns for work, schooling, and visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mooreville
A. D. Sawyer
Hazel
Ada
J. B. Clough
Dysart
A. J. Meeker
Chas. Sturtz
Keystone
Q. Parsons
Hill Cottage
Trear
Thiessen
Cortney
Ada Sawyer
Dysart High School
W. H. Smith
C. B. Hayward
la Porte
Roy Cleveland
John Harrington
Waterloo
Pete McIntyre
W. T. Eickelberger
Indiana
Iowa
Roy Miller
O. J. Hayward
Pennsylvania
Finchford News Highlights Local Transfers and Visits
Henry Long buys the Davis house in Finchford. Carl Geisler and Ancil Cassaday trip to Charley City. Mrs. Frank Yocum of Des Moines visits relatives. Miss Carrie Evenson teaches near Allison. L B Evenson and Charles McBride build new barns. School session with Miss Elizabeth Holland. Mrs Kies of Jesup visits parents. Mrs Oscar Cassaday sick. Clark George builds a silo. Mrs Frank Berbohm of Clarksville visits. Miss Mabel Walters poisoned hands and face. Miss Amy Pound visits relatives. Northwood couple visit John Howe home. Miss Gertie Vossburg visits Louis Eickelbere home. Thirty-six neighbors noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Finchford
Henry Long
Sheffield Davis
Carl Geisler
Ancil Cassaday
Charley City
Frank Yocum
Des Moines
Carrie Evenson
Allison
L. B. Evenson
Charles McBride
Elizabeth Holland
Clark George
Frank Berbohm
Clarksville
Mabel Walters
Amy Pound
William Clark
Little
Northwood
John Howe
Gertie Vossburg
Louis Eickelbere
Charles - Rich
John Maldrahn
Clark
la Porte City
Maldzahn
Sam Williams
Willis Peterson
Fred Clark
Omaha
Local Social Notes From Plainfield and Surrounding Towns
Plainfield residents report visits and travels. Walter Sherland and wife traveled to Nashua. August Becker and family stayed with sister Mrs. Wy A Thompson. Joe Lanes spent Monday in Charles City. Miss Tazel Poyd visited Waterloo. Ed Phillips and sister in St Paul. A Saman family and Fanny Raymond visited Myrtle Minn. J W Wade and daughters returned from Dubuque.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pjainfield
Walter Sai Sher Land
Nashua Afonday
August Becker
Minneapolis
Wy. A. Thompson
Jeo Lanes
Charles City
Tazel Poyd
A. Saman
Fanny Raymond
Myrtle
Minn
Brotherhood Supper and Park Meeting at Cedar River Park
The First Presbyterian Brotherhood plans a supper and annual meeting at Cedar River Park with a ball game pitting master plumbers against journeymen. W M McFarlane, park board president, will coordinate transport from the church at 6 30 p m with buses for late arrivals. Local notes report a death in La Porte City and a new baby girl, plus a plumbing inspector acting as umpire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brotherhood of the First Presbyterian Church
W. W. McFarlane
Brotherhood
Cedar River Park
Plumbers to Hold Picnic Saturday
The journeymen and master plumbers of the city will hold their first annual picnic at Elk Run tomorrow. A special car will leave the waiting station at 9 08 in the morning and the plumbing business in the city will be suspended at that time.
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Elk Run
Mother of Eighteen Children Endures Stomach Ailment Recovered
Mrs C J Martin of Boone Mill Virginia says she suffered five years with stomach trouble and could not eat a biscuit. After three bottles of Chamberlains Tablets she is now well and weighs 168 pounds. She urges locals to try the remedy and notes it is sold by all dealers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boone Mill
Chamberlain
Dudley family sues over Carrol grade crossing crash
Five personal injury suits totaling 820000 filed in Carroll district court by R. M. Dudley and family of Nashville Tennessee arising from the June 10 grade crossing wreck near Carroll in which two Dudley daughters were killed and Mr and Mrs Dudley plus their Black chauffeur injured against Northwestern Railroad Company as defendant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Council Bluffs
Carrol
R. M. Dudley
Nashville
Diarrhoea Cured by Chamberlain’s Remedy Promoted
A local testimonial from M. E. Gebhart of Oriole Pennsylvania credits Chamberlain’s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with curing an attack after one dose. He notes it also helped others and that an ordinary diarrhoea can usually be cured by one or two doses, sold by all dealers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah E. Duncan
Tipton
Chamberlain
Meeting of Degree of Honor at Waterloo Lodge
Waterloo Lodge No. 50 of the Degree of Honor will hold a regular meeting in Seash hall Monday evening September 15. The session time has been moved from Wednesday to Monday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo Lodge No. 50
Seash Hall
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Rover
Thay CT
Zjetuh
Henry Turner
J. N. Barr
Dewar
Addronn
Cay
Beach & Sons
Dubai
R. J. Starr
Harriette
Sidney Annis
R. L. Farnsworth
North Dakota
Ben Thompson
W. A. Thompson
Rochester
Manzo Scott
St. Paul
Bert Fry
C. M. Orcutt
Kansas
Nate
Bessie Boyd
W. T. Robbins
Will Wilkinson
Geneseo
Fred Elliott
Pa Baird
Kies of
Jesup
Charles Dorman
Oscar Cassaday
Plainfield
J. W. Wade
Elk Run Inn
Wm. Jennish
Das Cedar Falls
W. W. Ransom Dunkerton
A. Campin Dewar
Schmitt Bros
Gilbertville
Bornong Bros
Hudson
Hudson Imp
Guaranty
Fured By Co
Newton
Abie Laportey
Lehman Bros
Voorbies
Weve Lbr
Washburn
Mythater Bros
C. M. Berkley Hdw
Ferguson Bros
Joo Elec
Sup. Co
Waverly
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