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Newspaper
Webster City Tribune
Location
Webster City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1907
Page
4
A long list of people pass through Jewell and nearby towns for visits and trips. Inspections keep James Shaw, Jr. away until spring, while others travel to Ames, Redfield, Des Moines, and Kamrar. Several residents head to Chicago, Milwaukee, or Minnesota for family visits, health, or business.
A published summary by a Indiana editor lists humorous and stark tallies from the year. Items include being broke 361 times, money on four occasions, telling the truth once, and numerous social counts such as roasting others 52 times and missing prayer meetings 52 times. The note also records cash on hand opening 1.47 dollars ending at 15 cents, plus local ads for Teed's gold watches and a Mt. Zion church ladies aid bazaar at Swamp College schoolhouse on Friday night.
The arson case against George MacKown will be moved to Wright county court with potential adjourning of the current term. Judge Evans granted the change of venue citing inability to ensure an impartial trial. Separately, Anna Belle Brooks and Lizzie Jones were granted divorces, and judgments were entered in several civil matters. Public sale notices and farm sales are listed with dates and locations around Webster City and Kamrar.
A sequence of farm and stock sales listed near Webster City Iowa covers December through February. Listings include sellers Leonard Nelson W H Leonard Charles Nelson Charles Wicks E A Cormaney Park Dobson John W Flaws Shaffer Mathias Doolittle and partners, with sales near Webster City Duncombe Gilmore City Woolstock and Flugstad. Several sales note leaving the state or relocating to Tennessee.
At a Knights of the Maccabees meeting last evening officers were elected including Commander J. J. Rhone L Commander J. A. Stover and F. K. O. N. Ross Chaplain E. E. Cheever and others with trustees named. Teed's advertises gold clocks and household goods. The state inspector I. P. Bowdish visited the county poor farm with praise for staff but noted fire safety and furnace placement concerns. The Arabian Knights feature in The Unique highlights Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves with historical notes on performer B. H. Martin.
Local notes list December January programs and lectures at the armory opera house including Anna Kare nina The Norwoods and We are King with dates from December 16 to February 26 plus a Kellogg Bird Man lecture and other acts. John Olson a ditcher was brought to the hospital with pneumonia after a county ditch incident near Yungelas farm.
The Universalist church ladies cleared about $60 from their bazaar yesterday. The Swastika society earned $18 from raffia baskets and all participants feel encouraged by the successful event.
Green hides 3 to 4c cured hides 4 to 5 cents mink No 1 large dark 4.00 mink No 1 medium dark 3.00 musk rats No 1 large 22 cents Kit rats 6 cents Place of business three doors west of The Willson Webster City Wes ley Whitham buyer Prices subject to market changes.
Three weeks of meetings at the Baptist church ended last evening with Rev. Smith's sermon Harvest is over the summer is passed and we are not saved. The pastor and congregation praise the outcomes and expect continued good. The week of prayer will begin in January with similar services. Holiday perfumes advertised at Teed's.
The Norwoods’ act wows a large audience at the New Theater with thought transference tests by Prof Norwood. Mrs Norwood sleeps in a Cosmopolitan drug store window until 8 tonight and awakens at 9 at the theater as a committee selects volunteers for staged demonstrations.
For Sale. Big boned Barred and White Plymouth Rocks and Berkshire boar 1-year old. Farmers and Independent phone. ditif1 K. HEMMEN. For Sale. My residence corner of Third and Broadway 10 rooms water electric lights gas. First class furnace, good cellar and barn. Finest shade trees and cement walks. House for sale and will be sold cheap. I could use a good team as part payment. Call at the d-f-tf.
Grand Secretary Frank E. Clark and N. R. Parvin request a photo of the local court house be sent to the Masonic Library at Cedar Rapids for framing alongside other state courthouses. The notice also promotes Teed's in Webster City as the finest store in Iowa.
B A Cormarny owner announces public sale at his residence 3 miles north of Blairsburg 8 miles east of Woodstock and 7 miles northwest of Williams on Friday Dec 20 1907 at 10 am. Highlights include 13 horses 38 cattle 88 hogs farm machinery and more with dairy cows in good condition and sows bred to O I C or Percheron mating. Terms cash for small sums and 12 months credit on approved security at 8 percent. Sale held at the farm with free lunch and no removal until settled.
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