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Newspaper
Webster City Tribune
Location
Webster City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1906
Page
2
Tuesday notes list Edith Lee returning from Spencer and Kate Watson visiting. many residents travel to Des Moines Duluth and Ames for family visits weddings and business. Mentions include Rev Ginn LeRoy Dutcher and others traveling, teachers completing terms and moving homes, and couples planning trips to Europe.
Delmar Lake 65 died Tuesday at Marshalltown soldiers home after a lingering illness caused by Brights disease. He served as a member of Co F Second Iowa Cavalry from Webster City, married Esther Millard in 1865, and later worked for Capital Insurance in Des Moines before retirement. He left a wife, daughter Clara Frazier in California, sister Mrs Holmes in Chicago, and brother C D Lake of Marshalltown. The veteran was popular among Hamilton county friends.
A grateful patient credits Dr Slomincki for relief from a decade long skin disease. After visiting multiple physicians in several cities and spending 1100 dollars with little benefit the writer praises the doctor’s care and results.
Miss Olive Jewett notes three students in her room achieved perfect spelling for the entire school year just closed. The honorees are Miss Jean Richards Miss Kate Stafford and Miss Hazel Whitham.
The Martin music company has received 250 new phonograph and gramophone records. Demand has risen as Freeman Tribune phonographs begin reaching homes across the city.
While working on the Huffman drainage ditch on Saturday W. F. Helmick had two toes mashed and will likely lose one. A part of the ditching machine fell on his foot injuring the great toe and the toe beside it. he has been with the gangs since work began and will be confined at home for some time.
The Daily Freeman-Tribune partners with Martin music to give away Lyra phonographs to subscribers who take a one year term, buy fifteen records, and pay 70 cents down for expressage. The Lyra, valued at 5.60 with records, can play any cylinder and will be sold by Martin at 25 or 35 cents per record. Old subscribers may redeem by arrearage payment.
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