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Newspaper
Webster City Tribune
Location
Webster City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1902
Page
4
Community snippets from Homer, Independence, Kamrar, Fremont and surrounding towns. Updates include social events at Cutting school, farm activity plans, new tenants, illness recoveries, dances, sales and travel notices, and a surprise birth.
The notice highlights Miss Ida Elliott’s spring term and local preaching plans at Mt. Zion, with various short town items from Pleasant Hill Saratoga and surrounding areas. It mentions residents moving, visitors, school vacation mood, a smallpox quarantine, and a funeral in Williams, plus a grand push to sow grass seed and an estate sale arrangement.
Rev. Anna H. Shaw will lecture at the opera house Tuesday April 1. Walter Brown suffers pneumonia at Elko British Columbia. Saulsberry made a business trip to Waverly last week. Engineer Lewis Mason attended his father's funeral. His sister Mrs Henry Hanfelt from South Dakota also in town. Car E Johnson visits daily. C M Stevens Harry Poole convalescent. Thomas Bainbridge moved into Mrs Ann Carns Frosts residence. Mrs N Olson returns from Oldham South Dakota. John Chaplinski of Chicago visiting relatives. Ed Ripley of Ripley Portrait Co Oelwein visits. Mr and Mrs L O Hughs return from Nebraska. Town officers nominated: Mayor A J Ripley, recorder O W Ross, treasurer W B Schultz, assessor J W Bainbridge, councilmen L A Gade Willis Walton. John L Wilde returns from Chicago purchasing trip.
Local residents with ties to Woodbine Webster City and Des Moines bank life visited, shared social events, and reported illnesses. A marriage announced for Dr O A Kellogg and Miss Alice Hawkins in Des Moines set for Tuesday evening.
The column details religious activities at Congregational and Disciples of Christ venues, local travel by E A Hawks, Easter sermon plans, and a new creamery owner E P Saxer moving in. It notes funds for a Christian church lots, a Sioux City visit by Eliza Rosenthal, a municipal caucus with nominees, Schroeder Hardware’s bustling farm implement business, and Stafford Telephone expanding lines with a central office planned.
The column lists uncalled for letters at the Webster City post office for the week ending March 26 and names many individuals. Various ads note Rocky Mountain Tea benefits and a Minneapolis St. Louis through sleeping car, with coach and ticket details.
In Hamilton county Iowa a complaint seeks to quiet plaintiff David Eyer's title to the east half of the northwest quarter section 7 town 88 north range 25 west in conflict with unknown claimants. The petition asserts ten years of adverse possession and prays that title be established and adverse claims barred with a publication order for six weeks. The notice warns defendants to appear by April term 1902 in Webster City.
A plaintiff declares ownership of the NW Quarter of Sec 15 in T88N R25W and seeks to quiet title against heirs and unknown claimants to the property in Hamilton County Iowa. The filing names Dennis Conners and Mary Bates estates and Alice Chesmore, with a March 14 2002 filing date and Webster City publication ordered for six weeks.
Beginning January 6 1902 the Illinois Central will operate a through sleeping car from Chicago to Jacksonville via Nashville Chattanooga and Atlanta. The car leaves Chicago at 6 10 p m and arrives Jacksonville the next morning along the Dixie Flyer route.
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