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Newspaper
Webster City Tribune
Location
Webster City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1908
Page
4
Local column records multiple visits and chores including plans for meetings and a church sale. It notes Mrs Dorus Pearson Kamvat visitors and Peter Shillinglaw baby girl birth, plus health update on Mr Dixon and family travel to Des Moines and Spirit Lake.
Mrs Laura Rose visits L S Fairchild home while Miss Daisy Fairchild studies elocution. FE M Beall repaints his house. Maude and John Lee spend Sunday at John Flaws home. Several youths attend a chicken pie social at Cass Center Thursday. Myrtie Dick visits J H Lee home Sunday. Andrew Pringle and W W Gilmore couples spend Sunday with RB J Flaws family.
Ed Wolvenson shipped extra fine steers to W W Loban last week while Andrew Caruth constructs a large cement hen house with Hanson and Hecht handling the work. Loban visited a cousin in Waterloo who has served Illinois Central railroad for 28 years near a parish murder scene. A Lutheran church dedication drew townfolk, and Philippi near Rose Grove boasted six acres of potatoes funding a 120 acre farm rent. Hurrah for Iowa and Taft. Oct. 14.
Dr. Chamberlain returned from Colorado. Fred Parker and Sam Lundell travelled to Dakota. Mrs. Albert Peterson and two children arrived from Dayton for a visit with her parents south of town. Ed Nelson family welcomed a new daughter. Mrs. J. J. Campbell and daughters joined relatives northeast of town for weekend visits. Ernest Olofson spent Sunday with his wife and children visiting nearby.
Fremont residents and guests recount Monday visits at Schropfer and Mallinger homes. A Duncombe dance drew many local youths and proved successful. Various locals spent Sundays with family in Dows Webster City Stanhope and Jewell While work begins on the Thompson Conrad ditch with deep twelve inch tile and deep pockets of thirteen feet farmers report fair corn yields though some fields still green Elevators in the area handle the harvest as crews husk corn.
The Iowa Baptist Association announces its sixty-seventh annual meeting to be held October 19 to 23 at Iowa Falls. Rev J W Smith appears on the program with speakers including Dr T G Seares and Rev W B Riley. Sessions cover ministerial training church benevolences foreign missions and family religion with numerous addresses reports and officer elections.
Fragments indicate a fall sale of corn in the neighborhood with phrases suggesting supply and handling needs.
Frank A. Woodruite announces a carload of pears arriving at the Illinois Central depot tomorrow morning and available for sale until exhausted at a low price per bushel.
James Mullen sold his 240 acre Webster County farm four miles west of Webster City to Robert Morrow of Manchester Town. Morrow plans to make it his home later. Mullen will move to Webster City by early March. Sale handled by Sheldon Tatham. Price $85 per acre.
A detailed sequence of talks and reports led by President J Y Mullins and others across Tuesday to Thursday. Topics include The Authority of Christ, secretary and treasurer reports, sermons, introductions of new pastors, and church funding strategies with multiple external speakers.
A brief item notes a sale at the Illinois Central depot priced by the bushel conducted by Frank A. Woodruff. The text provides limited details beyond the location and principal organizer.
The Spokane paper names Miss Ramona Knudson the prettiest baby in the city at 12 months, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Knudson, formerly of Jewell. Judges at a Woodmen of the World fair judged the child the fairest exhibited and Ramona already won a silver set for her beauty. Her parents, now residents of Spokane, are proud as Ben likely walks on air.
Home on parole C M France arrived last night for a visit showing improved condition after treatment at Cherokee hospital. Webster City Electric Light and Water Works advertises electric flat irons on ten days free trial with over one hundred in use. d t f Tfard and soft stove wood and oak cordwood for sale. Co M ARTHUR and Buster Brown advertise gold and aluminum paint for decorating.
Mrs Dr E Richardson and Juleson left for Town City for a brief visit with her mother Mrs C Robbins traveled to Jewell for relatives visit. Mrs Marry Shaffer Mrs Lewi S Woolsey and Mrs J H Williams visit friends in Jewell. Mrs D Ek Wayman departed for Story City for a few days stay. N F F Christenson visited Des Moines on business. W A Newbery of St Louis visited sister Mrs Ben M Johns ton. Ralph France and Cady Chase Jr went to Mud Lake for duck hunting. Mrs J J Hall and Mrs Amy were noted in town.
Local notes list many arrivals and departures as Cedar Rapids visitors stay with relatives, Fodges residents visit Ames and Mitchell, and several households plan visits to Des Moines Jewell and Ermol d. A sheriff sale notice follows for a Hamilton County property.
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