PLEASANTON & VAN WERT NEWS November ll, l909

WALKER, LAFOLLETTE, VAN GILDER, HILL, CLAMPITT, HAAG, SCHOONOVER, MITCHELL, FRANKLIN, WHEELER, GRIMES, MARBLE, DAVIS, TYE, TURPEN, LEEPER, EDWARDS, SAYLOR, BAKER, MCKEE, BLAIR, BUTTERFIELD, LUCE, LEE, PRICE

Posted By: Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert (email)
Date: 11/15/2001 at 00:17:43

From: "Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert"
Subject: PLEASANTON & VAN WERT NEWS.
Date: Sunday, November 11, 2001 6:56 PM

Decatur County Journal
November ll, l909

ARTHUR WALKER had business in Leon one day last week.

MISS ANNA EDWARDS went to Humeston friday to visit friends, returning
home Monday.

EMMETT LAFOLLETTE and family, of Akron, Mo., have moved to town,
occupying the Hill property near the school house. MR. LAFOLLETTE and
brother, CHARLES, are the proprietors of the livery and feed barn.

A.M. HAAG left Sunday for a business trip to Chicago.

G.E. DAVIS had business in Leon Monday.

MRS. P.W. MITCHELL and son, ANCIL, and sister, MISS FANNIE VAN GILDER,
went to Milo Thursday to visit their parents, MR. and MRS. VAN GILDER.

GEO. HILL and wife had business in Lineville Friday.

W.R. CLAMPITT and wife returned from their visit with relatives in
Kansas.

MRS. A.M. HAAG and children went to the country Sunday, to visit with
her sister, MRS. H. SCHOONOVER, and family. They returned home Tuesday.

P.W. MITCHELL and son, ANCIL, returned from Milo Monday.

MRS. G.W. FRANKLIN returned Wednesday from her visit with relatives in
Pittsburg, Kansas.

CHAS. WHEELER, wife and baby visited relatives in Davis City Sunday.
They went from there and visited in Leon Monday, returning home Monday
evening, accompanied by their niece, MISS CECIL GRIMES.

GUY MARBLE and a friend from Ottumwa came Saturday and visited at the
home of his uncle, G.E. DAVIS, returning home Sunday.

Friday evening the many friends of GROVER TYE gave him a post card
shower in honor of his l8th birthday.

MR. and MRS. G.R. TURPEN and children, of Lamoni, visited Saturday and
Sunday at the home of her sister, MRS. S.A. EDWARDS.

MRS. LATHEM LEEPER visited her sister, MRS. S.A. EDWARDS, Saturday.

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E.B. SAYLOR and wife had business in Leon Monday between trains. While
there they met their friend, HARRY BAKER, of Diagonal. MR. BAKER
returned with them for a short visit before returning home.

A.E. PRICE went to Leon Monday.

S.C. MCKEE had the misfortune to lose a valuable horse Saturday night. A
veterinary was called from Garden Grove but could avail nothing.

Last Friday morning the entire community was greatly shocked by the
announcement that PATIENCE BLAIR, wife of W.P. BLAIR, was dead. She was
known to be quite sick for a few days but was reported to be doing
nicely and the friends and community were wholly unprepared for the
announcement of her death. After the first shock, a sorrow like a great
tidal wave rushed in and filled every heart. Tears flowed freely as
friends stood in groups talking in hushed tones of her who but yesterday
was the very picture of life, health and happiness. She was a young
woman, a wife and mother, indeed her life was rich in the present and
still richer in the promise of the future. She died a Christian. Her
faith, and ours, bids us dry our tears and look away from the cold mound
in the cemetery, up through the mist into the pure realm of truth where
God dwells, and see her still alive today and happy forevermore. The
funeral services were conducted by Rev. Butterfield, Pastor of the M.E.
Church, Sunday afternoon at the Methodist Church. A class of girls from
the Christian Bible School, where she had labored long, sand one son, an
offering of love for her who had been their teacher. The remains were
laid to rest in the Van Wert Cemetery. "It fell not because it was
founded upon a rock". See complete obituary elsewhere.

CYRUS WALKER has sold his fine farm of l50 acres in Franklin Township to
L.G. LUCE, of Isabelle, Mo., for something over $l00 per acre. This is
a choice farm and well worth the money paid for it.

C.J. PRICE has purchased the CHARLEY FISHER farm, better known as the
WILLIAM LEE farm, in Franklin Township. This is a fine l20 acre tract
adjacent to that already owned by MR. PRICE and, taken together, makes
one of the most desirable homesteads in the county.

We understand that CHARLEY FISHER has purchased the old WALKER farm.
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