Metz Column, March 16, 1019

THOMPSON, CLEMENT, MOFFITT, ENGLE, CALLISON, BURNETT, HITCHLER, MCQUOWN, MILLER, MANNING, HENDRICKS, CANNON

Posted By: Barbara Hug (email)
Date: 6/8/2008 at 18:20:27

Metz

Rae Thompson came home this week and expects to visit his father for some time. He has been holding a good position in the auto manufacturing establishment at Marshalltown.

Mr. Charles Thompson assisted by kind neighbors loaded a car with stock and household furniture at Metz last Thursday and shipped it out to their new home at Montezuma. The family left the next day. Their friends are wishing them success in their new home. Mr. Thompson recently sold his farm west of Metz, the land to Mr. Lind and the house and lots to Mr. Jesse Clement.

All are very glad to hear that Lewis Moffitt is able to be up and around the house a little after his sever illness of several weeks.

Mr. Andrew Engle came home Wednesday from his trip to Kansas. Mrs. Engle also completed her visit in Des Moines and spent the last of the week with her niece, Mrs. Louise Doane, in Newton.

Mrs. C. J. Callison has been visiting her sister Mrs. Mary Burnett in Colfax this week. Mrs. Burnett accompanied her home Saturday evening excepting to remain several days at Metz.

Miss Viola Hitchler sprung quite a surprise on her relatives and friends on Sunday, March 6. Quite a few of the relatives had gathered at the home of her father to help celebrate his fifty-first birthday. After partaking of a good dinner in honor of the occasion, Mr. McGown [sic-McQuown] succeeded in convincing all present that Miss Hitchler was not Miss Hitchler at all but had been Mrs. McGown [sic] and his wife since the 20th of last September when they were married at Ottumwa while attending the Pella fair. There marriage was only known to two persons at the time, Mr. McGown's brother and Viola's sister, Pearl, both of whom have surely proven themselves capable of keeping a secret. On Sunday evening after twelve o'clock a crowd of young people went to the Hitchler home where they made things lively for the young couple for a while. Mr. and Mrs. McGown expect to move to their farm home near Monroe this week. Violas has many friends and relatives which are very sorry to see her leave the neighborhood, although we are quite sure her husband is worthy of her, and all are wishing them all the success and happiness possible.

The people of Metz were a little excited on Sunday afternoon when a hay stack owned by Melvin Miller caught fire and burned to the ground. The present price of hay makes that quite a loss but it was feared for a time that his cattle sheds near by would burn also. A number of neighbors came in to help in keeping the fire back from doing any more damage which they succeeded in doing.

Miss Mae Manning and Florence Hendricks, of Newton, visited over Sunday with Mrs. Melvin Miller and family.

Several of the children at Metz are suffering with the mumps. Miss Georgia Hardenbrook has been quite sick this week.

Miss Edith Cannon came home the first of the week from Cedar Falls where she has been attending school this fall and winter. Everyone is glad to welcome her back again.

Quite a few from Metz attended the stock sale at the Hise farm near Monroe Thursday.

George Hitchler and Ike Thompson went to Kansas this week. Mr. Thompson to his home after a visit among old friends in Iowa, and Mr. Hitchler for the purpose of looking at land in that country. ~ The Newton Journal (Newton, Iowa) Wednesday, March 16, 1910.