ITEMS FROM THE LEWIS STANDARD FOR THE YEAR 1906 (Cont'd)
LEWIS SCENEThe new water tank and tower have been completed.Warning: No person or persons allowed to enter my driveway in an automobile as it is a private driveway that I have for my own convenience. -- Harriet L. Howard A few evenings ago some low down thief stole all of K. N. Jones' onions that he had piled up in the patch. A man must be hard up indeed hwo would stoop so low as to take onions from an old man who had worked so hard to raise them. Language in a newspaper that would fitly characterize such as case would be debarred from the mail. The next night after the onions were taken, a row ofhis potatoes were dugup and taken. WEDDINGMiss Ethel Funk and Ray Burkhalter hied themselves to Denver and were married July 18. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Funk and is a young lady of many accomplishments. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Burkhalter, and is a young man of good habits. Their many friends wish them all that is good in life, and that their pathway be strewn with roses minus the thorns.OBITUARYThe Honorable Oliver Mills was one of the prominent pioneer residents of Cass County. He brought the first pedigreed short horn cattle to the county. "He engaged with John Brown in the Underground Railway -- Lewis at that time was the county seat and an important station. Mr. Mills kept the station, and John Brown, with other abolitionists, were prominent in assisting the refugees to get out of the county."The next year that I examined the LEWIS STANDARD was for 1909 and 1910, because that was the year of the beginning of the Crescent Club. The town was doing a good business with a large number of firms. Three new developments were showing up: the telephone, the silent movies, and the horseless carriage; as you will see by the list of enterprises advertised for that year. Citizens State Bank -- W. J. Woodward, A. Morton, E. S. Phillips, Tho Woodward Bank of Lewis -- W. J. Harris, B. C. Harris, W. B. Harris, J. P. Harris, W. B. Davis Woodward & Elston -- General Store Okell & Weaver -- General Store Jake Ross -- Drug Store Billy Davis -- Drug Store Sheets Hardware Fred Shindley -- Elevator Wes Albright -- Grain and Livestock Bailey -- Furniture and Undertaking Saratoga Restaurant and Bakery -- J. B. Daniels and Alec Huston Meat Market -- Jake Baker Lewis Standard -- G. W. B. Fletcher, Charlies Willie Palace Barber Shop -- R. A. Swett A. J. Snodgrass -- Barber C. R. Jones -- Doctor F. C. Jordan -- Doctor I. Z. Plunket -- Doctor N. H. Gitz -- Dentist G. J. Macomber -- Lawyer Allen's Broom Factory Cheese Factory -- M. E. De Lean Brick Yard Roller Rink Telephone Office Opera House Two Livery Stables Post Office Depot and Train Two Millinery Emporiums -- Woodward & Woodward, Mrs. G. S. Mills (Molly) Three Churches -- Methodist -- M. A. Gable Christian -- V. M. Elston Congregational -- B. F. Myers Gifford Auto Sales Heimbaugh Auto Sales LEWIS MARKET -- 1910
BUSINESS ADVERTISEMENTS
ADVERTISEMENTSDon't forget the big double show at the Opera House Saturday night, the banner show of the week. Admission 20c to all. (This was a medecine [sic medicine] show all week.)Chautauqua in Atlantic -- Order your tent at
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once and be among the campers. Fine grounds, electric lights, plenty of good water, good shade, and an abundance of room for campers. Good hitching ground for all teams free.Millinery -- Wehave just returned from the city where we purchased a fine line of the latest styles in hats. We also engaged an experienced trimmer who will be with us for the season. Woodward & Woodward The very latest effect in the Hipless Corset -- Woodward and Elston. All bonnets go on sale for 10c. Straw hats, 15c -- Okell & Weaver. Miss Georgia Byrne will give a musical at the Methodist Church Friday evening, November 12, Admission 10c. The Child's Attraction Company will present an excellent program of motion pictures at the Opera House on Tuesday, February 8. Five thousand feet of the latest up-to-date living pictures. Novel, picturesque, exciting. Nothing in the program that will offend the most refined taste. Lost -- between Fletcher Chapel and Crystal Lake, a lady's hat trimmed in foliage and brown ribbon. Finder please leave with Miss Jennie Ward and receive suitable reward. THE LEWIS SCENEDeacon Wells and men completed the cement foundation for Mrs. Meredith's new residence north of the park Saturday, and by the way, they did a good job.The brick company fired a kiln of brick Sunday. Another kiln will be ready to fire today. Eight men with teams were draying in Lewis yesterday. Coal and lumber were the principal commodities hauled. Frank Albright has got the machinery of the mill in fine running order and you can bring your grist to Lewis to have it ground. J. H. Baker began putting up ice yesterday. He secures it off the pond at the Bryne place west of town. It is of good quality and about thirteen inches thick. The Atlantic barbers have raised the price of a shave to 15c with or without a neck shave. Park Meredith, with several other Atlantic celebrities, were down at Crystal Lake Friday for a swim. A splendid cupper at the nominal price of 15c was given at the Methodist parsonage Friday evening, which was worth at least 50c. Peter Hopley is expected home sometime next week with another invoice of Belgian horses. Talk about your California weather! It don't compare to Iowa weather at present, which has just enough snap in it to make a fellow get up and dust. A couple of ladies from the Lorah vicinity got on the wrong train at Atlantic Friday afternoon. They boarded the Griswold train and did not discover their mistake until they reached the suburbs of Lewis. They got off the train here and returned on the next train to Atlantic where their people met them with a team. "Cigarettes Strictly Forbidden". We keep these signs for sale at this office. If you haven't the price to buy one, we'll giveit to you if you'll agree to enforce it. A number of the Embroidery Club went out to Mrs. Willis Miller's in Bear Grove Thursday to get a square meal. Fried chicken and lots of other good things were served. Sunday was the biggest day Frank Carr has had this season at Crystal Lake. All day long the lake was filled with bathers, and everybody had a nice time. Although the crowd was large, good order prevailed throughout the day. COWSCarl McDonald's family cow was fatally injured at the north end of Market Street yesterday morning. One of his boys was taking the animal to pasture and just as the cow was crossing the track, the engine struck her, carried her about sixty feet, and left her by the side of the track. She died later in the day.We have it on good authority that some of the cows belonging to the people of the town are being surreptiously milked at night by persons who never buy milk. If the practice continues much longer, someone will get into trouble. A word to the wise is sufficient. C. L. Noyes lost his family cow Saturday. She got out of the pasture and ate too much of Lafe Conrad's green corn, from the effects of which she cashed in her checks. CHICKENSSome ornery cuss, too lazy to work, entered Mrs. Cozad's hen coop a few nights ago and stole twelve chickens. This is a penitentiary offense.DOGSTiny, the little rat terrier dog that made the STANDARD office her home during the past seven years was killed coming to town from the ball game Wednesday of last week. There was quite a crush of buggies on the road, one of which struck her, passing over her body and breaking her back.
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AUTOMOBILESJames P. Harris shipped his old Jackson auto to Des Moines yesterday where he has traded it in on a new Moon machine. He will drive the car home from Des Moines to Lewis.Jim Fay's broncho which was hitched in front of Okell, Weaver and Company store Friday evening, scared at an outo [sic auto] and jumped on the hitching rail, breaking one buggy shaft. The horse was lifted off the rail by several bystanders, unhurt. Some of these auto drivers haven't as much brains as a broncho, and when two come in contact, there is something doing. Mrs. Peter Hopley has purchased an automobile that will carry seven passengers, and it is now laid up for repairs. Thursday in rounding a corner on the Hopley ranch where the men were unloading the new importation of horses from the cars to the stable, an axle broke, and the auto had to be pulled in by a team of mules. Mrs. Clarence Hedges took hold of the steering apparatus to steer the machine into port. They had not proceeded far, however, when she ran into a post and broke one of the headlamps. The writer had the pleasure of a ride to Griswold with Dr. Jones in his auto to see a patient Tuesday. The doctor has a fine machine, and he certainly knows how to make it go some. Last Sunday while Ed Heimbaugh was coming to town for his mail in his auto, the front axle broke, which resulted in a bad smash-up of his machine. He ran into the bank beside the road, broke a fender, and put the critter out of commission entirely. 
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Transcribed by Cheryl Siebrass, June, 2024, from Historical Lewis by Pauline Franklin, pp. 11-13.
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