Iowa
Old Press
Cedar Falls Gazette
Cedar Falls, Black Hawk co. Iowa
September 8, 1905
Eddy District
-Carl Pitsch went to Minnesota the first of the week.
-Alva Bush is enrolled as a student at the I.S.N.S. for the fall
term.
-P.H. Rasmussen who has been ill for the past two weeks is slowly
improving.
-Geo. Miller went to Osceola Co. last week to look after the
crops on his farm.
-Quite a number of people from this vicinity attended Ringling
Bros. circus in Waterloo last Monday.
-Bernie Boehmier is working for Wilford Bozarth now. He is the
proud possessor of a nice new top buggy.
-Last Monday while H.O. Bush was helping to load a car with
machinery, a plow fell on his left foot mashing it very badly.
Dr. Mead dressed the injured member. He is getting along nicely
but will be laid up for a few days.
Personal Mention - Movements of People in and out of
Cedar Falls
-Ed. Pitsch has gone to Wheaton, Minn.
-W.H. Eason has gone to Wichita, Kansas.
-Robert Fullerton left Tuesday for Chicago.
-H.E. Olbrick went to Denver, Colo. this week.
-D. Bennison has gone to New York to lay in stock.
-John Christiansen of East Cedar Falls is quite ill.
-Miss Eva Dussel has returned from a visit to Colorado.
-W.M. Wilson is in the vicinity of Barney looking after business.
-Harvey Metzger transacted business at Shell Rock the first of
the week.
-Otis L. Jones of Des Moines visited his mother here a few days
this week.
-Dr. A.S. Hansen who has been quite ill is able again to be about
his duties.
-Mrs. E. Benedom drew the 50 piece dinner set offered by the
Economy Shoe store.
-Miss Helen Snowden left this morning for Decorah to begin her
school work next Monday.
-Chas. Brown and L.J. Ackerman had the pleasure of attending a
reunion of their old regiment at New Hartford this week.
-Erich Petersen, who with his wife is visiting in Denmark
requests us to send The Gazette to him at 26 Hollaendervel,
Copenhagen, Denmark, where he will probably remain all winter.
Obituary
Again we are called to record the passing away of one of the
early residents of Cedar Falls, of one who knew of life in Iowa
for sixty years. Mrs. Jane Burgess Elliott was born in 1828 and
spent her young life and was married in New York City. She was
married to William Elliott and the young couple came at once to
Cedar Falls. They remained here about ten years then purchased a
farm ten miles west of here near New Hartford.
Mr. Elliott died there a few years later and she came in 1887
with her family to this place to make her home, at the corner of
Second and Iowa streets.
There were born to Mr. and Mrs. Elliott five children, three of
whom are living at the present time, they are: William Elliott,
Mrs. Sarah Hintz and Mrs. Alice McCowan.
She bore with remarkable christian fortitude and pateince the
great suffering of the ten weeks of illness, grateful for the
loving care bestowed upon her by her devoted children. She was an
ardent member of the Baptist church and never failed in her
attendance until prevented by illness. The sickness, death and
funeral all occurred at the home of her daughter, Mrs. McCowan.
Rev. H.S. Mable of the Baptist church conducted the funeral
services, Tuesday afternoon, September fifth. The burial took
place at Greenwood by the side of her husband and one of her
sons.
The Hawkeye State - News of the Week Concisely Condensed
Double Funeral at Humboldt - The funeral of Pauline and Ida
Metzner, who were drowned in the Des Moines River at Humboldt
last week, was the largest attended funeral in the history of
Humboldt County. Over 1,400 people passed by the coffins, while
there were at least 600 others unable to get into the
Congregational church. The Odd Fellows and Rebekah lodges took a
prominent part in the services. The father of the two unfortunate
sisters, who is serving a twenty-five year sentence for killig
the city marshall in 1901, was present, having been granted
permission by Gov. Cummins.
State Fair Visitor Killed - In plain sight of his sister and his
aged father, and within a minute after jokingly telling them
goodby to step across the street on business, Jessie Pentico, a
young man 23 years of age, was struck by an eastbound fair
grounds car at East Second and Locust Streets, Des Moines,
Tuesday night and instantly killed. Pentico and his father, who
live at Colfax, came to Des Moines Sunday for a week's visit with
his sister.
Thought It Was Whisky - George C. McHue, a Des Moines carpenter,
45 years of age, wanted a drink of whisky about midnight and
reached for a bottle which he supposed contained the
"stuff." Soon after he complained to his wife of a
terrible buring sensation. An investigation proved that the man
had taken several swallows from a carbolic acid bottle. Before
medical aid could be procured the man was dead. He leaves a wife
and several children.
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