Iowa
Old Press
Boone County Republican
Boone, Boone co. Iowa
Wednesday, September 20, 1882
Our Local News and Minor Mentions
Mr. Dawes states he is in Chicago for the purpose of making
arrangements to run a train from there to Boone in which there
will be no other merchandise than his own.
We know that President Wells, of the Agricultural Society had
nearly everything to contend with in organizing for a fair this
year, and the favorable result entitles him to a big feather.
Mrs. Rossanah Hoffman, of Dayton, Ohio, cousin of Mr. George
Ensley, also Mahala Ann Eshleman, of Greenville, Ohio, also a
cousin of Mr. Ensley, were here on a visit to Mr. Ensley and
family the first of the week, and called to see the steam
printing office.
W.B. Payne and family, left last Wednesday for their home in Ida
county, ,having sold the farm and homestead here to H.N. Millard.
This takes away from Boone county one of its oldest and most
respected families, and The Republican follows them with
its best wishes.
The Plattsburg, Mo., Lever, notes the marriage, in that
city, on the 13th inst. of Isaac A. Herron, of Boone, Iowa, to
Miss Nora Orr, of Plattsburg. Mr. Herron and wife arrived here
last week and are stopping with friends and relatives. Mr. H. is
a son of our well known citizen John Herron.
An old man by the name of Sessions, slightly deaf, was crossing
the track of the C. & N.W., about three miles east of State
Center, when he was struck by the engine and thrown some
thirty-five feet against a stone wall. He was terribly mangled
and his death is supposed that he did not hear the train.
Walter Schroff, manager of the Boone telephone, is feeling of the
business men to see if enough business can be secured to warrant
the company in putting in a telephone line from Boone to Ogden
via Moingona, which they expect to put in soon. It will be a
handy thing, and we hope to see Des Moines connected with us in
the same way.
C.M. Dawes commenced breaking ground yesterday on his lot west of
the McFarland bank block, for the purpost of putting up a brick
business house at once to be used by hiim as a wholesale and
retail grocery house. The building is to be 70 by 90 feet,
probably one story with basement.
F.A. Bolt has the finest young buggy horse in town.
Mrs. E.H. Crawford expects to leave for California shortly.
Mrs. W.P. Todd, of Muchakinock, is in town visiting friends.
C.T. Bower and D.J. Murphy of Madrid, called on us last week.
It is reported the Irving C. Mather will be deputy recorder next
term.
Mr. Chas. Ericson of the north side is very sick with typhoid
pneumonia.
A.R. Agy and wife, of Dallas county, are visiting Mr. John
Welburn, of Dodge township.
Miss Ida St. John, of Boonsboro, is visiting her sister, Mrs.
W.A. Liston, of Indianola.
Sam Simmons and Grant Hale, two Nevada boys, were in town last
week to attend the fair.
C.L. Stilson, an artistic sign painter, of Jefferson is in Boone
this week and called at this office.
Mrs. Z.T. Sullivan has taken possession of her property in the
third ward, and will make her home there.
The alterations in the residence of F.A. Bolt have been
completed. Mrs. Bolt and the children are expected this week.
The widow Stinson, in Dodge township, lost four cows last week
from getting into the green corn and eating too much. A fifth one
will likely die.
C.D. Sperry, a former Boone boy, and who is now fireman on the
U.P. Ry., spent last week among his Boone friends. His
headquarters are at Omaha.
Rev. F.H. Sanderson will be the pastor of the M.E. Church in this
city for the coming year. Mr. Sanderson comes from Canada. Rev.
J.Z. Armstrong, who has served so acceptably as pastor of the
M.E. church, goes to Council Bluffs for the ensuing year. The
departure of Mr. Armstrong will be deeply regreted by the members
of his church. He has won hosts of friends in Boone and the
church has prospered unter his care.
Will Bremmerman, now of Tipton, made his Boone friends and
relatives a visit last week, returning Sunday night. His sister,
Delia, accompanied hiim on her way east for a winter's visit in
Ohio.
Mrs. Elizabeth Ward, only sister of Mrs. Hiram Bennett, Mrs. Mary
Prussia, of Ft. Dodge, Sister-in-law of Mrs. B. and Mrs. Mary
Klinedob, also of Ft. Dodge, and step-mother of Mrs. B., are all
visiting at Mr. Bennett's this week.
Henry Friedly, of Dodge township, donated to this office a sack
of very fine Iowa apples. He exhibited 44 varieties at the fair,
all of which had merit. Mr. Friedly's orchard produced this year
about 500 bushels, and is only nine years old.
Mrs. Sam Slade and baby have been visiting in Boone for some
days. Sam came in on Friday, and all returned to their home in
Tekamah, Neb., on Monday.
Married
Miller - Steffy. On Sunday, Sept. 17th, in Boonsboro,
Mr. M.W. Miller, of Boone, and Miss J.E. Steffy, of Boonsboro.
Public Notice
To whom it may concern:
Notice is hereby given that my minor son, J. Arthur Lake, is
authorized by me to transact business on hisown account, and that
I will claim none of his earnings nor be responsible for debts of
his contracting.
H.P. Lake, Boone, Iowa, Sept. 14, 1882
State News
-Albert D. Tomlinson, of Le Mars, began farming near Le
Mars three years ago with a capital of $500. Last week he sold
his 200 acre farm for $5,200.
-John Petteway or John Ferguson, who had been drinking, was
terribly mangled by cars on the Keokuk bridge last Friday
evening.
-Charles Fuller, of Earlville, and Nellie Norris, of Delhi,
eloped to Fairplay, Wis., a few days ago, and were united in
marriage by a justice of the peace. Nellie's uncle had objected,
and had only a few days previously given Fuller a severe
threshing.
-A Bohemian woman of Iowa City left an eight-months-old child
asleep with a handkerchief over its face while she went out to do
some shopping, and when she returned found the little one had
smothered to death by getting the handkerchief down its throat.
[transcribed by S.F., November 2014]