Iowa
Old Press
Boone County Republican
Boone, Boone co. Iowa
Wednesday, September 24, 1890
T.G. Liddle Writes of his Visit to the Old Home
Having had the pleasure of visiting the scenes of our boyhood
days in Schenectady county, N.Y., we wish to present to the
readers of your valuable paper a short sketch of our visit. As we
stepped aboard the limited, August 5th, our ticket said one
continuous journey to Boston, so we had no thought of stopping by
the way. The great drought extended the whole line to the coast,
yet owing to looseness and depth of soil, Iowa did not suffer as
did the light clay soil of some eastern states. We found crops
very small, with the exception of hay, which was good. The drouth
was broken in N.Y. by rains on the 22nd and 23rd of August, so
the great crop - buckwheat - will be much benefitted. Fruit is
almost a failure, apples very scarce.
As we came near the old home, twenty years had made a change, yet
father was there to welcome us home. We strolled over the old
farm, fished at the same old pond, climbed the old stone walls
and thought we were a boy again. We looked over the rubbish for
the old trundle-bed, but only one part could be found.
We visited our mother's grave for the last time. There is a new
grave by its side. It is father's .... he died August 25th. We
were there to mingle our tears with friends. His last act was to
read a chapter and make a prayer; then he lay down on the bed and
went to sleep. So father has gone home to welcome us as we come,
one by one.
We found Boston with its crooked streets and lofty buildings a
fine place to spend a few days. We visited Bunker Hill monument,
221 feet high; the navy yard with its wonderful sights, and go
through the man-of-war Wabash; the old South church, at the
corner of Milk and Washington streets, with its interesting
relics; the great Bible and tract institution of H.L. Hastings,
who gave us several pounds of tracts to distribute in Boone.
Satisfied with our visit we turn our steps homeward. The limited
is not too fast now, for we are going home. Five minutes to view
the great Niagara Falls - too long; we are on our journey home to
see friends and the broad rich acres of Iowa, the garden of the
world; a land of plenty, of prosperity, of free education, of
prohibition, of an earnest, warm-hearted people, whose life and
aim we trust, is onward and upward.
Original Notice - To Anna Brown, defendant: You
are hereby notified that there is now on file in the office of
the Clerk of the District Court of Boone county, Iowa, a petition
of George Brown, plaintiff, claiming of you an absolute divorce,
and asking the care and control of your two minor children, and
alleging as cause thereof adultery. And unless you appear and
defend, thereto on or before noon of the second day of the next
term of the District Court of Boone county, Iowa, on the fourth
Monday and 27th day of October, A.D. 1890, your default will be
entered and judgement and decree will be rendered against you
thereon. George Brown, Plaintiff.
Original Notice - To Lavina Miller, defendant:
You are hereby notified that there is now on file in the office
of the Clerk of the District Court of Boone county, Iowa, a
petition of Jacob Miller, plaintiff, claiming of you a divorce on
the ground of desertion for more than two years.. And unless you
appear and defend, thereto on or before noon of the second day of
the next term of the District Court of Boone county, Iowa, on the
fourth Monday and 27th day of October, A.D. 1890, your default
will be entered and judgement and decree will be rendered against
you thereon. Crooks & Jordan, Attorneys for the Plaintiff.
-The County Round-Up - Happenings Here and There in
Various Parts of Boone County-
Moon Ridge
-Saturday evening several young people assembled at Mr. Vallier's
and had a very pleasant time.
-A large flock of wild geese went south Sunday evening, so look
out for cold weather.
Peoples
-Miss Celia Miller is visiting her sister at Buffalo Gap, S.D.
-Mrs. Temby has been visiting her daughter in Cass township for a
couple weeks.
-Mrs. J. Callahan has been entertaining friends from Missouri
this week.
-Mesdames Wallace and Kirby Sheffield are away on a visit to
their parents who reside in Kansas.
-E.S. Sheffield has leased his farm to a Mr. Crandle, of
Wisconsin, and contemplates moving to Woodward in the near
future.
-Miss Hattie Smith has accepted a position as teacher in the
third department of the Woodward school, and was placed in charge
last Monday.
-Miss Minnie Needham was seriously hurt while on her way to town.
At the foot of the hill near "Doc" Carroll's the buggy
came uncoupled causing it to veer one side and striking the
bridge, threw her out, breaking one arm and badly spraining the
other. Dr. D.J. Brooking is attending upon her.
Dodge Township
-O. Hinman is no better
-Mrs. John Peterson is quite sick.
-William Wilson has bought J.A. Defore's farm.
-Doug Bass has returned from Nebraska and will make his home
among us again.
-Mrs. Claud Dee and her mother-in-law, of Stratford, were
visitors at her sister's, Mrs. L.S. Hinman, last Sunday.
-Uncle Tommy Cox, of Kansas, has returned to make his home with
his son-in-law, Mr. Stanley, of our township. Mr. Cox was a
former resident of this township.
Iowa Condensed Items
-A humane society has been formed in Keokuk with a membership of
seventy-two.
-A little daughter of William Edmunds was seriously injured in a
runaway accident at Hawarden.
-S.P. Anderson, a watchman on the Q road near Burlington, was
struck by a passing train and instantly killed.
-Andrew Sundburg, the wife murderer at Ottumwa, was sentenced to
five years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
-Sandberg, the old man who killed his wife at Ottumwa a few weeks
ago while in a drunken frenzy, was convicted of manslaughter.
-Billy McGuire, a farmer of Yell township, Webster county, is now
lying in a critical condition from the effects of a stroke of
lightning. One side is completely paralyzed and his recovery is
doubtful. He was sitting on his doorstep when the stoke came.
Bishop Hennesey, Catholic diocese of Iowa, received a cablegram
Sept. 15th announcing the death of his mother in Ireland. Next
morning solemn memorial services were held in the cathedral,
where pontificial requiem high mass was celebrated. Over thirty
priests and hundreds of Catholic school schoolchildren were
present.
Miss Emma Freed, of Farmington, died in great agony, poisoned by
her own hand. She was pregnant and unmarried, and had been told
by some lady friends that if she would put some matches in
boiling water and let them steep, and then drink the water, she
would be all right. She did so and died from the effects of the
poison. No one knew how much of the poisonous stuff she did take.
She was under seventeen years of age and of more than
prepossessing appearance.
The novel meteor replevin case to determine whether the 66-pound
meteor which fell in Lindon township, Winnebago county, Iowa, May
2, 1890, at 2 p.m., belongs legally to the finder of the meteor,
or to John Goddard, the owner of the land on which and into which
it fell and buried itself three feet. It was decided by the
district court, Hon. J.C. Sherman presiding, in favor of the
owner of the land on which it fell. The meteorite is a large
black stone. It was dug up by Peter Hoghland, an adjacent land
owner and farmer. Hughland's wife found it the day before he dug
it up with a spade from a depth of three full feet to the top of
stone. The attorneys were all at sea for precedents. No meteor
litigation was discovered in the reported cases. They argued it
on old common law principles, and the result was a decision in
favor of the owner of the realty. Appeal was taken by defendant,
who bought it of the finder. Supreme court will probably affirm
the decision of the district court.
[transcribed by S.F., September 2013]