Iowa Old Press
The Coon Rapids Enterprise
Coon Rapids, Carroll co., Iowa
Friday, March 25, 1892
Ripples of the Rapids - Local Sprays Caught Flying on the
Surface of Town and Country Society
- M.E. chicken pie sociable tonight at V.M. Johnson's.
- R.B. Tucker was in Carroll Tuesday.
- Hersh Vradenburg has returned from Nebraska.
- Mrs. Dana Reed has been very ill for several days.
- Mrs. W.H. Asher has been in Des Moines this week.
- Miss Cora Hall will teach the Prairie Hall school this spring.
- A sister of Mr. Stockwell, from Boston, is visiting the family.
- Mrs. Neva Jack is visiting her folks in the Rapids and will
remain till Monday.
- W.J. Sheaffer was at home most of the week, being partially
laid up with a severe cold.
- The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. C.E. Garst has been
dangerously ill, but is now much better.
A friend of Dr. Raugh, whom the doctor says is a very competent
young man, and of fine social and moral standing, is expected to
take Dr. Raugh's place at the Rapids.
Mrs. Mary C. Stitt, widow of Judge John B. Stitt and mother of
Mrs. H.S. Jones, made application in 1868 for a pension and after
twenty-four years of perseverance, was granted $12 a month and
$2,500 back pay. The first Mrs. Jones knew of her mother's good
fortune was when she received a letter containing a draft for a
hundred dollars as a gift.
This is to certify that I have this day given my son, Elmo J.
Reed, called Bob, his time, and will not hereafter be responsible
for any debts he may contract, or for any of his acts. All the
money he earns after this date is his own. Ira C. Reed, Coon
Rapids, Ia., March 18, 1892.
Just as The Enterprise was ready for press we received a
communication from Dedham giving account of the marriage of Miss
Ida McCuen to Mr. John Wagner, the event being one of the most
notable of the neighborhood and attended by a very large number
of friends. We regret that we are unable to publish the article
on account of lack of time.
Carroll is to have a $15,000 new stone church, to be known as the
St. Joseph.
Star School House
- Miss Maggie Doran closed a sucessful term of school at
the Star last Friday.
- Mr. Clavins' have moved onto a farm three miles north east of
Scranton.
- Asa Connor has rented the R.B. Tucker farm.
- Jo Raygor has returned from a pleasant visit at his old home in
Henry county, this state. It has been thirteen years since he
came from there and this was his first visit.
- We think Richland township can boast of the youngest bridegroom
in the county, he being but sixteen years of age.
West Viola Jottings
- A.E. Allen finished threshing his oats last week.
Chas. Levi's new steamer did the work.
- Ed Prather killed three beeves last Saturday morning before
dinner.
- Wm. Sibsen returned home from the Highland Park school last
week. Will expects to farm for himself this summer.
- Mr. Moreland is building a large barn on his farm in south
Viola. Mr. Moreland is one of our south Viola ranchers and is
making a success at farming.
Viola Center
- Al Griffin has at last got rid of his old horse.
- Elisha Carver and Mrs. Carver have gotten down to regular old
fashioned housekeeping, and have hung out their latch string for
the season.
- F.M. Carpenter got his neighbors out and with a dozen teams,
hauled the old Andrews house over to his home farm to weld on his
house.
- We are very sorry to learn that Mrs. R.C. Carpenter is still
very sick at the old home farm, requiring the constant attendance
of the squire at her bed side.
Carrollton Cullings
- Abe Knight has erected quite an extensive barn on the
lots he now occupies.
- H.L. Squires had rented his farm and we understand intends
going into the stock business.
- Mr. and Mrs. Owen, from near Dedham, called on some of their
old friends in this vicinity sometime last week.
Orange Items
- Mrs. David Miller is visiting in Nebraska.
- Dib Wheeler and family have moved to Colorado.
- Mr. C. Coblentz started for Oklahoma last week.
- James Hampton starts for Nebraska as soon as the roads get
good.
- J.W. Handy was elected president of the school board for the
ensuing year.
- A.B. Shafer is making some improvements on the place he bought
of Sardine Smith.
- Jim Martin is looking for some one to keep house for him.
Southeast Orange Items
- Charles Handy has gone to Michigan on a visit.
- Suminer Osborn's little girl has been sick the past week.
- J. Blazer has sold his 80-acre farm to P.V. Herron for &80
per acre.
- David Boyles has been confined to the house with tonsilitus the
past week.
- Sardine Smith has bought the east 80 of the Kay farm. He gave
$10 an acre.
- Mrs. Addie Wandeling and her husband, of Nebraska, are visiting
their parents, David Miller's.
- Ernie Smith came near being killed by being thrown from a
horse. He is doing well at this writing.
- David Cahail's have been prevented from moving by the sickness
of their children, who have the lung fever.
Dedham Local Jottings
- John Gilbert sold a fine mare to J.S. Downing last
week.
- H. Ramsey and family moved onto the old Rieby farm last week.
- James Horton will teach at the Hardie school house the coming
summer.
- Geo. Curtis, of Redfield, was an over Sunday visitor with the
Curtis family of this place.
- Miss Ettie Lewis and Rachel Davis are in Carroll working at the
dressmaking business.
- David Orr's father-in-law has rented David's farm for this
season and has arrived here and moved onto the place.
- David Burkhart and others are building a house for Chas. Else
on the farm he bought of John Hardie, south-east of town.
- M. Hanford went to Chicago with two cars of fine cattle of his
own feeding. This is the finest lot of cattle that has been
shipped from this place.
- Mr. Basom is better at this writing.
-Otis Smith has quit clerking at the drug store.
Last week we stated that John Hardie's little girl was much
better, but a change set in and the little one passed away last
Monday night. The family have the sympathy of all.
Died, March 22, 1891 (sic - 1892), Ida Hardie,
aged 6 years, 8 months and 12 days, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John
Hardie. The funeral services were conducted at the M.E. church
Thursday, the 23rd, by Rev. O'Flyng with a large attendance. In
the presence of this great over-shadowing sorrow words seem
inadequate to express the measure of sympathy which goes out to
the bereaved ones. Only the Great Father of all knows why Ida has
been removed from earth, and to him they will turn for that
consolation which can only proceed from the author of our being.
Mr. and Mrs. John Hardie wish to thank their friends for their
kindness through their daughter's sickness.
[transcribed by S.F., May 2015]