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Nashua Reporter
Nashua, Chickasaw, Iowa
November 2, 1905

The City and Vicinity.
-The finest flavored meat in town at Hanson's market.
-For Sale - Durco Jersey boars. Geo. Morse, Route 1.
-Bert Leaman was a business caller in Waverly Monday.
-Albert Thom, of Charles City, was a Nashua visitor Monday.
-F.J. Chapman is spending the week hunting below Waterloo.
-Miss Kate Connell is spending a few days with friends in Waverly.
-Mr. and Mrs. Dave Carney returned to their home in Greene Monday.
-Mrs. P. Turley, of Charles City, visited at the home of Mike Loy Monday.
-Mrs. John Lyons, of Charles City, visited at the home of Roy Smith this week.
-Miss Minnie Horton went to Charles City Monday for a visit at the home of Wm. Clark.
-Dr. Hewitt, of Charles City, is very sick at his home at that place with hemmorage of the brain.
-Mrs. F.A. Marble, of Iowa Falls, arrived Monday for a visit with her mother, Mrs. C.R. Price.
-Mrs. G.E. Ellison and son, Merwin, went to Vinton Tuesday night for a seek's visit with relatives.
-Marie Horton came up from Waterloo Monday for a visit with her grandparents, P. Munson and wife.
-Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Eastman, of Osage, spent Sunday at the home of his mother, Mrs. S.F. Eastman.
-The L. Treat marble and Granite works sold a fine job to "Doc" Smith who lives in Nashua, to be set at the graves of his parents in Greenwood. -- New Hampton Courier.
-Geo. Williams and son, Jess, have just completed for Mrs. Dwight Smith, on her farm on Rural Route 1, as fine a hog house as can be found anywhere around. The building is 24X36 feet, with cement floors and all conveniences.
-Guy Winklebleck departed Monday for Denver, Col., where he will remain until he becomes acclimated, after which he will go on to Victor, and resume work for the company by whom he was employed when
taken sick some time ago.
-County Superintendent F.J. Conley and wife have been receiving the congratulations of many friends upon the birth of a lusty son last Friday. The young man tipped the beam at 10 pounds and bids fair to
thrive and prosper. He has come to a good home, and we wish him every good fortune. New Hampton Gazette.
-Sheriff Schnurr, Henry Kolhoff, Martin Cubrod, Johnny Sack and a deputy game warden from Nora Springs went down to the Wapsie at the D. Brehm farm southwest of town last Friday and seined out about
3,000 game fish and took them over to the river. Thousands of these small game fish are killed out every winter by being left in the ponds when the water goes down in the fall. -- New Hampton Gazette.
-Guy Hinkley returned last Friday from his hunting trip at Sisseton S.D., and reports a fine time. He says that there is enough shooting where they were to satisfy any duck hunter and that they had good luck. There were in the party besides himself, L.C. Goodsell, Sam Simmons, H.O. Potter, A.P. Granger and two or three gentlemen from Sisseton.
-Joe Smith and Mrs. Mahoney, of LeRoy, Minn., came Monday night to attend the funeral of Mrs. S.W. Blinn. The former is a brother and the latter a niece of the deceased.
-Mrs. M.J. Hunter, of Leroy, Minn., was summoned here Monday by the death of her sister, Mrs. S.W. Blinn.
-Mrs. E.L. McGilvra, of Larchwood, who had been visiting with her brother, Jake Shannon, and sister, Mrs. Caroline Young, returned home Monday.
-Will Schake, of Mason City, Mesdames Chas. and Edward Pines, of Waterloo, attended the funeral of Ruth Schake Tuesday.
-Mrs. Nellie Giblin arrived Tuesday from Oklahoma and that afternoon was united in marriage with Mr. Earl Cleveland, at the office of Justice H. G. Bartlett. They left on the 4 o'clock train that afternoon for Nashua. -- Osage News.
-Mrs. Seymour West, of Parker, S.D., is here for a visit with her brothers, Geo., Ed, and John Pierce. Mrs. West and her husband went to Dakota about six years ago and since then have been very prosperous. They own three good improved farms, and are now living in town in order that their children may receive school advantages.

Probate of Will.
To All Whom It May Concern:
Notice is hereby given that an instrument of writing purporting to be the last will of Joseph Hershberg, late of Chickasaw county, Iowa, deceased, has been opened and read, and that December 4, 1905, has
been set for bearing the proof of the same before the District Court of Chickasaw county, iowa. In testimony whereof I have hereunto attached my official signature and affixed my official seal, on this 31st day of October, 1905 [seal] M.H. O'Neill, Clerk District Court
Wm. B. Perrin, attorney for Estate.

Adolph Frederick, aged 45 years, was killed last Friday night at Fairbanks and his body was found the next morning in the Wapsie river. While driving home his team wandered on the Chicago Great Western railroad bridge and the entire outfit fell into the river twenty-five feet below. The team was unhurt.

[submitted by S.F., May 2004]

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