Iowa
Old Press
Spencer News Herald
Spencer, Clay co. Iowa
September 1, 1927
LINN GROVE: (Special Correspondence)
The many friends here of Hiram Hanson and Agnes Fonley
were greatly surprised last week when it was learned that these
popular young people were married at Slayton, Minnesota, on
August 22. Mr. and Mrs. Hanson were both reared in this community
and attended and gradated from the Linn Grove school. Hiram has
been engaged in the livestock and trucking business with C. O.
Friedlund and is an industrious and energetic young man. The
bride is the only daughter of Ole Fonley of this place and has
been making her home with her father. The young people left
immediately after the ceremony for a visit with friends and
relatives in Illinois and will make their home in the Fonley
house in the east part of Linn Grove upon their return. Their
many friends here will join in wishing them happiness and
prosperity.
William Myers who has occupied the King farm north of Linn Grove
the past two years passed away at his home on August 24 following
several months’ illness with cancer. Deceased had been a
resident of Clay county practically all his life and lived for
many years in the vicinity of Royal. He is survived by his wife
and several children, all of whom are grown. Funeral services
were held from the home last Friday and interment was made in the
cemetery just south of Royal.
King Lewis, who had been here for about two weeks to see his
mother during her recent severe illness, returned on Tuesday of
last week to his home at Opheim, Montana.
Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Owens and Mrs. Enoch Davis and daughter, all
of Cody, Wyoming, arrived in Linn Grove last Thursday for a visit
with Mrs. Owens’ mother, Mrs. Martha Davis, and with other
relatives and friends. Mrs. Enoch Davis went on to Cogsdon, Iowa,
for a visit with her parents. Mr. Owens was engaged in the barber
business in Linn Grove for many years and has still a circle of
friends here. He moved with his wife to Cody about fifteen years
ago. They like the western country very much and have prospered.
Mr. Owens and associates are quite heavily interested in the oil
development in that section and hold a considerable area under
lease. A well was brought in on some of their holdings last
winter and has shown an unusually strong flow.
[transcribed by L.Z., October 2014]