Iowa
Old Press
Perry Advertiser
Perry, Dallas co., Iowa
June 17, 1898
Terse Tales About Town
- Ed Slattery has shown us Galesburg papers telling of the death
of his sister, Mrs. Ellen Slattery Murray, which occurred in
Quincy, Illinois, Tuesday, May 23rd. She was the wife of F.D.
Murray, an old conductor on the C.B. & Q. railway. She was
born in Bruff, County Limerick, Ireland, in 1851, coming to this
country when two years old. She had spent most of her life in
Galesburg, where two brothers, John and Patrick Slattery, still
reside. The cause of death was appendicitis. Her husband and one
son survive her.
- W.F. Graham, a former Adel boy, but now engaged in the drug
business at Des Moines, visited in the city with the Bailey
brothers the first of this week.
- F.A. Carpenter and H.H. Miller have formed a partnership and
are prepared to do all classes of wagon-work and general
black-smithing, while they will make horse-shoeing and plow works
a specialty. Old Stand, west of the Rock Island tracks.
- The remains of Nelson Laraway, who died at San Antonio, Texas,
last Friday, arrived in this city on No. 4 Monday evening,
accompanied by Mrs. Laraway and their two sons. The funeral
occurred from the home of Henry Nichols, conducted by Rev. C.L.
Nye, of the Methodist church. There was a large attendance of
friends and family.
- Paul, the infant child of Mr. and Mrs. E.M. Carl, died Monday
morning of cholera infantum. The remains were taken to Paton
Monday afternoon for burial.
[transcribed by C.J.L. May 2007]