Iowa Old Press
The Argo
West Union, Fayette Co., Iowa
Thursday, 02 September 1896
Page 5, Column one
—Ross Hodgkinson has gone to Cascade.
—House and lot for sale. Inquire of Joe Knox.
—Henry Craft, of Eldorado, is very seriously ill.
—Mrs. J.J. Tope, of Dover, is on the sick list.
—L.L. Ainsworth went to St. Paul, Monday.
—Mrs. H.C. Sturgis was here from Oelwein last week.
—Mrs. W.H. Spoug returned from Ruthven, Monday.
—Houses and lots and building lots for sale. J.T. Bailey.
—L.H. Puller arid family returned, to Chicago Saturday.
—Small house in this city for sale. Inquire at this office.
—F.Y. Whitmore and wife went to Osage Friday evening.
—Front room to rent over store. Inquire of J.P. Parrott.
—O.R. Taylor was over from Sumner to take in the fair.
—Miss Gertie Cook returned from Indiana early last week.
—The death of Will Brooks, of Auburn township, is reported.
—Miss Blanche Eddy returned to her home in McGregor Monday.
—O.W. Heiserman and wife left yesterday morning for Winona.
—Glass lamps all new, all sizes and cheap at Baker's
Varietystore.
—Bennie Illiff is sick with a fever and under the care of
Dr.Zoller.
—Hazen Chandler and wife were here from Mason City last
week.
—Miss Clara Sampson is in Minneapolis for a visit of some
weeks.
—Fred Hanna is at his home in Clarence for a month's
vacation.
—Chopping or butter bowls, all sizes from a nickle up at
Baker's.
—L.A. Fisher and family were over from Hawkeye to take in
the fair.
—N. S. Schenck and Fred returned from Northern Wisconsin,
Friday.
—John H. Donald returned last week from two months in
Chicago.
—A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. A.J. Morris, of Auburn, on
the 25th.
—C.W.D. Lathrop is visiting his daughter at Garner, Hancock
county.
—J.H. Colby is up and about the house and yard after his
severe illness.
column two
—Jos. J. Mikish, of Decorah, played with the band here
during the fair.
—Mr. and Mrs. E.M. Sanborn have gone east on a visit, to
relatives in Ohio.
—Mr. and Mrs. Miner Paign were here to the fair from Oelwein
last week.
—Boom to rent next door to the Star Barber Shop. Inquire of
A.J.Bernau.
—Regular meeting of the fire department to-morrow (Thursday)
evening.
—Mrs. W.E. Talmadge goes this week on a visit to her parents
at Bradford.
—A couple of very light frosts have been reported from the
flat. No damage done.
—Mrs. E.G. Herrick went to Waverly, Monday to attend the
wedding of a sister.
—Slates, tablets and pencils, new stock and lots of them at
Baker's Variety store.
—Mr. and Mrs. Will Forrey were up from Cedar Rapids last
week taking in the fair.
—H.V. Tobey, wife and mother and I.M. Weed all departed for
Chicago last evening.
—J.B. Garzee, of Waucoma, has been assisting in Thompson's
barbershop for a week past.
—Ed Cullins is building a big addition to his barn to
accommodate his increasing business.
—Geo. Wagner has taken off his bakery wagon and all orders
should now be left at the store.
—Brad Talcott, since 1853, a resident of Fayette county,
died a this home in Wadena on July 15.
—J.M. Wetherbee remembered our hungry condition last week
and left us a supply of roasting ears.
—Fred Durfee has dropped out of Branch's gallery, returning
to his home in Volga City Monday.
—Miss Minnie Hoyt left for Milwaukee, yesterday. She will
attend school there the coming year.
—Mrs. A.S. Heald goes to Chicago tomorrow to purchase fall
stock. She will return about the 10th.
—Abe Ecker came in from Burlington, yesterday, to join John
Cook's G.A.R. excursion to St. Paul.
—The Misses Harwood closed their two week's visit here early
las week and returned to Cedar Rapids.
—Miss Phyllis Miller returned early last week from an over
Sunday visit at the Will Baker home, Fayette.
—Mrs. Lillian Grant and her friend Miss Guest closed their
long visit here and returned to Chicago, Monday
—Jack Orvis is taking a short layoff. He will go to Fayette,
Oelwein and Sumner while his vacation lasts.
—Wm. Dewey departed for the old home in Richmond, Ind.,
Friday. He is liable to be absent for some weeks.
—Mrs. Walt Butler has been sick for the past month, for a
greater portion of the time confined to her bed.
—A rate of one and one-third fare for the-round trip has
been secured for all points within 250 miles of Dubuque.
—Mrs. Tom Loftus, of Syracuse, N.Y., has been the guest of
the Loftus and Owens' families for the past week.
—Mrs. Judson, niece of Mrs. Wm. Cowle, visiting here for
some time returned to her home in St. Louis last week.
—Mrs. E.J. Whitmore has been a visitor at the home of her
parents Mr. and Mrs. A.H. Titus for some days past.
—John Phillips is working in the New Union Drug Store during
the absence of Charlie Bell on the St. Paul excursion.
—Great sales prove the great merit of Hood's Sarsaparilla,
and great merit enables it to, accomplish wonderful cures.
—Jim Kinney and family were up from Aurora to take in the
fair and spend Sunday with Mr. Kinney's people at Elgin.
—Frank Reum and Ed Abbey, two Decorah young men came down on
their wheels Thursday and remained over Friday.
—Miss Lela Herrick went on the St. Paul excursion. She will
stop at Winona and put in the winter at kindergarten work.
—Adam Dagelman was thrown from Will Schroeder's wagon by
runaway team last Thursday, suffering a broken arm.
—Miss Nellie Forbes will arrived from Chicago this week to
accept the position of stenographer in the office of Clements
& Son.
—Mr. and. Mrs. Lewis, guests at the Hancock home for the
past week went north on the St. Paul excursion yesterday morning.
—Misses Alice and" Lida, daughters of H.M. Rulifson
left for the east Monday; Alice to Joliet to resume teaching and
Lida to Belvidere to school.
Page 5, column three & four
—The Westfield Sunday school convention will be held at the
Lima church, Sept. 6, 1896, at 10 a.m. All are cordially invited.
—The Social Hour will be held in the parlors of the
Presbyterian church Thursday afternoon of this week. All the
ladies invited.
—S.W. Cole and daughter were up from the Rapids for several
days last week, renewing old acquaintances and taking in the
fair.
—Elmer Millard was here last week renewing old
acquaintances. He is still in the railroad business with
headquarters at Perry.
—As reported elsewhere Hon. S. B. Zeigler and Hon. Wm. E.
Fuller will open the campaign in this county next Monday night at
Elgin.
—Miss Lou Barnes has gone to St. Paul to enter a millinery
store and learn trimming, after which she goes to Jesup to accept
a position.
—Some philosopher gives it as his opinion that the reason
people cry at weddings is because most of them have been married
themselves.
—Fred Webb and wife returned to their home in Kansas City,
today after a few days pleasantly spent at the home of Mr. Webb's
parents.
—The Missionary Society will hold a sociable at Mrs. N.S.
Schenck's Friday evening of this week. Supper after 5. Acordial
invitation extended to all.
—Mrs. Montgomery, of Fayette was a guest at the editor's
home Saturday and Sunday. Also Mr. and Mrs. R.Z. Lattimer the
latter evening.
—The mother of I. W. and John Bane, attorneys well known in
this city, arrived from Newell last week and is a guest at the M.
W. Philips home.
—At the M.E. church next Sunday will occur the
administration of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper. It is
desired that every member as far as possible attend.
—The Willing Workers will meet next Sunday at 3 o'clock
p.m., in the Presbyterian church. Business of importance requires
that every member be present.
—The Waukon Democrat says that three large flocks
of geese were observed flying southward last Tuesday—a
most-remarkable occurrence for this time of the year.
—Dr. C. F. Adams wishes to inform his patrons that he will
be absent from the city after tomorrow (Sept. 3d) until Saturday,
Sept. 12. He will take his summer vacation.
—Quarterly meeting services at the Wesleyan Methodist church
next Saturday and Sunday. Services as follows: Saturday at 2 and
7:45 p.m. Sunday at 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.
—Samuel Holton and wife departed early last week for a six
week's stay in the east, Ohio and New York Mr. Holton has not
seen his old home in the latter state for thirty years
—Mr. and Mrs. J.H. Woodstock, of Clear Lake, arrived on a
tandem bicycle Saturday, for several days visit at the home of
Karl D. Fisk. Mr. W. is postmaster at Clear Lake.
—Oscar Heiserman has purchased Frank Freeborn's Great Dane
pup for $100 and will train him for a store watch dog. Frank has
ordered another pup and will have him here in a few days.
—Mr. Ezra Patterson and Mrs. E.A. Goodenow, of Bethel, were
married last week and are already settled to housekeeping on the
groom's splendid farm east of the city. May joy go with them.
—The University at Fayette opens this week but you can enter
next week and anytime in Business College, Music, Painting or
School of Oratory. Plan to go this fall. See ad in this issue.
—We are requested to announce that the Y.P.U. Society will
meet Sunday evening at 6:30 at the M.E. church. Also that the
social of the same society will be held this evening at the home
of Bart Butler.
—Rev. Balch and wife expect to go soon to spend the winter
with their children in Ida county, visiting a daughter in Jones
county on their way. Mrs. Frances Wool will occupy their house
for the winter.
—Dan Brause is just completing a commodious farm residence
on his farm east of town, adjoining C.C. Hoyer's place on the
east. The dwelling is thirty feet square and two stories high.
Will Shaffer has the contract.
—Fred Hanna's record books, nearly a score in number, have
arrived and are awaiting his return from Clarence. They are from
the Republican workshop at Cedar Rapids and are splendid
specimens of the bookmaker's art.
—Willie Fuller, Walt Butler, Jr. Joe Hobson and Jap Fox
matriculated at the Upper Iowa University Tuesday the 1st. Good
for the boys! This is a good college and merits the liberal
patronage of all students of northeastern Iowa.
column four
—A line from Frank Guptill says that the creamery company
for which he is special agent sustained $7,500 loss from fire on
Aug. 20. The property burned was located at Forest City and
included creamery, store house and chicken ranch. Fire was set by
passenger train. It will be rebuilt.
—One night last week some scoundrel entered the pasture of
John L. Jones, in Auburn township, and deliberately shot one of
his best mares. The animal was a valuable brood mare and will be
a severe loss to Mr. Jones. It will be a pity if the villain is
not apprehended and brought to justice.
—An exchange sums up life as follows: "Born, welcomed,
caressed, cried, led, grew, amused, reared, studied, examined,
graduated, loved, engaged, married, quarreled, reconciled,
suffered, deserted, taken ill, died, buried, forgotten."
—The Alice Wilson Theater Company failed to show up at
Zeigler Hall last week, and the three last nights of the fair
dances were held by the West Union Orchestra. Much disappointment
was felt at the nonappearance of the company.
—Supt. Bloodgood, who is president of the North-East Section
of Iowa Teachers, informs us that this section meets in Dubuque,
October 15, 16, 17. Prin. Grant E. Finch of our city schools has
a prominent place on the general program.
—Charlie Fish tells—not a fish but a calf story that
goes ahead of anything we have ever heard before. One of the cows
on his place in Eden dropped three heifer calves the other night,
and they are all as lively as crickets and getting along nicely.
—Carpenters have begun the remodeling of the house in
eastern part of the city occupied by E.G. Herrick. It will be
raised to two stories and otherwise improved. This is the old
Thurston and Edgar property, built in 1854 and one of the city's
earliest residences.
—Auditor Kreamer asks us to make note of the fact that the
last legislature changed the time for the annual meeting of
township trustees from the first Monday in October to the first
Monday in November. Trustees will please take notice and govern
themselves accordingly.
—G. H. Thomas will heat the W.B. Thomas' clothing store with
steam, the hard coal boiler having already arrived. Joe Nye will
put in the fixtures. Mr. Nye is also engaged just now in plumbing
the new Masonic building and in fitting Will Philips'new house
with a furnace.
—Hettie Herotic, D.J. Sensor's trotter, which has won
several races at the driving park this season, backed out of the
north door at Hutchins' livery barn Wednesday forenoon, and
dropping a distance of about twelve feet, broke her back. It was
found necessarily to shoot the animal.— Walker News.
—Bert Finch is down from Montana. We note that he has
departed from his early training politically
and is wearing a Bryan badge. This is probably accounted for from
the fact that if a man is anything but a free silverite in
Montana they drop him head first down an abandoned mineral hole.
—The Decorah and Strawberry Point fairs are running this
week. The State Fair begins tomorrow and closes the 11th. The
Howard and Clayton meetings Sept. 8-11; Brush Creek 15 to 18
Sept., and Allamakee county from Sept 22 to 25, Buchanan county
fair same dates as the Allamakee.
—Charlie Fish was down from Eden yesterday. He tells us that
after looking about over the northwest he has concluded that
there is nothing better than Iowa and he has purchased 80 acres
within two miles of Waucoma at $35. per acre. Glad to see so good
a citizen as Mr. Fish stay in Fayette County.
—C.F. Adams, C.S. Diehl, Rich Robinson and Carl Evans leave
tomorrow on a camping out trip of a week or ten days. They take a
covered wagon, tent, cook and all necessary camp equipage and
will have a royal good time. They will eventually pull up in
Hancock and Winnebago counties.
—A telegram received yesterday morning from LuVerne, Minn.,
announced the death of B.H. Hinkly. Dr. Hinkly was for many years
a resident of Clermont but for the past few years has been
residing at LuVerne. He was a man of means and one of the
directors of the Fayette Co. National Bank of this city.
—A well known physician said the other day that as soon as
the weather began to turn cooler bilious fevers would be very
likely to prevail. There has been a rank growth of vegetation,
with numerous pools of standing water, both conducive to the
breeding of the fever germs. People will take slight colds,
neglect them and they will run into fevers. With due watchfulness
nearly every case of the kind might be avoided, but the average
person is careless.
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