Iowa
Old Press
Charles City Intelligencer
Charles City, Floyd county
November 20, 1879
Floyd Letter,
Floyd, Nov. 19, 1879
If you took a paper in 1863, you read, "all quiet on the
Potomac" so it is in Floyd, no recent deaths, nobody drunk,
all is peaceful and quiet.
A. D. Fluent has been very sick withtyphoid pneumonia; his life
has been despaired of, but I learn to-day that he is better, and
will probably recover.
Prof. Hosfeld and wife had a narrow escape, while riding on the
narrow gauge Ry. A bridge went down with several freight cars
between the locomotive and coach, leaving the conductor on one
side of the chasm and passengers on the other, but no one was
hurt.
A. S. and A. J. Sheppard have been gone for some time past to
visit E. N. Marsh and family at spirit Lake, Dickinson Co., and
to look over the country with a view to securing homes there if
they like it. Elder Alonzo Raymond will preach at the Christian
Church next Sunday morning. Rev. A Critchfield preaches at the M.
E. Church, every Sabbath.
The country "dads" examined the bridge across the
Cedar, yesterday, but I have not learned what they concluded to
do. Report says the bridge is very rotten and unsafe.
Schools are going again with the same teachers, Prof. Hosfeld
principal. Miss King intermediate, and Miss Critchfield primary.
A word to the ladies: don't forget the lonely; let no false
modesty hinder you from doing as you would wish to be done by
under the same circumstances.
Jerome
Died
Wood:- At his residence, in Lincoln Co., Kas., Sunday evening
Sept. 14th, age 53 years, Edgar A Wood, of hemorrhoge of the
stomach. He was well known having resided in this place for three
years. He was a man
of marget integrity and uprightness one we could ill afford to
lose, and we are led to exclaim, "O Lord! Thy ways are past
finding out." In testimony of his worth, the tears of the
many who gathered at the church to pay their last tribute to his
memory speak most eloquesntly; his modest christian life was
worthy of imatation, and leaves with his friends the comforting
assurance that all is well with him. All we may speak in his
praise are not empty words, but the earnest expressions of every
heart, indeed, words are inadequate to express the motions of our
hearts, and we can but bow meekly at his dispensation of
divinefower. His memory will ever be cherished, and years will
not efface the many evidences of his useful life. His family and
friendshave the warmest sympathies of the community in the
irreparrable loss.
C.G.K.
[transcribed by B.H., December 2006]
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Charles City Intelligencer
Charles City, Floyd county
November 27, 1879
Floyd Letter,
Floyd, Nov. 25, 1879
Another bird has flown. "Ebb" Morrison took the morning
train northward, last Friday. the proceeding of the Grand Jury is
said to be the cause. Surely "the way of the transgresser is
hard."
The funeral of A. D. Fluent was held at the M. E. Church at one
o'clock, last Saturday; sermon by Rev. Mr Critchfield. Mr. Fluent
was a man highly respected by all. He was an old resident, a
prominent member of the M. E. Church and a worthy citizen. His
death was quiteunexpected at the time, as he had seemed to be so
much better as to incite hopes of his recovery.
Marcus Loban will teach the winter schol in the Stewart district,
W. G. Elliott at the south depot, Adolphus Wilbur at the Burr oak
school house, district No. 1.
L. D. Miller has moved into town having put his house in good
repair. We do not learn whether the Elder intends to preach,
trade horses, practice law, or work at the boot and shoe
busniess, but they say he can do a good job at either.
A. P. Seaton returned suddenly from Kansas to see to his interest
in the bankrupt stock, and I learn that he has decided not to
return, but to fix up a comfortable home on his farm and live
there.
A Mr. Cole has moved into Mr. Rankin's house, formerly occupied
by J. E. Cox, and will start a feed mill in A. S. Griffith's barn
within a few days. He will use the thresher engine, and has
ordered a new set of burr-stones.
J. L. Knight is buying pigs and corn wherever he can get them for
blacksmithing.
The tide of emigration nowadays seems to be north and south.
Those from the north going south where it is warmer, and southern
men going north to raise wheat.
Corn is nearly husked and wether is splendid.
Jerome
[transcribed by B.H., December 2006]