Iowa
Old Press
The Fremont County Herald
January 7, 1897
Riverton News by Dr. S. C. Hatton
The road running west from the Lovelady place to the corner of
John Barrett's place is a Joe Dandy. It is up hill, down hill,
stumps, hollows, precipices, mountain slides, canyons, gulches,
waterfalls, glaciers, mountain peaks, cliffs, hanging rocks,
Devil's slide, thousand mile tree, craters, huge petrified trees,
fossils of every kind and one of the seven wonders of the
world."
[transcribed by W.F., January 2008]
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The Fremont County Herald
Sidney, Fremont co., Iowa.
January 14, 1897
Tabor News
Extensive preparations are being made for the union services
which are to be conducted by Evangelist W. A. Sunday, commencing
January 17th. An alliance has been formed by all the churches of
the town, committees have been appointed and are working
harmoniously, a choir of forty voices is now under training and
union services are to held this week by the different pastors of
the different churches interested. Mr. Sunday comes well
recommended as an evangelist of wide experience and thorough
preparation, having the courage to strike sturdy blows at sin
wherever it lifts its head.
[transcribed by W.F., June 2007]
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THE FREMONT COUNTY HERALD
Sidney, Fremont co., Iowa
January 21, 1897
Tabor News
Our union meeting is progressing finely. The church membership of
the town is awake, active, working harmoniously together and is
full of expectancy. Mr. Sunday is the captain of the hosts. His
reliance is not so much on the bursts of eloquence or floods of
logic, as upon the individual work of the professional
christians. He sows the seed broadcast, and then relies upon the
christians to see that they germinate, take root and grow into
ripened grain.
[transcribed by W.F., June 2007]
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THE FREMONT COUNTY HERALD
Sidney, Fremont Co., Iowa
January 26, 1897
Rev. A. B. Hobbs is back for a few days from Dunbar, Neb., where
he has been engaged in a meeting for the last two weeks. He
reports a very successful meeting, there having been 41
conversions with 30 additions to the church. He reports the
heartiest cooperation upon the part of the business men of the
place, who closed their business houses evenings while the
meeting lasted. Rev. Hobbs returns to Nebraska this week and will
begin a series of meetings in Union next Sunday morning. He will
return and open up a meeting in Hamburg on Feb. 19th.
[transcribed by W.F., December 2010]
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THE FREMONT COUNTY SUN
Sidney, Fremont Co., Iowa
January 26, 1897
Rev . A. B. Hobbs returned last Monday evening from Dunbar, Neb.,
where he held a two weeks revival meeting which was very
successful, there being forty one professions and thirty one
united with the church.
[transcribed by W.F., December 2010]
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THE FREMONT COUNTY HERALD
Sidney, Fremont co., Iowa
January 28, 1897
Local News
Our ice men are having a bonanza now. They are getting plenty of
ice as clear as a crystal and from 10 inches to a foot in
thickness. It is being taken from Otte Lake and Duncan's branch.
Duncan is also furnishing the ice for the poor farm.
Tabor News
A few glimpses at the evangelist, W. A. Sunday, would perhaps be
of interest. Personally, he is rather a small man, well developed
physically, with a large protruding forehead, large heavy jaws
which show the tenacity for which he hangs on the least
indication of success. In the pulpit Mr. Sunday presents the
least indication of filling a clerical position. Dressed in a
purely business suit, he is the embodiment of energy, earnestness
and christian sympathy, discarding all pulpit formality and
conventionality. He seem to be possesed of no other motive or
object than that he has a message for each individual hearer and
all his energies are bent in driving the message to a secure
lodgement in his hearer's heart. The above is only a mere glimpse
at a few of the attributes of the evangelist.
[transcribed by W.F., Sept. 2003 & June 2007]