Iowa
Old Press
FREMONT COUNTY SUN
Sidney, Fremont co. Iowa
March 4, 1897
- Mrs. Kline is the daughter of Mrs. M. M. Conrad of
Randolph.--Local News
- Knapp & Garvin will open a livery barn at A. S. Rockwell's
old place.--Local News
- George Martin is moving to Colorado where his cousin John
Martin lives.--Walnut Grove News
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FREMONT COUNTY HERALD
Sidney, Fremont Co., Iowa
March 4, 1897
Percival News
OBITUARY
Once more death has visited our community and taken one from our
midst whom we all loved and respected.
Charles T. King, son of Thomas and Sarah King, aged 30 years 6
months and 14 days, died at the home of his parents, three miles
southeast of Percival. Charles, as he was familiarly called, was
born in this county, July 25, 1865. He was married to Minnie
Paddock, South Omaha, Neb., Feb. 23, 1894. They lived near
Bartlett, Iowa, for the first two years, but not being satisfied
there they moved on his father's farm two miles south of
Percival. This being the birthplace of both they were more
contented and enjoyed true happiness until Charles was taken
sick. He began doctoring in July and on Sept. 29th had an
operation performed, but not gaining in strength he was advised
to go south, and on Nov. 17th he started for El Paso, Texas,
where he remained a few weeks, thinking that the climate would
help him, but finding it would do no good he returned home Dec.
29th. On Jan. 5th, he went to Omaha to consult with physicians.
They gave him no encouragement, pronouncing his case that dread
disease, consumption. He began failing so fast that on Feb. 1st
he was brought back to his father's home where he passed away at
about 1:30 p.m. Feb . 9th, 1897. During his sickness he suffered
very little pain. He was a member of the Congregational church,
having joined a short time before his death. The funeral services
were held in Percival by Rev. Long of Tabor, after which his
remains were laid to rest in the Rector cemetery. He leaves a
wife, two children, father, mother, four brothers and three
sisters to mourn his loss.
"My companion has left me alone,
Death came with his cold, icy hand
And bore him to that heavenly shore,
Where all is peace in that happy land.
"How much I'll miss him none can tell;
His kind and helping hand so dear,
To me, was given so short a spell,
No more his voice or smile can cheer.
"He has left me, and gone before,
To meet his loved ones there;
When a few more dreary days are o'er
We shall his glory share."
-Bloomer Conley's little son died Saturday, aged 2
years.--Riverton News
-Warren Egloff's son was born March 4, 1897.--Local News
-Clint Hall, of Walnut township, son was born Tuesday.--Local
News
-Mrs. A. J. Hatch who died Saturday was a sister of Mrs. Alex.
Bolster of York, Neb.--Hamburg News
-Dell Holsclaw married Hattie Graves on Mar. 1, 1897 at Pacific
Junction.--Bartlett News
-May Hopkins married Edward J. Hackett today.--Percival News
-Mrs. Armstrong Irwin died Tuesday and was buried at Mt.
Zion.--Greenbush News
-Mr. Langston married Mae Dammon last week.--Riverton News
-Jesse A. Otte's son was born March 3, 1897--Local News
-Miss Jennie Ross died Mar. 2, 1897 aged 27 years; her father
died about one year ago.--Tabor News
--Curt Wilson's son was born Mar. 4, 1897--Local News
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FREMONT COUNTY HERALD
Sidney, Fremont co. Iowa
March 4, 1897
- Mrs. S.P. Cadle is the sister of Bud Richards of
Bedford.--Riverton News
- S. O. Carter willmake the brick for the new county jail in
Sidney.--Local News
- James Chandler is moving to Brownville.--Riverton News
- Roy Henderson's poem entitled "The Nishnabotna"
appears in the Herald.
- D. McF. Paul is the father of Mrs. Alice Rhodes of
Tabor.--Thurman News
- John Spicer is a brother - in - law of Sol Carman's.--Riverton
News
- The Swanson's are the parents of Mrs. Houghland of near
Essex.--Riverton News
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THE FREMONT COUNTY SUN
Sidney, Fremont co., Iowa
March 4, 1897
-- J. Dennis Chapman shot Ernest Hern last Saturday near Payne
Junction.
-- Al Travis's son was born Saturday.--Local News
-- Mrs. Kline is the daughter of Mrs. M. M. Conrad of
Randolph.--Local News
-- Knapp & Garvin will open a livery barn at A. S. Rockwell's
old place.--Local News
-- George Martin is moving to Colorado where his cousin John
Martin lives.--Walnut Grove News
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THE FREMONT COUNTY SUN
Sidney, Fremont co., Iowa
March 11, 1897
-- Sherd Cowles is moving to near Beatrice, Nebr.--Riverton News
-- Al Hathaway of Union, Nebr. is a brother of Mrs. Henry
Trook.--Mt. Zion News
-- HOTEL (Riverton): The "Riverton Independent" has
moved to the old Lake House, but now our lake has been
transformed into a corn field, so it is now called the McIntosh
Hotel.--Riverton News
-- JAIL: The cellar of the new county jail is being
excavated.--Local News
-- John C. Schockley is the grandfather of W. H. Carter's little
daughter.--Randolph News
-- TELEPHONES: Burlington, Iowa, will soon be connected with
Boston, New York City, Philadephia, by telephone.
-- O. B. Hume's daughter was born Tuesday.--Local News
-- Mrs. J. A. Husband, aunt of Adam Hindman of Percival was
buried Sunday; W. I. Jordan of Bedford is her sibling. Engle
Jordan of Blockton, Iowa is a brother; that she was born near
Bloomington, Misssouri in 1841 and came to Taylor county in 1856
and married in 1859; she was the mother of 7 children. --Thurman
News
-- Mrs. Richard Irwin, b. 1865 - died March 2, 1897; married E.
A. Irwin in 1883; her five children range in age from 4 to 13
years; buried at Mt. Zion.--Mt. Zion News
-- Walter Liggett's daughter was born on March 1, 1897..--Thurman
News
-- Bertha Marshall, daughter of John who lives 4 miles south of
Randolph, died Tuesday aged 13 years.--Randolph News
-- William H. Newlon, b. 1831 in Virginia - d. March 7, 1897;
married Mrs. Margaret Schafer in Fulton county, Illinois in 1854;
he came to Fremont county in 1874; his wife died on February 7,
1897.--Local News
-- Miss Mary Watson died on March 3, 1897 at the Faith Home in
Tabor and was buried at Mt. Zion.--Mt. Zion News
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The Fremont County Herald
Sidney, Fremont co., Iowa
March 11, 1897
Tabor News
DIED.--March 8th, 1897, at 10 o'clock a.m., of appendicitis, Miss
Maud Reed, daughter of Mrs. Margaret Reed. Maud had nearly
completed her 20th year, and in that period of time had drawn to
her, by her intrinsic worth, a large circle of friends. On Sunday
a very difficult operation was performed, but the disease had
become to seep seated that diligent care and skillful hands could
not stay it. It seems strange that one so young, so strong and
vigorous should be called away from a work so nobly begun. Maud
had already laid a broad and firm foundation for future
usefulness. She had just finished a successful term of school and
was engaged for the spring term in the same district. She was
chairman of the prayer meeting committee of the C. E. society and
was actively engaged in Sunday school and churchwork, for which
she was so admirably fitted by her characteristic energy and
womanly qualilties. There was a short funeral suervice at the
home, after which the body was interred at the Sidney cemetery,
where her father's interment preceded hers by several years.
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-Allen Abshire's son was born March 10, 1897.--Local News
-Frederick Buhr married Alice McAlexander on March 9, 1897; both
of Tabor.--Local News
-Dan Coppock's daughter was born last week.--Riverton News . The
SUN says Miss Coppock died last Sunday and was buried at Mt. Zion
(Riverton News).
-John Ettleman's daughter was born March 8, 1897.--Thurman News.
The SUN says his daughter was born March 6, 1897 (Thurman
News)....The McPaul News says his daughter was born Monday.
-Frank Fimple of Sidney married Eliza Gladwin of Council Bluffs
on Monday.--Local News
-E. J. Hackett married May Hopkins on Tuesday of last week, Mar.
4, 1897.--Percival News.
-John Hawker's son was born March 4, 1897.--Local News
-Phil Henderson's daughter was born March 6, 1897.--Thurman News
-Mrs. J. A. Husband, aunt of Adam Hindman of Percival was buried
Sunday; W. I. Jordan of Bedford is her sibling.--Thurman News
-Tilda Malinda Jordan, one of 10 children of a Methodist
minister, was born near Bloomington, Missouri on Feb. 14, 1841;
was buried at Thurman; at 18 years married Jacob A. Husband and
they were the parents of 10 children, 7 of whom are living; she
is survived by one brother and 3 sisters; burial at
Thurman.--Thurman News
-Walter Scott Liggett's daughter was born March 4, 1897.--Thurman
News .The SUN says Walter Liggett's daughter was born on March 1,
1897.
-William H. Newlon, b. 1831 in Virginia - d. March 7, 1897;
married Mrs. Margaret Schafer in Fulton county, Illinois in 1854;
he came to Fremont county in 1874; his wife died on February 7,
1897.--Local News
-Joseph Reed of Farmer City is the brother of Miss Maude Reed,
who has died.--Randolph News
-John Rheudy, Jr., of Washington township: His son was born March
6, 1897.--Local News
-Frank Robert's daughter was born March 9, 1897.--Riverton News
-Mrs. E. Smith's father, Rev. Axaline of Arlington, Kansas, has
died.--Riverton News
-Mrs. Mary Smith's mother Mrs.Husband of Thurman, dropped dead
while on her way to the city hall to attend the band boys'
entertainment.--Tabor News
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The Fremont County Herald
Sidney, Fremont co., Iowa
March 18, 1897
-Ira Bailey married Maud Holden of Shenandoah at the Crozier
hotel on March 16, 1897. This was G. T. Hatten's first wedding as
mayor of Sidney; although nervous, "he put an extra hitch
into the double bowline used for the occasion".
-W. T. Fisher married Maltha M. Miller of Farragut on March 11,
1897.--Tabor News
-Auntie Johnson was 88 years old on March 11, 1897.--Tabor News
-George Newland, 27, married Mrs. Susan Allen, 23, on March 12,
1897; both are from Bartlett.--Local News
-William H. Sligar's daughter was born March 13, 1897.--Local
News
- Lew Baker's mother lives near Randolph; he lives in Monona
county.--Thurman News
- O.F. Bentley will add 12 rooms to the Park House.--Local News
- Sherd Cowles moved to his recently purchased farm near
Beatrice, Nebraska.--Riverton News
- L.R.Henderson has 350 acres of blue grass pasture for rent, and
has prairie hay for sale at $2 per ton.
- Charles Malcom lives at Vermillion, Kansas.--Riverton News
- Mrs. L.V. McMullen has left the Park Hotel, and has taken over
the hotel on the northwest corner of the square which will become
the McMullen House.......C. W. Younts says the Park House will be
reopened and ready for business on March 22nd.--Local News
- Jennie Nix is respectfully requested by T. Mead, G. W. Ray, and
20 other gentlemen of school district No. 3, Washington township,
to teach "our school the coming spring".
- Noah Thrapp is the father of Allie Thrapp of Hamburg.--Thurman
News.
NEW COUNTY JAIL
J. E. Nason, representative of the Northern Building
Company, came down from Minneapolis, Minn., to let the minor
contracts in our jail construction. J. D. Lankton has the
contract for the painting. Mr. Nason says the iron, stone and
other materials are on the road and will soon be here, when the
work will be pushed with vigor.
NEW SCHOOL HOUSE
The school board employed the architect supervising the
construction of the new jail to draw the plans for the school
house addition and supervise its construction........There are
over fifty pupils from outside the district attending school
here.
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The Fremont County Herald
Sidney, Fremont co., Iowa
March 25, 1897
Grandma Garfield, mother of Mrs. J. B. Furbush, died March 6th,
at the home of her daughter, in Belleville, Ohio. She was a
resident of Sidney for 30 years, leaving here about three years
ago. She was 87 years old at the time of her demise. Her husband
was a cousin of President Garfield. Her hosts of friends here,
for none knew her but to love her, will mourn her loss as one
near and dear to them. Peace to her ashes!
The many friends of Mrs. Catherine A. Garfield, mother-in-law of
J. B. Furbush, will be pained to learn of her death, which took
place at Elizabeth, New York (sic), the sixth of March. Mrs.
Garfield was well known to most of our citizens, having lived in
Sidney with her daughter. Mrs. J. B. Furbush, for nearly thirty
years. Mrs. Garfield was a woman of strong Christian character,
loved and respected by all.
- Mrs. Garfield, whose husband was a cousin of President
Garfield, died on March 6, 1897 at the home of her daughter in
Belleville, Ohio, at age 87 years.
-Mrs. W. J. Gray died Sunday; burial Sidney.--Thurman News
-Frank Hetzel married Gertrude McClaren on March 25, 1897 at the
Crozier House in Sidney.--
-LEITCH MONUMENT: A.Z. Moore of Glenwood erected a large Quincy
Granite monument for Alexander Leitch last Thursday.
-Garrison Redd married Miss Shafer of Harrison county.--Riverton
News.
-SNOW: Last Monday was the biggest snow of the season.
-Charles Wharton's daughter was born Mar. 19, 1897, north of
town.--Sidney News (H) The SUN says she was born last Friday.
- Mrs. B. I.Cavender has been dangerously sick, but is
improving.--Local News
- Mrs. B. I. Cavender's mother is Mrs. Stotler of Clarinda; her
brother is Dr. W. F. Stotler of Essex.--Sidney News
- O.Y. Chamberlain is proprietor of the blue dray line.--Sidney
News
- Grandma Conkel's son is Will Conkel who lives south of Nebraska
City, and her daughter Mrs. John Greenameyer is of Monona
county.--Riverton News
- David Dyke and William Forney, each will build new
houses.--Green Twp. News .
- Mrs. Fred Gaylord's mother is Mrs. Elizabeth Conrad of
Strahan.--Green township News
- Hezekiah Hayes has completed his second year at Keokuk Medical
School. He has one more year to go before completing his M. D.
Course.--Riverton
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FREMONT COUNTY SUN
Sidney, Fremont co., Iowa
March 25, 1897
Mrs. J. B. Furbush's mother, Mrs. Catherine A. Garfield who had
lived with her for the last 30 years, died on March 6, 1897 in
Elizabeth, New York.
Local News
-The HERALD says Mrs. Garfield, whose husband was a cousin of
President Garfield, died on March 6, 1897 at the home of her
daughter in Belleville, Ohio, at age 87 years.
-Frank Hetzel married Gertrude McClaren on March 25, 1897 at the
Crozier House in Sidney.
-Albert McClary's son was born March 16, 1897.-Pleasant Valley
News
-Robert R. Machael, born Jan. 29, 1844 in Maryland - d. March 20,
1897; married Mary E. Gatten on Dec. 1, 1878; he leaves one son
(Clarence) and one daughter (Alma).-Randolph News
-Howard Scheibler's daughter was born.-Imogene News
-E. G. Stamper's infant son died March 21, 1897.-Randolph News
-Peter Swanson's daughter was born last Saturday.-Randolph News
-Charles Wharton's daughter was born Mar. 19, 1897, north of town
,she was born last Friday. -Sidney News
-Z. D. Cavender of Taylor county visited his brother B.
I.Cavender, our county recorder, last week.--Local News
-O.Y. Chamberlain's new house is rapidly taking shape.--Local
News
-Last Saturday morning while W. S. Chandler was in his barn lot
separating some pigs, in some unaccountable manner the whip
cracker broke off as he snapped it around a pig's leg, flying
back, striking and destroying the sight of his left eye.
-Leroy Dorsey moved to near Loup City, Nebraska.--Farragut News
-Hezekiah Hayes has completed his second year at Keokuk Medical
School. He has one more year to go before completing his M. D.
Course.--Riverton
-Mrs. Willard Perkins is the sister of Lucius Matthews of
Texas.--Farragut News
-Mrs. J. D. Russell is the mother of Mrs. Shipley of near
Omaha.--Mt. Zion News
NEW JAIL CONTRACTS
Contracts for Fremont county's new jail in Sidney included W. F.
Stephen of Council Bluffs: Heating apparatus; Frosty Sewal and
John Rowe. They will haul 22,000 pressed bricks for the facing;
Samuel Carter will furnish 100,000 home made bricks.
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