Iowa
Old Press
The Fremont Herald
Sidney, Fremont County, Iowa
February 16, 1899
Obituary
Mrs. Mary E. Foster, wife of Joseph B. Foster, departed this life
on Monday, Feb. 13th, at 6:45 p.m., and the funeral services were
held at the Baptist church on Tuesday afternoon conducted by Rev.
Riches, pastor of the church. Mrs. Foster was born in Barron
county, Ky., on June 18, 1827. She lived 24 years in that state,
marrying at the age of 23. She afterwards lived 24 years in
Marion county, Iowa, and afterwards ten years in Colorado. For
the last eleven years she has lived near Sidney. Of the children
there are living four sons and three daughters, one son and one
daughter having passed away before the mother. With the exception
of one daughter who lives in Colorado, all the children, as well
as the grandchildren, were in attendance at the funeral Mrs.
Foster has been an invalid for some 18 months preceding her
death. Rev. Riches improved the occasion by a short address based
upon the 15th chapter of 1st Cor.
February 13, 1899
This day closes one of the most remarkable cold snaps experienced
in Fremont county in forty years. For 18 days in succession the
temperature ranged from 3 to 28 degrees below zero by the
government thermometer; some others registered from 2 to 5
degrees lower, the mimunum temperature averaged 12 degrees below,
and the maximum only 6 above. Saturday, the 11th was the coldest,
the maximum being 16 below and the minumum 28 below, making the
average for that day 22 degrees below. From the best information
I have at present, the weather service of Iowa has been
registering lower temperature for the last 18 days than since its
establishment in the state some 43 years ago, nor has there been
a series of storms and cold waves covering so extensive a portion
of the United States. I think our peach crop and trees are
gone.--G. V. SWEARINGEN, Meteorological Observer.
DIED, Feb. 14, 1899, Miss Hester A. Copeland,
aged 72 years 10 months and 28 days. Miss Copeland was born in
Putman county, Indiana, on March 17th, 1826. She was converted
and joined the Methodist church when she was1 7 years of age and
lived a faithful member of the same to the day of her death. The
funeral was held at the M. E. church of Knox, on Wednesday last
at 2 p.m. and interment made in the Sidney cemetery. Funeral
services were conducted by Rev. E. M. Hoff, pastor of the M.E.
church at Sidney.
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THE FREMONT COUNTY HERALD
Sidney, Fremont co. Iowa
February 23, 1899
Jonas Pettit informs us that he has received word from Hay
Springs, Neb., of the death, by la grippe, of Aunt Fanny
Brourne, who passed away on the 15th inst. Her husband, Harvey
Bourne, was the first treasurer of Fremont county. Mrs. Bourne
was an old resident of this county and was well known by all the
older citizens. Her last residence in these parts was at Hamburg
which place she left some 15 years ago.
County News
-Two mules and one mare for sale at my farm two miles south of
Thurman.--C. W. Mann....
-We received word over the phone on Friday morning that Mr. Parl
Bagley, of Randolph, was taken sick of la grippe
Monday morning last and died on Thursday night. Mr. Bagley was
accounted one of the wealthiest citizens of Fremont county....
-Work on the new buildings is going forward briskly. The walls of
the bricks on the north side of the Sidney square are completed
and preparations are being made to plaster. Work on the new
Christian church is also resumed and the plastering and finishing
of the inside is about all there is left to do....
-The friends of Holly Bryant here will be pained to learn that
since his removal to Oxford, Neb., he has been adjudged insane by
the proper authorites and taken to the asylum in Lincoln....
-The smile of the past few days ended in an ugly frown on
Wednesday evening last. A sweeping wind came down from the north
accompanied with snow , and the mercury, from 25 above zero, fell
rapidly till shortly after night the zero point was reached; then
on down as low before morning as 15 below. It was a terrible
night for the poor who had insufficient fuel, shelter and
clothing and a bitter atmosphere for unsheltered stock. We began
to think the backbone of the winter broken, but it proved that it
is yet sufficiently intact to stiffen up with most threatening
and effective resolution.
[transcribed by W.F., August 2003]