Iowa
Old Press
THE FREMONT COUNTY SUN
Sidney, Fremont County, Iowa
March 7, 1901
THE OBITUARY
How grand it is for the newspaper writer to linger over the
casket of the dead and silently dream of a saintly soul swept out
into the sea of eternity. He drops a few tears on a few papes of
copy paper and then writes an obituary, extolling the dead,
commending his virutes, painting his wings for flight in the land
of the angels. Beautiful tributes to the dead, golden words,
glittering generalities, meangingless nothings, are scrolled out
that mothers may weep and children may cry, and men may sigh.
What is the real end to be sought in obituary writing? The daily
press contains none of the old fashioned obituary writing. Some
of the weeklies do not. What does the general public want to
know? It wants the more important facts. It wants to know a brief
history of the life and deeds of a well-known citizen, and less
of a stranger. It wants a brief story of the closing chapter, the
last sad rites, the grave. That's all. Just the facts. This thing
of making angels out of reprobates, Gods out of devils,
christians out of infidels, public spirited citizens out of
misers, charitable people out of the merciless, etc., is all rot.
A newspaper obituary is no passport to heaven. St. Peter may
question the veracity of the author. There is too much gush, too
much rot in obituary writing.--Iowa Falls Citizen.
Riverton News
- Thomas Kaster of Shenandoah is the father of Mrs. Adams.
- R. L. Knapp lives at Marion, South Dakota.
- Frank Lingenfelter of Waterloo, Nebr. is a brother of George
Lingenfelter.
Farragut News
Ed Grantham's son was born.
Local News
- The City Telephone Company has rented the lower floor of the
Riley Keeler drug store for five years; it will be used for the
telephone exchange.
- Judge Thornell has 6 or 7 thousand apple trees on his farm.
- Nat Davis of Hamburg is an old soldier.
- Isaac Palmountain died Tuesday.
- Christian Jacobson who once lived in Fremont county died on
Feb. 5. He was buried at Correctionville, Iowa.
- Harry C. McKean, 24, married Della E. Fox, 24, on Tuesday.
McKean is the son of the county auditor.
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THE FREMONT COUNTY HERALD.
Sidney, Fremont County, Iowa
March 12, 1901
--B. Hayes is the father of Mrs. Orval Reeves of Lamont.
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THE FREMONT COUNTY SUN
Sidney, Fremont co. Iowa
March 14, 1901
Obituary.
Died, at her residence March 8, 1901, Mrs. Ann Irwin of
paralysis. Miss Ann Greer was born in Ireland, Nov. 8, 1828.
Emigrated to New York when quite young with her parents, thence
to Wheeling, Va.; thence to St. Joseph, MO., where in 1846 she
was united in marriage to Samuel A. Irwin. In 1854, with her
husband she moved to Fremont county and settled on a farm two
miles east of Thurman. To this union was born ten children, five
of whom survive her.She united with the Presbyterian church when
quite young and lived a life of christian example. The funeral
services were conducted by Hon. F. M. Estes and the remains were
laid to rest by the side of her husband in the Thurman cemetery.
We desire to publicly express our heartfelt and sincere thanks to
the friends who so kinldy assisted by word and deed during our
recent bereavement. --Thomas A. Irwin, William G. Irwin, Joseph
L. Irwin, Adaline Irwin.
-G. W. McMahon, 26, and Otsa McIntyre, 18, have been issued a
marriage license.
Riverton News
- Frank Hodgset's father and brother live at Shenandoah.
- Mrs. C. V. Frazier's sister lives at Stella, Nebraska.
Bartlett News
- Bartlett School starts Monday; the teachers are D.D. Darby and
Essie Rector.
- Oscar Ferrel's uncle, John Carr, lives at Henderson.
- Claud McDonald who has been living 2 miles east of Bartlett, is
moving to a half section of land in Custer county, , 15 miles
south of Mason City, Nebraska.
Imogene News
- Luther Carver, who has just completed a term of teaching at
District NO. 1, is going to attend school at Dixon, Illinois.
Local News
- Miss Carrie Carter will trim for Miss Emoline Liggett again
this season.
- Charles Van Eaton is moving to Taloga, Oklahoma.
- A son was born to County Clerk Hatten on Wednesday.
- E. D. Lord is a cousin of R. H. Stocking of San Francisco.
- Roy Linn is a cousin of Mrs. G. T. Hatten.
- Elisha Lindsay, father of R. P. Lindsay, lives in Creston,
Iowa.
Farragut News
- William Greedy left with his car for Winfield, Kansas Thursday.
(Transcribers note: This of course means he was emigrating to
Kansas, and was moving his possessions by renting a railroad
car.--W.F.)
- George Selby was married at Elliott on Tuesday.
- The last issue of the Farragut Leader was published
Thursday. Then, editor Palmer took his outfit to Fairbury,
Nebraska.
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THE FREMONT COUNTY SUN
Sidney, Fremont co. Iowa
March 21, 1901
Riverton News
- Sam Parkison's son Fred lives just south of town.
- J. H. Sikes now lives at Cameron, Missouri.
Imogene News
- Mrs. Tim Manahan is a sister of Mrs. M. Printy.
Local News
- Mrs. Anson Rood, of Randolph, died last Monday.
- H. C. Brown is a son-in-law of Jacob Cline.
- W. H. Phillips of Thurman married Birdie Roberts on March 20.
- James Godwin celebrated their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary
last Monday.
- Mrs. Pauline Snyder is the mother of Mrs. William Corn of near
Fairbury, Nebraska.
- J. R. McCaffree is the new owner of the Park House hotel.
- Mrs. W. R. Cowles of Riverton is the sister of Al Wyatt who was
injured in a railroad wreck between Nebraska City and Beatrice,
Nebraska.
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THE FREMONT COUNTY SUN
Sidney, Fremont co.Iowa
March 28, 1901
Riverton News
- A son was born to Clifford Scoles on March 25.
- Chris Christiansen and Earn Cowger, Company "A" of
the 39th, and army buddy Edgar Swanson of Nashville, Missouri,
are visiting.
- Editor Clark of the Riverton Independent sold the
paper to Mr. Yowell of Hamburg. Mayor Louie will manage it.
- Red flags are very numerous in town just now. Those who have
not got the measles are not in it.
- Who knows whether Mr. Cowden was breaking that mule Tuesday or
whether the mule was breaking Mr. Cowden?
Farragut News
- Mrs. Esther Stickler is being visited by her son Charles and
family of Villisca.
- B. McNitt left with his car of household goods for Phillips
county, Kansas.
- The big snow storm of last week caused J. W. Hill to miss his
regular trip with the mail for the first time. Tuesday he could
only get as far as the Kleckner farm and could not get his team
to town till Thursday. The storm was the worst of the winter for
this section.
- W. C. Perkins household goods have been shipped from
Masschusetts and Mr. Perkins will soon purchase a place here in
town.
- John King has the contract to set the poles for twelve miles of
the new telephone line south of town. The contract for about the
same number of miles of line north of town will be let as soon as
another car of poles arrive. The central ofice will be located at
the Corbitt restaurant.
Local News
- Mrs. M. L. Carl's son Charles lives in St. Louis.
- Mrs. W. A. Webster's uncle lives at Lincoln, Nebr.
- Charles F. Knapp lives about 3 miles north of Hamburg on the
Sidney road.
- Miles Sells of Randolph is the brother of Will Sells of
Indianola.
- James Reade of Sidney is the uncle of Conrad Jennings of
Springville, Iowa.
- Mrs. Ben Davis and children will live at North PLatte, Nebr.
- Elisha Lindsay died at his daughter's in Creston, yesterday.
His sons Samuel and R. P. live in Sidney.
Obituary.
Died, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. P. V. Griswold, in
Sidney, Iowa, March 22, 1901, Mrs. Pauline Snyder, aged 86 years
7 months and 27 days. Pauline Vorheese was born in Batavia,
Clearmont county, Ohio, where she grew to womanhood. At the age
of sixteen she became a member of the Methodist church, of which
organization she remained a member until 1896, when she united
with the Presbyterian church of Sidney. She removed with the
family to Farwest, Missouri, in 1832, where in 1837 she was
married to Mr. Henry Snyder. There were seven children born to
this union, two sons and five daughters, the oldest, a son, died
in infancy, the others are all living at present. From Missouri,
Mrs. Snyder and family moved to Illinois and in 1848 to eastern
Iowa, coming to Fremont county in 1871. Mrs. Snyder was a woman
who had been called to pass through much affliction, but she
never allowed it to cast a gloom over her. She was one of the
most amiable and sweet dispositioned of women and these
characteristics made friends of all with whom she came in
contact. She was the friend and councellor of those who knew her.
In her death it can truly be said that a good woman has gone to
her reward. The sympathy of the community goes out to the
sorrowing children. The funeral services were conducted by Rev.
Dickinson of the Presbyterian church.
More Telephone Lines
The City Telephone Company are going to build a new line from
Sidney to Farragut. They have in the neighborhood of twenty five
phones for Farragut and in addition they will run a line in the
country about ten miles south from Farragut, that will have about
seventeen subscribers on. They will put in a central office at
Farragut, and all the subscribers on this line will have direct
comunication with Sidney.
Near-By Notes.
-There have been conflicting spellings of the name of Uncle John
Searles, the well known conductor ona the Sidney and Carson
branch of the Q.Some will spell it S-U-R-L-e-s--and that is the
way his name is entered on the books of the C. B. & Q
railroad system. We asked the conductor to please explain.
"Well," siad Uncle John, "there was nother John
Searles who came on the road years ago, and we were constantly
getting mixed up, and so the railroad boys, to keep us separated,
undertook to change the spelling of my name S-U-R-L-E-S and
Surles it has been with them ever since. But all my own legal
papers are made out S-E-A-R-L-E-S, which is the proper and
corrredt way of spelling it."--Genwood Opinion.
-The Kidd Mercantile Company of Riverton and Percival have leased
the Delp building on Main street and will open a general stock,
therein. This firm is said to be wide awake and will help in
extending the volume of trade at Coin. --Coin Gazette.
-A company of orphan and homeless children from the Children's
Aid Society of New York, will arrive at Malvern, Tuesday, April
4th, to find homes among the farmers and citizens of Mills and
adjoining counties. Messrs. Thos. Paul, W. H. Crose, W. P.
Wortman, J. D. Paddock and W. S. Corbin will act as distributing
agents, and all persons desiring to give a home to one or more of
these friendless children should call on or address either one of
the committee.
-The Riverton Independent has changed hands and our good
old time friend A. M. Louie is again in charge. The writer of
this article first became acquainted with Louie about fourteen
years ago, and he was running a newspaper then and has been at it
most of the time since. He is a royal good fellow, and always
happy. The retiring editor of the Independent, Mr.
Smith, evidently did not like Riverton, as in his farewell he
says: "We would like to say to the people of Riverton that
we are sorry to leave, but we see no benefit in lying about it,
so we will say we are glad to leave." We trust Louie will
have good sailing and that he will prosper.
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Remember J. R. McCaffree's big sale at the I X L livery barn next
Saturday. There will be 16 head of horses sold, several head of
cattle, buggies, hacks, and carriages, harness, robes, whips,
household goods, cook and heating stoves, farm implements. Mr.
McCaffree will have a big parade at 9:30 a.m. and will give an
exhibition riding wild horses in the afternoon. Music by the band
also.
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