Iowa
Old Press
THE FREMONT COUNTY SUN
Sidney, Fremont Co., Iowa
May 3, 1906
Thurman News
DIED at her home near Sidney, Friday, April 27, Miss Lucinda
Evelyn Crouch. She was born in Washington county, Indiana in July
1851. At the age of fifteen she became a member of the Methodist
church of which she was a member at the time of her death.
Funeral services were held at the Methodist church conducted by
Rev. Stephen. His remarks were based on the text "She hath
done what she could." She leaves to mourn her loss, two
sisters in Kansas, one in Oregon, and one brother, William Crouch
of Thurman, Iowa.
[transcribed by W.F., December 2010]
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THE FREMONT COUNTY HERALD
Sidney, Fremont Co., Iowa
May 11, 1906
School Report
The following named pupils were neither absent nor tardy during
the second month taught at Mayflower in Prairie township,
beginning April 9th, and closing May 4th:
Charlie Crandal
Jennie Crandal
Mary Crandal
Raymond Crandal
Freddie Magel
Clyde Malcom
Bessie Richardson
Fred Richardson
Iva Richardson
Leland Richardson
Roy Stotts
SIGNED: Celia B. Simons, Teacher
[transcribed by W.F., December 2010]
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THE FREMONT COUNTY HERALD
Sidney, Fremont Co., Iowa
May 18, 1906
WHY NOT HAVE A MARKET DAY?
Can not Sidney have a market day? Think the matter over and if a
favorable consideration is reached the town in general should
spare no pains in making it a success. Every merchant should make
a specialty of some line of goods, farmers would have stock to
sell, household goods would be auctioned off, large crowds of
people would attend and trade would be greatly revived. What say
you for a market day?
STORIES OF OLD TIMERS
A. Travis came to Fremont county in 1853 and located two miles
southeast of where Sidney now stands. He has mowed grass within
what is now the city limits and stated that a most excellent
spring was once where the town well now is.
S. S. Baker, of Fisher township, proves by history that no man
should hold office for more than two terms. He did not discuss
the phase of women holding office, but many of them have
successfully retained the some office for several times two
terms.
W.J. Greenlee came to mill yesterday and the occasion caused him
to become reminiscent of the days of his youth when he lived in
Missouri that he knew the Hatton boys and especially well did he
remember Sebastian Cabot Hatton, who has since by the versatility
of his pen made the Slippery Elm district famous.
W. B. Cantwell delights in giving his hearers a bit of his
history regarding frontier life when he encountered a mountain
lion at the foot of Pikes Peak, when he took a wagon train from
Salt Lake City, Utah to Alder Gulch, Montana, in 1864 when the
Indians were committing all manner of depredations and the road
agents (robbers) were relieving men of their money.
J. F. Stephens discussed at some length the hardships of pioneer
days when during one winter he hauled 20,000 feet of cottonwood
lumber from the bank of the Missouri river. The snow was deep and
the mercury registered 40 degrees below zero, but in those days
it was not customary to wear socks and Mr. Stephens followed the
fashion. He became an expert in handling the whip and could
scientifically assist an ox in performing his part of the work up
some rough and rugged steep.
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THE FREMONT COUNTY HERALD
Sidney, Fremont Co., Iowa
May 29, l906
WAR TIMES DISCUSSED
On Saturday afternoon J.T. Harris who resides two miles west of
Sidney called at the Herald office and in the course of
conversation the topic of the civil war was brought up
incidentally and discussed at some length.
He was then a young man living in Virginia and as the slavery
question became the storm center of thought he naturally became
interested and in January 1862 he enlisted in the 63rd Virginia
Infantry and took part in some of the notable battles and during
a skirmish of the picket lines near Tunnel Hill, Georgia, he was
wounded. He was captured at Kennesaw Mountain
and taken as a prisoner to Camp Douglas, Chicago, and there kept
until the close of the war.
He saw Gens. Lee, Joseph E. Johnston, Longstreet and Pemberton,
and was in Gen. Hood's corps. He is now glad that the termination
of the war favored the north, but then he looked at the question
in a different light as no doubt the rank and file of the
southern soldiers did. He has but one grand sentiment to express
and that is that the country may never be divided so that war may
ensue and that the Star Spangled Banner may float unmolested
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