Iowa
Old Press
Webster City Daily News
Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa
Monday, September 24, 1923
Local Woman Reaches Ninety-fifth Birthday - Mrs. Salome
Dale Celebrates 95th Anniversary of Birth Quietly Saturday at
Home of Daughter, Mrs. Henry Miller, 911 Bank Street.
Mrs. Salome Dale, who is probably the oldest woman living in
Webster City today quietly celebrated the ninety-fifth
anniversary of- her birth Saturday, September-22d, at her home
and that of her daughter, Mrs. J. H. Miller and husband,
911 Bank street. Mrs. Dale has been a resident of Hamilton
county for sixty years, having come to this city with her
husband, the late John Dale in the fall of 1863, from Wisconsin
where they had spent a season after coming west from Clearfield
county, Pennsylvania, where Mrs. Dale was born, September 22,1828
and where she was married. They came to the thriving community of
Homer and settled upon a farm three miles east of Homer, where
they lived until the death of Mr. Dale about thirty years ago.
Mrs. Dale is a remarkable example of American womanhood at
ninety-five years for, excepting failing eyesight, she retains
complete possession of all her faculties and goes about her home
or church interests just as do her younger friends. She has been
since early girlhood, a devout Christian, being now a member of
the Methodist church, and she walks to church each Sunday with
her family, except in bad weather. If she were asked the reason
for her long life, she would probably say it was because of her
faith and life spent in service for others.
She has four living children, all of whom live in this community.
They are: Mrs. J. H. Miller, Mrs. A. S. Crosby, H. B. Dale, all
of this city; Lewis Dale, living about seven miles south of town.
Friends and acquaintances will join in congratulations upon the
ninety-fifth birthday and will extend wishes for a rounding out
of a hundred years for Mrs. Dale. --
-Mrs. Arthur Soop visited today in Woolstock.
-Miss Arline Maxon left this morning for Sioux City where she
will visit for a week with her uncle and aunt.
-Mr. and Mrs. James Basler, of Yetter, who have been here
visiting over the week-end with their son, David Basler, returned
home today.
-Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ruppel, and daughter, of Alpena, South
Dakota, spent yesterday visiting at the Ed Ruppel home in this
city en route to Ames where the former will re-enter Iowa State
College.
[transcribed by J.M., September 2014]