Iowa
Old Press
The Alden Times
Alden, Hardin Co. Iowa
July 30, 1897
Burdette Items.
-Byrde McDowell visited at Burdette Friday and Saturday.
-Miss Crosby of Iowa Falls visited over Saturday at H. Boddy's.
-Miss Maggie Towey of Watertown S.D. is visiting her brother T.
M. Towey of this place.
-Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Robinson drove to Geneva Monday and brought
back with them her son who has been making his home at his
grandparents at that place.
-Geo. Fitz is on the sick list.
-Fred Robinson is sick with typhoid malarial fever.
-C. C. German, Lena Boddy and Byrde McDowell drove to Iowa Falls
Saturday.
-Mrs John German and Miss Wakeman were Alden vistors Monday.
-Mr. Crawford while making hay got his fingers in the pulley and
before he could get them out the horse started and smashed his
fingers badly.
-Frances German and Mame Towey drove to Alden Monday.
-E. E. German has gone to Chicago for a short visit with
relatives.
Buckeye Items:
-Harry Cornell has bought the right to sell spectacles in Buckeye
township of Fred Lightfield for $10.
-Charlie Skirving, a six year old boy was kicked by a horse at
Dows last week and fears are entertained that he cannot live.
-C. W. Carter of Dows has sued a near neighbor, Mrs. Lot Labarron
for defemation of character, placing the damage at$2000.
-Letha Jackson, the teacher turned down by the Steamboat school
Board, having won in both appeals, she brought suit for $227.50
salary in the district court.
-A woman at Hubbard killed a two pound rat with a shovel Tuesday
of last week in the barn back of the Monitor office.
[transcribed by M.O., November 2005]