Iowa
Old Press
The Alden Times
Alden, Hardin Co. Iowa
August 25, 1905
Mrs Van Meter's Sunday School class of young ladies held an ice
cream social at the Vance home east of town Tuesday evening of
last week.
G. G. Lighthall was at Ackley last week and by a strange
concidence Saur Kraut day happened along there at the same time.
Miss Ethel and Gladys Fletcher of Ocheydan are guests at the home
of their uncle Mr. John Tidman, southeast of town.
Henry Baldwin of Fort Dodge joined his wife here the first of the
week and is spending his vacation at the M. Utley home.
Miss Vivian Thamer, deputy treasurer of Hardin county, is taking
a trip through the Yellowstone Park for her summer vacation.
Miss Lillian Porter returned Tuesday from a few days visit with
relatives in Prescott, Kan. During the trip she also visited
friends at Joplin, Mo.
Dr. J. W. David and wife have been enjoying a vist during the
past week from their niece, Miss Fullerton of Milwaukee.
Andrew J. Robinson, of Plymouth, Iowa spent a part of the week
visiting in Alden. He has recently purchased the farm of his
brother, Fred Robinson, northwest of town.
Mrs. John Lambert who has been visiting at the home of her
parents went to Traer to spend a week with her sister, Mrs. J. G.
Gillespie, before returning to her home at Iowa City.
Miss Dorothy Isabelle Tool, of Edmond, Oklahoma sends greetings
to Alden friends. Miss Tool will be one year old on August 11,
1906 and is making her home at present with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. C. E. Tool.
Miss Marie Awe returned home Tuesday afternoon from her Chicago
trip. While in Chicago she made arrangements to to to Pinder,
Nebraska, about September 1, to take charge of the millinery
department in a large department store at that place.
Killed by Lightning.
During the terrific thunderstorm of Wednesday night, the cows in
Fred Bleke pasture were killed by lightning. One belonged to Geo.
Albers and the other to Theo. Manus. When discovered Thursday
morning they were right near the Will Masters house, close to the
wire fence, which had carried the charge of lightning for quite a
distance.
Cement Walks.
The present low price of cement will make it possible for people
who are planning to build sidewalks to construct them of good
cement practically as cheap as brick walks have been laid
heretofore. They are vastly superior in every way to the brick
walks. The great trouble with a brick walk is that in a few years
grass and weeds will grow up through the cracks in spite of all
that can be done. If the walk is not much used it will become
completely covered after it has been laid a few years. Therefore,
it is much better to lay a cement walk to start with, and a
movement is now on foot to get the people in the residence part
of town to lay cement walks exclusively.
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Mrs J. R. Dibb and daughter of Chicago; Mrs. C. C. Wolf, Mrs.
M.J. Keiley, and Mrs. E. E. Schrack of Parkersburg; Mrs. T.
Dadswell of Geneva and Miss Byrd Payton of Cherokee are guests at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. O.E. Springer.
Mrs. J. M. Cree, who has been living about midway between Alden
and Iowa Falls, died suddenly Tuesday afternoon of heart disease.
She had just gone to the garden to pick some tomatoes, and when
her husband went to look for her, he found her dead. She was the
mother of Mrs. George Bailey and Mrs. Tom Bailey. The funeral was
held at the home Thursday afternoon and the interment being in
the Iowa Falls cemtery.
[transcribed by M.O., November 2005]