Iowa
Old Press
The Alden Times
Alden, Hardin Co. Iowa
December 7, 1906
Station Agent Retires
Agent T. J. Cochran, of the Illinois Central depot, who succeded
Agent Walker only a few months ago, has announced his intentions
of throwing up his job. He will go to Ellis,Iowa, near Council
Bluffs, on the Illinois
Central. His successor at this place has not been announced as
yet. The change is made largely on account of the health of Mrs.
Cochran.
His True Address
H.B. Newton writes us that his present address is 969 Philips St,
Springfield, Missouri and he would like to have his old home
paper shot in that direction, once a week until further notice.
It might, in some cases, be a distinct unkindness to let all
hands know where a departed Aldenite is keeping himself, but we
do not think this argument will apply to Mr. Newton.
An Early Settler
People who lived in Alden when it was only ten years old remember
Mrs. Saphrona Percival, one of its earliest inhabitants, though
not a continous resident here since that time. Mrs. Percival's
present home is at
Hurdsfield, North Dakota, where she has taken and is perfecting
title, to a homestead. A short time ago Mrs. Percival came back
to Iowa for a visit at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Frank
Miller in Ellis Township, where she has been taken serioulsy ill.
Another daughter, Mrs. Riley of Mitchell, South Dakota has been
called to her bedside.
[transcribed by M.O., November 2005]