Iowa Old Press
Wayland News
Wayland, Henry, Iowa
June 10, 1908
This and That
Spring
Creek News
Mr.
John Mann and family were in Fairfield Tuesday.
Mr.
Ira Sanders was a Brighton visitor Saturday night.
Miss
Emma Zilman closed a very successful term of school Friday.
The
rivers has been out over all the low bottom the past few days.‘
Miss
Bertha Shafer is home from Fairfield where she has been teaching.
Miss
Mary Zilman was a visitor at the Statler home near Wayland last week.
Quite
a number from here attended the Children’s exercises Sunday night at
Cottonwood.
The Misses Bertha and Ada Shafer, Emma, Pete, and Jake
Zilman, Vern and Jim Singleton and Bert Hill were visitors at Mr. and Mrs.
George Mann’s Wednesday night.
Noble
Jonathan
Conrad is visiting relatives in Fulton County, Ohio.
Simon
Graber was a business visitor in Washington, Monday.
The
flood Saturday afternoon took away a lot of the sidewalks on Main Street.
Miss
Effie Leeper closed her spring term of school at Sunny Dale Friday.
Mrs.
Jacob Furer has been on the sick list the past week but is better at this
writing.
Louie
Gerig, formerly of this neighborhood, was drowned near Burlington Sunday.
Clarence
Moore was up from Woolson Sunday for reasons known better to himself than anyone
else.
Jake
Wenger and Jasper Allen of Wayland were passengers from this point Monday
evening for Chicago.
Miss
Aea (Asa??)gave a party to a lot of her friends Friday evening at the Isaac
Conrad home northwest of town.
Louis
Rinner took his sister, Stella, to Mt. Pleasant Sunday where she will attend the
Henry County institute this week.
Frank
Taylor of Washington and Miss Blanche Neiswanger of Crawfordsville were visitors
at the J. S. Roth home Sunday evening.
Coppock
School
closed here last week.
Mr.
Thos. Turner visited Sunday at Shaffers near Merrimac.
Mr.
Simon was in Wayland on business on day last week.
Mr.
and Mrs. Lou Dold and Bertha and Cyntha (Cynthia??) Hooten of Marsh spent Sunday
in Coppock.
Quite
a number of young people from here attended the Children’s Day exercises at
Cottonwood Sunday evening.
Mr.
and Mrs. Jay Cornic and little child Cleo of Marsh visited Sunday with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. Weaver.
The
seven o’clock passenger on the Burlington railroad was delayed here on account
of a bridge near Noble being washed out.
Misses
Rosena and Jessie Kneer and Charlie Kneer of near Trenton (Knerr???) visited
Sunday evening with Mr. and Mrs. William Miller.
Trenton
William
McBeth was a business caller in Mt. Pleasant Saturday.
Mr.
and Mrs. John Jeffrey were called to Fairfield Saturday by the death of Mrs.
Jeffries’ brother, Mr. Roberts.
Mr.
Henry Burkey purchased a $1000 Jack of the Becwith Brothers which is one of the
finest animals in the country.
Mr.
and Mrs. Joe Ross were called to Ottumwa Saturday by the serious illness of Mrs.
Ross’ sister who lives there.
Mr.
William Hawn and son Johnnie returned Saturday from a visit with Mr. Hawn’s
sister who lives in Octavia, Iowa.
A
number from this neighborhood are planning to take in the Chutauqua which is to
be held in Mt. Pleasant some time in July.
Dr.
and Mrs. A. L. Day drove over to Mt. Pleasant Saturday to meet Mrs. Day’s
mother, Mrs. Theodore Twinting of Pasadena California, who expects to spend the
summer here.
The
many friends and relatives here of Mr. David Roth living in Fairfield, Iowa,
were pained to learn of his misfortune in the loss of his wife and daughter who
were killed in a runaway accident in Fairfield last week. Mr. Ross has many
friends and relatives here who are very anxious concerning his condition and has
two sisters here, Mrs. Sam Carper and Mrs. John Lyons.
Thursday at him home south of Merrimac, occurred the death of Mr. Kelsher, an old and highly respected citizen. He had been enjoying his usual good health although past his 85 years, until last Wednesday evening when he had a stroke of apoplexy from which he didn’t regain consciousness, dying Thursday afternoon at 2 p.m. Mr. Kelsher is survived by an aged wife, two sons, and four daughters who in their affliction have the sympathy of the entire community.
Wayland News
Wayland, Henry, Iowa
June 22, 1908
This
and That
·
Frank E.
Roth left last Thursday night for Creston Montana.
·
Jacob
Roth and Miss Maggie Eicher came home from Washington Monday evening.
·
I always
have a complete line of rubbers and rubber boots at the right prices. John
Wenger.
·
From now
until sold we will give 20 percent discount on all summer dress goods. Keith
& Roth.
·
Best
mixed paints to close out only $1.30 p;er gallon. F. J. Conrad.
·
J. G. Fye
pitched for the Ollie ball team in a game with the Richland team at Richland
last Thursday. Score 4 to 0 in favor of Richland.
·
C. S.
Griffith died at the home of Eli Klopfenstein near Trenton Monday from
tuberculosis of the lungs and bowels. He was 46 years old and survived by three
children.
Submitted by: A.M.W. Aug 2004