Iowa Old Press
IN A LINE OR TWO
- Mrs. H.F. Goodale is confined to her home by a complication, including the
flu.
- Mrs. Will Smith was chosen director of the Glendale school at the regular
meeting of that district last Monday.
- E.C. Creamer and family will move into the Richard Nelson house the first of
next month. Mr. Creamer is a section foreman at Glendale.
- The Wm. Kiner infant, whose birth was announced in last week's Times, lived
only a day. It was brought to the Lockridge cemetery for burial.
- Mr. and Mrs. William Coffin and family of Ames are here for a visit with
relatives. Mrs. Coffin is a niece of Mrs. M. Mickey and Mrs. Thos. Doogan.
-FOR SALE - Good milk cow. Fresh soon. Frank Dill.
- CUSTOM HATCHING - 3 cents an egg or 5 cents per chick. Mrs. Fred Trabert.
- FOR SALE - Two sows and fourteen shoats. W.B. Turner, Lockridge, Iowa.
- I can do a few jobs of papering or painting before spring work starts on the
farm. Phone 902. Salina. Ernest Aronson.
- WANTED - I will pay above the market for one or two light sows that will
farrow between now and May 1st. Call or write M.E. Smith, Lockridge.
- FOR SALE - About 200 Brown Leghorn baby chicks will hatch Mar. 2nd at 8 cents
each. Hard Coal Buckeye Brooder, large size. L.F. Bogner.
CORRESPONDENCE
Pleasant Hill
- A merry crowd of friends and neighbors gathered at the Thos. Caldwell home on
Wednesday evening and gave a miscellaneous shower in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Noel
McGuire who were recently married. They received many beautiful and useful gifts
for their new home. The evening was spent in a social way and a jolly good time
was enjoyed by all present. Pie and coffee was served. Mr. and Mrs. McGuire have
many friends who wish them joy and happiness in the future.
- Quite a number in this neighborhood are suffering from the prevailing epidemic
of the grippe.
- C.O'Grady is assisting with work on the farm for Sam Arnold.
Round Prairie.
- Mr. and Mrs. Jay Barton entertained at their home Sunday: Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Thompson and son Arvid, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Barton and Donald, Mr. and Mrs. Wright
Church and son Harold, Mrs. Mary Church.
- Paul Hilderbran moved his household goods from Batavia to Mt. Pleasant last
week. Mrs. Hilderbran and daughter left this community Saturday and they will
make their home in Mt. Pleasant.
- Mr. Gregg Litton has been on the sick list the past week not being able to
serve on the jury.
- Miss Claris Crew returned to her home in Mt. Pleasant Sunday evening, where
she had been with her sister, Mrs. Harold Cline for the past three weeks.
- Mrs. John Bower received word Tuesday morning that her sister Margaret Mills
of Ottumwa was very low but in the evening she was reported better.
- Mrs. Jennie Peterson received an announcement card of a daughter which arrived
at the Harvey Eighmy home March 4, in Kansas City.
- Mrs. Jennie Peterson and daughter, Mrs. Paul Hilderbran, spent last Thursday
with Mrs. Gordon Lawrence.
- Mrs. Amy Litton entertained the Ladies Aid society at her home last Wednesday
afternoon. The weather and roads were fine and most all the members were
present. Visitors were Mrs. Paul Hilderbran, Mrs. Grace Elliott, Mrs. Ed
Williamson, Misses Amy and Mary Barton, Iva Heckenberg and Claris Crew. After
refreshments were served consisting of chicken coquetts [sic], canned pairs
[sic] and cake. The next meeting will be with Mrs. C.C. Coe.
- Mrs. Thos. Litton received word from her niece, Mrs. Retha Smith Kessel, of a
new girl arrival at their home March 10. She will be known as Ruth Genevieve.
New Sweden
- Mr. and Mrs. Fred Odean moved from near Glasgow to his father's property in
Four Corners.
- Henry Graf has purchased the Emma Samuelson property across the road from the
Frank Trabert home and will move the house located on the old Danielson property
in Four Corners to this place.
Log Cabin.
- Mrs. Ira Jacobs and son Merle are visiting this week at the parental L.E.
Zihlman home.
- C.O. Swanson who has been the director for the past year of Victory No. 8 was
reelected at the school meeting Monday night.
- Grant Vorhies spent the week-end with his cousins Wesley and Virgil Johnson.
- Bernice and Charles Shuppy spent Saturday with their grandparents Mr. and Mrs.
Chas. Hafley.
ELEVEN VOTES CAST
Only eleven votes were cast at the local school
election last Monday. This is the smallest vote ever cast so far as can be
remembered. There was no opposition and the two directors whose terms expired
this spring were re-elected. The two men were L.E. Boos and L.H. Linn.
And for once, no ballots were spoiled.
PIONEER BURIED HERE.
Mrs. Hanna Samuelson, a pioneer of the Glasgow neighborhood,
was buried at Upland this afternoon, the services being conducted by the Rev.
George Parker of the Fairfield Lutheran church.
Mrs. Samuelson was the wife of Andrew D. Samuelson, who died
several years ago. She was eighty-four years of age, and was confined in the
Fairfield hospital for treatment at the time of her death.
FAREWELL FOR NELSONS.
Friends and neighbors of the Grant Nelson family met at the
Parsonville church last Monday night for a farewell social. Between fifty and
seventy-five attended and after enjoying an evening of fun joined in expressing
their regret at losing such a splendid family from the community.
The Nelsons came to Parsonville eight years ago from
Galesburg where Mr. Nelson held an important position with the Adams Express
Company. Grant is now writing insurance and has not decided definitely where he
will locate.
YOUNG BABY DIES.
Imogene, fifteen months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew
Young, died this morning about 11 o'clock following a short sickness of
pneumonia.
Imogene has never been very strong, and only recently
recovered from a serious sickness. Her last sickness was of short duration, only
about three days.
She is survived by the mother and father, a younger sister
and an older brother.
Funeral services are to be held at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon
with burial in the Lockridge cemetery.
Submitted by C.J.L, Mar 2006