Iowa
Old Press
The People's Telephone
Red Oak, Montgomery co. Iowa
Wednesday, March 30, 1881
TOWN and COUNTY AFFAIRS
Dr. J.B. Hatton and wife are visiting in Chicago, will probably
be absent several months. The notes and accounts of the Doctor
are left with Mr. T.H. Lee, and prompt settlement of the same is
requested.
One of the sad results of the tornado near Wheelers Grove, last
summer, was the killing of the wife and child of Mr. Paist, in
Pottawattamie county. Recently the husband of the deceased lady,
and her married daughter, have been taken to the Insane Asylum at
Mount Pleasant, their reason having been de----ed by excessive
grief.
Miss Merritt, a sister of Rev. W.W. Merritt, has been employed as
one of the teachers in the Public Schools.
Died - Of apoplexy, on the 23rd day of March, 1881, Mr. Ferdinand
Fuller, of Sherman township. Aged, 34 years.
IOWA NEWS
-Mrs. Barkman, widow, of Spirit Lake, lost three
children, aged 16, 10 and 4, recently, by diphtheria.
-Gov. Gear has appointed Mr. A.R. Anderson, of Fremont county, to
succeed Judge McDill on the Board of Railroad Commissioners.
-Mrs. Hannah Wingate, aged 88 years, relict of the late Dr.
Samuel Wingate, died recently in Dubuque. She came to Dubuque in
1851, and for over sixty years was a member of the Methodist
Church.
-A grain of corn which became imbedded in the throat of a little
son of L. Jackson, at Peoria, Mahaska county, was taken out by a
surgeon, who cut through the windpipe, but the little fellow
lingered only a few days till death took him.
-Mr. Thomas Hughes, of Iowa City, died lately. He was a printer,
and came to Iowa in 1838. He was subsequently connected with the
Burlington Territorial Enterprise, the Dubuque News,
the Bloomington Herald, and the Iowa City Standard.
In 1846 he was elected to the first State Senate and was
President of that body at its extra session. Imprisonment in
rebel prisons shattered his health.
[transcribed by S.F., March 2015]