Iowa
Old Press
The Red Oak Sun
Red Oak, Iowa
January 5, 1903
- Walter Klepinger and Ralph Hush, attending college in
Indianola, came home to spend the holiday vacation.
- A crowd of rowdyish young folks went to church at Pleasant Hill
Monday night and on their way home awakened the people along the
road by calling them up.
- The phonograph entertainment at the Woodmen hall on Thursday
evening, Dec. 15, was well attended. Miss Bertha Navert received
an album, being voted the prettiest girl present.
- N--man J. Woodin and Miss Cora Hush, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
C. A. Hush, were married at the home of the bride's parents at
noon on Christmas day, by Rev. C. A. Carlson, of the M. E.
church, in the presence of a company of relatives and intimate
friends. They go to house-keeping on the farm recently purchased
by the groom's father, C. S. Woodin, from Dr. A. W. Parker.
HENDERSON.
- Mrs. Alex Cain has been visiting friends in Goin.
- Ed Sell went to his old home near Ava, Mo., last week.
- Guy Maynes arrived several days ago from Wyoming.
- Jacob Kiger was visiting relatives in Woodbine lately.
- E. M. Duke was visiting relatives in Shenandoah.
- Miss Dora Harbor was here from Omaha last week visiting her
mother.
- Mosley Chase returned recently from a visit to his old home in
Rennsylvania.
- Prof. and Mrs. J. B. Van Pelt are visiting here.
- Everett Ely attending Corning academy, and his uncle George
Christopher, from Holdredge, Nebraska, have been visiting
relatives here.
- The oyster supper recently given in Milford under auspices of
the G. A. R. post for benefit of a fond for a soldier memorial,
netted $28.
- President Pickney of the proposed Villages, Grant and Atlantic
railroad, was here several days ago and declared the road would
really be built.
- Adam Adams was here from Texas the past week. He brought some
venison with him and distributed it among his friends in Milford,
for Christmas.
-Miss Alice McCue died at her home east of Saturday, Dec. 27. For
many years she had been in charge of her father's home, her
mother dying when she was but 15 years of age. She was a mother
to her younger brothers and sisters and her father's main stay.
Her father, two brothers and three sisters survive her. She
had a large circle of friends.
- George L. Piper, of Carleton, Neb., and Miss Florence L.
Astleford were married at the home of the bride's parents on
Christmas day in the presence of a company of friends, The
ceremony was by the bride's father. There were many beautiful
wedding presents. John Aunear and Miss Maud Schrieber, from
Carleton,
were in attendance at the wedding.
CHILD SERIOUSLY SCALDED.
Villisca, Dec. 31 -- Little Gwyn Meyerhoff, 3 year-old daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Meyerhoff, of Corning, while at the home of
her grandmother, Mrs. Prevost in Villisca, was seriously scalded
along one leg from the hip to the ankle last Saturday. She was
playing about a small heating stove on which was a teakettle
filled with water. ...
All New. Clean Goods
SILKS.
All 50 cent Silks, at .... 35 cents
All 75 cent Silks, at .... 55 cents
All $1.00 Silks, at .... 77 1/2 cents
All 50 cent Silks, at .... 35 cents
All $1.00 Silks, at .... 75 cents
Fleece Back Goods.
All 12 1/2 cents goods at .... 10 cents
All 10 cent goods at .... 7 1/2 cents
Percales.
All 10 cent Percales at .... 6 1/2 cents
Flannelette or Outing Flanne.
All 10 cent goods at .... 7 1/2 cents.
Blankets.
10-4 worth 60 cents, at .... 42 1/2 cents
11-4 worth 85 cents, at .... 65 cents
11-4 worth $1.00, at .... 85 cents
11-4 worth $1.25, at ....$1.00
11-4 worth $1.50 and $1.65, .... $1.35
[transcribed by C.D., December 2006]