Iowa
Old Press
The Red Oak Sun
Red Oak, Montgomery co., Iowa
Friday, September 22, 1911
MARRIED IN MORNING
Russell Stephenson and Miss Lily Peterson are Married and Go on
Honeymoon to Illinois and Minnesota.
There was an early morning wedding at the home of Mrs. Carrie
Peterson, 1202 Eighth st., Wednesday, Sept, 20, when her
daughter, Miss Lillie P. Peterson, was united in marriage to Mr.
Russell Stephenson, of Red Oak. The ceremony, which was witnessed
by a company of about 40 relatives and intimate friends, was by
Rev. W. B. Thompson, of the M. E. Church, at 6:30 o'clock. A
wedding breakfast of three courses followed the ceremony, and the
bride and groom departed the same forenoon for Chicago to visit
relatives, after which they go to Winona, Minn., for a visit with
other relatives. They will be away two weeks. Proceeding the
ceremony Mrs. Clarence Stephenson sang a solo, and she played a
selection during the ceremony. There were many wedding presents.
Among the out-of-town guests in attendance at the wedding were
Alex Peterson, a brother of the bride, and his family, from
Kansas City, Mo., Oral Stephenson, a brother of the groom, and
his son, Burey, from Winona, Minn., Mrs. Mary King a sister of
the bride, and little son, from Garfield, Wash., Miss Irene
Larmon, of Omaha and Miss Flora Carmichael, of Corning. On their
return to Red Oak Mr. and Mrs. Stephenson will make their home
with Mrs. Peterson. Mr. Stephenson is a collector for the Iowa
Telephone Co., and Mrs. Stephenson has been an employee of the
Murphy calendar company for several years. Both are popular in M.
E. church and social circles. Their many friends, including The
Sun, extend best wishes.
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Remember, today and tomorrow are the big days of the grand
millinery and novelty opening at Miss Galbraith's French Shop.
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Any time next week a $5 clock will only cost you $3.35 and you
get double red trading stamps, at Evans.
MORE SORROW TO BRUCE HOME.
Only two weeks after the death of their little son, Wm. Vernon,
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Bruce have now been called upon to bear the
additional sorrow of the loss of their other son, Chas. Edwin,
who passed away at the family home last Sunday...
GOOD MAN GONE.
Byron L. Blackburn, Prominent Montgomery County Man, Died at Home
in Grant Saturday, Sept. 15.
Grant, Sept. 20 -- Byron L. Blackburn died at his home in Grant
Saturday afternoon, Sept. 16, following illness of two and a half
months from kidney trouble. He was in his 79th year and since
1870 had been one of the leading men of the county. Mr. Blackburn
was born in Columbia, Loraine county, O., Dec. 31 1832, and when
a young man moved to Athens, Mo., where he married Aug. 20, 1860,
to Miss Eliza Kight. Ten Years later they came to Grant, where
Mr. Blackburn engaged for many years in the business of miller.
They lived here continuously since 1870. Four children were born
to Mr. and Mrs. Blackburn, one of them Thomas, being dead. Mrs.
Blackburn and three children, Wm. Blackburn and Mrs. Mary V.
Porter, Grant and Otto Blackburn, of Omaha survive.Mr. Blackburn
was a member of the Baptist church. He was also prominent in the
Masonic lodge, having been the first Mason made in Centennial
lodge, No. 373, A. F. & A. M., and active in the work of the
order since 1876. Seven years he was worshipful master of his
lodge. He was a staunch Democrat, and served several times as
township trustee and as a member of the school board. In his
death the community loses a man whose long residence here has
proved to be absolutely honest. He was a good man in every
respect. Funeral services by Rev. Ray Snodgrass, of the Christian
church, were held here at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon, Sept. 18.
The singing was by a quartet composed of Mrs. D. Vetter, Mrs. L.
W. Pogue, W. E. Curry and L. Schuller, Mrs. Geo. T. Cary playing
the organ. The pallbearers, all of them members of the
Masonic order, were Geo. A. Smith, Jas.M. Focht, R. T. Bacon,
Geo. W. Lary, Wm. Pelser and John Hully. Mr. and Mrs. James
Westfall, relatives from Griswold, were here to attend the
funeral. Interment was in the Grant cemetery.
GETTING MORE GAME BIRDS.
Montgomery county is soon to receive another lot of Ringneck
pheasants from the state game warden for distribution ....
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The Red Oak Sun
Red Oak, Montgomery Co., Iowa
September 29, 1911
-- Why glut Gotch with glory? The wrestler's friends are grooming
him for governor.
-- The mast crop is unprecedented. Some folks think it is a sure
sign of a severe winter.
-- As yet aviation is as dangerous as car or automobile. Scarcely
a day passes without one or more fatalities.
-- A French battleship was blown up Monday in the harbor of
Toulon, with a loss of life reaching 600. Had the disaster taken
place in a foreign harbor the result might have been another war.
-- While the federal census taken last year gives Shenandoah 146
more population than it gives Red Oak, the enrollment at the
opening of public schools was identical in the two towns. There
can be no padding when it comes to counting the children in the
school room.
-- The SUN'S interview with Buffalo Bill, relative to the
extermination of the buffalo, printed last week, was reproduced
by the Springfield (Mass.) Republican in its daily of
Sept. 26. The subject having been under discussion for some time
in the Eastern newspapers, the Republican evidently
considered the interview as important and relevant testimony.
-- Reports from many neighboring counties, as well as from
portions of this county, are to the effect that thousands of
bushels of fallen apples are going to waste, the crop being very
large and the demand for inferior fruit being insufficient to pay
for pickling them up. There should be profit in the manufacture
of cider vinegar for which the fallen fruit is well suited.
MONDAY CLUB RESUMES.
Open Meeting for the Club Year to be Held in the Public Library
Auditorium Monday Afternoon, Oct. 2.
The Monday club will hold the opening meeting of the coming club
year at the auditorium of the public library building next Monday
afternoon, Oct. 2, beginning at 3 o'clock. The program of this
meeting will include the following numbers: Music solo, Miss
Olive Worsley; president's address, Miss Clara J. Heckert; report
of biennial, Mrs. Janie Anderson; items of interest from General
Federation, Mrs. Rosa S. Clark; historian's report, Mrs. Nellie
Bryant. Following the program there will be a social hour. A
cordial invitation is extended to all who would like to join the
club. The History department of the club meets with Mrs. T. D.
Murphy Tuesday afternoon, Oct 3, at 2:30 o'clock. Mrs. Collard,
Leader.
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-- Miss Julia Lundeen has been employed by the Benedict &
Sons Piano store, who carry a complete line of the very latest
popular sheet music. Call and hear your favorite selections
played by Miss Lundeen.
-- Jaunty cuff and collar sets for your fall coat. See them at
the French Shop.
Funeral of Mrs. W. W. Merritt.
The funeral of Mrs. W. W. Merritt, who died at a hospital in
Creston Tuesday, Sept 19, was held at the family home, Sixth and
Joy sts., Red Oak, at 2:30 o'clock Friday afternoon, Sept. 22.
There was large attendance of friends at the funeral and Rev.
Geo. E. Wood, of the Congregational church, preached a fitting
sermon. Rev. C. A. Berger, D.D., of the Presbyterian church,
assisted in the service, and the singing was by Mrs. B. F. Spicer
and Mrs. R. D. Morris. The pallbearers were A. R. Tracy, O. A.
Rose, J. D. Goldsworthy, O. A. Milner, Jas. O'Rourke and H. P.
Light. Burial was in Evergreen cemetery. The relatives who came
from a distance to attend the funeral were: Mrs. Edward Riggs, a
sister and Mr Riggs, from Lamont; Fletcher Whitcomb, a brother,
and Mrs. Whitcomb, from York, Neb.; Mrs. Jas. O'Rourke, a
daughter, and Mr. O'Rourke, from Creston; Mrs. Hat Talmage, a
niece, from Omaha; [cut off]
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--Numerous towns in Iowa and else where are allowing squirrels to
live un-molested within their precincts in some places, where the
squirrel population has become too plentiful, the little animals
are getting saucy and troublesome and have attacked children.
Squirrels are much like rats, the chief difference being that the
former have bushy tails, and then they are considered good to
eat. When they get too gay, they will be eaten. That will solve
the squirrel problems all right.
-- The first news of the election on the prohibitory question in
Maine showed the result to be favorable to the "wets"
by something exceeding 1000. The next day it was some 500 the
other way. And thus it kept see sawing for a week or more, one
day showing a majority for one side and the next day for the
other, but each time by dangerously close figures. The last
report, after all returns were in, was in favor of the
"wets" by --. Now the "drys" hope that the
official canvas will swing it the other was, stranger things have
happened than that of its resulting in a tie.
-- The people of Canada rejected the reciprocity scheme of the
United States with a majority that was overwhelming. The Canadian
evidently were moved by prejudice or scared by the bugaboo of
annexation, for it had everything to gain and nothing to lose by
the proposition. In this country it was argued that reciprocity
would be an entering wedge to free trade between the two
countries. In Canada it was proclaimed from the stump that
reciprocity was the first step in the direction of annexation and
in both countries, as is usual voters were frightened at a
shadow.
-- Have you seen the elegant new fall hats at the French Shop?
The styles are distinctive and the assortment large.
TO SERVE AS TRIAL JURORS.
Red Oak. H. E. Marsden, Paul Yatker, C. S. Humphreys, Emet
Harris, J. H. Rafterty, C. O. Wessen, C. Sauelson, H. I. Davis,
G. H. Gephart, C. A. Hush, T. M. Shank, Ed Shepard.
Villisca. M. V. Roth, W. E. Henderick, Chas. VanValkenburg, J. K.
Gardner.
Washington. Frank Goutley, Leonard Latson, V. C. Cedarburg.
Frankfort. Walter Larson, Adolph Anderson, Peter Keketburg,
Victor Notene.
Pilot Grove. G. R. Stafford, F. H. Mercer, I. J. Botts.
Elliott. C. O. Davis, A. J. Carroll, R. Ritner
Scott. Carl Olson, Claus Hultquist, Roy Blackhouse, John Hall
Garfield. J. M. Lake, Frank Landanger
Douglas. A. A. Carlton.
As it happens no names were drawn of persons living in Lincoln,
Grant and West townships.
Leeper Sentenced.
J. .A Leeper, who was convicted of bootlegging in federal court
in Council Bluffs several months ago, came up for sentence last
Friday. His sentence had been deferred until last week to permit
of investigation of his personal record. In the meantime he got
into further trouble which was of a most serious nature, so Judge
McPherson gave him 16 months in the federal prison at
Leavenworth, Kas. He is indicted in Pottawattamie county for his
latest offense and on the expiration of his term in Leavenworth,
he will be re-arrested and tried for the state offense. Several
bootleggers from different localities were sentenced to serve
brief terms in the Red Oak jail.
George Wambold Dead.
George Wambold, a resident of Red Oak since 1870, died at his
home 106 Third-ave., at 7:20 Monday night, Sept. 25, from
paralysis. He was stricken a year ago, but had partially
recovered, and a second stroke came Saturday, and he did not
regain consciousness. The funeral was held at the home Wednesday
afternoon, Sept. 27, at 2 o'clock, Rev. F. N. Willis, of the M.
E. church, preached the sermon. Burial was in Red Oak cemetery.
Mr. Wambold was born in the province of Saratoff, Russia, 64
years ago, and came to this country and to Red Oak in 1870. He
had lived here ever since, having been employed as a section man
on the railroad. He was a member of the Congregational church,
having united with the church many years ago. He was twice
married, the first time to Miss Catherine Meng, who died in 1906,
and later to Mrs. Lizzie Keen, who survives him. He is also
survived by two sisters, Mrs. S. W. Snedeker, of Red Oak, and
Mrs. Sophia Miller, of South Omaha, and by two brothers, Jacob
and Peter, of Red Oak. Mr. and Mrs. Victor Johnson, from Kansas
City, Mo., were here to attend the funeral.
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