Iowa Old Press
Dayton Review
Dayton, Webster co. Iowa
Thursday, January 12, 1893
Swan Johnson made a busines trip to Harcourt Monday.
J.L. Hedlund and wife visited his mother in Gowrie Tuesday.
Mr. Joe Dixon, of Dedham, was a visitor in Dayton last week, the
guest of his mother-in-law, Mrs. F. Davies.
W.P. Linn, of Pilot Mound was in Hancock county and bought a
quarter section of land near Madison Junction last week.
John E. Hedberg now carries the mail between the post office and
the M. & St. L. depot. We believe his bid was $120, the
lowest price Uncle Sam ever paid for the service.
Cole Bros. & Co. will not hereafter oblige their customers to
stand in bad air and tobacco smoke, having put in a very
effectual ventilator that carries it all away. It is the best
thing of the kind we have seen.
C.F. Olson, of Slayton, Minn., who came down last week to attend
the funeral of his mother-in-law, talks of moving here in the
spring. He is a carpenter and is pleased with the outlook here.
A company consisting of Chas. Sanberg and his two sons, Nelson
Bach, J.O. Martin, Albin Carlson, Axel Ehen, John A. Swanson and
Charley Peterson, left Dayton last Monday evening via the M.
& St. L. for Texas. A great many Swedes are settling in that
state and they send back good words for the state of their
adoption.
Will Umsted's team took a notion to warm up a little Tuesday
morning. In coming around the corner at Burnquist's store they
threw him out and at the post office took the sidewalk and
wrecked the sled on the hitching post.
Scandinavian Insurance Company
This home company held their eighth annual meeting in
Dayton last week and their books show that they are still at the
front as a successful insurance company. The company was
organized Oct. 24, 1884 and has been growing at a good healthy
rate over since and have promptly paid their losses and have
never made an assessment. Swan Johnson was re-elected president
and Chas. E. Borg secretary.
The following directors were elected: J.A. Holm, Boone; C.E.
Borg, Dayton and C.J. Freed, Burnside.
The following directors are holding over: Swan Johnson, Peter
Johnson, Frank Youngdale, Olof Saline, S. Burnquist and C.J.
Danielson.
Officers: Swan Johnson, Pres.; Sam Burnquist, V. Pres.; C.E.
Borg, Sec.; C.J. Danielson, Treas.
Examining Committee: Wm. Larson, Pilot Mound; A.J. Barquist,
Stanhope; Rock Hanson, Dayton.
Agents: Christrian Carlson, Stanhope; O.F. Norling, Stratford;
C.A. Bloomgren, Gowrie; John Wilmar, Ogden.
Losses paid during 1892:
Tom Peterson, steer, Burnside, $15.00
John Quist, colt, Stratford, $20.00
A.J. Bergren, hay, fire, $30.00
Nels Pearson, damage to house by lightning, $144.00
L. Barglof, barn, fire, $50.00
Gust Johnson, grain, fire, $122.64
John Linn, wagon, fire, $35.00
Deaths
Drug - John Drug and wife have lost their little
three year old son, Carl. He has been down with measles and died
Tuesday forenoon, and will be buried today. When we saw him last
he was a sturdy little fellow full of life and vigor, but now the
little casket is only an exemplification of the text "We all
do fade as a leaf." Mr. Drug's family have the sincere
sympathies of their many friends in Dayton.
Hedberg - Died, at Slayton, Minn., Jan. 5, 1893,
Bertha, widow of John Hedberg, aged 81 years 10 mos. and 3 days.
She was a native of Sweden and came to America with her husband
in 1855 and settled in Victoria, Ill. With her husband [she]
joined the Swedish M.E. church the following year of which she
was a consistant member until her husband died four years ago,
after which time she has made her home with her daughter, Lizzie
Olson, first in Des Moines and afterward in Slayton, Minn. where
Mrs. Olson removed two years ago.
They have had six children, of which only two survive her, John
E., of Dayton, and Lizzie Olson, of Slayton, Minn.
Her son-in-law brought her corpse to Dayton for burial, where
surrounded by her old friends and neighbors, her body was laid by
the side of her husband. Rev. John Linn preached her funeral
sermon. She had selected her text from Deut. 31-32: "Their
rock is not as our rock our enemies themselves being
judges."
Burnside
-Dr. Townsend informs us that Mrs. E.H. Cox is much
better.
-Mr. Goldsworthy shipped a load of the products of his mill to
Fort Dodge las week, also one to Humboldt.
-Mr. Dell Graves is building a house at the Burnside coal mines
for Mr. Hamilton.
-Mrs. John Cram returned home last Tuesday from ther Ill. trip
amongst her friends and relatives.
Lost Grove
-Swan Wilson has taken a clerkship at Kotterer, Hartman
& Co's, at Harcourt for the coming year.
-Paul Johnson arrived home last Saturday. Paul has been away for
nearly a year and has, during that time, traveled very
extensively.
-Rev. Hultman, of Madrid, Iowa, preached at the Lost Grove
Mission church Sunday morning.
-Will Carlson arrived home from a visit to friends in Des Moines
last week.
-Our coal dealer, J.E. Gustafson is doing a booming business this
winter.
Grant
-Peter Madsen brought out a male calf to take the place
of the one that N.G. Hanson had that gored one of his best horses
a short time ago.
-J.A. Bodell, who moved to southwest Missouri writes under date
of 29th of last month, that everything was green down there
Christmas day.
-Charles Nelson was husking corn Christmas week.
-Miss Selma Berg left for Rock Island, Ill. to be gone for some
time.
-Miss Lizzie Huglin returned from her trip east last Thursday.
[transcribed by S.F., November 2014]