Iowa Old Press
Dayton Review
Dayton, Webster co. Iowa
October 26, 1893
J.G. Durrell, Publisher
Business & Locals
-Frank Powell's have lost one of their infant twins. It died last
Friday.
-I.G. Cole has got moved into the house he purchased of Mr. N.G.
Wilson.
-Anthony Swanson, of Stratford, was visiting our Dayton dentist
last Monday.
-Herman Berg has rented the A.P. Anderson place vacated by
Constns Anderson.
-James Cenklin's children are getting better although they are
still quarentined.
-A.W. Scott, of Pilot Mound is a very sick man. For more than a
year he has been slowly wasting with consumption.
-James Marling is still on the sick list, confined to his bed the
most of the time. Several of the comrades visited him last Sunday
and say they only hope the visit did him as much good as it did
them.
Around the State.
-Henry Dearfield, living near Center Point, was struck by a
falling tree and instantly killed while chopping wood.
-Joseph Pecka, while walking on the railroad tracks near Cedar
Rapids, was run down by a switch engine and instantly killed.
-B.G. Bernard, of Hanover township, Allamakee county, was kicked
in the head by a horse while in the stable. He died in a few
hours.
-The miners at their convention at Oskaloosa passed resolutions
favoring a state organization for the state alone; B.W. Petit of
Avery for president and R. Williams of Foster for secretary.
-Anton Heeb, a rich Dubuque brewer, died in 1888, leaving his
estate, worth $500,000 to the children by his third and last
wife. The two sons of his first wife have brought suit to break
the will and secure their portion of the estate.
-A serious grafting operation was performed upon Stella Maxwell,
who was so badly burned several weeks ago at Creston with
gasoline. Several pieces of skin were taken from her mother's arm
and grafted on Stella's arm. The operation has proved successful.
-Three residents of Hamption; A.W. Steemblock, his daughter Ida,
aged 14, and his son William, aged 21, went to Chicago to the
fair. They stopped at the Raiser hotel. Next morning their dead
bodies were found in their room and the gas was turned on full
head.
-Dr. R.W. Cavett of Lake City in a fit of insanity threw himself
from his office window in the second story in the Emporium block,
striking his arm against the sharp pickets on the iron railing in
front of the building, displacing several of them and cutting an
ugly wound in his arm. He has suffered from such attacks of
temporary insanity several times during the past year or two. His
strong appetite for whisky and morphine is the cause of his
trouble.
-The jury in the district court at Keokuk returned a verdict
acquitting Annie Webster of complicity in the murder of her babe,
of which crime Martha Cutright was found guilty a few days ago.
All through the trial Annie evidenced the utmost indifference,
and when the judge told her she was free, she rose and left the
court room without a word and evidenced not the slightest
emotion. A motion for a new trial of the Cutright woman has been
filed.
-Mrs. Everett is on trial at Dubuque for malpractice. Her patient
was Ollie Northcraft a bible class leader. Ollie's mother was the
principal witness for the state, she having followed her daughter
to the hotel where the crime was committed. Ollie has adopted the
state and has forfeited her bond to appear as a witness. Mrs.
Everett will be on trial again next term on a similar charge. The
old witch served a term in the penitentiary some years ago, then
returned to Dubuque and resumed a lucrative practice.
-Diptheria is still raging at Fairfield and the number of cases
is constantly increasing. There are probably a hundred cases now
in the city and in the immediate vicinity. Deaths are of a daily
occurance and there are some families that have lost as many as
three children from the effects of the disease.
Correspondence.
Pilot Mound
-Still the rush to the World's Fair from our town goes on. Dr.
and Mrs. Prail and Mrs. Peter Carlson went Friday night and Jacob
Reuter and wife, Peterson Johnson, Arthur Alban, and Oscar Calson
started Saturday night.
-A large number of the friends of Mr. and Mrs. John Durrell
called at their home on last Friday to bid them good bye and God
speed on their journey toward the Pacific coast.
-Sam Galbraith is building a fine new barn. The Cartwrights are
doing the work.
-Charley Copeland has completed a new corn crib for peter Carlson
this week.
Grant
-Chas Huglin is putting up a corn crib 10X40 feet, 10 ft. posts,
and will contain when filled up 2000 bushels of corn.
-Chris Peterson and James Hansen went to Rowland Saturday
returning Monday.
-J.P. Linderoth has bought his father's estate of 80 acres,
paying $3000 for it. This makes him a farm of 240 acres all fine,
good soil, as good as can be found any where in Iowa.
-Andrew G. Olson sunk a well for Gustaff Johnson last week, depth
about 60 feet with 40 feet of water.
Lost Grove.
-Ed Youngdale, the architect and designer, started for Chicago
Monday to close the Fair.
-Miss Jennie Challgren is attending the World's Fair at present.
-Ed Costensen, son of J.P. Costensen, is down very low with
typhoid fever.
-Miss Hulda Elg and J.W. Struthers are off at the World's Fair
but are expected home this week.
Boone.
-J.S. Dixon has the finest apparatus in Boone county for making
sorghum syrup
-Judge Hindman has received the sad news of the death of his
mother, who died in Syracuse, N.Y., October 9, after a short
illness.
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Card of Thanks.
I wish to give my heartfelt thanks to the many friends who so
kindly rendered their assistance and sympathy during the sickness
and death of my husband and little son.
Mrs. M.J. Allstot
[transcribed by S.F., May 2007]