Iowa
Old Press
Eagle Grove Times
Eagle Grove, Wright co., Iowa
Friday, June 15, 1888
Chil. Sanford passed last Sunday in Des Moines.
B.P. Schulz shipped his goods to Hull last Monday.
Miss Mabel Lindley is enjoying a nice visit at Toledo.
James Mulligan contemplates a prospecting tour to Florida.
J.O. Prehm's sprained ankle has recovered and he is again on
duty.
The cozy residence of Eng. Chas. Schaeffer has been dressed in
becoming paint.
Mr. Trude, of Fonda, is in the city on a visit, the guest of his
son, G.W. Trude.
The Dan Cavanaugh dwelling on Sixth-st. has been painted and
looks better.
Mr. and Mrs. Ira Bair gave a dancing party at their home
Wednesday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. George Gregory are the happy parents of a baby girl,
born last week.
Henry DeLawyer has taken John Doud's place on the Mulligan dray
line, Mr. D. resigning.
Last Tuesday Miss Maude Poole departed for Chicago to make a
month's visit with relatives.
The wire fencing for Rose Hill Cemetery arrived Wednesday and
will be put up as soon as possible.
R.O. Packman and T.B. Cowan have procured tasty new canvas
awnings for their respective business houses.
Dr. Garth was summoned from Clarion on Wednesday to council with
Dr. Will at the bedside of Mrs. M. Armbruster.
Next week Markus Olsen begins the erection of an addition to the
dwelling of J.G. McOllough, on Sixth-st, 16X20, 10 feet posts.
Mrs. J.H. Howell, accompanied by her two little children and
little Clara Wilkins, started on Monday to visit relatives at
Freeport, Ill.
Mrs. R.W. Shook and brother, Mr. Dorwin, started yesterday
morning on their extended visit east, their first destination
being Concord, Mich.
"Tony" Hagan, who has been on a visit to his mother at
Des Moines, has returned and is alternating W.S. Mason in running
engine 212 in the yards.
Mrs. Harriet Woodin, formerly a resident of this county, died at
Webster City on the 3d inst., at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
J.W. McKinney.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Litts moved into the Shook House last Monday,
having leased the same for six months. They will no doubt keep up
the good reputation of the house.
Mr. and Mrs. S.B. Hewett reached home last Friday from their
sojourn in California; and unless indications are deceiving, the
Judge is much improved in health, a fact his friends are very
glad of.
It is the intention of Mr. and Mrs. J. Fitzmaurice to go east in
a few days, accompanied by their daughter, Miss Gertie, to be
absent several weeks. Their first stop will be at Sterling, Ill.,
where Gertie remains while Mr and Mrs. F. continue on to their
old home in Pennsylvania and from there to Vermont.
Mr. and Mrs. Markus Olsen were grieviously afflicted last Sunday
morning. They lost their baby girl, Mary, aged about 15 1/2
months, with consumption, and in their sorrow have the sympathy
of many friends The little one was tenderly laid to rest Monday
forenoon in Rose Hill cemetery.
Eagle Grove Lodge, No. 191, I.O.O.F., elected the following
officers on the evening of the 7th inst.:
Noble Grand, A.N. Odenheimer
Vice Grand, W.V. Palmer
Treasurer, N.B. Paine
Recording Secretary, J. Fitzmaurice
The lodge is in a very prosperous condition.
Eagle Grove Encampment
As announced last week, a delegation of Webster City gentlement
came up Thursday evening and instituted an I.O.O.F. Encampment at
K.P. Hall, twenty-six of the Eagle Grove fraternity joining the
organization. The visitors were as follows:
August F. Huffman, D.D.G.P.
H.C. Austin, S.W.
G.F. Richardson, H.P.
Geo. W. France, J.W.
Chas. Gerber, Scribe
Chas. Briggs, I.S.
Jas. W. Adams, O.S.
A.H. Gurney, 1st W.
S.W. Havens 2d W.
Geo. H. Shaw, 3d W.
H. Cadwell, 4th W.
A.E. Servis
The new order certainly starts out well. Twenty-six charter
members is a pretty strong showing to begin with. At 12 o'clock a
banquet was served at the Junction House, as it consumed nearly
the whole night to organize, initiate, elect and install the
officers of the Encampment. It is to be known as Eagle Grove
Encampment, No. 120, and the following officers preside over its
destinies the ensuing year:
Lyman Moats, Chief Patriarch
J.D. Thomas, Senior Warden
G.W. Mason, Junior Warden
E.D. Ryder, High Priest
A.N. Odenheimer, Treasurer
A.L. Yearous, Scribe
Success to Eagle Grove Encampment No. 120.
Iowa State News
Chas. Schroeder, an old resident of Fort Dodge, died at
his residence in that city last week of chronic bronchitis.
Harry Noxon, who has for three years managed the opera house at
Cedar Rapids, has gone to New York to engage in business.
In the past five days eight cases of diphtheria and one of
scarlet fever have been reported to the board of health at
Davenport.
It is charged that ex-Superintendent of Schools Welch, of Jackson
county, permitted fifty-seven teachers to teach without
certificates
In the state shooting tournament at Des Moines, the Hampton gun
club won the state trophy, killing twenty straight birds. The
team consisted of K.S. Cole and F.M. Mitchell. [transcription
note: another blurb, same issue, gave Mitchell's residence as
Belmond and Cole's as Hampton]
M.L. Jamison, of Wapello, lost a horse by a curious accident one
day last week. While chasing a steer in his pasture the horse
which he rode ran into a wire fence in such a way as to sever his
jugular vein, and bled to death in a few moments.
The 9 year-old son of Gene Mettaz, of Council Bluffs, being of a
philosophical and inquiring turn of mind, by way of experiment
swallowed som "Rough on Rats." A stomach pump prevented
him going on record as a martyr to the cause of science.
A letter has been received at G.A.R. headquarters, in Des Moines,
stating that Peter Fisher, of Mt. Pleasant, was mustered into the
G.A.R. May 2. He is 92 years old, served nearly two years in the
famous Iowa Greybeard regiment the thirty-seventh Iowa during the
was of the rebellion. He served in the war of 1812, being in the
battle of Lundy's Lane. Also served in the Mexican war. He is
probably the only Iowa soldier who was in the war of 1812.
[transcribed by S.F., January 2018]