The Davis City Advance, Davis City, Iowa Thursday, April l2, l900 HAMILTON ITEMS: MACY ACTON and MRS. JOHN MCCORMICK are both on the sick list. MR. SHAW, of Pleasanton, has bought the farm of RILEY HOLLINGER on Sand Branch. THOMAS ANDREWS, of Grand River, and MISS SUSIE HAMILTON were married at Decatur City last week, Rev. Hamilton, brother of the bride, officiating. ABE and CHESTER WELLS went to Kansas recently in a prairie schooner. MRS. HAAG is visiting her mother in Missouri. The Surveyor was laying out an addition to Pleasanton near the new church, on the land of ROYAL RICHARDSON. Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert October l8, 2003

The Davis City Advance, Davis City, Iowa Thursday, April 26, l900 Our school was out last Friday. The closing exercises were held in the Union Church and occupied two evenings, and were said by all to have been the best ever held in Davis City. Their training reflected great credit on Prof. HOWELL and his corps of able assistants, MABEL HORNER, LENNA HALSTEAD, MAUDE BOWMAN and EMMA MARK. On Thursday night the exercises were given by the lower rooms and the children did so well in their drills, dialogues, recitations and coon song, that we cannot mention them personally. Friday night the High School pupils entertained the audience with music, recitations, and the great local hit, Davis City Court Scene, in which was Mayor Hamilton represented by JOHN HORTON; Roy Brown, lawyer, by LOU HORNER; Ike Evans, Marshall, by OTTO LA POINT; the prisoner by RUBY ARNOLD; the jurymen were R.J. Harmon by JIM HARMON; Dr. Wheeler by CHARLIE WHEELER; Frank Freeman by CHESTER SEVERE; I.N. Jeffries by WILLARD JEFFRIES; Will Burrell by DWIGHT BOWMAN; Jas. Burrell by BERT HOWELL; and Wm. Murray by JOHN ASBACH. This was an original production composed by Prof. HOWELL and was taking. The recitations were good and showed the benefits of careful elocutionary training. MISS GRETA MCNUTT returned to her home in St. Joseph Monday after visiting her cousin MISS ROSA HOCKERT, for a week. G.W. KELLER and family now occupy the EMMONS property and C.A. CAVE the property he purchased from MR. KELLER. CURTIS BURRELL has resigned his position as porter of the City Hotel and left Sunday for Derby where he has a similar position. MR. and MRS. JOHN ADAMS and MR. and MRS. WILL ADAMS visited at the home of MARK ADAMS near Tuskeego, last Friday and Saturday. IKE ROBBINS and his brother found a wolf's den with seven young ones in it, Saturday. The boys brought them to town and will claim the bounty, $l7.50. FRANK FREEMAN has torn out his old sidewalk by his residence, and is having WM. BURRELL put in a brand new one. That's the proper caper, FRANK. E.J. TEALE is moving into the FREEMAN property next to F.M. FREEMAN's. J.N. GATES and family, of Leon, will occupy the property vacated by TEALE. MRS. J. EMMONS entertained a few friends at tea one evening last week and another party at dinner Sunday, before leaving for her new home in Ridgeway, Mo. WM. WELLS, who works for J. EMMONS at Ridgeway, arrived Saturday, accompanied by his sister OLLIE. He returned Sunday but MISS OLLIE remained for a longer visit. Copied by Nancee (McMurtrey) Seifert October l8, 2003

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