Lake City Graphic 1901The Lake City Graphic LOCAL AND MISCELLANEOUS O. L. White’s grocery store has phone NO. 104. John M. Fickle is the new clerk at O. L. White’s grocery store. John Rasmess attended the Saunders Short horn sale at Manetta Tuesday. Sac City citizens are organizing a company for the manufacture of brooms. District court, before Judge Church, opens Monday, February 18, at Rockwell City. John M. Mitchel has purchased a Short Horn bull from ?rickle Bros. Of State Center. Carpenters are calling for a good “natural lather” to settle in Lake City for business. Bradley Bros. sold Coady & Sebern four of their heaviest horses last week for shipment to Boston. E. F. Pangborn went to Rands Monday and disinfected two houses out of quarantine from smallpox. S. E. Bishop and Paul Ralston completed a farm house last week for S. G. Edmonds, east of town. H. B. Darr will have a farm auction sale on the L. E. Arney farm 31/2 miles south-east of town during February. PERSONAL MENTION E. C. Flinn of Carroll was in town Tuesday. W. ?. Bell returned from Chicago Tuesday. Geo. E. Haney of Manson was in town Sunday. Dr. Penrose came home from Chicago Tuesday. Mrs. W. H. Mankey visited in Auburn Friday. John Dobie did business in Chicago Saturday. Mrs. C. W. Ripley is still in very poor health. Clarence Moore was over from Lohrville Friday. F. J. Berger is in town after a week at Carroll. H. H. Hutchinson of Sac City spent Sunday in town. Mrs. Geo. Smith returned from Scranton Saturday. Halsey Odell was in town on business last Thursday. Mrs. Alice Carroll of Auburn passed Sunday with her sister, Mrs. E. A. Zane. Mrs. J. A. Roland visited with her sister, Mrs. Searight at Moville Tuesday. Rev. and Mrs. Ed Wright and May Gates, of Stanhope, are passing the week with their many friends here. Mrs. E. C. Kramer and children returned Friday evening from a weeks visit with friends in Cherokee. Mrs. R. T. Jolly returned to her home in Wall Lake Friday after a two weeks visit with her son Robert. Mollie Hauskens who makes her home with an aunt in Eagle Grove, is here visiting her father Ed Hauskens. Miss Athelia Russell has been confined to her home with the grippe for the past ten days but is improving. Mrs. Wm. Mitchell of Manson returned home Friday after a weeks visit with her brother, John Mitchell. J. H. Walker of the late firm of Walker & Bennett, goes on the road for the McCormick people the first of March. J. R. McCrary of Farnhamville was in town over Sunday at the home of his parents, Mr. And Mrs. Geo. B. McCrary. Mrs. Sherman Bellesfield arrived Tuesday from Creede, Colorado, for a visit with her sister, Mrs. Millie Ripley. Mrs. C. O. Hutchison went to Monticello Wednesday to visit and uncle who has lately been stricken with paralysis. John Nicholson left Wednesday for Hot Springs, Arkansas, where he expects to remain for some time for his health. On Thursday last, C. e. Preston and wife moved to the rooms over the store, formerly occupied by the M. Litman family. The Maurice Sheehy family from Irwin, Illinois, are nicely located on their new farm five miles north-east of town. W. J. Moad has rented the J. H. Ketterer farm, just north of Mr. Overacker’s homestead, and will take possession soon. John Rasmess left Monday afternoon for Manilla, Iowa, to be present at a short horn sale of C. A. Saunders on February 5th. Mrs. Wm. Fuller, who lives between Sac City and Yetter is visiting this week her grandsons, ? and Clyde Fuller. Mrs. Daniel Stanton returned Tuesday from a six weeks visit with her father, Mr. Henry Kenyon, of Elkhorn, Wisconsin. Miss Flora Ripley returned Sunday evening from Oregon and California where she has resided for the past year and a half. R. R. Keck and wife will move about the first of next month into the Mrs. J. D. McVay property now occupied by Dr. Humphrey. Miss Zora Armstrong of Frankfort, Indiana, a sister of Mrs. C. E. Preston, is the new saleslady at the Preston dry goods store. Dr. H. M. Humphrey and wife will move into their own residence, now occupied by W. F. Segner, about the first of next month. Mrs. Alta Fuller from Independence, Colorado, arrived Tuesday evening for a visit with her parents, Mr. And Mrs. D. A. Miller. Mrs. A. T. King, sister of Mrs. W. D. Fuller, visited at the Fuller home from Monday until Thursday and returned to her home in Vail. J. E. Wiggans went to Chicago Tuesday to remain several weeks. Mrs. W. will make her home meanwhile with her father, Jerry Warner. Mrs. Morrison, mother of Mrs. Frank Morgan and Mrs. W. E. Rash, after a weeks visit with them, returned to her homein Tama Monday. G. L. Hartman, who lately withdrew form the firm of White & Hartman, went to Iowa City last night to be treated for a bad case of hernia. Mrs. Henry Wheeler returned Tuesday from Mitchellville, where she was present at the death and funeral of her sister, Mrs. Martin Wheeler. Mrs. Hugh Chambers sustained an operation by Dr. Chas. O. Seaman of Cherokee Tuesday of this week for the removal of a cancer from her face. Mrs. Norman Mead of Colorado Springs came Friday for a visit with her brother, Capt. Wm. Fitch, sister Mrs. Alice Hartman, and other relatives and friends. C. J. Eckland found and left at this office for the owner a small purse containing a small sum of money a ring and some jim-cracks. A spark from the stove in school huse No. 2, Elm Grove township, burned a hole in the floor two feet by four last Thursday night and then ? out of itself. L. E. Arney and a dozen or more residents on the route will try to get a telephone line between Lake City and Yetter, connecting with their several homes. J. C. Torrance drove into Lake City at three o’clock last Saturday and drove around town to find a place to hitch his horses without success. There was a crowd in town for certain. The Odebolt Chronicle will move into new quarters in May, at which time a new and speedier newspaper press will be installed and other improvements added. Editor Hamilton deserves the best his town affords. Mgr. Rotnour, of the Flora DeVoss Co., announces that on Thursday night his company will put on “The Galley Slave.” This play has a national reputation and the people of Lake City should not miss this opportunity of seeing this grand production. Ten cents will be the price of admission on Saturday afternoon to the Matinee of the Flora DeVoss company. As there will no doubt be a large attendance we advise everyone wishing to attend to be on hand early. A souvenir will be given to every person attending. BORN to Mr. And Mrs. A. L. Seelinger, Jan 31, 1901, a daughter. Dr. F. E. Kauffman was called to Lohrville professionally on Tuesday. W. A. Amlot returned from Kankakee, Illinois, Tuesday morning. Miss Nellie Barber of Glidden visited friends in this city Sunday. Mr. Eugene Hoover and Mrs. Wm. V. Leet visited in Onawa last week. Wm. Hackett and wife left for their home in Onawa Tuesday morning. John S. Jones and wife are each suffering with a fierce attack of grippe. John E. Clark is in Esmond, Illinois, to visit his mother who is quite ill. R. W. Reynolds left Thursday evening for his old home at Fitchville, Ohio, for a visit with his mother, who is quite feeble, having reached the mature age of 86 years. M. T. Foley has had a month respite from his labors as chief cook at the Adams farm near Odebolt. He did the cooking for the Catholic fair and on Monday returned home. Mrs. A. Moat of Waterloo, Iowa, after attending the funeral of Miss Nellie Moat of Ida Grove last Wednesday, visited with her parents, Mr. And Mrs. J. L. Jones until Thursday. Afternoon. Mr. And Mrs. Alvin McClurg of Jefferson visited over Sunday at the J. M. Toliver home. Mrs. McClurg is a sister of Mr. T. They departed for their new home at Snyder, Colorado, Monday. L. Frantz, uncle of Mrs. J. B. Smith, accompanied by his bride, whom he married recently at Pittsburg, Pa., arrived in town yesterday morning for a few days visit, when they will go to Wagner, South Dakota. Nels Jensen expects to leave his business in the hands of his foreman and with his family make a trip to Denmark late next summer, returning the following spring. Business matters at his former home require his attention. Harmon P. Scott, who has been here at home with his mother, Mrs. Melvina Scott for the past three months, leaves next Monday for Baker City, Oregon, where he is to have charge of the boiler and engine of an electrical plant. Misses Verta, Jessie and Jennie Lowe entertained Miss Myrtle Ingram of Sac City, Miss Nellie Ressegue and Miss Mabel Honeyman of Lake View; Messrs. Chas. Schulte and Wm Elwood of Sac City and B. Simmons of Omaha, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. J. B. Johnson returned Tuesday evening from the Pacific coast. His wife returned early last month. Mr. Johnson informs our reporter that he has invested in the oil fields of Bakersfield, Cal., and will incorporate a company for business under the Iowa laws. John O’Conner and wife, parents of Thos. And Michael O’Conner and Mrs. M. J. Sheehy, will soon remove from Irwin, Ill., and occupy the Clements place, north Center street. Their daughter, Mrs. Ward, whose husband met with a fatal accident a few days ago, will doubtless remove from Council Bluffs and make her home with them. Miss Ethel Doghty entertained the following little folks at a party at her home last Thursday evening: Helen Mighell, Fannie Moseley, Laura Gabriel, Austa Lewis, Harmie Peffley, Bertha Wood, Margie Horner, Alice Sands, Maud Dobson, Addie Smith, Mary Arthur, Elgie Deadman, Edith Schnellbacher, Walter Guenther, Guy Hibbs, Chas. Lee, Edward Westring, Gail Jacobs, Earl Smith, Lafe Morgan, Ira Soper, Floyd Russell and Ray Williams. GRAND JURORS Geo Miller, Rockwell City TRIAL JURORS
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