LOCAL NEWS - 10 Feb 1875

HART, MATSON, CRANE, HOWARD, EDMONDSON, DICKEY, HULL

Posted By: Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert (email)
Date: 3/11/2007 at 14:57:28

The Chariton Patriot
Chariton, Iowa
Weds., February 10, 1875

LOCAL NEWS:

Lent begins today, and Easter Sunday comes on the 28th of March. This is a
very early Easter, and another indication of an early spring, according to
an old saying.
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We hear of a rather remarkable old woman who stayed over night at the house
of one of our farmers near town a few nights since. She lives near Red Rock
in Marion County. Is 62 years old and lives on a 40 acre farm that she has
improved during the last two years, doing all the work herself, including
the cutting and splitting of rails to make the fences. She says that her
average days work is 50 rails.
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We give an article on "Little Editions of Humanity," on our first page this
week, but the cases there mentioned do not "get away" very badly with one in
Chariton, that has just come to our knowledge. Mr. E.L. HART, son-in-law of
MR. T.A. MATSON, is the father of a 8-4 boy which has arrived just in time
to count one in our census about to be taken. The little one is all right,
and promises to be as big as other folks after a while.
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Pshaw? What's the use of trying to enumerate them, for now comes T.F. CRANE,
the good-looking and good natured lawyer, MR. S.L. HOWARD, our efficient R.R
ticket agent, and R.E. EDMONDSON the skillful carpenter, and each reports
an increase in the family; and goodness only knows how many more to hear
from. We suggest that the election, and taking of the census be postponed a
few weeks, when we will have sufficient population to organize as a city of
the first class. There will be no trouble at the present rate of increase.
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SCALDED.--One of WM. DICKEY's little girls, about 4 years old, in Newbern,
fell into a boiler of hot water, on Saturday last, and was badly scalded.
She was getting better at last account, and will probably recover.
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CHILD KILLED. -- A child in a family of the name of HULL, living in the east
part of the county, died last week from the effects of bruises and burns
caused by a stove falling on it. The family live on the Eddyville Road, and
came in from Kansas last fall; the woman giving birth to two children on the
next day after their arrival in the county. The child killed is some two
years old.
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