Newspaper Articles From September 1899
The Clinton Mirror
P.O. Lyons, Iowa
Clinton, Iowa, Saturday, Sept 23, 1899 (Cont.)
Personal.
Capt. N. C. Roe, a prominent citizen of Lyons forty years ago, steamboat captain, hotel landlord, etc., at times, passed through town recently on his way to Greeley, Col. He was Captain of Co. K of the 26th, the “Clinton Regiment,” and was returning from the G. A. R. meeting at Philadelphia.
Rev. A. D. Kinzer started for Boston and other eastern points Wednesday, and will be absent a month. Due notice will be given of any services at his Church during that period..
Mr. J. Q. Root was able to return to business at Marshalltown the other day.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Barnum are back from their summer in New England.
Agent and Mrs. Walraven Sundayed in Chicago or vicinity.
Mrs. F. C. Brayton and Arthur are here for a visit with relatives and friends.
The opening display of pattern hats at the millinery store of Misses Rudman and Smith will be next Friday and Saturday, the 29th and 30th. The ladies of Lyons and vicinity are invited to call and inspect the latest patterns. The styles this season are new and very tasteful. It is not necessary to wait for the opening—the store is open and the ladies are ready to receive orders.
Mr. Henry Hobein was in Chicago Thursday on business.
Mr. Ralph Webb, of Minneapolis, is visiting the family of Mrs. Chas. Cross.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Snyder left Tuesday night for St. Louis by boat. They will be back Sunday evening on the Dubuque on her last trip for this season.---Fulton Register.
J. C. Kelly, Esq., of Dubuque, was in town yesterday.
Miss Christie Odint, of Wabasha, Minn., is visiting Mrs. M. Doran.
Chas, E. Reid went down to Lyons Thursday, called by the illiness of Mrs. Reid, who was
Geo. L. Newsome was recently offered an excellent position in the Lyons schools at a salary of $-- per month , but declined the offer as his position as a traveling salesman is a more lucrative one.---Sabula Gazette.
Mr. George Hadlow arrived from Los Angeles, to visit his parents and others, a few days ago.
Miss Kate Polley is trimming in a millinery store at Lost Nation.
Mr. Carl Snyder was out from Chicago over Sunday last, for a call on his uncle D. B.
Mr. Laier Schley, a relative of the Admiral, -ately from Alaska, was in town for a few days, and Mr. and Mrs. Louis Madden gave a party in his honor.
Mr. Peter Oster and family have been visiting in Jackson Co., this week—Mr. Knutsen taking his place on the street meanwhile.
Mrs. Godfrey attended the W. C. T. U. convention at Tipton.
Mrs. Silas Dodge was one of a family reunion at Kirksville, Mo,, a few days since.
Messrs Levia and W. C. Shadle have returned from Nebraska, driving overland.
Chester Knox is home from Red Wing.
Mrs. Guth, Mrs. Callie, Mrs. Hobein, and daughter, Miss Nettie, recently visited at Mt. Carroll, Ill.
Mrs. H. Frazier has recently heard from Miss Anna Corcoran, now Mrs. Deuley, living at Ashton, S. D., and her friends will be glad to hear of her again.
Mrs. Otto Rockrohr lately called on friends at Maquoketa.
Mrs. J. J. Paul is home from Chicago.
Mrs. W. J. Cook went up to Charles City to call on w. J. the other day.
Ed. Polley is again at work in Chicago.
Mrs. Arthur Davenport returned to St. Louis Tuesday night, because of the illness of her husband, who is improving.
Mr. William Brown and wife are with friends at Pittsburgh, Iowa.
Mrs. M. G. Michelsen has been calling on her sister at Maquoketa.
Mrs. J. C. Morse, of Englewood, S. D., lately visited her mother here, Mrs. Wessels, and together they took a trip to Marshalltown.
Mr. Frank E. Frazier, of the 18th regulars, is supposed to have landed at San Francisco on the list, on his way home from the Phillipines.
Messrs. Will Lukritz and Will Tolson are now in Minneapolis.
Mr. D. R. Upton is home from Illinois, and goes to work with his team on the new railroad south of Clinton.
Messrs. Barthelomew and Emerson, of Preston were in town Wednesday.
Verne Taggert is again at work in Traub’s barbershop, and Dave Hudson at Wulf’s.
Mr. Will Foerstenberg has been at home during a vacation in his dental studies at Phildelphia.
Mrs. Alice Foster left for New York, where her son Arthur is in business, a day or tow ago.
Miss Mary Hess is at Cleveland, Ohio, where an aunt and cousin are teaching, for a course in the Hathaway & Brown College.
Mrs. J. F. Simpson and granddaughter are up from Denison, Texas, visiting here.
Mr. Justus Lund has been in western Iowa and Omaha this week.
Mrs. J. F. Conway is with her daughter at Chicago.
Mr. Louis Schenk, of this end, so long at Towle & Spreter’s goes to Laurel, Miss., to conduct the dry good store of Eastman, Gardiner & Co.
Mrs. L. P. Tritschier is at Oelwein, Iowa for a call upon her sister, Mrs. Frank.
Mrs. A. E. Miller is visiting at Andrew.
Mr. Jas. A. Madden has gone to Ann Arbor, Mich, for a course in the law school there.
Miss Vera Stevens came out from Chicago the other day, for a few days here before starting out with a musical company..
C. L. Passmore expects to leave Saturday or Sunday night for Yankton, S. D., where he will officiate as judge of horses at the State’s Fair, also as starter in the four days’ races there next week.—Fulton Journal.
Mr. Ed Showerman is in town again, and will set up a benck for clock and watch repairing, jewelry work, etc., and will bring his family back from Chicago.
Good New Block.
We knew it would materialize for a good time; a new business block in the lots of Mr. E. M. Howes, corner of Fifth avenue and Second street. The structure will cost towards $60,000 and will have 80 feet on the avenue and 100 feet on the street, with and L 55; w 50; and will be three stories in height. Reid & Conger have already rented the first and second floors. Good for E. M. Howes and Clinton.
“Two Married Men,”
Geo. R. Edeson’s latest comedy success, “Two Married Men.” Will appear at the Economic Theatre next Tuesday evening, Sept. 26th. Unlike most farce comedies, there is a plot, and is very funny one too; it deals with the mishaps of
Two benedicts who start one to enjoy what they think an innocent flirtation, little dreaming of the materials and tribulations they will meet with before returning to their own firesides. During the action of the play, new songs and specialties are introduced, which together with the man complications and comical situation met with by the two married men from one of the most enjoyable comedies that will be seen here this season.
Mr. JAS T. SARGENT, publisher of the Dakota Democrat at Yankton, S. D., dropped dead of apoplexy in the city hall there last Monday. He was formerly one of the editors of the Maquoketa Sentinel, and the first man in Jackson county to make a good newspaper—and since he set the pattern that county has never been without good papers. His age was 63 years.
DE WITT seems to be visited by bad men. Since the depot robbery they held up Mr. r. M. Crouch and took his watch and cash; and next we expect to hear that Editor Brown has lost his composing and make-up rules. ----- there no protection against highway men.
HOWES BROS. are the headquarters for choice pearls. They have brought many, and the senior goes out and rakes them in. That one from Albany, Ill., is a particularly fine and valuable one, and E. M. got it by going after it and bidding up on it. Take your pearls to Howes Bros.
THAT Southern sample of sugar cane sent up by Charlie Newcomer, and on exhibition at the jewelry store, by Ed Canfield, attracts attention. Also that stalk of corn from Dave Gaffney’s field with a good solod ear seven feet from the ground, brought to this office.
ON 8th page will be found two columns each of Council and Supervisor reports. Some of their proceedings are rather old, but we must put them all on record, and recommend all concerned in city and county affairs to read and preserve them.
At the annual meeting of the Lyons Methodist Sunday school, on the 19th reports were received and officers selected for the ensuing year:
Superintendent—Mrs. C. K. Dodfrey.
Ass’t Sup’t—Mrs. Helen Jensen.
Secretary—Vernon Utts.
Treasurer—Miss Lucretia Harrison.
Organist—Mrs. Jas. I. Carey.
Librarian—Miss Ida Bishop.
The Sunday School Missionary Society elected officers:
President—Miss Mary Jones.
Secretary—Miss Mabel Benedict.
Treasurer—Mrs. Alice Bates.
DIED.
On the 17th inst., at his uncle’s four miles of town, of typhoid fever, Mr. Frank Clausman, aged 23 years.
On the night of Sept. 18th, in his rooms alone, Mr. A C. Watson, about 70 years old. He was seen the evening before in Mr. Wulf’s grocery nearly opposite, and found about ten o’clock Tuesday, on his bed, dressed, and dead by Beaman, who called on an errand. Coroner Osborn held an inquest with Wm. Ackerman, Theo. Overkamp and Frank Brandt as jurers who rendered a verdict of death by apoplexy. The deceased had been here over a score of years, and so far as we knew never referred to any relatives or friends elsewhere. His body was taken charge of by Mr. Hobein, undertaker, and buried at Oakland.