Garden Grove Express Garden Grove, Iowa July 20, 1882 ARM BROKEN. - Walter MILLER, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. G. M. MILLER, fell from a tree in front of the house Monday evening and broke his left for arm a few inches above the wrist. Dr. CHESTER was called, and reduced the fracture. Only one bone was broken; the other was bent, but was straightened without breaking. The little fellow was a brave lad under the trying circumstances and we hope will soon be well. Copied by Stacey McDowell Dietiker November 25, 2003

Garden Grove Express Garden Grove, Iowa July 20, 1882 NARROW ESCAPE - Jennings KNAPP, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. KNAPP, made a narrow escape with his life last Saturday. He was riding one of the horses, and it is supposed the horse fell with him, as he was found lying on the ground insensible not far from the stable. He was carried to the house, and Dr. DOOLITTLE was called, but no marks or bruises could be found about him. He seemed to be unconscious, and could not tell where or how he was hurt. He remained in this condition until next day when he rallied and was able to eat. Jennings had not entirely recover from the shock up to yesterday, although his father says he is slowly improving. Copied by Stacey McDowell Dietiker November 25, 2003

Garden Grove Express Garden Grove, Iowa July 20, 1882 Davis City. Correspondence of the Express. The town is full of sickness, possibly the malarial results of decayed vegetation about here, where the water made such sad havoc recently. Mrs. Jim TEALE, Mrs. Monroe MILLER, Mrs. TUCKER and Mrs. MITCHELL are all at present very sick, a child of Jim SMITH's very low and Miss ANSON gaining some. Rev. STEVEN's eldest child is also down with a fever. Charlie SUTHERLAND has returned to his farm to see that his harvesting is properly done. C. CORBET of Franklin Tp. is in town. Vacant houses advertised for rent here. Wm. BOOM of Afton was spending a few days with his mother and brother. We believe he has a faint notion of locating either here or at Leon. Mergie JORDAN of Leon was down to Grand River fishing pools last week. O. B. TOMAS preached in Rasmusson's hall on Saturday. Mrs. Mary ADAMS is building a residence, one-fourth mile west of the school house where she has bought four acres of ground. Mrs. SWEETEN of Eagleville, will occupy Mrs. ADAMS' present dwelling with millinery goods. Mrs. WOODMANSEE and daughter, Miss JENK, have returned to Ill. Wm. CARTWRIGHT has been pretty sick. A party of gypsies camped across the river here, have been telling the fortunes and thinning the pockets of the credulous. Mrs. S. R. FRAZIER and daughter have been visiting at Akron. Trains as a rule have been late for a week past. W. H. SNODGRASS has moved over the meat market. Mrs. POTTER of Spring Valley, has to remain with her father and mother, 2 miles west of here, as the old gentleman, Mr. BOOTH, is very sick, and the old folks can not be left alone. Mrs. ADAMS has been making some fine views of the church, school-house, tank, depot, shute, and the bridges and surroundings during high water. These are arranged for stereoscopes, or as parlor photographs. John WELLS caught a fish weighing 65 lbs. on Friday. Said catch being a secured near the Junction of Long Creek and Grand River. The church of Latter Day Saints are to hold their General Conference at Lamoni in September. This Conference has of late years been held every autumn at Council Bluffs, where it was attended by 6,000 to 10,000 people. So Lamoni will be comfortably filled for once. This same organization have commenced preparations for the building of a church with a seating capacity of 5,000. This will be a large and magnificent structure, and one for Southern Iowa to be proud of. On Thursday morning at 8:00 there is to be a wedding at C. T. FRAZEE's. His eldest daughter, Miss Lu, is to marry a Mr. SHARP. They will take the 8:50 train for a wedding trip south-west. Miss Lu is a good girl, a good schoolteacher, and we'll guarantee will be a good wife. Mr. SHARP is a stranger here but we hear good reports of him, so it promises a happy match. Copied by Stacey McDowell Dietiker November 25, 2003

Garden Grove Express Garden Grove, Iowa July 20, 1882 LeRoy. Correspondence of the Express. The hum of the mowing machine can be heard in all directions, and the grass is heavy. The weather is not the best for curing hay. The "lightning rod dispenser" has again visited our town and vicinity, and now many of our houses and most of our barns are set off and protected by two or three points, a weather vane, a rooster or a pony. Engineers are correcting the plat of Le Roy, laying out a piece of ground into lots, which had been formerly put into depot grounds. This adds about twenty-five business lots near the depot on the west side of the crossing and several desirable dwelling lots. Corn is selling now at eighty cents per bushel and not very much for sale at this price. Oats are worth forty-five cents, and rather more plenty than corn. The new crop bids fair to be a heavy one. J. L. CARY has a singing class here. It met at 3 p.m. Sunday for the first time. We learn there was good attendance. The school house has been treated to a new coat of paint on the outside. Miss Ellen BUFFUM is threatened with fever. She is staying with her uncle A. G. BUFFUM. Dr. DOOLITTLE is attending. Our worthy agent, Mr. PORTER, has now eight regular boarders, and accommodates travelers in a way which they like. He sets a good table. Copied by Stacey McDowell Dietiker November 25, 2003

Garden Grove Express Garden Grove, Iowa July 20, 1882 Local Change. Dr. DOOLITTLE has a handsome new sign which bears the imprint of J. F. CROWLEY. When you see a new sign its a sign that Jim CROWLEY, is in town. Mrs. C. S. STEARNS succeeded in admirably entertaining a very large Sewing Society last Friday. J. W. RUSSELL is now contracting for and delivering coal. This is a good time of year to lay in a supply. The vote of this county for the Amendment was 1,140 - the exact vote for Governor SHERMAN last fall. Some person or persons unknown emptied Al MINTONYE's jug of tangle-foot and filled it with water. This caused Al to swear off again. A couple of Abe MAVILL's boarders, section hands, decamped without settling their board bill. A collection will be taken in the Presbyterian church next Sabbath for the benefit of the Presbyterian church of Malcom which was recently destroyed by a cyclone. The picnic at the reservoir last Friday was a success. The Band discoursed the music to the satisfaction of the ladies. M. R. CHERRY has purchase I. J. BARKSDALES's house and five lots for $1,100. It is a handsome property and will make Mr. CHERRY a pleasant home. Mr. BARKSDALE may build on his farm south of town. Some of the city wholesale liquor dealers are showing quite an amount of enterprise in endeavoring to "unload" their stock of liquors. Their "commercial travelers" are abroad in the land taking orders from private individuals for liquors in quantities to suit purchasers. One of them visited our town a few days ago with a case of "samples" hunting out the red-nosed part of the community, endeavoring to dispose of his goods. - Mt. Ayr Onward The same or a similar individual was here on the same errand, hunting up individuals of the same rose-tinted proboscis, and he got some orders. This kind of amusement, however, will soon play out. Copied by Stacey McDowell Dietiker November 25, 2003

Garden Grove Express Garden Grove, Iowa July 20, 1882 Personals Mrs. T. H. BROWN and family of Chicago are visiting uncle Hugh and numerous other relatives. Prof. HARKNESS is at Osceola this week conducting the Clarke county Normal Institute. Agent BARNTHOUSE and wife of Lamoni came up to see the old folks Saturday. A. C. NORTHRUP is again having trouble with his foot, and is compelled to get about with the aid of crutches. W. H. WEBSTER started for Clarke county Monday to see what may be done in bridging that county. Mr. Frank STEARNS and family returned from their Ohio trip this week, improved in health. They will rest here a few days and then take a trip to Colorado. Henry FLANAGAN returned to the Agricultural College at Ames this week. Mrs. Tunis COLE had several relatives visiting here; they have returned home. Emil BECHTOLD, who represents the firm of Marshick & Lumburg, Keokuk, spent Sunday with Mr. L. E. ZICHEY. Chet DILSAVER started for Colorado Tuesday to try his fortune. Miss Rosa JUDD of Brooklin is visiting Nellie IENSEN and other friends. Miss Cora BROOKS was so successful in her first term of school at Humeston that the directors engaged her for the coming school year and increased her wages $10 per month. P. IENSEN went to Chicago Saturday on a trip of business and pleasure. He will be absent several weeks in his travels. Mr. C. W. KING called in Saturday to enroll his name on the list of EXPRESS subscribers. He now lives in his new house north of town and is doing extensive farming for 80 acres. His wife is a sister of the STUART Bros., the extensive law firm of Southern Iowa, whose front names are T.M., T.B., Dell and F. Q. Miss Lizzie AMOS gave her Sunday School class a picnic last Friday afternoon. Fred ANDREWS and Everett RUFFCORN returned to town last week. They are in the stereoscope business. Frank CLARK of Leon was in town Tuesday. Section Boss SPENCER has taken a position on the Rock Island road, and Charlie BAHL takes his place here. Charlie and his wife are at present stopping with her mother, Mrs. CLINE. Copied by Stacey McDowell Dietiker November 25, 2003

Garden Grove Express Garden Grove, Iowa Thursday, July 20, 1882 Leon Department Dr. H. J. KLINE, Reporter. Harry LONG, Tome ARNOLD, E. J. CLOSE and Dr. LAYTON camped Monday and Tuesday on Grand River fishing and hunting. Miss May BAKER of Centerville is visiting relatives in this county. Miss WOOD of Grand River will teach music in Leon this summer. A party was given at Mrs. Geo. MILLER'S Tuesday night in honor of Miss CHILDS. Some of the young folks indulged in croquet by lamplight at Jos. HAMILTON's Tuesday evening. The Express Reporter and his lady put in Sunday at High Point, the guests of Capt. ALEXANDER and wife. A merry party of Leon young folks went along and we are of the opinion that we had a tip-top time. Quite a number of embryo trotters are at the fair ground track in training. Nate REEDER of Lamoni was in Leon Tuesday on business. Mrs. John ALBAUGH is very sick. Charles GARDNER is at Long Mont, Col. He will be at Humeston, Ia., about the 27th of August to take eloper DULIY's scalp. A newly married couple from Redding made a wedding tour to Leon last Monday. The premium list of the fall fair will be out next week. Almost $2000 will be hung up in premiums. Among the attractions will be a shooting tournament, which, if we judge from the prizes offered, will be a big thing. Bryson BRUCE will be Superintendent of the Poultry Department. An excellent choice. It is not true, as stated by the Humeston Era, that Charlie GARDNER and Carrie GUILFORD were married Chariton "without their parents consent." Certainly Daily, misery loves company-but the parties above mentioned were not married in Chariton on the day mentioned-in fact they were not married at all! Of course it would be so nice for the Era man if all marriages were drawn up like his-"closed carriage, &c, &c," but we advise him to keep his eye open hereafter and confine himself to facts. The Marriage Market - Clerk STOOKEY smiled dismally as he walked in his office on yesterday morning and enquired as to the number of licenses issued since our last report some three weeks since. On investigation we found that but five couples had agreed to tie up for better or worse. None had come "without their parents consent" (too far from St. Paul, Minn.) but the following is the list: Walter ADAIR and Rachael BROOKS. M. E. SHARP and Louie E. FRAZEE. J. C. VARNEY and Mattie M. POWERS. Wm. A. KENDALL and Mary M. FLEMMING. Thomas COX and Edna J. DOWNEY. Lamoni - We visited the lively little town of Lamoni last week and found the people of that modest corner of the county very busy and in the best of spirits. Corn in the neighborhood looks fair and with moderately good weather will turn out well. The new church of the Latter Day Saints is at last under way. It will be 80x50 ft. brick, with stone foundation and fully finished both outside and in. This will be but a small part of the temple that will be erected in a few years. E. BANTA is putting up what will be the finest residence in the county. He put up, some weeks ago, a barn to match, and will soon be the best sheltered man in his neighborhood. Other building is going on and Lamoni rapidly improves. Copied by Stacey McDowell Dietiker November 25, 2003

Garden Grove Express Garden Grove, Decatur County, Iowa July 20, 1882 NARROW ESCAPE Jennings Knapp, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. T.J. Knapp made a narrow escape with his life last Saturday. He was riding one of the horses, and it is supposed the horse fell with him, as he was found lying on the ground insensible not far from the stable. He was carried to the house, and Dr. Doolittle was called, but no marks or bruises could be found about him. He seemed to be unconscious, and could not tell where or how he was hurt. He remained in this condition until next day when he rallied and was able to eat. Jennings had not entirely recover from the shock up to yesterday, although his father says he is slowly improving. Copied by Stacey McDowell Dietiker, January 15, 2004

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