Fayette County IAGenWeb

West Union Gazette

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02 September 1898 - Pg. 1

"Westgate - An eleven pound boy at the Andrew Ritchie home."

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"Miss Myrtle Ash was sweet sixteen Saturday and enjoyed a birthday party of seven of her young lady intimates."

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09 September 1898 - Pg. 1

"Maple Grove - Miss Edna Kauffman will teach the Maple Grove school this year."

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16 September 1898 - Pg. 1

"Elgin - Rev. Raymond Hack and Miss Amanda Kuentsler were united in the holy bonds of matrimony Monday evening at 8:30, Rev. Heide officiating. The marriage ceremony occurred in the Baptist church."

"Arlington - The marriage of Mr. F. E. Hutchison and Miss Nellie Clark occurred last week at the home of the bride's father in Vermillion, South Dakota."

"Maynard - Baby boys came to gladden the homes of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Taylor and Mr. and Mrs. Herman Brieuneke the past week."

"Sumner - Born to Mr. and Mrs. Seding, Sept. 2, a girl."

"Hawkeye - Married at the home of the brides parents in Banks township Miss Mary Dreier to Henry Pleggenkuhle, on Thursday, September 1, Rev. Bredow officiating."

"A girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Kelling, Wednesday morning, September 6."

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"Married at West Union, Iowa, Sept. 9, 1898, by J. J. Berkey, J. P., Henry Carlin of Fayette, Iowa and Margaret Page of Fairfield township in this county."

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23 September 1898 - Pg. 4

"The twenty-seventh annual meeting of the Iowa Equal Suffrage Association will be held in Council Bluffs, Iowa, beginning with an evening
session October 19th, and closing at noon October 23rd, 1898"

"Cards are out announcing the marriage on Tuesday next of Miss Genevieve Strayer and Mr. Clark Belknap, both of Fayette."

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30 September 1898 - Pg. 1

"No good woman needs to go out of Iowa for a husband.
Patronize home industry.
Iowa has 165,000 bachelors to 85,000 spinsters. - Burlington Gazette."

"Fayette - Tuesday evening, Sept. 24th, at the V. E. Strayer farm, north of Fayette, occurred the marriage of Miss Genevieve Strayer to Clark H. Belknap."

"Fayette - A boy was born at Harry Kinyon's Saturday."

"Maynard - Married at Hutchinson, Kansas, Sept. 1st by Rev. Hall, Mr. A. A. Farnum of Luana, and Miss Jessie Reese of Maynard. Mr. Farnum is in charge of a creamery at Haven, Kan., where the newly married pair have gone into house-keeping."

"Waucoma - It was a happy time indeed for the company of over thirty little boys and girls who assembled at the home of Dr. F. B. Dodd on the occasion of the eighth birthday of their daughter Grace."

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"Born to Mr. and Mrs. Dr. Karsten, a boy, Sept. 12."

"Zella Gillet has been sick and her brother Frank has been teaching in her place."