Iowa
Old Press
Sheldon Mail
Sheldon, O'Brien co. Iowa
February 3, 1905
Rolly Cobb, who is in the Milwaukee's service at Hull, has been sent to Chamberlain temporarily.
Fred Kellar, who has been manager of the branch house of Swift & Co. at this place has been transferred to Des Moines. He is succeeded here by Clarence McKellip, an industrous young man.
D.A. Miller, our genial creameryman, is at Mason City attending a convention of creamerymen.
R.B. Piper, who was raised in the office in the days when his father was making it famous, has resigned his position in the Milford Savings Bank and on the first February will take charge of the Mail.
George Buntley has gone to Ashland, Wis., to attend a business college.
[transcribed by S.F., January 2007]
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Sheldon Mail
Sheldon, O'Brien co. Iowa
February 10, 1905
Weather Observer Beach informs us that the government thermometer this morning registered 25 degrees below zero.
Miss Mae Winslow expects to leave Saturday for Chicago to spend a few weeks in the wholesale millinery houses, getting the latest styles in millinery.
The undersigned unite in a call for an anti-saloon convention of O'Brien county to be held in Sheldon on Monday, February 20: H.S. Smead, G.L. Sprague, John C. coates, John H. Keller, Jas. Morfitt, W.T. Morfitt, I.N. McIntire, J.R. Tipton, John McCandless, H.B. Perry, F.J. Clay, Joseph Rider, F.O. Kehrberg, B.T. Woods, George W. Whitmore, S.H. Logan, D.A. Anderson.
Miss Gertrude Hospers had a basket social at the Ling school house in Floyd Township Friday evening.
On Wednesday, Mrs. Fred E. Frisbee entertained the Silent Stitchers. This afternoon Mrs. Frisbee is "at home" to a number of her neighbors. On Valentine's Day, Mrs. Frisbee will entertain about seventy five guests in the form of a reception in two periods, from 2:00 o'clock until 4 and from 4 to 6. On the 16th Mrs. Frisbee will give a "Cake Walk Party" at which she will entertain a still larger number of guests.
[transcribed by S.F., January 2007]