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Subject: May 30, 1901: Bits of Biography from the "Sun"
Date: 9 Dec 2003 14:41:46 -0700

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Surnames: Lingenfelter, Mooberry, Hoon, Robinson, Sonntag, Trullinger, Anderson, Perkins, Cox, Gordon, Martin, Chiles, Bowers, Searles, Liggett, Penn, Jackson, Gallup, Howard, Havens, Mowery, Nix, Reade. Ratekin, Chambers, Pettit
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THE FREMONT COUNTY SUN. Sidney, Iowa. May 30, 1901.

Riverton News:
1. Mrs. Lingenfelter's brother lives in Arkansas.
2. Mrs. Grant Mooberry's brother was married in Lincoln, Nebr.
3. Mrs. John Hoon's son Charles lives in Lincoln.

Farragut News:
1. Mr. Robinson and Miss Sonntag, the noted singers, are spending the summer in Shenandoah. They'll sing at the Congregational church.
2. More material for the City Telephone Company has arrived and work on the line has been resumed. The system may be completed now in a short time.
3. The graduating class was Misses Lilian Trullinger, Edith Anderson, and Alice Perkins--and--Ray Cox, Wilbur Gordon, Smith Cox and Harry Perkins.

Local News:
1. Fred R. Martin's son was born May 27.
2. Mr. Loge Chiles married Stella Bowers on May 27.
3. Uncle John Searles is visiting his father in Fairfield; he is quite an old man.
4. Lee Liggett has been working for some time on a bridle bit on which he has secured a patent. He now has the pattern ready for making the mold from which the castings will be made.
5. I have just installed a new soda fountain and am prepared to serve the public with the latest and best in this line. Fresh fruits, fruit flavors, ice cream sodas and in fact all drinks served at a first class soda fountain.--A.V. Penn.
6. Charles Jackson's daughter Mrs. Ida Gallup, lives in Geneva, Nebraska.
7. Miss Edith Howard of Harrison county is the niece of Rev. J. A. Howard.
8. Mrs. Charles Havens is the mother of Mrs. George Mowery who has been living in Creston.
9. Maggie Nix of Watson, Missouri is a sister of Mrs. James Reade.
10. J. C. Ratekin, formerly of Fremont county, is a nephew of Mrs. Polly Chambers. He is a brother of Joe Ratekin; he spent a winter in Sidney seventeen years ago and he hardly knew the town when he drove in the other day.
11. Jonas Pettit recently moved to Sumner county, Kansas; he like the country well, has lots of fruit, his wheat is all headed out, and will soon have new potatoes.
12. The Dixie Jubilee Singers sang in the courthouse Tuesday evening to one of the best houses we have seen in Sidney in many a day....They are to be congratulated on the success of their efforts, and they well deserve all that has come to them.

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