The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-01-10
J. B. Lyon transacted business at
Missouri Valley Tuesday.

Yes-the ''how to save money" new
is always printed in full in our ad
vertising columns.
Mrs. Peter Sievers, of West Side
spent Saturday in Denison visiting
friends and shopping.
Mrs. r. T. VanMetre and Mrs. Nor
ton, of Dow City, were in Denison OF
Monday calling on friends.
You can't imagine an enterprisini
store being laggard, or unenterpris
ing advertisement you?
Mrs. Julia Maynard and Mrs. A.
Slechta, of VAIL were in the city OF
Thursday calling on friends.
G. G. Martens, F. Reetz, James
Wolfe and F. Roth were over from the
Oak Saturday transacting business.
Mrs. E. A. McKim, of Deloit, made
the Review office a pleasant call today
and paid for the Review for another
year.
Miss Minnie Fouts came up from
Dow City Sunday and spent several
days the fore part of the week visit
ing Miss Della Mcbride.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Jacob
sen, of Goodrich township, Thursday
December 2Sth, son. The little fel
low tipped the scales at S1a pounds.
Mrs. w. L. Hitchcock, mother OF
Mrs L. M. Cassaday, arrived in Deni-
son Friday from Chicago, and will
spend the winter with her daughter.
On account of the severe cold
weather of the past week the public
and normal schools of Woodbine have
been forced to close for a time at
least
Mr. and Mrs. R. l.. Hill are enjoying
a visit with their daughter, Mrs. Lulu
Cox, of Cedar Falls, who came last
week for a few weeks visit at the
parental home.
Mrs. Fred Heffelfnger, of Los An
geles, Cali, was in the city the fore
part of the week visiting her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. J. L. Mcclellan. She
went to FIT. Dodge, where she will
assist her mother at the rescue home.
The board of supervisors are busy
this week checking over the county
officers records for the past year. In
going over the records the board has
found that the county officers have
made steady increase over last year.
The main floor of the Ballet roder-
sen store is all covered with scafolds
this week as the building is in the
hands of the decorators. 1t will prob
ably take several days before the
work is finished, but the store will fur
nish new appearance when finished.
The clerks are working under diff
culties at present.
On page four" of this issue will be
found display ad paid for by Mr..
IL. II. 41dAA. AAC WILL AIOAu PuO1AS
sale Wednesday, Jan. II, 1912, at the
Sam Perry farm, u mile east of Buck
Grove. There is listed among other
stuff SO head of live stock, lot of
good amchinery, and lot of hay and
corn. Read his ad
Rev. Clarence V. T. Richeson, SELF
confessed murdered of his former
sweetheart, Miss Avis Linneil, was
sentenced yesterday to death in the
electric chair by Judge Sanderson, the
electrocuton to take place some time
during the week of May 10, 1912.
Richeson had plead not guilty when
arraigned after his indictment on the
charge of poisoning his former sweet
heart at Boston, but following a writ
ten confession made Saturday last he
retracted that plea and made for
NAL plea of guilty.
According to the November report
from the department of agriculture,
we find that Crawford county averaged
80 bushels of corn to the acre, or a
total of 3,S4OOOO bushels. Benton,
Clinton, Linn and Muscatine counties
had the largest yield of corn of any
of the counties in the state, each aver
aging 46 bushels to the acre. There
We're 1,525,0OO bushels of oats raised
in the county last year, or an aver
age of Is bushels to the acre; 1885,
500 bushels of spring wheat raised;
$4,000 bushels of winter wheat; 49,
900 bushels of barley; 1S6,5OO bushels
of potatoes; $4,000 tons of tame hay,
and $500 tons of wild hay.
A very small audience greeted the
Colvin- Mach-Frohordt concert on last
Thursday evening. 1t was one of the
finest musical treats ever given I'M