Konklin's ~ Decatur County, Iowa
Garden Grove Express
June 1, 1893
Garden Grove, Iowa
High Point Items.
News seems to be scarce and to write up the news is sometimes a task that no
one need desire to undertake. We thought there was nothing to tell but then
remembered that the hen that kept busy scratching was sure to get a worm
occasionally, then we scratched.
RESULT:
Wednesday evening of last week a large company of the young people enjoyed
(we use the word enjoyed advisedly,) an ice cream sociable at the home of G. A.
KONKLIN, it being given in honor of his daughter's, Miss Nellie, nineteenth
birthday. Miss Nellie received many valuable and useful presents as well as the
kind regards and well wishes of her many friends.
Mrs. MURRAY, a preacher of the Free Methodist church, held a series of
meeting at the church here. She began last Tuesday and continued over Sunday,
returning to her home at Newton Monday.
Mr. Frank ROBERTS of Warren county and an exhorter of the Free Methodist
church and a brother of Douglass ROBERTS of this place, spent a few days here last
week visiting friends and relatives and assisting Mrs. MURRAY in her meeting.
Rev. S. L. CULMER, pastor of the Mt. Ayr circuit, preached an excellent
sermon here last Sunday.
Pete DAMEL, of Garden Grove, attended church at High Point Wednesday night.
Mrs. John WILLIAMS, of Decatur City, spent several days last week with her
sister, Mrs. J. D. SMITH, who is very ill and cannot recover. She returned home
last Monday.
Mrs. KESSLER has so far recovered from the injuries she sustained from her
fall last winter that she was able to visit Garden Grove last Monday.
A hop at Randolph PERDUE's Tuesday night of last week was the social event in
that neck of the woods.
Miss Mary KONKLIN of Garden Grove, attended her cousin Nellie's birthday
party last week.
Miss Mary BRANT gave her school a holiday Tuesday so they could witness the
decoration ceremonies. That is right, the teachers as well as the parents
should do all they can to instill into the hearts of the children a spirit of
patriotism, a veneration for the old flag, and an honorable remembrance of the
country's defenders who have been laid in the tomb. Honor the dead heroes, strew
flowers o'er their graves. But let us not forget the living. It
were better to strew flowers along their pathway while they yet live than to
hold them until they are gone and then lay them on the grave. We should say,
let no man strew flowers on our grave who has strewn our pathway through life
with thorns.
Many of the farmers are complaining that their corn is not coming up good.
Some say they will have to plant all over again. Let us take a lesson from
this and hereafter select our seed in the fall, see that it is thoroughly dried
before freezing weather, and then kept perfectly dry through the winter. If
this was done there would be no complaint of poor seed.
Major SMITH was at Decatur City last Monday.
Copied by Stacey McDowell Dietiker
March 21, 2004
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