The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa Thursday, October 26, 1905 LINCOLN TOWNSHIP NEWS: DELBERT JAMES and EDWIN PAINE started for Canada Tuesday afternoon on a prospecting tour. DAVID STONEBREAKER bought 160 acres of land down in Texas when in that country recently. GENE SHORE visited his uncle, GEORGE SHORE, in Cedar last Sunday before the latter leaves for California where he expects to remain for a year. If the country suits him he will remain there. HENRY NEWHOUSE of Oakley visited with S.L. MORRISON last week when on his way to Wapello and Mahaska Counties to visit with relatives. CHARLES FOSTER and CARL BROWN are kept busy baling hay and straw for the farmers. CARL says the boy that rrived at their home the first of last week is the finest young man in the neighborhood. GEO. STAKER and MISS NANNIE STAKER, MRS. GOOD and MRS. WYAT SELLERS attended the meeting at Mt. Carmel in Benton which is being conducted by MRS. DAVIS. WM. ESSEX has purchased a cane mill and is now busy working up his large field of cane. WM. is an old hand at this business. FRITZ HOLMES and wife and daughter were transacting business in town the first of the week, the latter making her grandmother a visit. MR. WARNER of Wright County, a former resident of this township, visited recently with old neighbors here. EDWARD TAYLOR, a former resident of this section, after spending many years at his home in Kansas, brought his three daughters to visit with old time friends. They attended services at Oxford Sunday. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert September 9, 2004 [email protected]