Cherokee County, Iowa News Articles Cherokee Items Cherokee, Iowa, March 14, 1873 Editor Journal: Cherokee has been quite lively for several days passed. The farmers are flocking in from every direction purchasing the necessary farming implements. One hundred and sixty-four seeders have been sold by the agricultural implement dealers here during the month ending March 13. Cherokee is surrounded by a vast scope of the choicest farming land that Northwestern Iowa affords. Building is gradually going on. Mr. Ballard, of Parkersburg, Butler County, is putting up a fine two story building on Main street. The town, according to the census just taken, has 508 inhabitants, with two flourishing weekly papers, the Cherokee Leader and Cherokee Times. The former is edited and published by Mr. Sheppard, who recently purchased the office from Mr. Raymond. Mr. Sheppard is a young man of fine qualities, and will make a lively, efficient editor. Mr. Buchanan, proprietor of the Times, is wide awake to the interests of the rapidly growing West. Since the McLean House burned down, Mr. Fife has opened his hospitalities to the traveling public. He is sociable, pleasant fellow, and endeavors to make his guest as comfortable as possible. Stiles. [Sioux City Journal, Sioux City, Iowa, Published March 14, 1873, submitted by Cathy Danielson] Cherokee, Iowa Special Correspondence of The Inter Ocean: Cherokee, Iowa, Sept. 9, Cherokee is a lively town of western Iowa that has sprang to the front during the last ten years. It is the capital of Cherokee County, and has a population of about 2,000. There are public schools, churches in plenty, banks, extensive business houses, newspapers, hotels, and but few saloons. The place is about midway between Fort Dodge and Sioux City, on the Illinois Central. The soil is good and the farms well improved. It looks a little odd to the stranger to see even the best farms without fence, but one soon gets to liking the arrangement, especially if he undertakes to make a farm. The crops have been excellent this season and the farming community is jubilant. The ‘rage” in Cherokee is her natural waters. An artesian well sunk several hundred feet furnishes two or three different kinds of mineral water. The principle jet is strongly magnetic and the others have sulphur and other minerals in composition. The proprietors have fitted up a neat building with bath rooms and all the necessary appliances. A driving track is already finished, and an artificial lake with islands is digging, and every effort is making to make the place attractive. Many invalids claim to have been benefited or entirely cured by the use of these waters. The magnetic waters will magnetize a knife blade enough in a few seconds to pick up a shingle nail. [Daily Inter Ocean, Chicago, Illinois, Published September 14, 1880, submitted by Cathy Danielson] Three Boys Killed Three boys of Meriden, Ia., sons of well-to-do families, were killed by an Illinois Central passenger train. [The Garland Globe, Feb. 17, 1906, pg 7. Transcribed By: Maggie Coleman] Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.