Western Lincoln Weather Review and Easter Hopes
A rural Western Lincoln column notes rain mud and cooler temps with Ash Wednesday and Good Friday upcoming. It mentions Win Kratz and family activity in Ridgeway Cresco church rehearsals at German M E church Easter bonnets and busy farms ordering fencing and nursery stock. Weather uncertainty continues with April swings, and local meetings including the W M S and trustees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Win
Kratz
Ridgeway
Theo
Qualley Farm
Alfred Ter
Cresco
M. E
Fred A R
Elmer Schia
Sam Kuntz
Kuatz
Emma Reinhart
Jacob Butz
Leona Koch
Victoria Kratz
C. Sehild
Gunes Moe
Theo. Kratz
J. G. Kirschman
Mike Kratz
Ike Hruska
Frank Butz
Board of Trustees
Chris
John Aegerter
L. N
Evangelical
Kendallville News Roundup 1914 Local Happenings
April 6 1914 Kendallville notes report township board meeting preacher Dr Mershon return to school after vacation L A S meets Grange hall events parishioners from Orleans Cresco and Monticello visit neat Wm Clink home local creamery building meeting favorable progress ill child pneumonia dances at Todd home prayers for bereaved Johnson family Subscribe for the Decorah Republican.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mershon
Kendallville L. A. S
Grange Hall
Eh. Davis
Orleans
W. A
Max Daskam
Cresco
Mattie Burton
Steve Todd
Mary Ellingson
Austin
Wm. Trouten
Max
Monticello
W. C. Fifield
Effie Kellogg
Charles Curtis
Ethel Fifield
Elliott
Minn
John Johnson
Easter greetings and local notes from Glenwood
Greetings for Easter from Glenwood. Local briefs cover residents and visitors in Decorah, Waukon, and Nasset, with farm work, auctions, road conditions, and small-town updates. Names include Ben Teslow, Ed Teslow, Arthur Evenrud, Joseph Sivesind, H Lovstuen, Anna Fortun, Teddy Smorstad, Carl Teslow, Mrs. Edgar Aarness, John Hager, August Prestes, Carl Berge, Gerhart Moen, A Teslow, Hans Lovstuen, Melvin Loven, Martin Ask, C Fortun, Sygwart Williams, Ben Kruger, Gust Johnson, and family ongoing rural activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben Teslow
Decorah
Ed. Teslow
Teddy Smorstad
Hartvick Ask
Erick Ness
Carl Teslow
Wes
Nordness
Edgar Aarness
John Hager
Glenwood
August Prestesater
Carl B. Berge
Gerhart Moen
Union Prairie
A. Teslow
Hans Lovstuen
Melvin Loven
Frankville
Martin Ask
C. C. Fortun
Sygwart Williams
Ben Kruger
Gust Johnson and Sons
Nasset
Crystal Spring
Local Notes From Frankville And Surroundings
Miss Janie Lyons is slightly incised. Many residents visit neighbors and attend school events. The township board meets in the Masonic hall today. Several residents travel to Decorah Ossian Postville Ravena and Waterloo for visits and business. An election on school consolidation favored the negative side and a local teacher resumes duties in Birdsell district. A painful accident last Monday left a man kicked by a colt, sustaining a head wound.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Janie Lyons
Arthur Brandt
Waukon
Lydon
Postville
Roma Padden
Lettie Slorah
Decorah
Charley Barrett
Castalia
Ruth Waters
Herman Sehutta
L. RB. Letchford
Masonic Hall
Geo. van Wey
Ravena
Dr. Juen
Ossian
Gene Hirdsell
C. H. Waters
Sherman Bollman
Walter van Wey
Chris Waters
John Snitker
Cynthia DeWitt
Harry Bollman
Grant
Sherman
J. A. Peck
Claude van Wev
DY. N. T
Mason
Herbie Padden
Waterloo
Earl Livingood
Mrs. Hager
Ludlow
Tom French
George
Raven
Hethel
Grace Schoonmaker
Birdsell
Lyman Bray
Jamna Meikle
Ray
Jimmie Costigan
Reruaey
Local Social Notes and Travel Rumors
Miss Bernice Brouillet returned from Ravena while Leora Letchford hosted Anna Schara of Castalia. Esther Kiesau joined twelve others in confirmation at the German church in Ludlow. Charley Hoth and the Driers attended a barn raising at Will Schutta’s. Mrs. Sarah Simpson left for Postville after a stay with Rachel Birdsell. Confirmation services were held at Ludlow with Dr. Kiesau and family among attendees. Charlotte Snitker returned to Waukon. Ernest Chamberlin welcomed a son in Los Angeles. Roads remained poor this week due to rain, hindering mail delivery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bernice Brouillet
Ravena
Leora Letchford
Anna Schara
Castalia
Esther Kiesau
Ludlow
Charley Hoth
Waukon
Fred Drier
Will Schutta
Sarah Simpson
Postville
Rachel Birdsell
Kiesau
Fred Klepper
Lillian
Charlotte Snitker
Arthur Brandt
Ernest Chamberlin
Number Two
Los Angeles
Cal
Local Notes from Clay Hill April 1914 Weekend Visits
Clay Hill residents share a weekend of social calls with friends and relatives in Decorah and nearby towns. The Clay Hill school reopens April 13 with Miss Louise Williams teaching, and residents such as Grace Mall and Grace Maln receive care and visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Stortz
Sam Sorenson
Dick Young
Hill
Joe Linzenmeyer
David Stevens
Decorah
M. D. Jewell
Clay Hill
Pat Hogan
Grace Maln
Mary Erickson
Neill Tobiason
Amelia Sorenson
Riverbend
Will Foltz
Lillie
Wilmela Sorenson
James Stortz
Grace Mall
John Matter
Sam Stoskopf
Pleasant Ridge
Ed, Bolsen
Bailey Springs
John Dinger
Harold
Pat Delaney
Freeport
Matilda Hausgen
Calmar
Louise Williams
Hattie Gross
A. Thoman
Northness
John Zearda
Rhode Island
Will Moon
George Howard
Cresco
Spillville and Area Social Notices Highlight Week
A Spillville centered column lists numerous local movements and visits. People travel to Calmar Fort Atkinson Decorah and Conover while relatives gather for family and funeral events. The notable death is Grandmother Stabisky with services held at St Clements church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eel. Novak
Elsie
Lydia Heuser
Calmar
Jos. Slabiska
Henry Giesen
Landa
Littleurkey
Jarosh
Frank Swebla
John Kubish
Edward
Frances Swehla
Ida
Decorah
Mary Korbel
Conover
John Soukup
Emma
Jos. Lusum
Jos
Mikesh
Kubish
Fort Atkinson
Carrie Ad
Emma Balik
Mason City
Thos. Ballon
Dragoon
Monlay
Clemence
Joseph Herold
Austin
Minn
Geo. Bechtel
St. Cloud Minn
Shebiska
St. Clements
Grandmother Stabisky
Joseph Stabiska
St. Clements’ Church
Chicago
Anton
Comed
Eager
Gags Reihle
April Ninth Feast Day Record Of Noted Martyrs And Historic Events
April ninth marks feast days of Roman captives and Persian martyrs plus saints as St Mary of Egypt and St Euvy shy ch us. The entry lists two dozen historical deaths on this date including Pope Constantine Edward IV of England Lord Bacon Ferdinand III Rosetti and others, plus key events: La Salle reaching the Mississippi mouth in 1681 and the Pony Express inauguration in 1860, among numerous dates and names.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Persia
Egypt
Africa
Euvsychius
Dotto
Waltrude
Gautier
Linneousin
Constantine
Edward IV
England
Lord Bacon
Ferdinand III
Germany
William, Earl of Craven
Dante Gabriel Rosetti
Thos. H. Patterson
Stephen J. Field
U. S. Supreme Court
Lord Chelmsford
Ethan Allen Hitchcock
U. S. Secy. of Interior
LaSalle
Mississippi River
Fisher Ames
St. Joseph
Banks
Pleasant Hill
Gen. Lee
Northern
Virginia
Grant
Salisbury
N. C
Congress
Johnson
Paris
Chatillon
Aerolite
John Brown
Osawatomie
Kas
Peru
Cuba
Isabella
Spain
Sven Hedin
Thibet
Halloran sues Decorah entities over alleged mine land damage
Maurice T. Halloran files a district court complaint in Winnebago County Decorah alleging a conspiracy by the Commercial Club of Decorah officers and Clarence Christensen to destroy his business and tear down a fence on mineral land. He seeks four thousand dollars plus seven percent interest and costs claiming compulsory evidence and attorney rights. He cites an invention from Germany about gas lamp wireless lighting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winneshiek
Maurice T. Halloran
City of
Decorah
Commercial Club of
Commercial Club
Clarence Christen
District Court
Winneshiek County
United States
Towa
Iowa
Abor
Decorable claims buckthorn remedy cures gas and constipation
The advert states a single dose of Alderika, a German appendicitis remedy with buckthorn bark and glycerine, removes gas on the stomach and constipation at once. Druggist R. A. Eng bertson endorses the product.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. A. Engbertson
Wanderers Seek Home After Charity Meal
Two young strangers wandered into Decorah after drifting from Mason City and Charles City. They were given a meal by Mrs. E A Duffy and said they planned to return home after a day of travel with little money. One claimed travel to Calmar was easy if you knew how.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Cloud
E. A. Duffy
Mason City
Charles City
Decorah
Calmar
Found a Cure for Rheumatism Ad by Mapleton Iowa man
Lee L. Chapman of Mapleton Iowa describes two years of rheumatism and nightly pain before using Chamberlains Liniment. After two months he recovered and has remained free of rheumatism. For sale by Engbertsons Pharmacy Ad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee L. Chapman
Mapleton
Iowa
Chamberlain
Engbertson
Ady
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Royal Baking Powder
Lincoln
Win. Kratz
Babe
C. Schild
Amel Koch
Albert Mzik
John Reinhart
Kendallville
Republican
Spillville
Phoebe Lincoln
River St
TIN Shop
N. A. Groff & Son
the National Bank of Decorah
L. B. Whitney
D. C. Johnson
Vice Press
H. C. Hjerleid
W. F. Baker
Peter Johnson & Sons
Washington Street
Victor
Victrolas
Anna Williams
Superior
Wisconsin
Tered
M. J. Soukup
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