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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1913
Page
6
Local notes from Mason City to Dubuque include visits by Jack Uher and Ruth Meyer, with numerous calls, guests, and motions. The Sunshine club, M. E. L. A. S., and the Grinnell Girls Glee club are cited, along with a Mendelssohn Male Quartette concert and an upcoming Castalia band concert.
Castalia local items report D C Malloy visiting Decorah and W Haefner traveling to Giard last week. Mrs Geo Bernhard visits daughter in Elgin while Miss Nellie Neuenswander returns from Elgin to Prairie Pete for school. The M E ladies netted over 850 at a dinner and apron sale with a vote on woman’s suffrage 35 to 22 in favor. J Barnes of Toledo visits. Mrs W S Lambert of Gre Lake dies. Geo Bachelder graduates from Valdez and becomes bookkeeper. Kneeskerns ship Montana cattle to St Paul and 2 carloads arrive in Castalia.
Mrs Rev Seehuus suffers rheumatism while springlike weather returns. Mrs John Strindmoen visited Mrs Hexom. Esten Engan drills wells near Spring Grove. Theodore Jarland returned from a westward sojourn. S O Ness with Clarence Anderson markets hogs at Decorah. A nine pound boy born to Mr and Mrs Martin Monson on April 12 1913. U P S meeting drawn a large crowd with Prof Hilleboe speaking Just for Fun. Road dragging foreman organizes workers to repair township roads. Herman Hendrickson reception at Tabor hall in Hesper drew many despite bad weather. Congregation voted to raise pastor salary about $200.
Mrs Henry Brammer visited Mrs Daisy Foltze last Sunday. J J Gates and wife visited Geo Smith home last Sunday. Walter Tillapaugh and Will Hilleman were dragging roads Monday. Jack Halse negotiates for purchase of Peter Marey place at Bluffton. Robert Smith family visited Mrs S mother last Sunday. Miss Cleona Stoskopf visited Grandpa Potter Burr Oak last Saturday. Flies are common as hunting season nears. Henry Smalley delivered eighty dozen s to Burr Oak mercantile last Saturday. Ben and Cliff Keane with sister Ethel visited Geo Falck home Sunday. Rob Tillapaugh made a business trip to Mabel and brought home a new disc. Henry and Newton Kinyon visited Chauncey Emery and Clark Fredenburg homes Monday. Last week was cloudy and rainy. Saturday sun lifted spirits. Cresco reported death of youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Baugh from pneumonia and brain fever. Speaker moved to Cresco about three years ago. They have many friends in bereavement.
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April 15 1913 updates include Grandma Darrington's illness W M Griswold paper hanging at the parsonage Ed Haines visiting Britt and farm work Ed Griswold improving health Bell telephone line cut down Lila Carter visited Vera Koppen Charley Johnson of Spring Valley ill with smallpox Luther Street drove to Decorah for assessor returns C L Street and family attended Aunt Louisa Johnson visit Miss Lena Pearson went to Helmer Ganrud to assist with spring dues A R and J G Bryant shipped thirty four cattle to Chicago Charley Johnson and Mrs Louisa Johnson noted health Sun day box social postponed due to bad roads Nurse Etta Hark ness left for Florida to tend Typhoid patient Aunt Louisa Johnson celebrated 79th birthday Hats and cards sent R Reid named administrator of John A Johnson estate Miss Mildred Nelson returned from Fayette Mildredge and Mildred start spring term schools Roads very bad but improving Albert Darling limb amputated in Dakota Aunt Louisa Johnson expresses thanks for birthday cards and gifts Estate creditors urged to settle Will Arnold family moved to Morrison house Frank Wolfenberger home from Kansas Bertha Wade and Winnie Winch visitations P H Whitney Miss Wade and others visiting Reverends Clark Manning at Canoe schoolhouse George Emery family moving to Lew Halse farm Karl Pierce buys Bert Kimball restaurant plans ice cream parlor and improvements
Freeport and nearby towns show activity as Decorah residents like Tom Connor Francis Hauswirth and N Headington are seen on streets Monday. People from Trout Run Clay Hill Riverbend Cresco and Mason City pass through or visit, with church attendance and family visits noted.
April 15 1918 Burr Oak notes record Ezra Reed driving to Decorah for L A meeting with Mrs Gates for dinner to visit Miss Alice Telford. Frank Kimball from Cedar Rapids visiting. Bennie Manning moving to Irving house. Rev Schepple and Vinnie Manning to Hesper. Elza Havel of DeSmet visiting relatives west of Decorah. Bert Heintesh and children with Ben Wicks. Will Leonhart’s Abdey visit to Willard Peacock. Telford and daughter Bernice Healis Decorah callers. Miss Alice Seelye and Rice Pests at Whitney home. Einer Kippe dental in Mabel. Ruth Kelly and Claude Taylor marriage reported. Joe Wemett returned from ue. great-granddaughter visit noted.
Sunday visits noted across High Ridge area with Ole Drange and Melvin Drange calling on families including the Kelseth and Iverson homes. Guests from Decorah Frankville and Nordness shared hospitality as infants arrived and relatives traveled to Locust on Measey.
Local rural notes from Cresco and area include Frank Crawford delivering hogs, Ruth Hattlestad visiting J Henders ons, Sarsh Askelson at John Ellingsen home, and Andrew Mettus currently working for John Henderson. Ida Henderson and Willie Sanders split time with local families. Mary Ellingsen assisted at Nels Askelson’s. H Nelson family visiting with Mr and Mrs Ove Nelson. Stella Monson visited her grandmother Mrs Ole Monson.
Western Lincoln parish updates include Rev Day and wife dining with John Aegerter family and local calls by Tom Moe and son Oscar. Reports mention spring work, drying roads, oats smut treatment, health notes, new neighbor Carl Oen, and a baby girl born to Mr and Mrs Henry Monson with other local social tidbits.
Centennial residents share visits and errands across Decorah and nearby homes. Rae and Rae Runkle host callers. Truman Allen visits Mason City. Mrs Doerr spends a week with Ben Finck. Dr C Moore passes through. James Runkle listed sick. Webb Rosa and son Walter visit Lon Oxley and Fran Youmans. Edna Youmans stays with parents. Nellie Daniels visits Rae Runkle. Chas Daniels sells a horse to Ronan Brothers for 225 dollars with delivery help from Rae Runkle. Weather hints of spring and general housekeeping noted.
April 14 1913 notes from Clay Hill describe visits and work shifts. Carl Queal Cresco works for John Matter while Frank Malli joins Nick Kling enberg for the season. Various locals travel to Decorah Freeport Hamline Calmar and Riverbend for visits and business.
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