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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1915
Page
6
April 19 1915 county notes report neighbors visiting, family gatherings, and local events in Ossian Decorah Castalia Dubuque and surrounding areas. Mentions include Rosa visits at Winfield Webster Postville and a funeral in Festina. Bank advertises savings and checking accounts at Winneshiek County State Bank.
A traveling peddler from the promised land sold calico ginghams and rain coats here last week. He warned of another man soon selling suits overalls and jackets. A fire alarm Thursday night revealed the summer kitchen at Mrs Hanson compromising the property. Winneshiek County State Bank 15-4
Madison items list various visits and social calls including Mrs Ole Forester missing a horse, visits by J Woldt, Stewart Baker, P Hovey, Ida Josvanger, the Holstad and Guttermson families, Clarence and Florence Hovey, A O Bergan of Decorah, Dr Leonard at Alex McIntosh home, Josvanger visits to Bakken, Arthur Hoyt and Ivan Medberry callers, O P Hovey, Miss Josie Hofland with Rakken and Skogen families, Myrtle Grindeland visiting Mrs Ole Haugen, and Leander Kittelson with Herman Hendricks families visiting A Guttormson and Josvanger homes.
By April 20 1915 locals report W C Winn and John Witt visitors Monday D C Harvey on a business trip to Waterloo Ed Wirsching has house painted by O Boy Bros Meyer preparing material for barn John Haefner visited grandparents in Giard Mrs Roe Mrs Haefner and Mrs W K Riggs traveled to Postville Roads limited dragging noted Ernest Baltz contracted to add to Wm H Fischers residence Funeral for Mrs W S Webster attended at Postville Chas Neuenswander visited home for a return trip Rev Harms announces English services at Lutheran church next Sunday Declamatory contest in the opera house judged results name of school reps for Ossian county contest Florence Kobinger Rilla Bernhard Paul Riggs Lucile Allen Rosella Witt Ruby Meyer with high marks in order The Ossian contest tonight draws many locals to attendوفمبر
OSSIAN April 20 1915 A F Becker went to Spirit Lake Monday Nora Floody Cresco was an over Sunday visitor Lillian Anderson home from Decorah over Sunday Fred Sobolik Decorah visitor last week Thursday Claire Limbeck Postville spent last Sunday with home folks Ed Owens Cresco visiting relatives in town over Sunday Leo Wiltgen Franville visited last week Rev P J Friedmann to Luxemburg last Sunday Jacob Werner returned to Sioux City Monday after visiting his parents Mr Kruikshank Mason City visiting aunt Mrs Murphy Miss Seraphia Wfigge went to Dunomo on Wednesday for a few days D C Mallow and daughter Eileen and son Eugene autoed up from Castalia Henry Werner returned to Minneapolis last Sunday after a week with home folks Dr Jewell Decorah with mother and sisters Ossian visitors Sunday Catholic ladies card party last Wednesday at Ossian opera house large crowd Misses Margaret Heck Anna Moe Tillie Bushmann and brother visited Freeport last Sunday Mrs Dave Weitgenant returned home Monday after a week with daughter Mrs J Logsdon at Monona Ladies Aid meets at Mrs Carl Lee home Postmaster Theo Werner Rapid City returned home last Thursday after spending a week with parents Declamatory contest at Ossian opera house tonight contestants from Ossian Castalia Final decision soon B C Rosencrans Park hotel Prairie du Chien with Mr Wells stopped at Ossian on way to Decorah in old Jack Johnson car K C initiation Dubuque attendees listed including FP J Fines Philip Wagner C Hauber Ed Scheidemantel Joe Dessel Herman Schultz Ed Kleisart Leo Barthelme
Mrs. Bertha Jorgenson Espeseth born February 2, 1847 in Vik Sogn Norway died Saturday at her Decorah home. Immigrated 1866 married 1872 to Andrew Espeseth. lived in Sumner township, widowed 1910, moved to Decorah 1913. Survived by seven children plus sister and brother. Funeral Tuesday at 11 a.m. at home and 3 p.m. at Lincoln church.
General Electric builds twelve giant electric locomotives for the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway to haul freight and passengers over the Rockies between Harlowton Montana and Avery Idaho. The project spans 440 route miles at a cost of 15000000, the largest railroad electrification to date. Initial electrification from Deer Lodge to Three Forks Montana progresses 113 miles with first electric locomotive expected to haul trains next October.
A Paris writer recalls a rhinoceros at Jardin des Plantes who, though irascible, befriended the director’s lap dog. The dog played daily near the animal until a misstep killed it, and the rhino mourned for two days, refusing to eat afterward.
The Sikhs are a religious sect not a race. Baptism known as the pabul marks entry, adding Singh to names after ceremony. Founded in the fifteenth century as a blend of Hindu and Mohammedan elements, Sikhism is monotheistic and peaceful, yet persecution by Mohammedans spurred a military, austere community with many adherents abstaining from tobacco and wine.
In the Better Babies department of the May Woman's Home Companion mothers receive practical housekeeping advice on spring foods. Advice urges patronizing markets with fresh greens, washing uncooked vegetables and berries, and avoiding stale or wilted produce to prevent germs of decomposition.
A historical view contrasts Franco Prussian war wound care with modern advances. It notes past reliance on pus as a sign of healing and the lack of ventilation in hospitals, then highlights Pasteur's germ theory and early use of carbolic acid and carbonic acid sprays to reduce infection and improve surgical outcomes.
The article explains trench warfare as a defensive tactic, noting obstacles, concealment, and fortifications. Trench lines may use hedges and embankments, with earth banks in front to stop bullets and behind to shield from backfire from high explosive shells.
In the rainy season Ecuadorian fields grow a vine that produces a fruit dried into a vegetable sponge praised by some as superior to animal sponges.
The article explains khaki as earth colored and traces its origins to Hindu invention. It describes early manufacturing via manure baths and later processes using iron oxides and various iron and chromium compounds to dye fabric. The method involves ferrous sulfate baths and air drying, with complex solutions used to fix metallic precipitates.
Mrs. Elmer Hatch of Peru Indiana reports years of rheumatic attacks eased immediately by Chamberlain's Liniment. She recommends it to others and notes 26 and 50 cent bottle sizes are sold by Engbretson's Pharmacy.
Brown Potato Soup recipe instructs boiling potatoes and onion in salted water then making a browned flour roux in butter and lard to thicken the soup. It ends with an odd non sequitur about doctors not knowing how we breathe after 6,000 years.
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