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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1916
Page
5
County News reports wedding bells will ring soon. Ossian visitors include John Snitker Charley Barrett and A. D. McKay. Various local residents travel visit and work at farms churches schools and mills. A lecture by Mrs. Mary Sibbetts on temperance and trafficking in women is announced with free admission.
In Ossian and surrounding towns residents reported visits callers and social events. Notable mentions include Wm Abraham Joe Barthelme and Adolph Opsahl visiting Ossian areas, Mr and Mrs Eber DeCou hosting, and a professional caller Dr Havirland visiting Joe Remke. The first post Lent dance at the Ossian opera house is set for Monday May 1 1914 with Bill's orchestra providing music. Frequent weekend trips to Decorah Postville and Red Oak appear among neighbors socializing and visiting relatives.
West central Iowa items report a week of calls visits and chores with numerous names. Local social rounds include guests at Kirschman and Schild homes and a Durand area party. Weather brings cooler temps after thunder showers and roads remain rough. May baskets and a church meeting highlight a busy local calendar.
Orville R. Tomann of the Toman Electric Construction Co. returned from Chicago after business with the Willard Storage Battery Co. The article notes the year’s business meeting and urges attendance with friends.
Alfred Anderson visited home folks Sunday Hugo Noecker drove to Burr Oak last or even Mrs Will Coy shopper at Burr Oak Thursday Mrs Bertha Bender shopper Mabey Monday Mrs Will Noecker observed in our locality Wednesday Messrs Ray and Joy Smalley at Burr Oak Saturday Helge Jacobson called at Will Hillemans Saturday Ole Andreson business caller at Ole Selenss Wednesday C J Steno in Mabel Wednesday Anna Usgaard guest at Ole Anderson home Miss Anna Usgaard accompanied them Miss Ida Bergeson drove to Burr Oak last Thursday to shop Mr and Mrs Ole Anderson spent last Thursday with the latter s home folks Messrs Andrew Anderson and Henry Knoke callers at Stenos Monday Mr and Mrs Helge Jacobson guests at Nicolai Levi home Friday Miss Louise Asgaard guest at O Anderson home Sunday Mrs J C Steno improving from rheumatism Miss Ole Anderson and Anna Usgaard at Mabel Saturday Miss Alma Selnen and Ida Asgaard guests at Lawrence Kors ness home Sunday afternoon Ida Peterson assisted J Richert with housework returned to Canoe Wednesday Ralph Winch Prosper mail carrier notes roads very bad for mail delivery Mrs Margaret Eggen Mrs Oscar Broden and Miss Ruby Anderson came from Minneapolis for visit Violet Stoskopf visits parental home over Sunday returned Locust Monday to teach Mrs farmers delayed by weather Dr Emmons seen en route to Decorah roads bad from Burr Oak.
Taken with croup a Bearaville West Virginia merchant recounts a patron whose child recovered after buying Foley's Honey and Tar Compound at Engbert's Pharmacy. The note claims relief overnight and is presented as an example among many letters.
Local retailer touts record sales of four in hand neckties last Saturday amid big demand for Ben Bear 40th Anniversary Neckwear. Hundreds of ties remain for customers choosing from a wide assortment at the REAR'S shop.
Kendallville and Cresco scenes include Edna Burton visiting Cresco friends, the Fifield and Dasham families at home, and Elmo Stephenson hosting the Ladies Aid on April 27. A Cresco windmill project, seeding delays from rain, storm damage, and a high river are noted amid social events and a medal contest won by Marguerite Brown at a WCTU gathering.
Ole J Bidne and Esten Engen visited Decorah as callers on consecutive weekends. Henry Olson family Perry Julia Gjere guests Sunday. Lewis Saxvik started his fourth season with Gust Melby in town. Andrew Gjere sought rheumatic treatment at Prairie du Chien sanitarium. Siblings Sevald and Krogh Ovre from Mercer, N D returned after their sister Aunt Sjuros death. A E Thune hauled freight to Decorah but only half a load due to soft roads. Clara Forde left for Quandah after visiting locals. A large group from Mabel, Bear Creek, Waterloo Ridge and Pekin visited Mr Peterson's place last Sunday.
Early Tuesday morning May 2 the Coop L ent New United Monster show trains roll in from Independence on the Rock Island line. The circus promises a vast wonder city with portable kitchens stables elephants and the world’s largest tents offering sightseers a dazzling spread of food beds and wagons forming a mobile army of spectacle.
A moving municipality event in Coop and Lent will pass through principal streets. The street parade starts from the show grounds around 10 30 a m.
Advertisement urging readers to mail a slip with five cents to Foley & Co in Chicago to receive a trial package of Foley remedies for bronchial coughs colds and related products along with a charitable note about returning the nickel.
A Philadelphia testimonial from Jack C. Singleton credits Vinol with relief from a severe bronchial cold and stomach upset after trying doctors and other remedies. The ad promotes Vinol as a cod liver and iron tonic without oil for chronic coughs, colds and bronchitis, endorsed by R A Engbertson, a Decorah Iowa druggist.
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