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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1915
Page
7
A lengthy Decorah local notes list dozens of residents and guests. O P Ode visited on business. many others traveled to Decorah for visits, shopping, or health care. Several families, in and around Decorah, report visitors from nearby towns and states, with hospital updates for two sisters formerly operated on for appendicitis.
August log reports Mrs Roscoe Wicks ill. farm sale from John Kipp to Jack Halse. Carl Pierce sold Rev car to Jack Nolte. Rev Simpson Clark returned from Missouri trip. Local visits by Anna Winters and Kathleen Reed. Palmer Peacock visit. Bertha Myrtle Wade shopping in Decorah. E M Reed family at Roy Wanless. Emmons family trip to Decorah. Ladies Aid meets Aug 5 at Theares home. Florence Reed visit with Clifford Whitney family. C C Ward and sisters visit Mabel. Ward and Pierce travel to La Crosse. Bertha Wade visits Carl Pierce’s sister. July 29 baby boy born to Guy Sheley. Maltby family trip to De.
A long list of local residents visiting relatives and friends across nearby towns. Activities include guests from Mabel Austin Decorah and Canton Minnesota, trips to La Crosse hospital, and attendance at a ball game and local social events with names such as Reed Perry Gates and Maltby appearing throughout.
August 3 1915 long list of local visits callers and travels in Decorah Castalia Ossian Luana and nearby areas. Frequent names include Ginapp Teepe Ehler Boeckman Daniels Rathbun Allen and Kunkle with several family visits and a funeral in Dakota. A lively community record of weekly social and business calls.
Nineteen readouts note various visits by Ossian residents and neighbors from Decorah Monona Calmar and other towns between late July and early August 1915. Highlights include Rev H Kofske visiting Fayette and returning from Lansing and Bud Yager. Miss Agnes Limbeck visiting Decorah and returning home. several local engagements at Jim Boyle and Edna Harvey homes. a rain curtailed Ossian baseball game versus Dubuque Hawkeyes ending 0 0 after seven innings.
A patchwork of village items and rumors from Decorah including visits by Palma Olson and Dr Hexom, teaching plans for Julia Joasendal in Pope County Minnesota, and jokes about haying. Mentions of L A B and BE L Jones store, a brass band ice cream sociable, postmaster gossip, Bryan’s homecoming in Lincoln, and Ford auto news amid WWI front reports.
Local forecasters joke about the German reverses while Highlandville notes a shift in trade as the oldest store closes after 50 years. The Schjeldahl era ends and Maver Bros. of Decorah acquire stock, with community mourning the loss of E. O. Schjeldahl and a wave of related obituaries and transfers.
Ethel Fifield spent a week in Cresco while Nellie Stephenson hosted the Larkin club. Willard Todd visited Cresco. A Grange box social is set for Wednesday. Sam Moore from Decorah stayed a week. The Morgan L A S met at Mr and Mrs Sehleuter. Various visits, travels, and farm improvements are noted with W C T O progress and a Kendallville L A S picnic move due to rain. Jewelry ad ends the column.
Spilleville reports numerous residents visiting Calmar Mason City and Fort Atkinson. Car trips by Fred Herold Jos Ptachek Matt Kinker P. J. Herold and others, dental work by Misses Hosper Kapler Klimesh and Celia Soukup, arrivals from La Crosse and De corridor trips, and plans for electric light plant workers. Local visitors include the Kapinos and Veetecka families. a delayed football game Lawler versus Spillville due to weather.
Numerous short visits and trips recorded across Fort Atkinson Lawler Ossian Calmar and nearby communities. Names include Mrs Jos Sobolik G A Bieber Peter Houdek Kay Knight and Miss Anna Zobal with travels to Ossian Calmar Winnebago Austin and Minnesota points. Visitations and dental work noted along with relatives and farm neighbors.
Mrs Edwin Macal and children traveled to Prairie du Chien to visit her brother Mr Mapson. Miss Stephana Wandas resumes nursing duties in Cresco after a visit with her folks. Several others returned home from visits in Minneapolis Adams Ossian Lea and St Paul. A lawn social at the Ze mat home near the cemetery society, highlighted by a band concert, drew a large crowd and netted 37.05 for the group.
Rainy days dominated by frequent travel and social visits. Elvin Barth and Geo Barth with Annie Vick and Pearl Iverson are among those noted. several calls at local homes during the week. The American Society of Equity in District No. 5 was organized with N. C. Narveson as president, O. Ellis as vice president, and A. Tesky as secretary.
Advertising copy claims accumulated bowel waste causes illness and urges taking one or two Dr King s New Life Pills tonight for a full bowel movement. The ad offers an original bottle of 36 pills for 25 cents and mentions a fire at a creamery near Stanley Fayette county.
A vintage advertisement touts Doan's Kidney Pills as a tested remedy for back pain and kidney trouble. It cites Decorah user E. Herwig, a mill street barber, who reports relief from back ache and kidney symptoms after using the product. The ad urges asking for the kidney remedy by name, Doan's Kidney Pills, price 50 cents.
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