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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1914
Page
4
August 24 1914 County News records numerous social calls and visits across Decorah Canoe Ridge Freeport and nearby towns. Individuals include Tom Malli W C Sheetz John Malli James Hogan Stella and Phoebe Sorenson and families with relatives from Cresco Lansing Water town and Calmar. The column highlights gatherings sewing visits and small travel for neighbors and kin.
Roy Levi and Lizzie Blum visited local families Sunday and last week. Arthur Ellingson called at the Iverson home Friday evening, while Theodore Iverson stopped by Sunday. The Andersons and their children visited the Halverson home Sunday. Stella Foss returned Saturday from Madison after a week of visiting. Springwater church service was postponed due to rain Sunday afternoon. Mrs. T Iverson and Mrs Theo Anderson visited Sarah Valle Friday. Emma and Mabel Iverson came from Decorah for an overnight stay. The Narveson and Erickson households visited the Erickson home Sunday.
Henry T. Semmler admitted embezzling 2575 dollars from the Chicago Great Western at Waterloo while cashier of the freight office. The 29 year old man, who has a wife and two children, was sentenced to a reform school not to exceed five years. His peculations spanned thirty months and relatives in Missouri care for his family.
In western Lincoln County the Kuntz Bros thresh near the county line while visitors from Monroe Wisconsin entertain locals. Various village notes follow including road repairs, illness, church attendance, and social events at Ridgeway and Golden Ridge.
Ravena notes list farmers plowing visits by residents to Decorah Waterloo Fort Atkinson Ossian Decorah and Calmar. Names include Remke Brown Ness Lansing Duvee DeCou Broihier Eimers and others. social calls, visits to fairs, concerts, and a gasoline stove accident. several residents traveling to Decorah and nearby towns.
Fred Bascombe reports heat related damage during harvest at Stacyville rendering plant. He says 29 horses were killed by extreme temperatures, likely valuable livestock worth about five thousand dollars. The piece also includes a dated ad for Barker's Antiseptic and a local joke about foot odor.
The Postville creamery issued a 226 check to Elholver brothers for one month’s cream. The farmers own a pure bred Guernsey named Mollie Lou which yielded a June record of 1,903 pounds of milk at 5.2 percent and 67 pounds of butter fat equal to 75 pounds of butter. Burdock Blood Bitters advertised as a cleansing tonic for skin eruptions and impure blood, marketed at $1.00.
A Decorah resident Mr. W. Emery credits Doan's Kidney Pills with curing severe back pain bladder troubles weight loss and kidney distress. He praises the remedy saying it kept him well into old age and urges others to try the same product sold at 50 cents by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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