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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1915
Page
7
December 6 1915 reports cheerful health news and a flurry of social visits across Harmony Cresco and nearby areas. Local families host visitors attend funerals and share events while a medical operation at Mercy hospital leaves well progress.
December 6 1015 residents report visits and gatherings. Mrs Mary Ruffridge and Miss Mary Stoskopf visited Decorah friends. Mr and Mrs Warren Hoyt called in Freeport. F M Sheets hosted a company of friends. Lovatuen spent days with Mrs T E Kirkbride. Hagar Delaney visited cousin Mrs James Stortz on Franklin Prairie. W C T U to meet at W A Leach home Wednesday evening. Henry Bartlett and Chester Delaney attended a social at Blount school near Decorah. L A S to meet with Mrs T B Kirkbride Thursday afternoon. C D McKee leaves tomorrow for Sycamore IL after two weeks with sister Mrs G I Kirkland. Dr and Mrs G S Lackland and child and Mrs J M H Coughlin of Decorah attend L A S with Chas Blaire of Frankville.
W A Leach hosted last Thursday afternoon. J H Coughlin came from Decorah and spent Sunday with his mother Mrs L Coughlin. Charles Blake and Mrs Henry Miller hosted Frankville visitors. Beatrice Sweitzer stayed two weeks with uncle A K Sweitzer in Lanark TL. Harry Barker returned from Monona to visit his sister Mrs T M Preyer. Alex Keck of Ambrose ND called on Freeport friends after a family illness. Lester Pearson and Chester Sheetz with Leonard Rastetter camp and trap near the lower dam. Mrs Uni Lee died at the County Home last week. funeral at Glenwood church with Rev Scarvie. Olga Rukstad and Mabel Stee of Florence SD visited at uncle S Sorenson’s on Clay Hill and at Mrs P C Delaney’s home. Mr and Mrs Chris Chapman ended a week here and will visit West Union relatives before returning to Spencer. Oyster supper at Yeoman hall next Friday night December 10, with lunches for non oyster eaters. proceeds to church. Clay Hill residents seen in town included S Tolstad and family, S Sorenson family, Martin Tolstad, Herbert Gross, Mrs Caroline Gross, Hattie Gross, Will Erickson. Dr G S Lackland concluded his special meetings. new members joined. Next services Sunday December 19 at 2 30 PM. Young People meeting Sunday evening at 7 30 PM.
Mrs Wm Lynch, Miss Anna Olson, and many Decorah residents are noted visiting relatives and hosting gatherings. Entries include Rose gatherings at Clausen and Hovey households, Christ Dale hosting friends, and several Ridgeway and Decorah visits with neighbors and relatives. Cattle delivery and local repairs are mentioned along with a furniture ad promising decorai gifts.
December 6 1915 in Spillville records many local movements. Shifts include Supt. Miller of Decorah visiting town and Miss Mary Bilek in Cresco with several residents traveling to Calmar Ossian Protivin and Lawler for shopping visits dental work and family visits. One injury notes Chas Petrik cutting his foot treated by Dr Hennessy in Calmar.
December entries report Edith DeCoy and Miss Edith DeCou traveling, Herman Lansing, Anton Anderson, and Loui s Barthelme visiting Decorah and nearby farms. Hog shipments by Herman Schroeder and Frank Schroeder, plus several calls and visits to friends and relatives in Festina Ossian and Red Oak mark a busy social period.
In the Ossian area a flurry of visits and movements includes DeCou family en route to Lake Minnetonka and others visiting relatives at Cas talia Decorah and Postville. A basket social is planned for December 16 at the Joe Broghammer school house with invitations. Minnie Everson’s mother passed away in Wabasha and she left Friday. A Minneapolis marriage links Miss Mary Grantie and H O Nygaard with plans to reside on the Gronlie farm, and several families moved or rented nearby farms for spring occupancy.
W C Allen of Mosely Missouri testifies he raised four children and used Foley's Honey and Tar with all of them. He reports it is the best cough and cold remedy he has ever used and would recommend it for croup. Engbretson's Pharmacy notes satisfactory results for coughs and colds. An advertising line discusses tobacco plant seeds being minute with a thimbleful enough for an acre.
A dated notice advertises Dr Thomas Electric Oil as a household remedy for common ailments. It mentions Willie’s daily cuts and bruises, a sore throat for momma, and grandma’s lameness, framed as a local health cure.
December 7 1915 Castalia notes Mayor Tatro owns an up to date Ford. Local visitors include Frank Kneeskern in Austin Minnesota and Mrs Geo Allen heading to Ossian. Church groups plan a chicken pie dinner while entertainments feature Clarence Olaud in the opera house with a Degree of Honor event.
Advertisement for Barker's Antiseptic selling through John G. Schimming and R. A. Engbertson claiming relief from sore sweaty feet and foot odor and underarm trouble in 15 seconds.
An advertisement for Dean's Regulats promotes a mild laxative described as a modern remedy. It claims easy action and a price of 25 cents, available at all stores.
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