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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1917
Page
2
Decorah residents and visitors are listed with short trips and visits. People from Castalia, Calmar, Ridgeway, Burr Oak, and surrounding towns travel to Decorah for medical, familial, or business reasons. Several plan longer trips to Minneapolis, Chicago, or California.
Mrs. George Daubney a longtime Winneshiek county resident died in Council Bluffs on January 10 and burial followed in Decorah. Niece Miss Lottie M Johnston and Mrs N C Jackwitz arranged the funeral with James Johnston of Omaha meeting the party. Rev M Willett officiated at the grave. Charlotte Kimball born July 24 1825 in New Hampshire was one of sixteen children and married George Daubney before migrating to Iowa in 1854. They settled in Canoe township then Decorah where Daubney died Sept 1 1896. Mrs Daubney spent much of later life with her niece and cared for her nieces daughters. She was known for a warm home and sincere interest in others health lasting only a week from a grip illness.
Mrs BE Aitken sends a clipping from a California paper showing lima bean stock in Ventura warehouses and 271 337 bags of other beans. Two Ventura warehouses run day and night crews sorting beans. figures likely represent only part of the crop. Mrs Aitken’s address is 316 Oak St Ventura Cal.
Decorah readers recall Mr and Mrs Frank Farr as Clifford H Farr, a former Decorah resident, has earned both B B A and M A degrees and will head the botany department at Rutgers College during summer 1917. He currently teaches at Texas State College.
Maud Ballington Booth leads the Volunteer Prison League promoting Hope Halls for discharged prisoners and Rainbow Houses for families in need. Her work has aided tens of thousands, with many graduates becoming productive citizens and some earning over ten thousand dollars. Governors nationwide urged her to be the American delegate to a world prison congress. Her Decorah visit is slated for early February.
The National Bank for Decorah handled the largest check ever cashed in the city last week. Issued by the St. Paul Mutual Hazard, Hail and Cyclone Insurance Co. to George Mizener as a Christmas recognition of his services, the check measured eight by seventeen inches. Mizener, Montana representative for the company, is expected to earn more large checks.
In Decorah last week two hardware stock transfers occurred. Dahl and Mollart sold prior stock to Jenny Bidne and G A Winger, while Sam Barth and L Finholt bought Ed Isted’s stock and took immediate possession.
The home of Mrs Charles Brooks in the extreme southwest part of the city beyond the stock yards burned completely Monday morning. Fire started near the chimney, delaying alarm and allowing the blaze to consume the house and four tons of coal in the cellar. only onlookers saved most furniture and the son Harry Brooks wore only his current clothes.
The St Paul Pioneer Press notes Al Palzer, once the gigantic white hope, trains again in hopes of a comeback. Ole Marsh, who trained Palzer months ago, says Palzer’s main flaw is a pervasive streak of yellow in his system.
The Standard Telephone Co notified Decorah patrons last week of rate increases for wall phones and single party line rentals to $2.50 per month and $2.00 for twoline phones. No changes for residence phones. Burdock Blood Bitters advertised as a family tonic priced at $1.00.
A.S. Stern and company present the comedy Twin Beds by Salisbury Field and Margaret Mayo at the Grand Opera House tomorrow night January 19. The play about apartment life and three couples has earned unanimous praise from New York critics and promises lively, tasteful entertainment through a week long run between Milwaukee and Minneapolis.
Miss Faye R. Gilbert of Ossian and Fred J. Peglow of Monona were united in marriage at the Congregational parsonage with Dr. Willett officiating. The bride, daughter of Eva Gilbert of Ossian, is praised for grace and character, while the groom runs an automobile business in Monona and has ties to Ossian.
The annual ice harvest may finish this month as houses fill in West Decorah ten days ago and nearby sites completed this week. The Taveners work on filling houses for the Sugar Bowl Ice Cream factory, with ice nineteen to twenty inches thick of top quality, reflecting conditions across northeastern Iowa.
The Winneshiek County Horticultural Society held its annual meeting at the Court House on Thursday the 11th. Weak attendance due to cold weather. officers elected include President E W Cutting and Secretary O O Lomen. A county fruit convention was proposed and referred to a committee for arrangements if support is found. A pruning demonstration is planned for March or April with notice to follow.
I wish to extend thanks to friends and neighbors for their kindness during the sickness and death of my son. T. T. ISTED.
Congregational Methodist and Christian Science societies list Sunday services and Sunday school times. The Congregational group features sermons on gospel purpose and living peaceably, with a solo by Mrs. Alice Griebel. The Free Methodist and others provide morning and evening worship plus youth programs and choir selections.
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