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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1914
Page
7
Tally of local movements and visits across Decorah and surrounding towns. Residents like T. H. Goheen, Ole Tenold, Mrs. I. N. Stromsodt, and many others travel to Lawler, Decorah, Ossian, Cresco, and Minneapolis. Social events include chautauqua attendance, royal neighbors gathering, and family visits. A storm caused tree and silo damage but no injuries.
June 23 1914 Burr Oak notes detail locals visiting and traveling. Rev. Clark leaves for Oneida. Melston Sheley visits Dakota for a week. Mrs. Masters ill but improving. Willsie guest at Wingate. Janet Milne of Prosper visits. A B Wanless ill but better. Ed Wicks of Decorah visits son Ben. Mrs. Vail of Canton hosts Reed family. Seelye family visits Mabel. James Wade visits daughter Mrs. Pierce. Lewis Richmond of Seattle visiting. Walter Winn and sons guests at Winfield Fields. Luther Pierce moves to Mason City for packing house work. Gene Kenyon of Decorah visits Reed and McMullen households. Allen Hale arrives from Washington to visit father Marsh and sister Ward. Ida Oxley of Decorah attends picnic and visits sister Bandle. Mrs. Manning undergoes hospital operation in Cresco. Thompson relatives from Arlington visit. Plin and Ed McAllister return from Minneapolis for old settlers picnic. Chas Burnett and son Norbert visiting Hawarden relatives for picnic. Benedict granddaughter Ethel and Ostrander guests at Reed home. E Kippe builds addition to his house. Mixx Andrey Ward visits La Crosse. Mrs W H Emmons visits Deborah.
June 20 in Pleasant Township reports haying in full swing and a day with a hard shower and rain followed by hail causing little damage. Local residents mention visits among the Iverson, Narveson, Foss, Foss, and Levi households, plus a suit sale attracting customers from afar. An advertisement for Bear’s farm properties and a Mary Pickford Princess showing are noted.
OSSIAN June 30 1914 items include a Castalia business visit, Elkader guest, a 7 to 3 Ossian victory over Lansing-Ossian, visits from Houston Texas and Dunno. Pre nuptial shower for Clara Spillmann, Spillmann Quinn wedding at St Francis, dance at the opera house, and a Sox Roosters game. Several relatives travel, church notices and college events, plus a Dubuque medical visit.
June 30 114 school closed in district No 6 last Friday. Local residents recall guest visits from Amanda Ginapp Regina Meyer and Jesse Limbeeck and family. Numerous social calls occurred at the Runkle and Daniels homes along with a Castalia ball game and a local dance at Teskoetters.
June 40 1914 Miss Gunhild Smithling of Nordnes spent Friday and Saturday at A Tews. A few from here attended a LA 8 at the home of Gilbert Seland Thursday. Mrs Mary Andersen is a guest with her sister Mrs AC Smithling at present. Who ever has been slighting or wounding the weather man He's still in tears. AB Lee and J Peterson autoed pines Saturday, transacting business there.
A log of visits and social happenings from the area includes Mrs. Holverson with baby Olga Nerlie at the Nerlie home, Calmar calls, Sjoboen and Sersland gatherings, Decorah and Gullickson households, Bertha Baardson’s visit, a newborn at Adolph Gullickson’s, and a teachers’ exam for Clarissa Rovang. Friends and relatives share Sunday visits, barn dances planned for July 4, and storm repair at Washington Prairie church. A July 4 barn-raising and various neighborly engagements cap the week.
Miss Martha Sorenson is sick with the measles. Myrtle Hallman is on the sick list. Decorah visitors Harry Burnside and A. Anderson with son Arthur stop by. Rev Lackland to hold services Sunday. July 4 picn ic planned at Mr Savoy s. A small cyclone hits Freeport Tuesday night uprooting trees and shaking buildings. Ed Stinson recalls old ties and a Dean s Ointment ad closes the item.
A reflective quote attributed to William Ellery Channing on the need for inner freedom and resistance to encroaching social control, paired with a remark that suspicion naturally seeks out what it anticipates when given time.
In a July American Magazine fiction piece, Spurgeon, a Galveston reporter, fights to send the first great flood story as the city lies ruined. He clashes with a night editor over press time, telegraphs flood in, and the press chase unfolds across multiple cities while the fate of his scoop hangs in the balance.
Summer colony buzzes over a creature found on the north shore of Clear Lake dubbed the Human Fish. Feared to be a sea monster or a deranged swimmer living in the lake, it is said to prey on foods from nearby piers and cottages while sleeping along the shore like a recluse.
Notice to all interested parties to appear at Winneshiek County Court House Iowa September 21 1914 at 1 30 PM for probate of an instrument alleged to be the last will and testament of a deceased person from Decorah township. Show cause why the will should not be admitted to probate. Dated June 30 1914 signed Olal Kallevang Clerk District Court seal attached Deputy Moore.
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