Community notes highlight social and travel events
County News for July 3 1916 reports visits by families and friends in and around Ravena Cresco and Decorah. It lists dances picnics church activities L A S meetings and many residents traveling to fairs and visiting relatives in Fort Atkinson Lawler Monona and Festina. The county gains with warm weather crops and a tale of a Norwayborn couple Mr and Mrs John Steno with family celebration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tillie Barnes
Fred
Marion Davis
F. Walters Place
Fred Smith
Nelson
Decorah
Clinton Fifield
Moore
W. A. Clink
Steve Todd
John Clink
Orleans
Chas. Smith
John Emstie
St. Claude
Manitoba
Burton T
Clink
Anade
L. A
Orleans Norwegian Lutheran Church
Ole Ferkenstad
eThe Kendallville
A. Moore
Ben Eimers
Fort Atkinson
John Duvee
Postville
Henry Miller
Bill Rowan
Ravena
Andrew Etteldorf
Festina
Herman Lansing
Frank
Sauersig
Monona
C. Arbogast
W. Lansing
Leo
Regina Barthelme
Spillville
Elmer Brockamp
Ossian
Herb Kleisart
Miss Keming
Eber DeCou
Chas. Hauber
Ossian Was A Caller At August Lansing’s Wednesday. Rosa and Marie Shhoebel
Clouel
Herman Lange
Centennial
Bse
Milo
Alvin Meyier
Will Hemesath
East of Ossian
P. Barthelme, Jr
Sam Shhoebel
Lawler
Geo. Falsk
Burr Oak Community Notes Show Visits and Local News
Elmer Kimber leaves for Montana and Victor Johnson from Nordness visits. Many residents visit relatives, travel to Decorah and Cresco, and attend social events. The L. A. S. plans a July 13 meeting at the Reed home with a 4:45 to 5:45 supper. A new Saxon and Ford are bought, and a kerosene fire accident injures a boy but eyes are saved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer Kimber
Montana
Victor Johnson
Nordness
W. C. Winn
E. M. Reed
Claude Allen
Mabel
Ed. Curtin
Decorah
Florence Reed
I. N. Reed
Jim Douglass
Abe Pierce
Cresco
Rose Edie
Roy Wanless
W. Ronan and Son
Lewis Wemett
Dubuque
J. Wemett
Perry Whitney
Will Darling
Jack Nolte
Alberta Cox J
James Wade
Myrtle
Carl Pierce
Brayton Whitney
Geo. Snell
Martha Goforth
Spring Valley
LOOKING GLASS PRAIRIE PERSONAL NOTES 1916
Decorah visitors and local arrivals fill the week as residents travel to Burr Oak and Mabel while chautauqua, barn dances, and an ice cream social provide community entertainment. A sheriff pursues a Cody Wyoming case, and a Golden Wedding anniversary honors fifty years of marriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will Darling
Helwig
Orchestra of
Decorah
Albert van Vieit
M. F. Church
Burr Oak
Ellingson
Hesper
Roy €. Dart
Cody
Wyo
John Stone
Local notes from Conover and surrounding towns
Anton Olson Conover in town Monday. Several residents make trips to Decorah Spillville Ossian Calmar and Cresco for visits and family events. A baby girl born to Joe Klimesh and wife on July 1. Homecoming at Prairie du Chien moved to July 17 22.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anton Olson
John Benda
Dan Farnes
Geo. Klema
Joe Klinesh
Wm. Sobolik
Charles City
Adolph Seifert
Frances Mikesh
Shevik
Mikesh
Pro‘ivia
Decorah
Ida Winger
Geo. Cummings
A. A. Novak
Spillville
Geo
Cummings
Chas. Phillips
M. Mikesh
Joe Klimesh
Ossian
Lalla Lee
Protivin
Ft. Atkinson
M. Kubish
Chas
Chas. Hauser
Eulalia
Conover
Cedar Rapids
G. H. Cummings
Calmar
Cresco
Wm, Allen
Wm. Frey
Dean’s
Prairie du Chien
Various Residents and Visitors Roam Ossian Area This Week
Ossian relations report a string of visitors and travel notes across towns. Names include Tony Bohr Fred Seibold Joe Heinen Mary Boyle and Mary Lyman with stops in Clermont Postville Calmar Elgin Cresco Fort Atkinson Sioux City and Chicago. Local trips cover business visits family visits and holiday travel with multiple stays and returns noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tony Bohr
Cedar Rapids
Fred Seibold
Fort Atkinson
Joe Heinen
Calmar
Mr. Kelly
Dubuque
Bart Carey
Mary Boyle
Clermont
C. F. Sobolik
Postville
Peter Feil
Cresco
Albert Heinen
Wendolyn Heinen
Pete Thoma
Elgin
Margaret Welch
Sylvia Lukenbill
Will Duff
Sioux City
Albert Héinen
Chicago
Ed. Dowd
Dave Woittenman
Ed. Limbeck
Faylette
Wm. J. Becker
Los Angeles
Joe Boyle
West Union
Elizabeth Atzhorn
Andrew Barthelme
Kate Deming
Lund
Louis Ebelherr
J. A. Huber
Waukon
Opera House
L. A. Meyer
Holtey
Brockamp
Festina
P. J. Friedmann
Luxemburg
Edna Easter
Omaha
Amandus Heinen
M. H. Heinen
Waterloo
Mary Lyman
Champagne
F. J. Pigge
Marriage at the bride's home with Rev Kramme officiating
Pearl Weitgenant visits Neilsville and Osage before the marriage of Hans Rawlinson and Elizabeth Hanson at the bride's home with Rev Kramme officiating. The couple left for St Dakota after the ceremony. Clem Brockamps hosted friends and relatives for Mrs Clyde Dolman of Minneapolis visiting Mr Philip Barthelme.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pearl Weitgenant
Neilsville
Wis
Gee
Osage
Rev. Kramme
Hans Rawlinson
Elizabeth Hanson
St. Dakota
Clem Brockamps
Clyde Dolman
Minneapolis
Philip Barthelme
Conigisky to Visit Decorah for Vision Correction
Conigisky will be in Decorah all of next week from Monday morning to Saturday night at Dr Conrad's office offering expert correction of vision through scientific glass fitting. Be sure to see him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Conigisky
Decorah
Ferry Boat Crashes Into Pontoon Piling At Night
A ferry carrying seventeen men between North McGregor and Prairie du Chien crashed into a pontoon piling after lights failed near midnight. The vessel nearly capsized as the captain struggled to steer in darkness. A farm hand, Harry Ramsdell, was severely injured when his arm was torn by the collision. The 1910 census note is unrelated to the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North McGrregor
Prairie du Chien
Harry Ramsdell
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Aalen
Norway
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America
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M. Bergeson
John Nelson
Prosper
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Ida
Jay
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Grace
Viola
William
Alma Nelson
Steno
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George
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Violet Stoskopf
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Will
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Orin Porter
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W. Arnold
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B. M. Bovee
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Marjorie Pierce
Clark Manning
Alva
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Myrtle Whitbeck
Doris
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Caledonia
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Hannah Sharp
Forest City
Otis
James McMullen
FE. M. Reed
Looking Glass Prairie
A. J. Maland
Fred Foltz
James Smalley
Ray
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Oscar Reed
Hugo Noecker
J. C. Ward
Stono’s
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Edmore
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Yy. Emmons
Teddy
Fayette
Ole Selnes
U. S
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Hilda
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Atlant Coast Live Railroad
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Atchison, Topeke & Santa Fe Railway
H.W McMaster
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James Russell
Denver & Rio G « Railroad
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