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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1913
Page
7
Geo Bieber and many others visit and conduct business across towns including Lawler New Hampton Charles City Calmar and Decorah. Frequent trips, family visits, and social events shape a busy week with noted attendees at Ossian Fayette Protivin Calmar Mason City Winona and Streeter area.
July 28 1915 Frankville reports Dec Hughes recovering from measles Elmer Gibbs Decorah visiting Ourburg Tuesday Dr Kiesan and Trvin Hughes Decorah visitors Friday Mrs G J Crawford and Lynn Decorah callers T i Roma Padden home Thursday from Kia fp to Waterloo FF Miller and Clark Sherman sold chickens at Postville Tuesday Clair Limbeck Ossian visitor in town Tuesday and Wednesday
A lengthy local column records numerous visits and social happenings from Decorah and nearby towns. People from Mason City Sioux City Waterloo Ossian Cresco Postville and Sanborn are mentioned visiting,barn raisings, bee events, and church activities. A November wedding in Ossian to a Waterloo groom is described with ceremony details and reception.
In the old church of Los Pinas near Manila stands a bamboo organ built by Father Diego Cera of the Recoletos in 170. The upright bamboo pipes resemble metal pipes and a second set lies horizontally on a rack above the keyboard. The instrument remains in use and the bamboo is well preserved by a secret preservation process once kept by Father Cera.
Burr Oak residents share visits and arrivals with Canton, Locust, Mabel, and West Union. A Lanesboro loss at home, field day rainout, and a Prosper lumber yard fire scare color a town bulletin with weddings births and upcoming meetings.
July 20 113 centennial notes show Fran Youmans Nellie Daniels Agnes Cooper and Rosa family ill and visiting Ossian Decorah and nearby towns. Several callers including Henry Boeckmann Joe Ehler Elmer Lennon Theo Doerr and Jim French. A dance at Will Wiltgen's and visits from Ft Madison with Mrs Heiman and James Phalen's gathering.
Mr and Mrs Geo Allen spent Sunday at Allie Greens. Dr Lynch of Ossian made a professional call in Centennial Wednesday. Walker DeCoy and wife and Mrs Harry Alexander and baby were Calmar callers Sunday. Mr and Mrs Chas Allen went to the Allie Green home near Castalia Sunday for a few days. Mr and Mrs Rae Runkle and son James and Mrs Theo Doerr and Miss Nellie Daniels were guests at Bert Daniels home in Decorah Wednesday. Mr and Mrs Hiram Douglass and son returned to Ostrander Minn after visiting the Stevens home.
Kendallville date July 28 1913 reports W A Daskam visiting Harmony and a quiet Tuesday rain. Notes on Leone Williams illness, Morgan L A 8 ice cream social, Cresco moving picture night, haying accident to John Anderson, painting by John Brow, visits among neighbors from Harmony Cresco and Canton, Lena Pederson improving, local visits by the Culbert family and May, Mrs F R Goddard and Frederick visiting from Nekoosa, former pastor Mitchell and wife visiting, Abbie Nelson and Paul Solton at Ficken home, lightning rods installed by Cora Solton, Stagle family from Fayette visiting, Kendallville L A U S met at A Moore home and to meet at Ed Barnes in two weeks.
July 20 1908 Freeport social notes report visitors from Decorah Waukon Calmar Bluffton and Cresco. Rev Lackland to preach Sunday at 3 pm. Local residents hosted guests and attended church events while neighbors enjoyed picnics and social gatherings around Clay Hill and east of town.
The piece notes odd burial requests such as a cobbler’s tools interred with him and a pensioner insisting on his former uniform, alongside a London shoeblack who rejects his trade emblems in the grave. It closes by observing how girls quarrel when not cheering those who are.
Farmers busy harvesting grain report good crops with a bumper outlook for corn and abundant apples. Local gatherings include Gauken picnic at Nasset Sunny, Y P S at H A Teslow, and visits among Berg Hager Ness Krueger Moen Sivesind and Searvie families. Community notes mention relatives from Decorah and Saude with multiple visits and friendly chatter.
A health column advises on using milk and eggs to aid recovery. It recommends serving milk warm or hot for sensitive stomachs, rinsing the mouth before and after drinking, and varying preparation to tempt patients reluctant to drink milk. It also suggests beating egg white into milk for delicate stomachs and placing the yolk on top as ornament.
Practical stain removals are offered for wine and ink on textiles. Wine stains may be lifted with methylated spirits and chloroform to restore color, while wine vinegar stains respond to ammonia or other alkali. Ink stains vary by ink type and fabric, with warm exatic seed water helping white cotton linen or wool, though some stains remain difficult to remove.
The 1808 census shows strawberry production totaling 238 million quarts worth about 20 million dollars. Maryland led in acreage, followed by Tennessee, Missouri, New Jersey, Michigan, Arkansas, Delaware, Virginia and New York. Massachusetts had just over 2,000 acres.
A native Indian writer illustrates English quirks in a letter to a missionary. He notes his wife’s return cured from the hospital and asks to visit the missionary’s bungalow this afternoon. He declines repayment, stating vengeance belongs to God.
The note from Lonton Hospital observes that many dietetic schemes claimed as scientific prove unsatisfactory in practice. Practitioners increasingly refuse to engage in discussions about aprietic values of foodstuffs beyond practical experience.
The week was cool and pleasant with rainfall deficits in the south where only .04 inch fell. The north saw frequent showers totaling .81 inch. Haying nears completion, small grain in shock, threshing rushed with fair to extra good yields. Late oats damaged by heat but improving, crops flourishing in north while corn, potatoes and pastures in the south need rain. Stock water scarce in southeastern counties. GEO. M. CHAPPEL, Section Director.
An engineer describes a method to create fire without visible flame. A porous plate holds inflammable gas and air in correct proportions. Lighting the gas causes a surface flame that vanishes when air is introduced, yet heats the plate to about 3,200 degrees. Potential uses remain uncertain.
A California home-builder pressed his infant son’s hands into wet cement in 1887, creating a lasting portrait of childhood that Strand Magazine says marks the difference between a house and a home. Sir Thomas Lipton plans another America's Cup challenge next year, while a Chicago girl flirted with marrying the wrong twin, a rushed marriage the piece decries.
Roman and Etruscan tombs yield safety pins made of bronze predating Christ, with collars, studs, and ancient belts using bronze clamps like paper fasteners. Thimbles 2,500 years old, bronze with needle-head indents, show early tools resemble modern equivalents.
The piece notes Sir William Crookes’ playful take on the medieval question by replacing angels with devils and posits that 500 deadly microbes could fit on a needle’s tip. It adds Cleveland officials’ claims of eradicating the fly and hints they may vacation elsewhere.
Mrs William Orvis of Claire Michigan praises Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as the best medicine in the world after it saved her little girl from severe dysentery. For sale at Engbretsons Pharmacy. Adv
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