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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1914
Page
6
A bustling March 3 1914 Calmar column notes visits by A J Hoiness and E A Waterbury from Decorah, multiple entertainments including L A B and Fireside Club events, numerous visits between Decorah Ossian Ridgeway and Festina residents, a high school literary gathering, and a piano prize win. It also reports deaths, school elections, improvements to the district school, and maintenance work with Ole Lee supervising painting and floor updates.
Rovang visited Decorah last Saturday. Mrs John Johnson spent Tuesday at H Kelseth home. Miller Danielson stays with the Fijermund Haugen place this week. Mrs Ed Winger called at parental H Nelson home Friday. Laura Lee visited Alma Halverson last week. D E Sjoboen and daughter Alma were in Decorah for business Saturday. Mr and Mrs Andrew KE Lee visited Cresco for business recently. Mrs A BE Lee and daughters Mamie Alvina and Gunhild Smithling spent
Mrs Julia Graff returned from Chicago. Prof H O DeGraff of Mason City visited. B U Remke went to New Orleans. L A Meyer visited his son Andrew at Prairie du Chien. Miss Yephy Fleischer hosted basketball girls. Rev M J Thiltgen aided forty hour devotion in Tonia. he returned Tuesday. Many attended Campion college Ossian game, 56 to 9 Campion. Luther College Decorah beat Redmen 57 to 22 here. Decorah folks traveled to support team. Tin shower for Mrs Stoockey of Cedar Rapids at Oxley home last Thursday. about thirty friends attended.
Frankville records daily visits and moves with residents traveling to Postville Decorah Waukon Ravena Castalia and Ossian plus early spring shifts. Notable items include Geo Van Wey assessor rounds, relocations to Decorah farms, dances in Postville, and neighbors greeting kin with a March moving season underway.
Cates and Gerald Moose execute property rentals as Mrs. Alonzo Smith farm changes hands. Mrs. Betsey Bollman ends visit and returns to Sheldon. Dr Kiesau learns August’s Norfolk drug store burned recently, stock valued at 10,000 with 6,000 insured, a heavy loss. Jas Costigan shipped stock and household goods to Strawberry Point. family to leave by April 1 except Jimmie and Miss Lucy remaining through April first.
George Foltz and family were Deeco rah callers Saturday. Byron Stoskopf stayed with the Keune family last week. Hugo Noecker and wife visited Dave Welch last Friday. March appeared pleasant but cold, with something like 6 below zero. Chris Steno and his niece Ida Bergeson were business callers in Decorah last Saturday. Walter Tillapaugh and son Robert hauled barley to the Mabel market, earning 64 cents per bushel. Will Peacock and wife with Mrs Florell Potter of Burr Oak visited W. Stoskopf last Thursday. George Foltz Albert and Roy Brogshammer and Ray Smalley spent Sunday evening at W. Stoskopf. Last Saturday was very cold and stormy, heralding February’s end. Alma Espeseth, winter term teacher in Marion Price district, will finish Friday and host an entertainment. All invited. Will Stoskopf took Mrs Ellen Kenhoff and son Blanne to Mabel, Minn., Monday, then they travel to Carlsbad, Alberta, Can., where Mrs K becomes landlady of a hotel. Mrs K and son have stayed with the W. Stoskopf home the past two weeks.
Bluffton and nearby residents were noted in casual daily events including visits to Decorah, Cresco, and Barr Oak. Shoppers, hog traders, and a school election crowd are recorded alongside several personal movements and social visits. An agricultural land listing offers 320 and 344 acre parcels in Minnesota with terms, plus an advertisement for Burdock Blood Bitters.
Centennial community records a flurry of visits and illnesses. Local residents Mrs. Henry Boeckman and Isaac Duff are listed as improving or ill, while several others including Joe Ehler, Theo Daniels, and Miss Nellie Daniels are noted in social calls, farming work, or moving between farms and homes in Ossian, Lawler, Decorah, Ravena, and nearby communities.
A reflective piece compares friendship to a fragile vase that cannot be restored once broken by heat violence or accident. It argues that once damaged the bond cannot be trusted again, contrasting with how coarse stones can be cemented but precious ones cannot. The note ends with an advertisement praising Barker's Remedy for coughs colds catarrh rheumatism as unmatched by any medicine at drug stores.
A conservative estimate cites an ocean steamer 100 feet beam, 950 feet length, and 60,000 horsepower. It notes that at 15 knots against a 65 mph gale, at least 20 percent of horsepower, about 12,000 HP, would be consumed fighting head winds.
A brief look at lifespan history notes that four hundred years ago life averaged eight to twenty years, a century ago under thirty, and today about forty. The message credits medical progress and promotes Dean's Regulates as a mild liver and bowel aid, claiming benefits for digestion and the whole system and urging readers to subscribe to the Republican.
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