Local Folks of Calmar Area Share News and Visits
March 7 1916 county notes recount many Calmar Lawler Ossian New Hampton and Cresco visits. Names include Horton Glass Kubish Burns Houdek Sobolik Reihle Huinker Puffer and Stribley along with neighbors moving plans and birthday celebrations. Residents plan moves to Dunn Center and Wisconsin while others attend social events and church activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horton
Calmar
Chas’Glass
Jacob Cap
Lawler
L. D. Goddard
Ossian
J. A. Wandas
New Hampton
Clara Kubish
Tom Henry Burns
Jackson Junction
Christ Schneeberger
Timber Lake
Mat Houdek
Barloon
Fort Dodge
Luella McElree
Jackson
McElree
Dunn Center
N. D
Tom Horton
Minot
John Sluka
Budke
Virgil Mather
Virgil
Ross Luzum
Calmar Social Notes Highlight Local Visits and Birth
Calmar dated March 7 1016 reports residents visiting Decorah Waverly Charles City and Granger plus a baby girl born to Mr and Mrs Alvin Reisner on Feb 29. Names include Warren Hurlbut Julius Linde Dr Roberta and many locals visiting relatives and attending funerals or awaiting events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OF. P.kle
Decorah
Warren Hurlbut
Waverly
Iowa
Julius Linde
Roberta
Monona
Alvin Reisner
Sever Grimstad
Ossian
Peter Graf
Mary Vick
Minnie Christianson
Mankato
Minn
Anton Huson
Springfield Township
Sever Severson
George Graham
Julius Olson
Calmar
Sadie Summers
Fort Atkinson
H. Miller
G. Sanders
Granger
Bert Graf
Marshalltown
Joseph Slebiska
Anton Estrem
Agnes
Herbert Tollefson
Amos Stribley
Pound
Blanche Tollefson
Hesper Notes A Round of Calls and Bereavement
Local column from Hesper reports visitors and callers at Burr Oak Decorah and Mabel. Obituary notices mark the death of Tudor Gardiner Meader aged 73 with services at the Friends church and a Catholic church funeral for a 14 year old Stortz child.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lester Nelson
St Burr Oak
Nellie Stortz
Nels Nelson
Broghammer
Decorah
Albert Saale
Sanden
la Crosse
Chas, Sellman
Loyd Plunkett
Mabel
T. G. Meader
John Bryant
Frank Johnson
Caroline Becker
Edie
Burr Oak
Dickinson
R. Reid
R. L. Meaders
Fowler
Oehler
Philip
Frank Casterton
Canton
Minn
W. A. Plunkett
J. P. Street
Elkader
R. le Meader
Eau Claire
Wis
Oscar Sunden
Lutheran Hospital
C. J. Tamnes
Victoria Humphrey
Enomal
Lacey Johnson
Lassen
Bertha Wold
Milford Johnson
L. C. Dickinson
Tudor Gardiner Meader
Iivekiel
Lydia Meader
Milan
Indiana
Hesper
Iowa
Tee
Abbie Frances Chase
Charlotte Edna
Fred W
Kellogg
Mont
Myron
Fairoaks
Cal
George
A. F
Cha
Local Notes From Clay Hill and Nearby
March 1016 reports George Griebel sawing wood for Ed Bolsen and Berge Bros. of Glenwood cutting wood for Sam Sorenson. Mrs. Albert Grinna hosted a luncheon. Miss Margaret Williams visited Decorah. Florence Olsen returned from Decorah after a week with E W Cutting. The Anderson wedding drew relatives and friends. Louise Williams finished a term at District No. 5. Mrs. C Blake’s birthday gathered about twenty-five. Andrew Lane assessed area farmers. John Dinger hosted about twenty friends for cards. Local youths attended a basket sale at Drake school home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Griebel
Bolsen
Berge Bros
Glenwood
Sam Sorenson
Albert Grinna
Margaret Williams
Jas. Walsh
Decorah
Florence Olsen
E. W. Cutting
Sam Tolstal
Norman
Anderson-Anderson
Louise Williams
Drake
Ossian Social Roundup of Visitors and Local Events
Ossian notices list numerous visitors from Eldorado Decorah Castalia Minot and Calmar visiting Ossian residents. Travel to Chicago Dubuque Cedar Rapids and Sioux City for visits and jobs. Local gatherings include card parties five hundred games and a wedding attendance.
Community Notes From Decorah and Surrounding Towns
Local residents share calls and visits across Madison and Decorah areas. Various families, including the Hovey, Halvorson, and Bergsager households, host callers and relatives, with many moving or traveling between Ridgeway, Burr Oak, and nearby farms.
Hovey Family Gathered for Supper and Thanks
Mr and Mrs H J Fretheim hosted a relatives gathering Sunday night with K O Hovey of Grafton O K Hovey Mrs K Hovey O E Hovey of Lime Springs O O Hovey Sr Mrs O O Hovey Jr Grimstvedt Mr and Mrs O P Hovey and children Clarence Lloyd and Beatrice Also a Card of Thanks from O O Hove Sr and family for sympathy and flower offerings after a wife and mother burial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grimstvedt
O. P. Hovey
Clarence
Lloyd
Beatrice
Hove
Hove, Jr
Centen nial social notes from Castalia area
March 6 1916 Aunt Amelia Douglass is very poorly. Numerous local residents visited caller homes in Castalia Decorah and Frankville including Walter Koeh Kinney Harry Harvey and Frank Boeckman. Many exchanges of visiting friends relatives and neighbors occur with illness work and domestic tasks recorded in the weekly notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amelia Douglass
Geo. Allen
Castalia
Lalla Lee
Nesset
Walter Koeh
N Ginapp
Mr. Kinney
Tom French
Frankville
Ezra Schoonmaker
Dubuque
Harry Harvey
Harold Laughlin
McGregor
Frank Boeckman
Mary Harris
Decorah
Charley Daniels
Mat Wiltgen
Friedeline Heiman
Henry Heiman
Clem Litchenberg
Near Festina
W. Wiltgen
Rae Runkle
Anna Daniels
Theo
Rose
Will Boeckman
Lewie Bonfig
Ossian
Leonard Bonfig
Minnesota
Will Wittgen
Minnie Schrubbe
Isaac Dutt
Local notes from Ravena and surrounding towns
The Ravena area reports mild weather with visits, calls, and chores across Postville Ossian Decorah Castalia and nearby farms. Quarantine for scarlet fever affects the Philip Barthelme Jr. family while sales and moving activity pepper the week at multiple homes and businesses. Bear's store teases upcoming overcoat values.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will Ruse
Postville
Alvin Meyer
Herman Lansing
August Lansing
Lawler
Ossian
Julius Brown
Aug
Peck
Vicker
Alvin
Henry
Joe Lansing
Frank Schwei
Philip Barthelme, Jr
Missyme Saneressig
Postville J
Land o' Nod Stories by Howard T Knapp
Billy Be By Bo Bum and elf Tinker Teedle Tee discuss parasol ants in Texas. The elf conjures a magic rug and they ascend rapidly toward a faraway Texas city, with Billy unsure but curious about the journey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard T. Knapp
Billy
Bo Bum
Tinker Teedle Tee
Little Elf
Texas
Tinker
Billy Boy
Parasol Ants Create City Visit In Texas
Billy and Tinker ride a magic rug and land in Texas after a swift trip. They arrive near a city built by Parasol Ants, inviting future tales about these curious insects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tinker
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County News
Chas. Glass
Cordie
Glass
Lena Barlow
Madison Township
Iver Barlow
Mary View
Ole Olson
Austin
Nels Olson
Carrie Olson
Clay Hill
W. J. Cremer
Geo. Schatz
Eldorado
Cornell
F. W. Dessel
Prairie du Chien
Charlotte
Arthur Gunderson
Chicago
J. A. Havkland
J. A. Huber
Waukon
Babe
Post‘ville
Millie Brockman
Roshek
Ursula Meyer
Cedar Rapids
Irma
Anna Paalen
Weitgenant
Osage
Mullaney
Schultze
Theo. Fleischer
Marceline Figue
J. B. Wiltgen
A. C. Heck
Wiltgen Hotel
Chas
Becker
T. FP. Lehrmitz
Louis Eberhard
Madison
Christ Dale
Carl Oen
J, Tidan
EK. C. Flaskerud
W. E. Hoyt
Harold Bergsager
Ole Tveter
A.T. Istad
Stabo
A. Qualley
J. Oddan
Carl Owen
Carl Gulbrandson
William Webjornson
David
H. KB. Gulbrandson
Petrine Berger
O. C. Hove
Gilbert Larson
N. Frose Farm
Philip Knudtsen
Harold Yarwood
Ridgeway
O. K. Hovey
Lime Springs
A. O. Hovey
KK. Hovey
O. O. Hovey
H. A. Halvorson
N. Engen
Ole and
Koudt Grinietvedt
Centennial
Marjory Monroe
Irving Hughes
Tom Frerich
Fred Westphal
Rev. Harms
Heiman
Chas. Ginapp
Nelle
Lilia
Marjory Jones
L.D. Burrows
Ravena
Bear's
Gouraud
Peter Johnson & Sons
Jim
Bill
U. S
South Dakota
the Adams Seed CO
West Water St
The
Ingvoldstad Lumber Co
Hanide
G. D. Chapman
Conover
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