Local Notes From Decorah and Surroundings April 1918
County News records visitors and social happenings around Decorah Iowa with numerous calls from Cresco, Decorah, and Ossian. Birth announced for Oscar and Mrs Moe a daughter born April 25. Community events include church meetings, a 15th birthday party for Mabel Magnus, and sermons at the M E church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Gibbs
Decorah
Chas. Beucher
Prairie du Chien
Wis
Tom Sime
Cresco
Mr. Fields
Chas. Kuntz
O. G. Allen
Lillian Kuntz
Mr. Culver
Waterloo
Trygve Jordahl
Justine Iverson
Oscar Moe
Seymour Fosse
Lanesboro
Minn
Cecil Caro
Geo. Baker
Philip Kuntz
Emma
Tom Moe
Elmore
Ralph Griffith
Iver Ringstad
Marian
Minneapolis
Allen
Henry Butz
Theo
Hopperstad
Ole Rue
M. Brekke
Anton Brekke
Theo. Gullickson
Elmer Ringoen
Ossian
Prof
Olson
Standard Bearers Society
M. E. Church
Rob Blackburn
Mabel Magnus
Ruth Sjobakken
Mamie Hickey
Forest City
Adele
Waldorf, College
Ringoen
Cure
Morton
Evans
H. Butz
J. W. Griffith
Ada
Nils Iverson
M. E
Epworth League
Inger Fulsans
Halvor Skadeland
Madison Church
Jordahl
Orville Allen
Allen Butz
Mabel
Glenwood Township
Laura Kuntz
Funeral notices and community updates from Hesper Iowa
Local columns report on deaths of John W Johnson in Hesper and Dr. Charles Edmunds in Central City Neb with funeral details. Extended notices mention travels, callers, visits, and quarterly Friends church meetings, plus community arrivals and sickness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna Marie Mortenson
America
Hurley
Wis
Winneshiek County
Iowa
Norway
Theodore Laasen
Glencoe
Minn
Johnnie
Martin
Lucy
Emma
Hest
Hesper
Mr. Johnson
Mabel
Dr. Edmunds
J. K. Stroud
A. M. Stroud
Johnson
L. P. Bacon
W. C. Bacon
Hocking
F. W. Bacon
L. J. Antrim
Geo. Thames
Charles Butler Edmunds
Dayton
Wyo
Grand Island
Neb
la Crosse
Edmunds
Duffy
Charles Edmunds
Dr. Worth
Florence
Friends Church
O. L. Hutchins
Ossian News Sketches and Local Visits Reported
April 30 1918 Ossian area notes include many visits to Calmar Waterloo Charles City and Cresco. Local ball game Ossian high school lost 16 to 1 to Ossian’s visitors. Farm and shop calls by Sobolik Hruska and others reflect daily life and recent bereavement in Gracemont.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jos. Sobolik
Calmar
Fred Houdek
Louis Meyer
Waterloo
Crete Smith
Frank Koch
Jos. Haas
Jackson Junction
Victoria
Clara Hlubek
New Hampton
Cordie Glass
Miss Deming
Mas
Jos
Yorkie
Adolph Hruska
Staska
Perkins
Gracemont
Oklo
Rose Krumm
Charles City
Jacob Weiler
Henry Summers
F. A. Schreiber
Schmidt
Chicago
Clemence Brockamp
Ossian
Calmar Social News and Camp Dodge Movements
Calmar society notes record visits from Ossian Mason City and Decorah residents, including Anna Becker and Otilia Rapinos. Local youths join Camp Dodge training as family members attend funerals and aid drives. Thea Bjerke dies at 40 with services in the Norwegian Lutheran church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agnes Becker
Ossian
Otilia Rapinos
Mason City
Anna Swehla
Lucy Huber
Spillville
Margaret Edwards
Cedar.Rapids
Caan
J. D. Becker
Stephen Hrushka
Geo. Harris
Camp Dodge
John Meyer
Peter Meyer
Anton Kramer
Elkader
N. Frodden
Charles City
Ann Becker
Minneapolis
Jack Cramer
Datan
Carl
Harriet
Nockels’ Hall
Anna Becker
Calmar
The
Red Cross
Thea Bjerke
E. B. Olson
L. J. Vogel
Anna
Sadie Whidt
Decorah
Bjerke
Norwegian Lutheran Church
Paul Koren
Julius Woldt
Sadie Woldt
Tollef Istad
Christ Dale
Last Call for Seed Corn Warns Farmers to Secure Seed
County Agent urges all farmers to test and use their own seed corn or locally grown seed from 1916 1917. Warns against importing seed without testing and stresses patriotic duty to supply county seed first, with cane seed plans and distribution via Farm Bureau Aid and district reporters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farm Bureau
Freeport News Notebook From April 29 1918
Local notes detail visits and calls around Freeport and nearby towns. Several individuals travel between Decorah Glenwood Waukon Canoe Ridge and Florence S. D. while noting sick children and Red Cross plans. A Riverbend unit sale is announced for May 19 at the Walter Stortz home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. E. Kirkbride
Freeport
Leona Sorenson
Clay Hill
James Hallman
Sidney Baker
Decorah
Our Village
Red Cross
Yeoman Hall
John Stoskopf
James Stortz
Franklin Prairie
Elmer Bertossa
Davenport
John Rukstad
Florence
Riverbend Red Cross
Walter Stortz
Drake Farm
Liberty
Cedar Valley Social Notes Mention Local Calls and Hopes for Roads
Melvin Peterson and other Cedar Valley residents visited local households including Peter Borsheim and Theo Thorson. Several calls occurred Friday and Sunday with updates on May baskets, summer work, and road improvements. The piece mentions road crews busy and a Barn construction plan for J. Anderson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melvin Peterson
Theo. Thorson
Sever Borsheim
Roy Gretley
Bertie Borsheim
Ole Bringe
Peter Borsheim
T. Tostenson
Henry Halverson
Canoe Ridge
John Siem
Godfred Vick
Ed Anderson
Amon
Pete
Theo
Thorsen
Tostenson
Lida Borsheim
Chase Peterson
RK. J. Anderson
Highlandville News Roundup Near Decorah and La Crosse
Local items from Highlandville include Soren Ness buying a one ton Ford truck and Arne Brunsvold and family driving to Decorah last Thursday. Visitors H I Stoen at Gjere’s, and others, frequent the area. People haul sand for a bank, a Chicago arrival Dr Selmer Strinmoen locates here, and several trips to Decorah and La Crosse are noted. The horseshoe champs are Mone Olson and Gilbert Saxvik, with Clara Peterson returning home from La Crosse hospital after gall bladder surgery. Buy Liberty Bonds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Soren
Ness
Arne Brunsvold
Decorah
H. I. Stoen
T. A
Chicago
Harry Grindeland
Knut Folkedah
Lewis Grindeland
Irene
Esten Engen
Ed. Nordheim
Sattre
Nels N. Mestad
Austin Maland
Hesper
la Crosse
Social visits and a death in the community
April events list visits among neighbors at Knutsons Skadelands Fulsaas and Benson households. The community notes a death of Ingri Fulsaas last Tuesday evening at 6 30 o clock aged seven after a prolonged illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enos Bergen
K. P. Knutson
Rose Howden
Decorah
Inga Myran
H. Skadeland
Luella Knutson
Skadeland
Albert Fulsans
Anna Holstad
Ralph Haga
Minnie Ask
Halvor Skadeland
Ingri Fulsaas
Drunken Rowdies Rampage Hits Hawkeye Venues
A party of drunken men damaged windows and doors at three Hawkeye locations last Friday night. They broke cigars from a restaurant’s display and hurled them through a bank window. The bank was entered but nothing was stolen. They arrived and departed by automobile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hawkeye
Family cough remedy praise prompt for safety and relief
Mrs John Peter of 20 Shupe Street Mt Pleasant Pa recommends Fisnleys Honey and Tar as a safe effective cough and cold remedy for bronchitis grip cold croup and whooping cough. Ad appears from Eng bertson s Pharmacy Ady.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Peter
Shupe St
Mt. Pleasant
Fisnley
Engbertson’s Pharmacy
Ady
Notice in Probate for Winneshiek County Will
To whom it may concern you are notified to appear at the Court House Winneshiek County Iowa on June 4 1918 at 1 30 p m to attend probate of an instrument purporting to be the last will and testament of a deceased person from Decorah township Iowa show cause why the will should not be admitted to probate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H.C. Watrud
Winneshiek County
Iowa
Decorah Township
J. Moore
Willett & Nelson
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County News
Ridgeway
Liberty Bonds
Chas, Smith
Ford
Arthur Moon
L. Street
M. White
Nicolai Hagen
J. Young
Canton
Phoebe Lincoln
Lillie Rolfs
Victoria Humphrey
Cecil Darrington
Hertra
C. A. Smith
Highlandville
Ralph Fawcett
Arthur Carrington
B. M. White
A. A. Hawks
Kedron
George Linzenmeyer
Cecil
Arthur Darrington
Valentine Stoskopf
R. Reid
Stensland and
Peterson
W. H. Johnson
Chas. Johnson
Frank Welch
Lawrence Iverson
W. R. Welch
Albert Newhouse
Clarence Rolfshus
Dar
Fort Atkinson
Fred Rilling
Madison
Martha Christen
Martin Haga
Gust E. Bakken
Elmer Ellingson
Nettal
Ella Skadeland
Netta Skadeland
A. Nygaard
Gunder
Helge Skadeland
Hans Knutson
Nes
Andrew Knutson
Manchester
Netta
Henry Skadeland
Gunder Skadeland
Ella
John IG
Howden
Portland
N. D
Gilbert Holstad
Selmer Olson
Lloyd Larson
Andrew Jackson
B. J. McKay
War Savings
Thorson
P. Borsheim
Carl Tostenson
Y. P
Oscar
Lars Peterson
Ole Gret‘ley
Melvin
Bertie
Willie Gretley
Riverbend
Chas
Grover Headington
Myrtle
Guy
John J. Seim
Amon Borsheim
Ole
Sever Bringe
Theodore Thorson
Ella Gretley
Cedar Valley
Foley & Co
Sheffield Ave
Foley
Rotecanegreet Res Regetaeton
North Madison
Mary Anderson
D Rapids
Bissell
Decorah Furniture Company
Northwest Dent
Red
Reid
Sanford
the Adams Seed Company
Marsh
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