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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1916
Page
5
A batch of Republican and Democratic primary notices from Decorah Iowa list candidates for county offices including State Representative Winneshiek county with June primary. Nominations sought for supervisor auditor treasurer clerk district court sheriff recorder and attorney with several candidates named and party affiliations noted.
In accord with law bids will be received until 1 30 p m on June 6 1914 by the Winneshiek County Board of Education at Decorah for text books for use in county schools. About four to five hundred copies needed for first supply and about three thousand eight hundred students in 1915. Samples must be deposited in the County Superintendent's office. The Board may reject all bids or any part. H E Miller president Oscar Winger secretary.
240 acres five miles from Red Wing on Main road with possession next fall. 170 acres under plow, rest pasture and woodland, buildings, well, windmill. Asking price 84.00 per acre with $5,000 cash and balance at 5 percent. Also 200 acres eight miles from Red Wing two miles to station, possession after crops, 115 acres plow, stock and grain farm with buildings, price 67.50 per acre. 100 acre farm near town with good buildings, mostly plow land, timbered few acres, cash $2,000 and 5 percent long time. Total price 12,000. Write.
A rural update lists numerous visits and calls by residents from Postville Ossian Decorah and Waukon. Highlights include Mr and Mrs J J Van Wey ill health, Rev J E Healey’s sermon trip to Atlantic City, and local social events with W C T U members and homemade ice cream deliveries.
Confirmation services were held by several churches. Farmers plant corn and await warmer weather. Local residents visited neighbors and ran errands to Ridgeway Cresco and Decorah last week. A dust storm damaged small grain and eyeglass fittings were discussed. Social visits included birthday celebrations and family gatherings at the Haakenson and Koch homes.
May 16 1916 reports show many neighbors visiting relatives across Washington Prairie Freeport Decorah and Decorah area for illness visits. The Albert Grinna funeral was well attended with numerous floral offerings and community sympathy.
May 15, 2016 notes readers from Decorah area share calls to Runkle and Daniels homes, visits by Mundt and Daniels families, and social events. The piece lists many residents and their recent activities, including a May 19 entertainment at Herman Gipp schoolhouse and a basket social, plus a product ad for Dr Thomas' Eclectic Oil. The community bulletin highlights births and local errands across Decorah Ossian Calmar and Postville.
Mrs. Ed Swehla spent Wednesday and Thursday in Waucoma. Geo Chapman bought a cow from Tom Erland for 850 last week. Joe Phillips and sons drove through Spillville Friday. Emma Sandager and sister shopped in Conover. A Swehla of Spillville traveled to Calmar. Carl Haug of Spillville in town on business twice this week. Regina Fisher hauling mail. Anton absent. Mike Phillips helped William in the field. Mrs. Ed Swehla visited Cleveland, Mankato, and St Paul. Adolph Frana drove to Spillville and brought his sister and brother home. Humpal family visited from Spillville. Heisermann of Cedar Rapids stopped to buy goods from G D Chapman. Regular bowel movements advertised for Down's Regulats at all stores.
Mrs Will Coy recovers from illness while locals recount social calls church events and visits across Burr Oak Locust and Perry Kinyon areas. Windstorm hits town, farm work and dances noted. Mrs John Foltz dies, community offers sympathy.
Community updates from Kendallville include Stephenson’s new Ford and a hog house planned by a local builder. Several visits and social events are noted among residents, plus church group meetings and hospital announcements. Farmers anticipate planting corn as rain eased.
Instructions show tailors cut selvages from suit material to create rags. Selvages weave into better rugs than carpet rags, laid end to end and sewn without doubling. They are usually discarded and can be acquired cheaply. For braided rugs, use selvages double and wind colorful balls to blend and stripe.
A speckled hen led Nora and Fred Niewold into a divorce dispute in Nevada. The bird entered the kitchen and Nora’s rough handling sparked Fred to leave. The court granted Nora a divorce on grounds of desertion.
Mrs James Kosik leaped into a basement cistern with her infant clutched to her chest. Both were rescued after about half an hour but the baby did not survive despite efforts to revive it. Mrs Kosik is believed to be mentally deranged but is expected to recover.
A Italian scientist developed apparatus that detects electric waves from earthquakes earlier than seismographs, registering movements several minutes in advance. The device promises faster warnings and could improve emergency responses.
English bon vivants test the merits of the Chinese edible dog noting its bluish black tongue as a defining mark. The meat is prepared from vegetable fed dogs to enhance flavor and aroma, differing from Western dog flesh.
J Holger of Harmony Minnesota advertises a full line of bee supplies and pine hive lumber. Also promotes Burdock Bitters for blood and digestion and an offer on a batch of young men’s suits from Larsen.
The London Chronicle notes that despite modern tools the legal profession remains attached to goose quills. Courts rely on these writing instruments for noting, articulating speeches, and pointing a warning finger at hostile witnesses.
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