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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1917
Page
7
County News reports on visits and travels across Ossian Decorah Castalia Postville and nearby towns. Residents attend funerals weddings and family gatherings with many noting returns from La Crosse Milwaukee and Chicago and health visits to Neilsville and Bloomington Wisconsin.
Julius Brown transacted business in Decorah Friday. Several people broke blue laws by fishing Sunday. Local residents visited relatives and attended dances and a parochial school play in Ossian. Windmill erected by Theo Rosa. numerous social visits and Sunday gatherings noted.
Numerous residents visited relatives and hosted callers across Madison last week. Entries mention Dr Barfoot, John Dale, H Fretheim, Sander Thompson, Olaf Fretheim, W E F Hoyt, Clara Clussum, Oscar and G Vick, Rose Drew, Bea Donlan, Lynneva Jossendahl, Stella Hovey, Fred Paley, O P Movey, Mrs J I Pretheim, O P Hovey, Mrs Howe, Bert Vine, Dr Jewell of Decorah, Albert and Tagvald Thompson, Gethard and Richard Vick, Ed Ulen, and B Josvanger.
Local residents and visitors list personal calls and travels between Ridgeway Cresco Decorah Spillville and nearby towns. Attendees include Chas Kuntz John Beucher the Libbeys Hospodarsky and others with school events and church reminders for upcoming services and youth activities.
The ad touts Dr Kings New Life Pills as a mild laxative that regulates the bowels and relieves congested intestines by removing accumulated wastes. It links clear eyes and bright complexions to regularity and urges readers to ask their druggist for the product.
Locust residents Anna Osgaard Gid Seegmiller and Perry Queal appear in casual calls and visits. Decorah and Decorah area transactions and social events include Barth family activities Wendling families and a dance at Lattre. A ten pound baby girl born Sunday May 27 to Alvin and Mrs Barth marked a happy local milestone.
Spilled items show A F Swehla traveling to Calmar on Tuesday and Frey buying a new car last week. Several residents like Joe Becker Jos Tuchek Miss Otilla Kovarik Frank Soukup Ed Herold and others are noted for visits, travel to Calmar Cedar Rapids Fort Atkinson Mason City Decorah Moose Lake and San Antonio aviation school.
Cement work in Conover last week. Wm Jirak sells farm to Frank Novak and plans move to Wisconsin. Clemence Herold family and Mrs Helen Shevik visited Decorah. Haug family groups to Decorah. Mikesh Hron marriage announced at St Wenceslaus church. Dance at Fisher's hall June 7 with Fisher's orchestra. Mrs John Soukup visiting Calmar area. Chester Houser marries Anna Wirsech at Cedar Rapids. congratulations.
Calmar notes record Melvin Mausehund visiting Cresco John Uher in Prairie du Chien Beatrice Becker Ossian and others visiting here Randy Kittlesby to Minneapolis Lyle Horton home from Chicago reform and extended visits A school exhibit and a Luzum Schissel dance A grammar grade picnic at Stromsodt’s spring Edith Jacobson receives ten year recorder medal Two French bacteriologists warn ventilation spreads disease risks
Robt Klimesh Dan Flaner and others visited Spillville and Decorah over the past week. Farmers report corn planting underway while several residents traveled to Calmar Decorah Cresco and Ft Atkinson for business and fishing.
Local items list visits and gatherings around Looking Glass Prairie. Names include Hugo Noecker Peter Asgaard C J Steno Perry Kenyon Stella Foltz Idella Osgaard Paulina Osgaard Peter Eggen Oscar Broden Ramio Ramilo Lan Halse John Anderson Clarence Anderson Marie Peterson Hiljan Peterson Ida Ber Peter Peterson Emmons Tillapaugh Hilda Peterson Selma Osgaard and Ida Ber with various relatives and dancing parties.
Rd Anderson hauled hogs to market Saturday. L Lawson of Canoe Ridge visited Monday. Sever Borsheim visited his brother Peter Sunday. Lars Rasmussen and family visited Ole Bh and Amon Borsheim Tuesday. Tosten Tostenson called at Lars Rasmussen's Sunday afternoon. Clark Tillinghast made a business call at Albert Ellingson's Pleasant Valley Sunday.
A series of social liaisons and visits in Canoe and nearby areas. Elsie Barth and Clarissa Kraby served as callers at Canoe Tuesday while Albert Ellingson called on Tosten Tostenson Sunday. Lars Rasmussen and family attended services at Big Canoe Sunday and Ole Bringe with Ernest Bulmer started new jobs at Ed Dresselhaus.
A reader letter notes a winter cough cured by Foley’s Honey and Tar. An ad touts Foley’s remedy for coughs and mentions Engbertson’s Pharmacy and Dr. Thomas’ Eclectic Oil for croup with a price of 25¢ and 50¢, claiming safety for children.
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