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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1917
Page
5
The food administration issued regulations effective November 1 requiring date marking on storage of poultry eggs butter fresh fish and other items. Thirty day storage marks “cold storage goods” for non fresh sale and licenses and loan limits apply to warehouses to curb speculation and ensure open operations.
At Iowa State University the Pan Hellenic council moves to boycott bright colored yarns used by sorority members. YWCA Women’s League and Forensic council back the action aiming to limit colors to grays and dull tones. The shift boosts demand for muted yarns while knitting continues in a toned down fashion.
Everett Baldwin and Winfield Carter died in a Carey gravel pit collapse at Chester. Carter was trapped under several feet of gravel, while Baldwin rushed for help and suffocated before assistance arrived. Meanwhile Charles City, Floyd County, recorded the coldest temperature in the nation on two mornings last week.
Short, brisk notes from local regions report safety tips in homes and church unions, farm fires, auto ownership in Allamakee county, and various incidents. Notable items include a Liberty bond purchase in Fillmore county, a mattress factory in Sumner, a drowning in Laurel, and a boy’s skull fracture near Battle Creek.
Caswell principal owner of the Caswell Runyan company and president of the Commercial association promotes war butter made from creamery butter yielding two and one quarter pounds per pound used. Recipe mixes rich milk gelatin salt cream warmed milk and egg beater to produce a thick creamed butter that sets on plates and is unsuitable for frying.
Herbert Hoover designates the International Live Stock Exposition as a food training camp to aid the war effort. The drive urges more cattle and sheep of better quality to increase meat and fat supplies, with the expo held the first week in December as a focal point for the campaign. The aim is to educate producers and stretch scarce food resources amid rising consumption.
A food conservation bureau formed at Caknar last Wednesday after an address by Mr. W. L. Gifford of Dubuque. Officers include President Mrs. T. H. Goheen Vice President Mrs. N. A. Klein Second Vice President Mrs. Wentworth Secretary Miss Carrie Miller Treasurer Miss Carrie Olson Directors Mrs. W. R. Miller Mrs. Ode Mia Ed Peterson Mrs. Theo Oi
Leonard Stenerson, once from Ossian and now of Ames, has sailed for England as a wireless telegrapher aboard a battleship. He will soon serve on a destroyer in the North Sea as an officer of the third rank at age ten. The Os sian-Gunderson family confirms the news. October’s mean temperature set a record at 38.3 degrees. Orson Bush suffered a knee ligament injury in a Colesburg football game.
County News from November 5 1917 records numerous local calls and visits including Lawrence Pilgrim in Decorah J E Kneeskern shipping hogs to Chicago and Carl Letchford marrying Caroline Sebastian in Postville The item lists many residents visiting relatives attending church and school and notes community events and business moves across Decorah Postville Bethel and surrounding areas
November 5 1017 reports Mrs C Gross visiting relatives in Freeport on Sunday. Grace Mall visited her brother Jim and family. Miss Lizzie Williams of Spillville spent Saturday with home folks. Mrs Rastetter called on her sister in law Mrs Lester Pearson last Saturday.
Amond Borsheim appears on the Cedar Valley list while neighbors like John Seim and Clarence Peterson visit and call on various Borsheim family members. Local shoppers, calls, and a carload of sheep are noted along with updates on Mrs. P Borsheim’s illness and improvements in Al Borsheim’s household.
The Kendallville column reports many local happenings from the Morgan L. A. 8 meeting at C. C. Brown home to travels of residents. It records the death of Mrs Belle Daskam at Cresco after illness, details her life from Canada to Kendallville, marriage to John Daskam, children Marjory and Max, and her husband’s death in 1905.
The obituary notes one brother John of Monticello Minn and many relatives sending sympathy to her son Max. The funeral was Sunday afternoon at the Cresco Methodist church led by Rev. Copeland. She was interred at Kendallville cemetery beside her husband and daughter.
An advertisement touts a new cancer book by Dr. O A Johnson in Kansas City Missouri claiming a combination medical treatment cures most cancers when treated early. It cites living witnesses treated 3 to 17 years ago and offers the Heal e book free upon request. Also mentions Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for children and a generic human nature ad line.
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