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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1912
Page
7
November 11 1912 recap notes Ervie Reuter and others visiting Ken dallville Cresco residents guests at multiple homes and church events. Widely listed are dances oyster supper chicken pie dinner and social gatherings with local families and farmers husking corn weather and wolves impacting flocks mentioned.
November 11 1012 Frankville notes list visitors from Decorah Postville Castalia Ravena and Waukon. Residents engage in home and chimney projects while relatives and guests travel between Estherville St Joe Mo MelIntire and other nearby places. Reverend Beard from Kansas preached at the Presbyterian church.
Town notes list visitors and departures including C F Miller Theodore Rosa from Ravena Roma Padden and others. Funeral attendances E Letchford reunion and WCTU temperance event accompany local school reopening and a Will Stock house purchase for 165 by Geo Van Wey.
Albert Hess and A Franklin drove through Plymouth last Sunday. Anna Benson assisted at the Helge Scott home a few days. Stella Monson stayed at the Lever Steenson home last week. Kristina Krugen ill with measles but improving. Dan Danielson helped Moh Saderson with cement work this week. Mrs Otis Webber visited Castalia. Ida Henderson visited sister Mrs John Hattlestad last Tuesday. Orleans Ladies Aid met for dinner on Nov Mth with Mrs John Iverson. Nels Henderson came from Decorah to visit school duties. Agnes Henderson left for Wausau Wisconsin to visit sister Rev C T Roe. A surprise hosted for Mr and Mrs Ove Nelson last Thursday. Emma Ellingson visited Mabel Minnesota and Highlandville Decorah relatives.
Local items from November 11, 112 report corn husking by Will Coy for George Folek and Henry Kinyon, visits by Clark Fredenburg, and school opening in Perry Kinyon district led by Miss Bernice Feltis. Social calls, a Will Stoskopf party, and plans of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Feltis visiting Hawarden relatives are noted along with farm work and cordwood preparation.
Oscar Reed moved into the Morrison house. Mr Brown of Orleans called in town. Mrs Maria Peacock visited the Winfield Felds. Stoskopf's hosted a Friday evening for young folks. Edith Koenig returned home after weeks at Riceville. A A Seelye visited friends at Mabel. Rev Larrabee preached at the M E church. Supt Reque of Decorah paid a pleasant school visit. Burr Oak Mercantile Co. displays a new National Register. May Hall of Spring Valley guest at Wingate home. Bessie Feltis home after summer in Hawarden Canada. John Kessel of Riceville in town for business. Mrs Ern Reed and son Paul visiting Mrs Masters in Decorah. Mrs Mary Ward and daughter moved into Farley house. Special services in A C shared Sunday evening well attended. Mrs Alice Donald of Prosper sat a pleasant day with Mrs P H Whitney. Mr and Mrs J Headington of Decorah visiting old friends and children. Roscoe Wicks and Bennie Manning left for Illinois to attend a theological school. Mr and Mrs Chas Furze packing to move to Wisconsin. Mrs Winn returned to Castalia. Dr Emmons went to Riceville to consult Dr Lee about Mrs J Kessell. Herb Ward enjoyed a doctor’s auto ride. Mrs L Healis and Miss Myrtle Healis attended L A S at W J Telford’s with Canton guests. Next meeting at the home of Geo Smith for dinner.
Hamlet news highlights visits and ensembles around Ossian in 1912. People include Alma Attletweed as Valder college student, Alma Rovang visiting home, and many at the Sersland and Run ning households. A Grieg Singing Society basket social to aid an elderly Stoughton resident is announced. Weather patches and the hopeful tone frame local life with school terms, funerals, and farm activity described.
Bluffton reports: school opens Monday with Miss Mary Courtney as teacher. Chas Burgess delivered hogs to Decorah market Saturday. Miss Mary McMullen visited Mrs Chas Burgess Burr Oak callers included Mr and Mrs H Sheley Mrs J Halse and J Lange. Lena Bergmann visited Cresco for dental work. Aug Bergmanns dined with P P O’Brien. C W Brittendal bought counters and showcases for stock up. L O’Brien and family visiting Waucoma. W Taylor at their home during absence.
A biting jab at the Maltese muskrat describes the creature as a pest that taints everything it touches. The piece warns it ruins wine cellars larders and beer by mere contact and likens its odor to a powerful, offensive scent.
The admiralty plans a large increase in hydroplanes at Eastchurch England following experiments. It shows a bomb dropped from one thousand feet can strike a warship funnel with certainty, prompting armor on deck sides and funnel tops of new British warships.
Miss Mamie Lee spent Sunday at the Ole Drange home John Sanam called at the H Kolseth home Sunday. Melvin Drange husking corn for G Remmen. Bertha Kolseth visiting home folks this week. G Remmen commercial call Decorah last Wednesday. Mrs. Paul Odle visiting H Nelson home Wednesday. Nora Fleistad Ossian visiting Sjoboen home this week. Mildred Sjoboen visited J Sersland home Friday to Sunday. Clarence Lee visited O Orange home several days. Dr and Mrs J A Juen and daughter of Ossian autoed through our neighborhood.
An old colored woman takes her ailing husband to a doctor. The physician diagnoses a severe gastritis. She exclaims in disbelief asking how he could have contracted it since no coal oil was used in the house, implying misinterpretation or humor.
A Life magazine anecdote tells of three boys from Yale Princeton and Harvard in a room when a lady enters. The Yale boy questions whether a chair should be offered and the Princeton boy provides one as the Harvard boy sits. A St Louis man’s wife leaves him eight times in two years and he sues for divorce, asking how much liberty he wants.
Seven of the largest direct current generators will power aluminum production at Whitney North Carolina. The plant, designed to output 25 000 tons annually, is backed by New York capital of 8 000 000 and linked to L Aluminum Francais of Paris. Dr. Paul Heroult oversees work with aims to be ready by mid 1914.
A naval diver was seized by a 25 foot tentacled octopus during a dive in Toulon harbor. He signaled for hoist and surfaced unconscious with the octopus still clinging to him. The creature, weighing 135 pounds with large suckers, was stabbed to death.
The article reviews several explanations for thunder from past beliefs of cloud collisions to early electrical ideas. It cites experiments with damp cotton suggesting heat from lightning turns cloud vapor to steam causing explosive noise and explains multiple explosions create the crackling sound when thunder is nearby.
The oldest museum in the world is in Nara once Japan’s capital. Established in 756 it has remained largely unchanged for eleven centuries. Freckles are generally not fatal, a reassuring note amid the facts.
The article notes that blind swimmers, despite general coaching challenges, swim in remarkably straight lines. When hearing a noise in a direction they swim directly toward the source, and even without guidance they maintain precise steering over long distances.
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