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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1915
Page
7
In October 1915 county notes, residents visit relatives in Decorah and La Crosse, attend plays, and host gatherings. Facilities improvements include a furnace installation at the school. Various social visits, birthdays, sales, and church events are listed with many named families and locations.
Local notes show Frankville defeating DPPH Ph DoH HHH Frankville on October 4 1915. The column lists numerous visits and social calls across Decorah Ossian Waukon Castalia Postville and nearby towns with residents and visitors such as Mrs Claude Van Wey Lynn Crawford Trvin Hughes Walter Pilgrim Arthur Brandt J TL Waters Lydia Padden Harold Spann Hans Stegen Roma Padden and more. A baby girl arrived to Mr and Mrs Rude on Sept 26.
Local residents and visitors are listed with weekend and weekday movements. Edward Larsen and Ole Kraby travel to and from Decorah and Canoe Ridge while August Teske, Arthur Lennon, and John Kraby make calls and moves around Pleasant Ridge and Pheasant township. Theater attendance and hospital visits are noted, along with farm rental news and a substitute mail carrier.
A series of short notes records Sunday visits and local happenings in Madison and nearby Decorah and Ridgeway. Residents like Rev Helmer Halvorson Lettie Haugen and many others spent time with relatives, shopped in Decorah, attended fairs in La Crosse, Castalia trips, baptisms, and farm day events, with names of families and neighbors listed.
Isaac Doll improves slowly while Ossian residents such as Geo Allen Henry Ginapp and Ka Teepe call on friends. Theo Rosa Ed Youmans and Rae Runkle visit, with many others dropping by the Allen and Daniels households. A Calmar farmers day attendance and a newborn at Henry Monson’s mark recent local happenings in Castalia Ossian and Decorah vicinity.
Returned home Monday and Mrs Duff stayed until Saturday. Rosa visited her brother in Ossian and returned Saturday. Miss Lorene Broshier stayed with Miss Harris at the Stevens home Thursday night. Blanche Rathbun came from Kewanee after visiting the Irving Mellett home. Several locals traveled to Decorah and Ossian for visits. Families and friends gathered at various homes, with news of a death in Postville and multiple social calls across Decorah, Ossian, Calmar, and surrounding areas.
Hesper residents visited friends and relatives across nearby towns including Mabel, Spring Grove and Kendallville. Anton Brenna dies near Prosper while the town prepares for a 0th Hesper Lutheran church anniversary on October 10 with Rev N Kildahl delivering sermons and a Fillmore Circuit gathering October 11 and 12 at the Hesper church with free dinner.
Our Fall Opening features a week long sale on BEN BEAR winter suits and overcoats with special values. Each suit or overcoat bought includes a fine imported clothes brush or a fine leather pocket book. The sale runs October 6 through October 16 with ongoing discounts and promotions.
A baby boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Schultz on Monday. The town lists visitors, travel, and local movements: Mrs. Woolsey to Ossian for nursing work. funeral of Fred Dahms’ father near Postville. Mae and Eileen Malloy to Dubuque and back. Mrs. George Bernhardt and Hazel back from Minnesota. various visits among neighbors and relatives including families of Bachelder, Riggs, Thornton, Allen, and Winger. John Winger moved to the vacated Thorn ton house and leased his farm. D. A. Haines with car trouble near Fayette. Kneeskern operation in Creao. Rev. Hursh’s return from Des Moines for the U. B. conference. E. J. Wirsehing takes charge of the Farmers Cooperative Co. and ships stock. several local visits and travels noted among residents. N. P. Foss dies Sept. 30, 1915, services at the Norwegian Lutheran Church the following Monday.
October 4 1915 entries record a silo filled for Steve Todd Bernice Davis leaving for Richland Center Ethel Fifield returning from Cresco and various visits. Mr and Mrs Steve Todd welcomed a baby girl while other households James Egbert and families attended church and funerals.
Calmar O Potle was in Decorah on business while J D Becker traveled to McGregor last week. Waldo Reisner visited Fort Atkinson last Sunday. Mrs Otto Peterson of Cresco visited relatives over Sunday. Dr Horton and family visited Fort Atkinson Thursday evening. Miss Fellows of Lansing visits Ruth Meyer. Tver Barlow attended the butter convention in Waterloo. Mrs Gina Gunval of Ridgeway visits relatives. Mr and Mrs Jack Freka and Mr and Mrs George Lechner of Prairie du Chien were also seen socializing.
A 4000 year old Babylonian tablet, likely the earliest law code, has been unearthed and acquired by Yale University. Written in Sumerian, the laws cover injuries to women, child repudiation, elopement, hiring boats and cattle, and a hired ox killed by a lion. Scholars expect full translation and publication.
Ossian notes record visitors from Decorah Castalia and Mason City and Calmar events. People include Joe Meyer Miss Eileen Malloy Mrs. Dowd Mrs. Boyle and Dr. Schneeberger. The community attended a farmers day in Calmar and a Decorah play, with several local weddings and a drowning death noted. A Doan’s Regu lator birch ad follows.
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