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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1918
Page
13
Local ads list subscription rates for Decorah Iowa readers, classified business cards and rates for legal and local ads. Entries include physician office hours osteopathic services attorney practice and a general merchant selling footwear and menswear with forty two years of square dealing.
K Haugens advertises a full line of dry goods and dress trimmings at Corner Water and Washington Streets Decorah Iowa. The notice highlights a specialty in fine dress trimmings and ready stock for customers.
Roy Camp writes from France about receiving many letters, the beauty and hardship of the French countryside near Bordeaux, and daily life as a U S soldier in the 341st Field Artillery. Ole Hellerud and Dell Foltz share updates from France and Fort Brady, noting health, weather, and conversations with locals and fellow soldiers.
Barney Boesen of Chickasaw county found a large seal brown cocoon on a box elder branch while pruning. He brought it to Waverly for inspection by G Y Doe, a Chinese laundryman with silk worm experience, who labeled it a genuine silk worm cocoon.
Memorial with 390 stars was unveiled during a service flag dedication in Oelwein recalling Fort Henry Donnelson and Shiloh. George Kint now serves as Oelwein chief of police and Bernard McGuire, in Illinois Sixty-ninth, both have grandsons in the service.
L. Smith of Ayrshire Palo Alto county died after 17 year old Young Smith was sent into a hot engine firebox to pull a boiler plug while repairs were made. Steam and scalding water struck him, fatally injuring him despite his escape attempt.
Mrs HI T Toye of Northfield announces her son Frank Kneeland has been awarded the Croix de Guerre for distinguished bravery in France where he has driven an ambulance for about eighteen months. The decoration honors his courage and brings pride to the Toye family and local friends.
A threshing outfit belonging to one of the Moons of Washington Prairie was consumed by fire along with four stacks of grain owned by Dan Ryan of Union Prairie where the ice occurred. A team of horses narrowly escaped as their hairs were singed.
September 16 1918 local brief records show silo filling and harvest progress as King Corn defeats Jack Frost this year. numerous social visits and calls occur at Cresco area homes with district activities, religious services and school openings. many residents register for military service and travel for work, study or relocation while farming and family events frame weekly life.
Mrs. Margaret Daniels visited Decorah Tuesday while Henry Timp journeyed to Prairie du Chien for sanitarium treatment. Mrs. Julia Groff spent days with the Humker family in Calmar. Esther Lange traveled to West Union to see a friend Agnes Moen. Victoria Meyer returned from Mason City and Rockford after a two week visit. Wenthold and Margaret Kippj visited Wells Minnesota with Dr. H Wenthold and family. Arthur Guerness returned to Winona after time with Keideman and family.
Mrs P Borsheim and T Tos ten hosted visitors and neighbors share updates. Attendants include Mr and Mrs G Kay wena and family, Mr and Mrs Henry Spitle, Will Dow from Waterloo visiting the ailing Mrs Sleeter. Clarence Olson and Miss J Olson wed at Big Canoe church with Rev Tolo presiding.
September 16 1918 at High Ridge details neighbors installing silos visiting relatives and teaching assignments. Clarissa Rovang begins at Broghammer school and Mayme Lee starts in District No 3. Local lectures and social gatherings noted along with visits among families and a new baby born to Mr and Mrs A Nelson.
Miss Mayme Lee spent weeks with relatives at Platte and Brookings, accompanying someone and returning home after a summer vacation with relatives and friends at 8 D.
Decorah resident Chas O Moore says kidney pains, swelling ankles, and irregular function ease quickly with Doan's Kidney Pills from Wangler's Pharmacy. He urges readers to use the same remedy and notes price and availability from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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