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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1915
Page
7
County News chronicles a flood of visits and greetings across Calmar Ossian Spillville and Decorah communities. Residents such as Ruth Preston Adolph Doubek and Henry Nienhaus hosted and traveled while marriages and births punctuate the week including the Wiest Moser nuptials. Numerous relatives and friends from Calmar Ossian Jackson City and nearby towns gather at homes, churches, fairs, and social events.
John Sersland on sick list and many visits to Ossian Decorah and Frankville. Joe Ehler bought cattle. Youmans buys Overland car. Doctors Nash Lynch Juen visit Centennial. Families visit, callers at Crabtree, Heiman, Rosa, Daniels, DeCoy homes. Embroidery club meets Ossian. various travel and guest visits across Castalia Wancoma Rossville Postville.
A fragmentary diary style column lists visits and trips across Decorah and surrounding areas. Names include Will Foltz, John Barthell, John Headington, Aliie, Mary Erickson, Mrs. B. O. Marsh, Melvin Anderson, Sylvester Wise, Mrs. Dresselhaus, Mrs. Stoskopf, Lizzie Williams, Ben Stortz, Chester Delaney, Hans Sorenson, Luella Dresselhaus, and Anna Goettleman. Activities cover visits, motor show attendance, ice cream sociables, L A S meetings, nursing duties, and family visits in Pleasant Ridge Pleasant township, Freeport, and Franklin Prairie with several trips to Chicago, Cresco, Ossian, Florence South Dakota and Minneapolis.
September 22 115 Harves and family items fill the Castalia column with carloads of Ford autos, cattle purchases, relocations, visitors from Decorah Dubuque Maquoketa and Waterloo, church notices and a Lutheran Ladies apron sale set for September 27 with supper.
A reader from Montpelier claims Chamberlains Cough Remedy equals all others and never fails to give prompt relief for colds. The advertisement urges readers to try the remedy and notes it is obtainable everywhere with rock bottom prices on overcoats and sweaters from BEARS.
Freeport and Decorah area residents are cited in a dense stream of social notices. Wedding bells loom, travel to Decorah and Clara Hill, visits by relatives, shifting residences, community meetings, and local mishaps populate the week with numerous names and places from Freeport, Decorah, Glenwood, and nearby towns.
Jonis Reikle went to Chicago Tuesday. Tuchek went to Cresco Wednesday. Om Herold attended Conover Monday. Oscar Houser drove to Conover last. Mrs. Frank Kenda was at Calmar last Tuesday. Ramner attended Conover last Wednesday. Carl Poshusta traveled down from Culmar Wednesday.
Calmar and nearby towns feature visitors shoppers and travelers including Frank Soukup and family, Mr. and Mrs. Kruchek, J Jirak, Mrs. Haatvedt, Kuhn, Vrba, Soukup siblings, Stella Klimesh, Jos Kruebek, Albert Novak, and waterworks crews. Local engagements span Cedar Rapids, Ridgeway, Cresco, Fort Atkinson, Decorah, Austin, and Austin, with house-building, dental work, school term starts, and a Fisher’s Hall dance on Sept 28 1915. John Doubek and Rose Lusk wed at St Wenceslaus, reception to follow. couple departs for Chicago.
Heavy rain and an electrical storm struck Kendallville overnight. Local residents and visitors, including Allyn Daskam from Cresco and Elisha and Ada Young, are noted in social visits. The Camelia Concert Co performed nightly and left for Granger, while several townspeople attended theatre and church events. A lightning-struck grain stack burned Monday morning, and the L. A. S. planned a Sept 22 meeting to elect officers and pack fruit for the children's home in Connell.
A vintage advertisement touts Dr Kings New Life Pills as a quick cure for constipation and a natural bowel movement without griping. It promises relief to wake up tomorrow happy and satisfied and notes a 25 cent price per bottle. The Howes Amsh Go announces closing out stock of pianos and players at Ossian with greatly reduced prices, open evenings.
A Washington Post feature on pearl fishers along Arkansas Upper White River, detailing their optimism, methods, and risks. It explains shell varieties, pearl quality and prices, the peeling gamble, and the impact of dry years on mussel beds and livelihoods.
An old advertisement fragment touts Barker's Antiseptic claiming 15 second odor elimination and markets it beside a dental or medical quack line about poetry. It lists John G. Schimming and R A Engbertson as sellers and promotes Dean's Regulats pills for liver and bowel relief sold at drug stores.
An Illinois correspondent asks Walter L. Wallace for ant control tips for a frame house. Remedies include locating the entry point and pouring kerosene or gasoline, using syrup-moistened sponge then boiling, and sugar borax bait with bread crumbs refreshed regularly. notes fire risk and tediousness.
The article traces Jovial from a planet Jupiter association to a broader belief in cheerful traits and says spiritualists claim return after death. It notes family secrets resurfacing and concludes that desert, not rights, should guide the common man.
To whom it may concern you are notified to appear at the Court House in Winneshick County Iowa on September 23 1015 at 130 PM to attend the probate of an instrument purporting to be the last will and testament of the deceased.
A fragment from a 1900s style bulletin notes fashion and shop items. It mentions boys' school suits and a good one priced at two dollars, with a stray reference to Larsen and opinions on beauty. The readable text hints at local social notes and commerce.
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