Local notes from Augue and Idema area social events
Community individuals hosted and visited across weekly gatherings including Mr and Mrs Wenger, Guy Moore, Ina Roberts, Walter Wilbur, Iona Chapman, Lea Humphrey, Fred Rothlisberger, Andrew Yearous, John Werr, Israel Shaffer, Don Cummings, Jake Shafer, Benue Rothlisberger, Will Frieden, Joe Frieden, Donald and Dorothy Glison, Chas Chapman, Elgin visitors, West Union relatives, and Pvt Harry Reich. Local updates mention farm incidents, harvest notes, tax reminders, calf reports, recruitment trends, threshing plans, and rain relief after a dry spell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Wengar
Elulf
Guy. Moore
Ina
Roberts
Charles Chapman
John Werr
Israel Shaffer
Don Cummings
Jake Shaer
G. B. Medberry
Will Frieden
Joe Frieden
Donald
Dorothy Glison
Elgin
Ray Shaffer
Chas. Chapman
A. Yedtous
Sun- Benue
Ket Rothlisberger
West Union
William Brabham
Walter Wilbur
Martin Klingman
A. Yearous
C. M. Klingman
R. H. Peters
Jerome Robbins
Frank Meisner
Herve Robbins
Elmer Medberry
Hilda Klingman
L. A
George Gilson
Freddie Klingman
John Nydegger
Mr. Cummings
Volga City
Herman Fues
Charles Miller
Margaret
Chicago
Wenger
Local notes from West Union district bright with visits
The column chronicles visits and travel across West Union and nearby towns. Mrs D Clemants spends Saturday in Wea Union while Mr and Mrs Geo Craft and H S Craft go to Waucoma. A. Bartlett of Elemn visits the Dan Craft home and Filmer Boyer buys the Fritz farm. Church notes discuss St Pauls M E Sunday School officers, new Bible-class members, and efforts toward 100 attendance. Local arrivals include Dean Barnhouse returning from Montana and the Mervin Brown home hosting guests. a long tale recounts Yankee Robinson’s grave at Jefferson and the modern show’s tribute. A discussion on women's suffrage hints at its possible political hurdles in the South and a weathered road journey frames a family visit to Autogabere from Guttenberg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. Clemants
Weat Union
Geo Craft
H.S. Craft
Waucoma
A. Bartlett
Elemn
Dan Craft
Filmer Boyer
Holmes
Fritz
H. Helms
Martin Hovey
Bid Brabham
Mervin Brown
Chris Dummermuth
Elgin
P. Bartholomew
Dean Barnhouse
Montana
A. Dummermuth
John Waldron
West Union
Frank
St. Paul's M. E
Samuel Mosby
Mary Skarshoug
R. Berg
Maid Patterson
S. 8
Glen Schori
Clarence Dibble
Spokane
Washington
Jefferson
Faydtte
Robinson
Sella ‘Bros
Showa
Brothers
Yankee Robinson
Pacific Coast
Northwestern
Mandilie Lodge
Fiend
Owaed
Albert Head
Masonic Lodge
Capt. Head
Sells Bros. and
Ringlings
Jeferson
Fred Buchanan
Davenport
Cherokee
Buchanan
Disheartened farmers curse war time potato efforts
A terse local lament describes a farmer broken by striving for potatoes amid wartime shortages. The piece mocks debt, time spent on seed, and the toil of tending patches while producing little gain, noting men laboring dawn to dusk and even entrusting gardens to their wives.
Hall's Catarrh Remedy Ad and Local Notices
An old pamphlet-style notice advertises Hall's Catarrh Medicine with a $100 reward for an incurable case. It touts thirty-five years of use, blood-level action, and guarantees relief, urging immediate purchase from F. J. Cheney Co. Toledo Ohio. Also announced is a sale of ladies crepe machine waists at $4.938, plus a social note about Mrs Thos Knudtson and Lawrence visiting Decorah relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
F. J. Cheney, &C
Toledo
Ohio
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Augueand Idema
Berg & Kohler
Lehman's
H. G. Blunt
H. M. Bartlett
Oak Grove Threshing Company
John Falk
United States
South
Louisannais
Megro
John Berndt
Autegabere
Mia. Morman
Guttenberg
John
Cappers
Iowa
O. W. Heiserman
West . Union
Graduate Optometrist
John Fale
John Whittenbaugh
Wadena
J. A. Boleyn
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