This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Local notes on war, travel, and farming life
The column records assorted rural notices from West Union and nearby towns, including residents’ activities, mining and milling details, poultry and farming sales, and social happenings. It highlights John Christ Junior painting, Lew Christ driving, and the Weibel Mill Company’s flour pricing, along with veterans’ memories, farewells, a Dubuque Rainbow Division parade memory, aviator Hawker’s fate, and farm milking improvements using Perfection milking machines by Ole Olson and neighbors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Cannon
Dettiat
West Union
Chicken Paw
Will Miller
al Short
A. M. Wetbel
Hikader
John Christ Junior
Brabham
Lew
Christ
Albert Gehring
Marshall DeSart
Weibel Mill Company
J. D. Shaffer
J. Phillips
John Bower
France
F. R. Berg
Des Moines
Wee
Fred
Rainbow Division
Hawker
Atlantics
Ireland
Newfoundland
Wilson
Congress
John Barleycorn
City
Council Bluffs
United States Senate
League of Nation
Germany
League
America
John Christ
Dubuque
John
Africa
Dubugne
George Fertig