Center Junction Correspondence and Local Notices
Center Junction news notes social visits sales of Christmas bazaar items at J F Livingston and Peter Prahm homes. influenza cases three in J R Woodward home. council and lecture plans postponed due to flu. Residents visiting relatives in Monticello Des Moines and Sioux City.
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Center Junction
The
Presbyterian Church
J. F. Livingston
Peter Prahm
Olive Springer
Dannon Junction
Harry Stingley
J. B. Moses
J. R. Woodward
Will Leech
Chicago
Beulah Holm
Maquoketa
Hill
Glass
J. A. Wright
Peter Smith
Monticello
Fuller
M. G. Alsover
Guy McDonald
Harry Dice
Roy Kleineck
Camp Dodge
Ted Bulgrim
Baldwin
Geo. McDonald
Wyoming
Obituary Notice for Mary Jeannette Stevenson
Mrs. Mary Jeannette Stevenson former Sand Spring resident died Tuesday at her son F. J. Stevenson’s home in Manchester born in 1838 and a New York native obituary to follow next week. Other local notes include visits by Will Hanken from Camp Dodge and social visits among Batchelder Bohiken Gestel Crowley Guthrie Lang and Jacque with the Sunshine Club gathering at Mrs. Dick Bohiken’s home.
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Mary Jeannette Stevenson
F. J. Stevenson
Manchester
New York
Will Hanken
Camp Dodge
J. L. Batchelder
F. J. Bohlken
Alphonse Schmidt
Dubuque
Edith Gestel
Monticello
F. J. Gestel
M. O’brien
Ed. Crowley
Delhi
Charles Brown
Frank Jacque
Sunshine Club
Dick Bohiken
Langworthy
J. R. Guthrie
Kate Lang
Hopkinton
Deaths and local notes from Castle Grove area
Word arrived of Mrs. Hume Twamley death in Alexandria South Dakota. C A McLaughlin’s pneumonia condition improving at John McDonald hospital. Hannah Delay buried at Argand cemetery after Monticello death. Frost ended as trains ran and farmers planned fields. Miss Josephine James visiting Rev H C Irvine. E R McLaughlin ill with influenza. Miss Inez Hubbard teaches in district No 5 this winter.
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Castle Grove
Hume Twamley
Alexandria
South Dakota
C. A. McLaughlin
John McDonald Hospital
Hannah Delay
Monticello
Argand
Josephine James
Bellevue
H. C. Irvine
E. R. McLaughlin
Inez Hubbard
Prairieburg Farmer Dies of Flu at 34
Joseph G. Kula, a prosperous farmer living east of Prairieburg, died of the flu on December 2. His wife was hospitalized in Cedar Rapids two days earlier for the illness, and the couple kept that fact from her. He leaves a wife and two young daughters. Services were held at St Joseph's. Mr. and Mrs. Adam Flockhart closed their restaurant to seek treatment in Cedar Rapids. Mrs. Flockhart will undergo electrical treatment. The Kula family includes Mrs. Chas. Peters of Minnesota, her parents. Raymond Richards was hospitalized in McDonald hospital for flu. Irwin Truesdell returned from Cedar Rapids with the flu.
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Prairieburg
Joseph G. Kula
Cedar Rapids
St. Joseph’s
Adam Flockhart
Flockhart
Chas. Peters
Minnesota
Kula
Raymond Richards
McDonald Hospital
Irwin Truesdell
Magruder Couple Welcome Daughter Theo Maxine
A daughter Theo Maxine was born to Attorney E L Magruder and Mrs Magruder of Oxford Junction last Sunday morning. Dr J D Paul is recovering from a severe influenza followed by pleuropneumonia and plans to resume practice next week at his office. Hubert Metcalf is in a base hospital in France with leg injuries from shrapnel after being moved through several field hospitals. In a letter received.
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Theo Maxine
E. L. Magruder
Oxford Junction
J. D. Paul
Hubert Metcalf
France
Convict Huff Killed Accidentally at State Reformatory
J H Huff a 20 year old convict at the state reformatory died last Friday morning from injuries caused while helping switch a carload of stone. He was crushed between a car and a platform inside the prison walls. His home was Chicago and the remains were shipped there. The influenza is spreading in the city and the local board of health urges precautions and strong health.
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J. H. Huff
State Reformatory
Huff
Chicago
Board of Health
Hopkinton School Remains Closed Except 6th and 7th Grades
The Hopkinton Leader reports the school will stay closed until the epidemic eases, with only 6th and 7th grades operating. Miss Lane is ill, and the district urges listening for the bell to reopen when safe. Ray Melrose, a local graduate, was wounded in action near the Hindenburg Line in France, with a through-and-through chest wound, now healing. Emily Grace Dunlap Miller, born 1872, died after an operation in Iowa City on November 28, 1918, leaving six children and several brothers.
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Hopkinton
Emily Grace Dunlap
David Miller
Iowa City
Emily Grace Miller
Robert Dunlap
Ray
Ross
Dean
Theodore
Dorothy
Helen
David L. Miller
Monmouth
Iowa
Ray B. Miller
Manchester
Lester D. Miller
Fredericksburg
Cascade Pioneer News items report local deaths and missing in action
Virginia infant daughter of Private Basil Gavin dies of bronchial pneumonia at grandparents in Cascade. Charles Sadler reported missing in action in Washington, telegram received Tuesday. Miss Mary Scarry dies of pneumonia at Mercy Hospital Dubuque, born Cascade 55 years ago. daughter of Michael Scarry. Mrs Margaret Scarry of Dubuque, 86, mother. Henry Seery dies from influenza and pneumonia. 38, born near Sand Spring, lived in Cascade, later Los Angeles. married about a year ago.
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Virginia
Basil Gavin
John Orr
Jacob Sadler
Washington
Charles Sadler
Mary Scarry
Mercy Hospital
Dubuque
Cascade
Michael Scarry
Margaret Scarry
Henry Seery
John Seery
Proof Indisputable Claims From Bavarian Archives
The New World argues Germany ordered Austria Hungary to start the war as shown by Bavarian archives. It asserts France would be overwhelmed in four weeks, a claim that did not occur in fact.
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New York
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Prussia
Bavaria
France
William the Coward in exile looms over war lords
In a critique from Stripes France the piece denounces William II as a traitor and coward. It condemns his flight from battle between 1914 and the war’s end, arguing soldiers and civilization alike will remember him as William the Coward for abandoning his troops.
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France
Attila
Frederick, the Great
Fritz
Elysian Fields
William Hohenzollern
William the Damned
William
Death of Frauke Osterkamp in Wayne Township
Frauke Margareta Osterkamp born December 29 1889 on the Amber home farm died December 1 after influenza and pneumonia. She leaves husband Carl Osterkamp two small children her parents and six brothers. Funeral held December 5 with Rev Willms officiating. Her brother George had died in England in the U S army.
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Mrs. Osterkamp
Tobe Freese
Amber
Wayne Township
Carl Osterkamp
Willms
Christ
George
U. S. Army
England
Henry
John
Carl
Gerhard
Wilhelm
Herman Osterkamp
Oxford Mirror News Deaths From Influenza and War Notices
George Milota, a child of local residents Mr and Mrs Jamies Milota, died from Spanish influenza at home last Saturday. Hunwartsen Milota returned home from Camp Gordon after being mustered out. Private Frank Dostal was killed in action October 23, and Victor Shimanek’s death followed soon after. Jerry Roubinek, wounded in France, was en route to hospital but expected home by Christmas.
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George
Jamies Milota
Hunwartsen
Camp Gordon
Georgia
Frank Dostal
Victor Shimanek
Frank Roubinek
Jerry
France
Hohen zollern unlikely to return to Germany
The Sioux City Journal notes William M Hohen zollern is unlikely to go back to Germany while the Rhine territory remains under allied control. The article labels him a coward unwilling to risk capture by forces eager to seize him.
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Sioux City Journal
William M Hohenzollern
Germany
Rhine
John McDonald Hospital Opens with Modern Facilities
The new hospital offers complete up-to-date equipment and large ventilated rooms. Ward accommodations available for non-private rooms. Nurses on duty day and night. Surgical and medical patients accepted. Rates including board and care range from $12 to $25 per week.
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J. Y W. Doxsee
Chas. A. Doxsee
Anamosa Eureka News
Hopkinton Leader News
Cascade Pioneer - News
William, the Coward
Frauke Margareta Osterkamp
Oxford Mirror News
John McDonald
G.A. Coon
C. H. Schipman
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A. A. Ake
Marshalltown
John G. Schoon
Monarch
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Jones County Trust and Savings Bank Capital
United States
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