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ating table and sterilizer, and five bassinets. The hospital has 16 beds.During: the 13 years since its opening. 3846 patients have been cared for. The average stay is 8 days, the total number of patient days being 30.768. Of the 703 babies born at the hospital, 402 have been girls, and 301 have been boys, There have been six sets of twins.During the year of 1937 the hospital spent $5843 with Maquoketa merchants, this including the costs for food, for drugs and medicines, fuel, and light and power.I Martin Hat Shop I•— —;The Martin Hat Shop, of which Mrs. Louise Maiolfl is the proprietor, was first opened 23 years ago, in the days when milliners trimmed every hat that ■was sold, and has served the ladies and girls of Maquoketa and community since that time.Mrs. Maiolfi learned the millinery trade at the Rice-Brown shop in Maquoketa, beginning as an apprentice when 15 years old. Later she became a trimmer, and worked in Maquoketa arid various other cities before she •pened her shop here.First she opened the Martin Hat Shop on South Main street, and later moved to McAllister’s store. After that business closed, she moved to Purin-ton’s where she operated her establishment until January, 1932, when she moved to her present location.In addition to her hats, Mrs. Maiolfi also carries a line of wash frocks.Indians Stole Clothes For Bright ColorsFriendly Indians who were so in love with bright colors that they took children's gay calico dresses off the clothes lines and carried them away, were among the hardships that Mr. and Mrs. Peter Kaler, Jackson county pioneers faced in the early days. And the loss of two or three dresses was a minor tragedy in those times when even the cloth was made in the home. The Indians frequently came to the Kaler cabin, near the Caves, to sharpen their knives cn the grindstone there, so allRoe. Marian Mitchell. Mrs. Edw. Scl son, Mrs. Harlan Ruff, Mrs. Arthur I inger, and Mrs. Rex Harrington, pian as at numerous Farm Bureau gather of the music project in the women’s ibright garments and also flour and cornmeal had to be kept hidden.Peter Kaler, a native of Germany, was married in Maquoketa on November 9, 1856, to Miss Margaret J. More-head, who had come here with her family from Richmond, Va. They built their cabin eight miles north of Maquoketa, very near the Caves, and raised a family of six children. Besides the Indians, wild animals often visited them. In 1892 they retired and came to Maquoketa, where Mr. Kaler died December 9, 1913, Mrs. Kaler's death following on December 3, 1915.Their four living children, all residents of Maquoketa, are Charles, John, Mrs. Nell Ringlep, and Mrs. Luclla Hodoval.Baldwin Overcame Rivals With Aid Of RailroadsMrs. Gerald PotterBaldwin is located as nearly as may be in the center of Monmouth Township, on the line of the Midland railway and is an incorporated town of 210 inhabitants.February 9, 1859, at this point a few lots were platted and recorded by Henry Haines, under the name of Fremont, and a few houses were built there. It was not until the building of the railroad in 1871, however, that any considerable progress was made. The town of Baldwin, adjoining Fremont, on the east, was platted by Edward Baldwin, October 20, 1871, being located on the northwest quarter of Section 22, in Monmouth Township. The village is now known as Baldwin, that being the name given alike to the depot and the post office.The post office wras started at what is now known as Mill Rock. The postmaster was James B. Cobb, and the office was called Cobb’s office until it was changed to Baldwin after the railroad came through. The first postmaster when the office was located inIT
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Maquoketa Jackson Sentinel
Maquoketa, Iowa, US
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