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FRAXKTILLE.Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Peck, Sam Waters and Miss Jane Lyons were Decorah vl Itors Monday.Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Bollman and Ur. and Mrs. Tom Bollman spent last ISTnesday at the I. S, Bollman borne near Volney.Fred Waters and {family and Mrs. Tom Waters arrived home Tuesday trom Sioux City. Mrs. John Stock anti little daughter accompanied fhqta home for a visitCharles Shattuck was down from De corah Wednesday and Thursday.Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Crawford were Ossian callers Friday.Mr. and Mrs. Mike Gootheart, Mrs Hattie' Lower and children were Wan koc; visitors Wednesday.Mr. and Mrs. James Kneeskern vis* fted at the Otto Dahlin home Thun day.« Mr. and- Mrs. Ray Water*: made business trip to Ossiaa Thursday,Mr. and Mrs. George Hubbell of ’ St Paul are guests at the Vera Letchtord hotnis;- «i Misses Dora Sawyer'and Dorothy Baker spent Thursday ' night in Wau kon. r*. ■Mr. and Mrs. Chris Waters/ C. HC Waters and Mrs. Walter Pilgrim and Mrs. Sherman Bollman autoed to Dubuque Thursday to srilect-vHnSdws for Jthe church,Mr. arid Mrs. Irving Crawford and son spent several days last week in .Waukon.Roy Kneeskem transacted' business Jin Ossian Saturday.'Mr. and Mrs,:Gi!'D' Bollman, Mrs, W. Smith, Rev. Willet and' wife of De-porah were callers ia town Friday.Chester Peck left Saturday for Iowa City to continue his school work.Carleton Peck spent the week ecd'at home from Decorah.Mr.' 'arid -Mra.Ffed Brouilliet and daughter Helen came home Thursday night from several' weeks' visit at El leadorf and Estberville.Mr. and Mrs. • James- E. Kogeskgri and Mrs. -Thin2 Bollman were shoppers Saturday.W^lterHPilgrifar and family and Mr. and Mrs. Hary Harvey attended the show in Ossian Saturday night Mr. and Mrs. Chas. BrouiUet, Mr. and Mrs. Mhlvfn'/Ewlttg and Hulda Ipwlngs attended a barn dance at Forest Mills Saturday night Mrs. George Wolf and son Lloyd ar rived home Wednesday from a weeks visit n«ffi Supt iHirer.wsB ‘dtown from Deoorah Monday evening- txrineet theschool hoard -and inakd'aVrarigeriiefcts to' secure a’teacher* firth# 'xfint£ grade work. rMiss Evelyn Pilgrim was hostess to a crowd of her'young friedds Saturday the occasion being her tenth birthday: Charles Barrett and family, George Sherman and DeWitt VanWey spent Thursday fishing at the dam.Miss Mary Ryan of Waukon is visiting at the home of her brother Joe Ryan since Thursday.Miss Bessie Birdsell who is teaching school near Estberville has been having a serious time with blood poisoning in her hand.Earl LI Yin good and Will Stock were Pecorah callers Friday.Rob Waters and Mr. and Mrs, Ray Waters were Decorah callers Saturday.The Cemetery Association held aBusy Readen.Miss Yvonne Manin and Miss An-dree Dumont of France are visiting with Miss Agnes Wood at Traer.Nights in August, 1920, were cooler than they hcrr'e been In the past 26 years, according to weather reports, A shortage or timothy seed is predicted, due to this year’s production being only §0 per cent of the crop last Yeari 1 'Siotuc City people are paying cents'fori street car fare! The raise from 6 cents was granted at a spe cial election a month ago.J. L. Johnson, 60, and his wife were burned to death at their home in Marshalltown when Mrs. Johnson poured gasoline into a cooking range to hurry the fire.Prof.- C:r B. Ooefe of Simpson college has' presented to the college some mastodon remains which he unearth Devli’s Gulch! in sorthern Nebraska, this summer.■Mrs, Charles M. Hodge of Moviile was instantly killed three miles east Cf HolBtelri, - when-' the car she was rid inp-tn' eonlded/ wiCb5! another. Mr. ’Hodge is believid to have been fatallyCharles Dickerson, farm hand, com mlttod suicide on the Ray Braunson farm near Manson, by placing a shot gun on a table and forcing the trig ger' wlth a poker. His body, when found, was riddled with shot.Edgar M, Houstow of Fort Madison has filed suit for the annulment of his marriage to Mrs. Harold Price, declaring that she had not obtained a ditrorce from her former husband when skeVmarried him!lt;Jrlef ;«ver'the death of her hus hand, M. F. Bagley, who died from pneumonia, in France where he served as a soldier, caused Mrs. Alice Bagley/ his widow, to commit suicide it^MiflcheBter by drowning.Belgian horse breeders throughout the United .States and Canada have their eyes turned toward Waterloo, where -;the second annual Interna tional Belgian Horse Show is to be held. September 27-October 9.George Whale, of Sioux City, 23 year*! did Arrested- 'for intoxication, dropped dead as he entered the police station. An examination show-:rid !hls'death was caused by wood .alcohol. His is the second death in a week.Ike Hensley, of Hensley Bros., well known’farmers and stockmen of Audubon county, topped the Chicago livestock market recently with a carload of choice Angus steers which averaged 762 pounds and sold for MUM. • ' ■The* fine new farm home of Henry Kottman,' about'’ Seven miles east of Monona, was burned-'to the ground with few of the contents saved. The llris was started by the explosion of a can of floor varnish which was being heated in the kitchen.One of the -activities of the farm human of Clayton county was the organisation of-a'County Wool Growers' association and shipping of the wool crop through the Iowa Fleece Growers’ association. Over 41,000 pounds of wool was shipped from four points, Elkader, Clayton, Osterdock and Turkey River, from more than 200 farmers.John McGill, 25, Negro, of Sioux City, was murdered by unknown per-son|. Hi* body was found in the rear of i‘ business man’s home when police investigated the source of groans reported by the owner of the residence. McGill had been literally hacked to pieces with a knife, many of the wounds being in the back, indi-eatturbt bad tried to ©scape bis as-aajffafaj -
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Postville Review
Postville, Iowa, US
Fri, Sep 24, 1920
Page 4
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