Funeral for Mrs. Mary Geick Held in Lyon County
Mrs. Mary Geick wife of Christian Geick died at home after heart failure in this city. Funeral at her North German Lutheran church with Rev. Landgrebe then burial in George. Born October 24 1868 in Palestine Ill she married J J Fihr in 1867 and 11 children survived. Fihr died 1901, she remarried twice more before Geick. The Heitritter family and mourners attended. Second item notes local notices and ads from Vand en Brinks and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian Geick
Mary Geick
North German Lutheran Church
A. H. Landgrebe
George
Mary Voss
Palastine
Ill
J. J. Fihr
Lyon County
Link
Rock Rapids
Geick
Herman Heitritter
Heitritter
Caught in Passing A Curio on Money and Manners
A column of wry maxims on money debt and social behavior. The piece riffs on self reliance, generosity, and the quirks of human folly with remarks on lending, pride, and perception. Notable lines touch on money value, persuasion, and public behavior.
Sioux County Court News Highlights Damages and Debts
Sioux County court actions include wage and profit claims against a Hawarden produce house. several banks seek judgments on promissory notes from Dick Oostenink Albert Jemming and others. The board of supervisors awarded 37 bridges and culverts contracts totaling about 37 thousand dollars with multiple firms successful. court filled with bidders at the courthouse bidding event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hawarden
First National Bank of Hull
Dick Oostenink
Edd Kosters
State Bank of
Citizens Bank of Mospers
Iowa
Northwestern Bank of Ireton
Northwestern Bank of
Alton
Carl Flad
L. H. Marvill
Sioux County
Alton Democrat
Board of Supervisors
Graves Bros
Washington
Reading
Center
Sioux
Holland Township
Verduin & Klein
Sioux Center
Buncombe
Eagle
Plato
Garfield
Rock
Lincoln Township
John DeJong
Boyden
Capel
Lynn
Sheridan
Grant
Settlers Township
Floyd Township
West Branch Township
Shertran
Nassau
East Orange Township
Big Advertisers Invest in Mail Order Catalogues
The piece notes that major mail order firms spend heavily on advertising by sending carload lots of catalogues to large cities and from there by mail, a practice justified by expected returns. It highlights Boyden as a smaller northwest city illustrating the scale of such advertising expenditures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boyden
Quaker Oats Manager Arrives as Elevator Chief Stays Absent
J Morris Pryde arrived from Sioux Falls to run the Quaker Oats Co elevator during his father’s absence serving on the Orange City grand jury. Capel Township Telephone Co met at Town Hall to transact business and review last year’s report. George girls team clinched Lyon county championship with a 7 to 4 victory over Inwood.
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John C. Pryde
Orange City
J. Morris Pryde
Sioux Falls
Quaker Oats Co
Capel Township Telephone Co
George
Lyon
Inwood
Local Happenings Include Jobs Moves and Sales
Donald Kammlade leaves for Doon for mason work while others report carload hogs sold to Chicago buyers and pork shipments to local markets. Details cover illnesses, school notes, tax notices, and upcoming moves to Ashton and Lake Park with several residents noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald Kammlade
Doon
Mason Work
Ed Shujer
Rock
Wm. Eberline Jr
Leslie Cladwick
F. A. Peters
Chicago
Thistles to be destroyed on Sheridan township lands in 1924
Notice from Board of Trustees signed by clerk Henry Schloetje warns landowners and renters that all Canadian thistles on Sheridan township parcels must be destroyed and ground kept black for the year 1924. Do not sow or plant crops on these grounds until thistles are removed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Internal Revenue
Sheridan Township
Henry Schloetje
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Vanden Brink's
J. M. Lumkes
Sanborn
Rev. Lumkes
P. H. van Wyke
Hull, Iowa
Johanna Veenschoten
C. DeValois
van den Brink’s
Maurice Tourneur
Paramount
al St
A. Jacobs
Maris
Hull
Sioux County Court News
Steven
Matlock
John Cooper Sr
Virginia
J. D. Green
Ethyle Loftswold
Jennie Loffswold
Chester
S. D
van Hul
H. Breemer
Hoek ‘Tra
Satn
Lake Park
Sheldon
Vermeer
Gerrit Kooiman
Jesse Vanden Brink
P. M
O. C. Bowers
Bowers
Fred Ras
Harris
Boyden, Iowa
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