Drowning Hero in Buffalo Creek Remembered
Local recollections recall John O’Hara rescuing Chas Mansmith from drowning in Buffalo Creek near the O’Hara farm after a late supper swim. Also noted are a June wedding at St Joseph Church Woden and various farm, school and community events across Titonka, Swea City and surrounding areas, including property purchases, a fire loss, and local civic gatherings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John O'Hara
Chas
Mansmith
Buffalo Creek
O’hara
John
Harry Mullarkey
Mary, Muldoon
Peter ‘Govern
St. Joseph Church
Woden
Father Nagle
Mike Muldoon
Rose O'Hara
Geo
Gasper Weigands
Clay County
Minnesota
G. L. Dalton
City Herald
Mossuth
Julius Kuinz
Wesley
Portland area social and community notes in brief
Miss Ida Sachau visited near Titonka while Four Corner Social Club hosted by Mrs. Lou Huber met last Tuesday. August 4 meeting to be hosted by Mrs. Chas Phelps and Mrs. Bernard Phelps. Various locals attended family visits, funerals, and Sunday gatherings at farms and homes. C C C workers from Bancroft labor on the Ted Ringsdorf farm. Arch Burger injured when wagon ran away. multiple visits to Algona, Lake City, Okoboji, Swea City, and Paynesville among residents including Bartletts, Shiplers, Lohses, Freisenburg, Bartlett, Hood, Collicotts, Applegates, and Fairbanks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lottie Graham
Roy Granty
Burl
Tony Loliss
Siatar
Alfred Rentz
Rockford
Towa
Stanley Larsen
Mason City
Lowa Bartlett
Algond
Irene Woods
Grovey Fairbanks
Cedar Rapidgs
W. HB. Grover
August Robison
Joan
Swea City
Tony Lohses
Burt Legion
Burt
Lotts Creek
Fenton
Titania
Fred C. Gilchrist
Sec. of Agriculture
Ray Murray
Burt High School
Dittmer
H. A. Nelson
Lewis Larsen
M .B. Larsen
Lois Graham
Elsie
Wilma Larsen
Vernon Larsen
Levant Moors
Willis Phelps
Epworth League Institute
Okobo
Tony’ Iohse
Henry Johnson
Frank Kalkbremner
Anna Newell
Fairmont
G. O. McFarland
Derrill
D. EK. Burnett
Bancroft
Kingsdorth
Simon Johnson
Stillwater
Minn
M. BH
Ida Sachau
Near Titonka
M.bh
Larsen
Four Corner
Lou Huber
Chas. Phelps
Bernard Phelps
Everett Shipler
Son Hugene
Schipull
Beulah
Arthur Bartlett
Marcella Bartlett
Mildred Wanding
Lou Hubers
C.C.C
Ted Ringsdorf
Josephine Freisenburg
Buffalo
Center
Louis Bartlett
Ruth McFarland
W. F. McFarland
Tony Lohse
Arch
L. M. Owen
Perry and
Russells
L. EB
Airbanks
W. EE
Grovers
Ernest
Frank Applegate
Harold Olson
Clarence Nall
Corwith
Victor Applegate
Fred Carter
Pearl Sathoff
George Laysen
Algona
Paynesville
Grover Fairbansk
Trane Woods
Alvin. Rasmussan
L. J. Fairbanks
Okoboji
Wesley News Briefs Highlight Social Visits and Local Sports
The column notes visits by Mrs and Mrs Jack Grant and son of Hammond Indiana to the Neu roth home, Miss Suzanne Brass and H C Bellman of Des Moines staying with J T Meurer family, and several other local gatherings. Goldfield beat Wesley town 9 to 2 in baseball. Also listed are hospitalizations and operations including Alf Studer and Cecelia Eisenbacher, quarantine news, and travel updates from Mason City and Algona.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Grant
Hammond
Indiana
Albert Neuroth
Suzanne Brass
H. C. Bellman
Des Moines
J. T. Meurer
Goldfield
Wesley Town
A. J. Johnson
Bernadine
Mason City
Margaret Haverly
Town City
Henry Haverly
Miss Haverly
Gladys Carey
Charles Kraus
John Arndorfer
St. Benedict
Leo Goetz
Alf Studer
Mercy Hospital
Vee Mullin
Jesse Sprout
Minneapolis
Algona
Cecelia Eisenbacher
Algona Hospital
Cecelia
Shipley Cafe
Ray Taylor
Illinois
Charles Taylor
Social notes of Wesley area visitors and gatherings
Many families and friends from Wesley and surrounding towns visited, hosted, or traveled over the past week. Listings include the Wester Lease family trip to the Black Hills, visits to Minnesota and North Dakota, the Cape and Alne families at the Story County picnic in Blue Earth Minnesota, and guests at Arndorfer, Goetz, Lichter, and Looft households. Also noted are trips to Yellowstone and the Centennial Exposition in Texas, local church society meetings, and a large Winter family reunion west of town with about sixty attendees. Real estate ads for Lee O. Wolfe conclude the item.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesley
Wester Lease
Sterling
Loren
Black Hills
Lease
Minnesota
North Dakota
Silas Wipe
Story City
Cate
Sam Alne
Cape
Alne
Blue Marth
Minn
Story County
Charles Daniel
Beaver Dam
Wis
Raymond Arndorfer
Mary Jane
Othlg Arnorfer
Milwaukee
John Arndorfer
Arndorfer
Leo Goetz
Walter Lichter
Jackie
Algona
Leonard Arndorfer
St. Benedict
Lillian Johnson
George Goetz
Charles Kraus
Dorothy
Gladys Carey
Deg Muviney
Krause
Texas
Guy M. Butty
I. O
Mason City
Bertha Looft
Margaret
Grace
Johnette
Seneca
Henry Looft
Henry Peterson
Marian
Ariel
Centralia
Carl Lander
Peterson
Lander
John Mulling
Milas
Lena
Dagle Grove
Wortman
Beulah Bell
Sullivan
Hugene Sullivan
Chicago
Wade Ball
Judith
Charles Schroeder
Sorenson
Bode
Thomas
Arlene
Olive
Fred Schroeder
Harnest Wortman
Morris
Gertrude Wortman
I E. Wortman
J. HB
Ukena
Jerry Ukena
George Winter
George Higgins
Lavern Liesveld
Michael Winter
Madonna
A. Bt. Sorenson
Roger
N. A. Pingle
Ledyard
H. Sullivan
Eugene Sullivan
Merrill Sparks
Buffalo Center
A. Gutknecht
Murial Johnson
C. H. Frerking
Norman
F. G. Torine
Swea City
McEnroe
Lone Rock
Lee O. Wolfe
Titonka
Iowa
Portland Township
Lee.o. Wolfe
Also Mentioned on This Page
State University of Iowa
Hano Dressman
Town
Petersen
Herman Helm
Robert Welter
Wisconsin
Oswego
N. Y
Hokah
Willis H. Becker
Titonka Town
Mattie Wurtenburg
Jelle Tjaden
Inno Eden
Stohr
John J. Cosgrove
J. Zumtag
Alicea Cosgrove
Mary Heifner
Elsie Reichsamen
Helen Stone
Alta Clement
Alice Briggs
Hall
Will Woods
iGeerd Hden
Geo. Wohngen
Crose
Myr
Jellen Tjaden
Norman Collar
H. G. Koenig
Lutheran Church
W. S. Stahl
Anton Pannhuk
Gertie Smith
Ruby Butler
Henry Meyer
John Cosgrove
Crose General
Scylla
Chardysis
Guy Beemer
Lakota, Iowa
W. L. Tindall
D. O. Oesteopathic
Horace S. Beemer
J. C. Penny
W. F. Hamstreet, M. D
Pierre Sartor, M. D
Roy C. Ball
Gus Frederickson
Bank of Woden
L. A. Matern
J. E. Keil Funeral Home
Portable Milling Service
Bennet Bruhns
C. O. Riddle
Kossuth County
J. L. Bonar
Iowa State Bank Building
Algona, Towa
L. A. Winkel Attorney-at-Law
Quinby
Algona, Ia
van Ness & Stillman
Attorneys-at-Law
Maurice C. McMahon
County Savings Building
E. C. McMahon
Quinby Bldg
P. A. Dawson
Offtcrs
Quarton & Miller
Kossuth Co. State Bank Bldg
Frigidaire
Bjustrom
Portland News
Wesley News
Webster’ S
Hiveniicen
Baechs
Yublus
Earl Goodnow
BE. Goodnow
Therman Ostercamp
Theron Hanson
Yellowstone Park
Hanson
Montana
Wyoming
Washington
Joseph Lorenz
Clare McCall
Wayne Goslin
Durant
Eldon Ravlin
W.F.M.S
Lakota News
Binder
International
Farmers: Elevator Co
Fred Hagen
North Iowa Grain CO
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