Wayside Notes and Iowa Lake News Roundup
Local notes from Wallingford area recount Clayton Taylor’s Friday call at the Duncan home south of Wallingford, temple sermons by Rev H C Hurd at Ryan Lake, and farm life notes about spring work and new machinery. The column lists community visits, school terms, wolf concerns, and residents moving, visiting, or starting jobs, with references to Armstrong and nearby townships and a church schedule at the First Church of Christ Scientists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clayton Taylor
Duncan
Wallingford
Fred Richman
Center
High Lake Townships
H. C. Hurd
Ryan Lake
Wellsher
Iowa Lake News
James Spoor
Armstrong
Daisy Bunt
Clara DeBates
Iowa Lake
John VanBuskirk
Fonton
Jesse
Donald
Clifford Gage
Toaras
Lillian Anderson
Feicher
Francia Ketuben
Wallingfoim social and business notes in brief
A Friday evening hotel closure in Wallingfoim leaves no attendants. Many residents and visitors are mentioned visiting relatives, attending funerals, and shipping hogs to Chicago. A temperance lecture drew good turnout, and multiple residents travel between Estherville Graettinger and Forest City for events and schooling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Sevatson
Miller
Estherville
M. S. Sevatson
G. E. Moore
Chicago
Elmer
Osher
Emma Sando
Eister
Clemenson
Marvin Miller
Clarence Clemenson
Quincy
Illinois
Ruby
I. C. Mybre
Graettinger
Oscar Mybre
Win. Jahmson
Town City
Minnie
Tia Gilbertson
Morest City
Myhbre
Chaettinger
G. W. Gilbertson
Misener
Merle
Local farm notes and visits mix with weekend activity
Farmers began feeding oats locally while Will Knode returned home for a few days. Mr Miller arrived from Estherville with a tiling crew to start tiling Monday. Many people went hunting Sunday as Mr and Mrs Andy Wilder visited at Fouts. inquiry follows about a matter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nick Rolling
Theodore Sturna
Clara de Bates
Clara Sauser
Johbu
Allan Mason
Armstrong
Clauson's
Ed. Helldorfs
Jack Carey
Sam Caylor
Dolliver
Hattiy Ball
John Dows
John VanBuskirk
Nick Rollings
Harper Gage
Schubbe
Estherville
Tewin
Dr. Quanimen
Helmar Danielson
Lou
H. G. Quamamen
Jamie Kasa
Jacob Jacobson
Chris Angerbeck
J.P. Kennnedy
Will Knode
Mr. Miller
Andy Wilder
Melvin Tyler
Nelson Brothers
Lawrence Solomonson
Mitchell
Paul Rosenberger
Maud Richards
Albert Davis
Ethel Mitchell
Morning Side College
Ethel
8. B. Reed
Anderson
Center Township
Ladies Aid
Graver
Wun
Musgen
Burkhead
Clarence Wilder
Mr. Atwood
Edith Goldsberry
Halfa
F. R. Dowden
L. Anderson
P. H. Graves
H. Taylor
8. Solomonson
J. H. Taylor
T. B. West
Ann West
L. Taylor
C. D. Wilder
Clarence and
Clyde Wilder
Local residents update and events noted
Mr C Anderson improves his place by raising part of his house and repairing other buildings. Paulsen helps Fred Lawesn haul cream. Edward M Kettleson spends a few days with relatives. Berg gave a temperance lecture and sang with Harp. Ole Slagness and sister Enga left for Washington last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. C. ©. Anderson
Mr. Paulsen
Fred Lawesn
Edward Mkettleson
Mrs.Kettleson
Berg
Our City
Ole Slagness
Enga
Washington
Local Chautauqua Notes and Community Life
Chautauqua plans and social updates from the township include visits by neighbors in Estherville Jackson Huntington and Grover. Births weddings and illness are noted along with farm work new windmills and a dredge at Swan Lake. The passing of Mrs. Green is reported with community sympathy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Matt Wolcott
I. N. Sweet
Swan Lake
Chas. Fuller
Grant
Estherville
Bergeson
Coughlin
Bailey Farm
Gilbert Sweet
Fouts
Hartranft
Grover
Walter Wilson
Cedar Rapids
Foreat
Lee Mitchell
Margaret West
Katie Nell
Tyler
Woods
Vivian Mathers
Wm. Nehring
Katherine Morton
Mreg
B.S. Green
Gruyer
Green
M. E. Church
Social life and local notes from Estherville area
A roundup of social visits, church notes, farming progress, and local happenings around Estherville. Guests at the Solomonson home, Easter greetings, family visits, new baby, factory updates, ditch work progress, and upcoming services at Grovel Presbyterian Church. Also mentions subscriptions discount offer for local papers.
Weather review for Des Moines week ending April 17 1911
Des Moines Iowa weekly weather report notes a stormy start with heavy rains and winds, followed by a mainly clear, cold spell. The rain aided topsoil conditions for tilling while delaying farm work. plowing and seeding progressed, spring wheat and barley mostly done, oats nearing completion, grass rising, and winter wheat in good shape. Fruit buds remain dormant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
Notable sermon ends in dramatic shipboard allegory
The New York Sun recalls Whitefield delivering a seafaring sermon where a calm voyage shifts to a dramatic storm warning. He urges sailors to their duty as thunder, lightning, and rising seas threaten the ship, culminating in a call to take the longboat amid a cheering congregation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitefield
New York
New York Sun
Curious Tramps Tools and Devices Highlight Roadside Dangers
The Baltimore American describes odd tramp gear such as the cuff muzzler a stocking segment worn to hinder handcuffing and the fiddle a large nail used by a spike ranger to separate rope strands. The piece portrays how these tools reflect the perils and tactics of itinerant laborers and their encounters with police.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muzziera
Woman's Letter Says Veiled Meanings Drive Effect
A London Spectator quote cited by M Marcel Prevost argues women craft letters with veiled meanings. He asserts female letters conceal true thoughts as women use gaze and smile to influence, comparing honest shopkeepers who state intentions plainly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Marcel Prevost
London Spectator
New Boats Grow Larger on Great Lakes Fleet
The fleet on the Great Lakes shows rising tonnage with fewer crafts as newer boats offer greater capacity, reducing the overall number of vessels despite an expanding cargo capacity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Lakes
Preparing for Sorrow
A brief reflection from the Christian Observer urging acceptance of sorrows as inevitable and urging patience, faith, and hope as progress toward meeting hardship. It cites a quote on embracing adversity and another by Gladstone about opposing wrong offering only slender assurance of righteousness.
Poe’s Short Stories Influence Across Languages and Genres
Brander Matthews notes Poe’s best tales showcase a strong constructive design and decorative gift rare in literature. Poe’s work crossed into French Italian Spanish German and Scandinavian bohemian tongues influencing Maupassant Richepin Fitzjames O’Brien Stevenson and Kipling. His mystery tales of deduction inspired Dumas Sardou Gaboriau Bozgobey Collins and Doyle including Sherlock Holmes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poe
Feniwore Cooper
Brander Matthews
Sentiment Versus Sense Reporter Interview Fragment
Interview excerpt shows a reporter asking a man about books and influence. The man responds with an ironic line about an empty pocketbook. A follow up mentions hotels in Maine last summer and a jab about being charged for carriage and the baby's omeeting, illustrating travel discomfort and irony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
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Wayside Notes
Ollie
Willie Roode
Waterloo
Woodman’s Lodge
Will Anderson
Prof. Miller
Gruver
J. M. Pickell
J.taylor
J. A. West
Lizzie Prochasky
2. J. Graves
Chas. Peterson
Geo. Grenade
I. M. Goldsberg
Ira Hi
John UV Cis
First Church of Christ, Scientists
Welw. mi
Seventh Streets
Wallingfoim
Lena Sevatson
Pltlrsburg
Mr. Goodwin Benson
Jackson
ER. A. Nasby
E. B. Benson
Andrew
Arthur Nasby
A. Nasby
Minnie Kettleson
Emmett
Clement Luskart
Olive Crim
Walter Schultz
Mrs. A. Markley
David VanEman
Hives
Conklin
J. A. Barber
O. H. Koehler
Chambers and Weir
Huntington
S. M. Chamber
W. W. van Eman
Wim. Lesher
Mesdames George and
Wm. West
Sam Solomonson
Mrs. Solomonson
Barney Noll
Henry Noll
Harvey Solomonson
Lovella Mitchell
Doris Ralston
Solomonson
P. A. Fouts
Annie Griese
Mrs. Burkhead
John Ball
Tyler's
Simon Jones
Loren White
Aft
Grover Presbyterian Church
Prince
Ed Arnett
Town
Vindicator
Republican
St. Paul
South Eighth Street
Weather Crop Report
Hamburg
Winchester
Austin
Mason City
U. V. James
Estherville, Lowe
Gro
M. Charra
Gladstone
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