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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1921
Page
12
The item discusses market prices for oats and grain, freight-rate cuts, and railroad wage reductions. It notes farmers lack storage and finance to wait for higher prices, and criticizes postwar labor board actions reducing railroad wages by about 64 cents per hundred miles, with no freight-rate relief despite promises. It reflects editorials from A Nichols, editor.
A sequence of short notices lists residents and relatives visiting in Estherville and nearby towns. Names include Elmo Long and Zoe of Springfield. Edwin Nichols and daughter from Glennwood City. Gertrude Knight. Margueritte Williams. Vera Herron and children. Ralph Taylor and daughters. Lelia Bartlett. Mrs. Lloyd Hyatt and babies. Mrs. Ralph Taylor’s Garwin trip. and others visiting or returning home from Minnesota, Wisconsin, South Dakota, and Iowa locales.
Mrs. Matt Mathison of North 12th street was sick last week from suspected meat poisoning but is improving. Various relatives and friends visit, travel to Spencer Sioux Falls Grundy Center and California guest stories include Sgt John R. Weir from Ferris Island and F G Moffett pension department veteran. A box of rattlesnakes from Texas arrives for a traveling showman. Mr Ed Broms buys a Willys Knight car for a Minnesota vacation. Chas Graaf family visits Estherville and plans travels to Luverne and Aberdeen and back to Mrs Craat’s home.
A wedding was celebrated Thursday afternoon August 4 at the home of Rev. J. W. LaGrone. Lewis A. Kuehl of Sheldon and Alva L. Carrier of Spirit Lake were united in marriage in the presence of a few friends. Kuehl is telephone manager in Sheldon and a business figure. Carrier is a popular Spirit Lake resident born in Minnesota.
A special Queen Esthers meeting is set for Friday August 14 at 7 30 p m at the church Reports from the Queen Esther Camp at Okoboji are on the agenda highlighting church activities and local youth outreach.
Last Saturday Grandma Jack son celebrated his 84th birthday with a small party hosted by Mrs. Wm. Nichols. About sixteen guests attended and Grandma received several presents and enjoyed the dainty supper. Separate note records Dorothy Juhl turning eighteen with friends sharing ice cream and cake.
Mrs W A Beymer entertained friends of Mrs Walter Hutchinson at her home Friday afternoon. The gathering was informal and included a delicious lunch served at the close by the host, highlighting a nostalgic visit from an old-time acquaintance.
Miss Margaret Clark hosted five young Iowa City students and graduates from Sheldon Shenandoah Iowa City Eagle Grove and Spencer over the weekend at her city home. The group included Irma Harges Lucille Sawyer Sarah Lewis Ann Hobbet and Sadie Clapper all connected to Iowa educational circles. Sawyer and Lewis attend Lake Side Laboratory at West Okoboji while Hobbet teaches at Smith College and chaperones the lake party.
Mrs J P Kirby and Mrs W E Bradley hosted about twenty five ladies Saturday afternoon at Mrs Kirby's home to honor weekend visitor Mrs Emma G Allen of Los Angeles. Guests arrived in old fashioned costumes, an elaborate three course luncheon was served, and the afternoon was spent in social converse with out of town guests Mrs W S Jones of Sioux City and Mrs QO Barnum and her sister Mrs Louis of Minneapolis.
The Free Methodist Church lists Sunday services with Sabbath school at 10, preaching at 11 followed by a class meeting, evening preaching at 7 45, and a prayer meeting Wednesday at 8. The item notes the church’s weekly worship moments and midweek prayer gathering.
Nor Lutheran church hosts a prayer meeting Thursday evening at 8 p m at the church for parishioners and community members to join in devotions and reflection.
The document lists August church events including L. A. and M. 8 gathering hosted by Mesdames Klocow Hanson Falque and Ingvall on August 18, Lutheran Immanuel Church holds Mission Festival on August 14 with German and English services led by Qor Kirtzmann and K Dail, Union Baptist Church schedules Sunday school at 10 a.m., morning worship at 11 a.m., a 7 p.m. Young Peoples meeting, and an evening service discussing "What is Man?" with the city’s only church offering both services.
Sunday notices announce no Methodist Episcopal services on August 14 and invite all to Lake Okoboji Camp Meeting two and a half miles west of Spirit Lake. Preachers include Rev Mossman of Morningside College Rev Sloan of Trenton NJ and Rev Musser of Detroit Michigan with Indian jungle themes. J D Weir of Emmetsburg shopped in Estherville last week.
A 32-w-2 Cement Products Co. notice appeals to landowners to drain soggy spots and redirect water to ready fields for spring cropping, arguing taxes and interest still accrue while fields stay unproductive.
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