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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1923
Page
4
The Andicator and Republican editors G. A. Nichols and daughter issue a notice. Estherville post office records show second class matter entry for the publication.
Poem praising resilience and courage in adversity. It argues that true worth is shown by how a man endures fate’s blows, stands after being knocked down, and keeps striving, not by victories. The speaker notes pain, failure, and sorrow as the real tests of character.
Mrs O B Opheim and Miss Julia return to Northfield after a three week visit. Miss Opheim will begin postgraduate work at Wisconsin University this fall. Mr and Mrs Henry Brunevold and family and others visit Hanlontown relatives. Dobberstein hosts Graettinger guests. Gage and Aasby attend a German Lutheran convention at Spirit Lake. Nasby family cared for by A B Benson and nurse Miss Jacobson. Brunsvold hosts guests from Hanlontown including Levi family and Otto Opheim family. Delegates prepare for L L Convention at Wallingford Friday to Sunday. Lawrence Gage’s Estherville friend joins choir practice. Invitation to the Petersburg Fair on Thursday.
A condensed reconstruction of Brookhart’s multipart bloc critique and a satirical verse urging reform. The piece cites farm labor soldiers and mothers blocs, laments economic inequalities, and imagines an expanding chain of blocs. It blends commentary on cooperation with quips about rail rates wages and a future of ever more blocs. It also notes local items about the Maidment family seeking to move, and a shoe repair ad line.
Dunnell notes reveal farm exchanges and caregiving as families swap roles while visiting relatives in Estherville Swea City and St. Paul. Neighbors celebrate with Tostrum on her birthday. A Denver trip prompts moving and hospital visits. Local ball game highlights and a jack knife accident prompt swift medical response.
Grover residents host and visit relatives from Rockwell City Racine Winnebago and Estherville as Rev Dirks candidated. Local trips include Reinbeck Mankato Sioux Falls and Mason City with numerous families noted. A child suffers infantile paralysis and a community gathering at the Everett Davis home closes the week with gifts.
Oscar C Anderson eldest son of Cornelius Anderson long active in Cuming County Nebraska public life died August 12 in Omaha after illness. Born 1867 near Smithville Iowa, he practiced law in West Point with Keefe, later joining Krause Co. He married Grace Dillon in 1898 and left a daughter Ruth and son William. Survived by wife, children, parents, five sisters and two brothers.
The Estherville Independent Base Ball team defeated the Dia nnel Brookside squad from Dunnell Ceylon and vicinity 12 to 6 at Fox Lake on Sunday. The next game is set against Otteson at Otteson. the team, featuring Woods Mauck Hubbard Fitzgerald Whiting Rogers Gage Brown Westbrook Erickson and possibly an extra pitcher, aims for a hard but winnable contest.
Supt H E Allen and Master Carpenter F Kirk were in Kansas City on business the first of the week. B H Smith acting master mechanic went to Fairbury last Sunday and brought his wife and family back to this city. Their daughter will enter high school here in the fall and their son will attend college. Cramer Cedar Rapids traveling time accountant visited Estherville this week. L L Smith division storekeeper and wife will take two children to Council Bluffs to stay with Mrs Smith's parents while she undergoes an operation. Mrs Joe Nissen and son Frederick and Mrs R E Dake and daughter Doris visited Fort Dodge. Wilma Zollar will visit Iowa Falls until Friday. Engineer and Mrs C F Mundahl came from Rochester but returned there. Mr Mundahl is receiving Mayo hospital treatments and improving.
Public sale of component real estate in Emmet County Iowa described as all of section 26 township 100 range 32 west of the 5th P M with down payments depending on parcel size and final settlement by March 1 1924. Administrators J A Spies and R Laughlin announce terms and rental year assignment with auctioneer Ben Reeves.
Monday Mr and Mrs Cha Na Nancolas of Hawarden Iowa visited Estherville to see friends. He last came here seventeen years ago after leaving to run hardware and hotel businesses. Mrs Nancolas is the daughter of the late Pony Mead once proprietor of the Orleans Hotel and famed Pony Express driver. They were joined by Mr and Mrs T J Francis and daughter Oleta and Mr and Mrs A W Pickering and daughter Aretha Mead.
Mrs. Tom Nivison of this city, Mrs. Fletcher Howe of Spencer, Mrs. Francis Albro and daughter of Tacoma, and Mrs. John C. Allen of Emmetsburg left Tuesday for Rudyard Michigan to visit their sister Mrs. Will Irwin. Albro had not seen Mrs. Irwin in thirteen years and Howe not for six. The reunion will bring all the Bigelow girls together except Miss Jessie who lives with her parents in California.
The George Washington Masonic National Memorial in Alexandria Virginia will be the national shrine for American Masons. The cornerstone, costing four million dollars, will be laid with impressive ceremonies on Thursday November first 1923, amid the largest gathering of Masons ever. There are 17000 Blue Lodges and three million Masons nationwide.
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