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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1911
Page
12
Perry Irwin and family dined with Rob Woods while August Rosenberger spent weekend with home folks. Various locals visited, shopped, or worked on farms as news lists dozens of names, travels, and small town happenings including sales, buildings, baptisms, and hospital visits.
Sunday visits unite the Dobbie and Olson families in Estherville. Anna Olson heads to Chicago to study nursing for the winter while John Dobbie and Mr. Olsen welcome a newborn son. A funeral for a lost infant is noted in State Line cemetery with condolences.
Arm strong column reports 12 year old John Hubbard injured knee and rheumatism after playing, funeral of Mrs John Hoff delayed by weather, funeral held at Methodist church with quartet. Mr and Mrs William Stuart visiting Clemons Iowa. Herman Mangold assisting in post office during Stuart absence. J Bravender brought Minnesota soil home from Fairmont in a Slush ride. Rev A Pruitt new pastor spoke at Methodist church. parishioners expect good in coming year. St Marys Catholic services moved to Ledyard next Sunday. School program praised. another program planned in two weeks. Ladies Aid to meet at Mrs Ridley home. Mrs George Canon visited from Woodstock and may move home to Himmel county to farm Grandpa Horswell’s land. Horswell to replace barb wire with woven wire fencing.
News notes from Armstrong township describe updating farms and road conditions. Harold Atwood drops school to pursue other vacation plans. Miss Rachael Williams, formerly a high school assistant, enjoys her teaching post at Spirit Lake. B Knudson builds a new attractive farm home. Swea City resident Link enrolls in Armstrong eighth grade. Rev Ed Sands departs for Forest City Methodist charge. St Marys Catholic church hosts special services.
In a bustling roundup of local life, residents note rain aiding plowing while many visit kin and neighbors. names include Lawrence Haines, Lottie and Livella Mitchell, Vern Haines, Clyde Wilder, Harry Goodge, A J Wilder, Martin Nollandson, Barney, Henry Nol, John Littell, Chauncy Redhead, Gib Burkhead, Will Gage, S D Knode, Cr Peterson, John Miller, P A Fouts, Sam Solomonson, Ed Griese, Simon Jones, Everett Mott, D Wilder, Knode relatives, Rd Miller, and Otto Keimer. Social events abound with dances, parties, hunting ducks, and birthdays. Several trips and farm plans loom as frost hits and potato digging nears. farm-tenancy changes and moving plans for Adolph and Bineday families surface.
An item notes Will Watson at home on Monday and Lee Jones driving to Westherville on Tuesday.
John Weis will move to the Kd F. and Fred Knowles farm about seven miles northeast of Armstrong in spring. Roy Holldort missed his regular Armstrong high school trip. Mrs. Sauk Lalty’s sale drew good prices with Col Wim. Foshier attending. A Missouri teacher, Mr Rhein, is teaching John Wigdal school after a period without a teacher. Elsie Miller visited Armstrong for an over Sunday. Dr. West checked on Fred Beckhart whose leg is broken. crutches soon. Fred expects limited mobility in days ahead. Sudsberry siblings visited from southern Minnesota to the Eckhart and Hackett homes with Bosworth and Holldorf families attending. Carey and others danced in Minnesota at the Helmick home.
October tiling ad promises low water costs this month and high farm crops. It claims land priced at $100 per acre in prime shape, with easy ditch-line hauling and time before husking. Cruxenv Propucrs Co. invites business and file yet to please customers.
An old maker’s note explains salamanders resemble frogs with tails, vary in hind leg development, and often hide in rotten logs. It notes they escape flames due to damp skin, countering the folk notion that a salamander thrives in fire.
A critic observes in the shipping district that labels reading via boat or via train insult non-English users. He argues that via should denote the place a parcel passes through, not the transport method, urging clerks to correct the wording.
A compiled list of farm sale dates and locations across Iowa. Names include WM Foster, A EB Thompson, Paul Vanora, M BR Weir, Tom West, Ware Edwards, Jj H Becker, Bert Bootin, Chas Fuller, Sam Miller, W H Hayden, F G Creighton, and John Zerke. Locations cover Estherville, Spirit Lake, Superior, Dolliver, Montgomery, and surrounding areas. Dates run October through November and February.
Hans Davidson lists a property sale by owner auctioneers one mile east and a half mile south of Ringsted with sale to occur in October.
An inventor builds an artificial cat with a plaster body and skin from a former society cat. Glass eyes glazed with calcium sulfide give a terrifying look. The creature roams the room, causing rats and mice to flee, as it supposedly steals nothing, eats nothing, kills no birds, and makes no nocturnal noises.
A hermit named Lewis dies at eighty two after twenty years living on shellfish in a covered trawler beached at Lower Fishquare He maintained a strict diet except when shellfish were scarce substituting bread and cheese until two days before death London Answers
Besieged town ambassadors treat with Alexander the Great on surrender terms. He appoints Acuphis as governor and orders 100 hostages of the best citizens. Acuphis asks to send 100 of the worst instead, smiling at the suggestion.
The item notes a weekly Friday night program at the Gyrie featuring motion pictures. It presents a brief, period tone announceable like a community notice. No further details on titles times or prices are provided.
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