Local and Personal News from Estherville and Vicinity
Estherville and Emmet County residents are noted in a roundup of travel visits, military duty changes, and family news. Ed Callendar hosts his parents after a Clarion visit. several locals attend a United War Work conference in Fort Dodge. Wickersham leaves Sconberg & Kilgore for military service duration. influenza cases appear largely mild in town with more in the countryside. multiple confirmations of travel, illness, and wartime work fill the week’s personal notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aeemee
E. M. Callendar
Clarion
Estherville
Ed Callendar
L. R. Buckinham
L. Lough
I’. H. Sanderlin
United War Work Campaign
Fort Dodge
Emmet
Fred Elwood
Cedar Rapids
Tom Hepp
R. H. Wickersham
Sconberg & Kilgore
McCook
Nebraska
Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy Railroad Company
Minnesota
Wisconsin
F. M. Jones
Chas, Dayton
C. Storey
Herman Lorenz
A. N. Vassar
Terris
J.W
Warren Pullen
Brailey
Sioux Falls
Alfred Rose
St. Paul
Ryan Lake
Marines
J. P. Kirby
Mervin
Don
Spirit Lake
Taylor Morton
Rav. Torbet
M. E. Church
Vorhies
Presbyterian Church
Fred White
Lloyd Richardson
John Strube
Ed Stockdale
W. A. Kerr
Clark County
South Dakota
John Byers
Bert Miller
Myron and
LeRoy
Snyder
Miller
Templar Park
LeRoy Turner
Morton
Orville Turner
New York City
Philadelphia
Heneman
Camp Pike
P. Gain
Influenza fears drive closing calls and local notices
The piece urges closing indoor gathering places like pool halls during disease fears, notes funeral travels and influenza quarantine shifts, and updates on residents’ movements and jobs. It reports Mrs. Arthur Peterson’s pneumonia death in Colorado Springs, her nursing work, and long service at the Vindicator and Republican.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Doyle
Tipton
Camp Merritt
New Jersey
Sargent Bevan
Camp Dodge
Clara Brees
The
State University
Maria Pingrey
Rolfe
Taylor Morton
Wm. Oehrlein
Ralph
Carrie Oehrlein
St. James
Johnson
Northwestern
Lebanon
South Dakota
R. G. Ross
Orleans
Howard Baldwin
Barnhart Avenue
Ethel McArdley
Clear Lake
Sidney Bemis
BE. W. Hanson
Spirit Lake
J. B. Strait
Colorado Springs
Genevieve Peterson
Estherville
Arthur Peterson
Pikemonia
Arthur
Colorado
Oak Hill Cemetery
Vindicator and Republican
Christian Church
Flu Outbreak Closes Fort Smith School in 1918
In Fort Smith Arkansas over 900 influenza cases prompt school closure. Stella Weimer notes illness in her home at 318 North 26th Street with two sick residents improving slowly. The Hawkeye restaurant project, John Martyr building, remains suspended as Washington blocks state approval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Smith
Arkansas
Mr. Nichols
V. and R
Stella Weimer
John Martyr
Martyr
State War Board
Washington
QO. K
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J. W. Johnson
Mr. Johnson
J. O. Overholt
Diesinson
Soldiers’ Welfare
Weee i Eming
Emily Long Charles
Galvin
Femplara Park
Adelaide Nichols
Twin Falls
Idaho
Misa Nichola
Noorman Maite
Uncle Samahs Government Arsenal
Rock Island
Republican
Miss Welmitr
N. 26Th St
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Hawkeye Restaurant
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Herman
Oransky
Ghosores
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