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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1928
Page
4
In Jack Creek area threshing is finished across districts and farmers are plowing or fencing. Several residents travel for fairs and visits. Numerous names appear: Miss Margaret Matthes on sick list. families such as Bosolds, Paughs, Meyers, and Kruses visit and journey to Algona Ringsted Shenandoah and the Black Hills.
The State Historical Society of Iowa receives a diary kept by Caroline Phelps wife of fur trader William Phelps. Spanning 1830 to about 1840 it covers marriage, frontier trading among Sauk and Fox, Black Hawk War excitement, frontier family life, and Indian customs. Notable incident recounts Sauk war party returning with eleven prisoners including a baby, and Phelps home efforts to protect the infant amid abductions and negotiations. The diary promises insight into early Iowa life and trading challenges.
A fragmented account from Dearborn and Detroit describes Henry Ford's town known as Boenry's town. It notes Ford's estate, executive offices, Rouge plant in Fordson, and nearby Highland Park plant moves. The writer details wages, living costs, farm and deer park, and extensive paving in Wayne County, plus Windsor and La Salle visits and local social scenes.
A woman fell injuring a limb and was taken to a local infirmary. Visitors from Sioux Falls and Jefferson attended Labor Day events in Estherville. Carrie Oehrlein tours St Paul while deputy city clerk. Lucille Conway heads to St Marys Academy in Clinton. Raymond Igon and grandmother visit Basett then return to Ames for school. John L. Osgood visits from Sioux City for business. George Allen recovers from a leg fracture after a vehicle incident not a hit and run. A divorce and an annulment are granted in the September district court session.
Mrs H J Mester and her two sons Carl and Louis traveled to Topeka Kansas on Sunday to visit at the home of a daughter.
The Hayden family expresses thanks for kindness shown during their bereavement and for floral tokens. Also an apartment for rent at 120 North Seventh Street, with rooms for sleeping or light housekeeping, offered by Mrs Louis Mathwig at 1115 North Sixth Street.
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