Iowa
Old Press
Postville Review
Postville, Allamakee county, Iowa
April 7, 1899
Published every Friday by W.N. Burdick
On account of being torn up all the week putting in our gasoline
engine, which was only completed today, we are late this week and
the paper perhaps not up to grade. Sometime we hope to get all
these improvements finished and settle down to business.
LOCAL REVIEW
-Geo. Tuttle spent Easter at John Leui's.
-Charley Oloff is the new janitor of the Lutheran church.
-Tuesday was the first spring day, and it was a fine one.
-H.A. Thornton, of Castalia, made a pleasant call at this office
on Thursday.
-Ray Schuler commenced a barn for Mrs. L.P. Sonnkalb on Tuesday.
-Mel Green is in the maple sugar business. He promises to sweeten
us up a little.
-Miss Mabel Beedy came up from Fayette on Monday for a visit.
Mrs. Beedy came up a few days before.
-Walter Bray of Myron, who was sick a while ago, is dangerously
sick again. He was up town a few days ago.
-The Woman's Home Missionary Society will meet with Mrs Fred
Beedy, Tuesday, April 11th, at 3 o'clock.
-Willard E. Bollman, the Lime Springs short horn breeder, was
down this week. He bought some pure bred animals at Waukon.
-Fred Oehring, of McGregor, and Charley Oehring, of Elkader, were
here on a visit over Easter, going to their respective homes on
Tuesday.
-W.G. Makepeace was down from Little Turkey from Tues. to
Thursday. The are indeted for a pleasant and profitable call. We
are glad to know Will is doing well.
-Herb Dunning and Geo. W. Berrier have bought out the stock
business of Ed Dunning at Luana and will commence buying stock
next week.
-Luhman & Sanders have more new goods this Spring than ever
before.
-Remember John Burhans' Sale at Castalia tomorrow.
-We understand that Will Robbe has a very sick child at Fayette.
-The W.C.T.U. will meet with Mrs. Rollins, April 13 at 3 o'clock.
-Mrs. Rev. Seifert, of Clayton Center, has been visiting parents
here.
-District court will convene at Waukon next Monday, Judge Hobson
presiding, the Easton case having been disposed of.
-Frank Hinton again has a day operator at the Millwaukee depot.
This is proper.
-Pure Bred Patridge Cochin eggs for sale at $1.00 per setting.
Eugene Stockman.
-We are under obligations to ex-congressman Updagraff for a
package of seeds as well as for numerous public documents.
-Geo. Ervin has retired from learning telegraphy for the present.
He will flag for the surfacing gang again this summer.
-Lieutenant and Mrs. Hart returned from Cuba last Monday. The
49th regiment expects to be home early in May. Waukon and
everybody will welcome the boys home. The 49th has missed the
fighting but they have not missed the sickness.
-Eggs. Wayandotts. .50 cents per setting. H.E. Roberts
-W.J. Campbell writes us from Watkins, New York, remitting for
another year. He says the family are all well and that they have
had a very cold winter which has not let up at the time of
writing. He sends regards to all old time friends.
-Fred Wendell, a son of Thomas Wendell, a young man about
eighteen years of age, whose parents reside on the B.H. Wells
farm, towards Castalia, died last Saturday morning of Spinal
mengttis [sic]
-Eighty-nine teams were in the Schultz funeral procession on
Tuesday and fully 600 people attended the church services.
Obituary.
Died, at his residence in Grand Meadow township, on Sunday
morning April 2nd, 1899, Carl J. Schultz, in the 41st year of his
age, of dropsy and heart disease. Mr. Schultz was taken to
Chicago, only the week before, but as little could be done for
him there he was brought home on Tuesday to die. He was a son of
Charles Schultz, an old resident of Grand Meadow. His wife is a
daughter of Fred Thoma, deceased. Besides his wife he leaves nine
children to mourn his loss. The funeral was held at the Lutheran
church on Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clk, that edifice being
crowded to its full capacity. The widow will receive $2,000 from
the Workmen. To the bereaved family and relatives the Review
extends it sincere sympathy. Rev. Bockelman furnishes the
following:
Carl J. Schultz, born June 15th, 1858, in Grand Meadow township,
son of Chas. Henry Schultz and his wife Lucy Dorothea Dahs, who
died in 1891. He was married to Anna B. Thoma March 16th, 1881.
Twelve children were born to them of whom nine are living. Died
April 2nd, Easter Sunday, at 7:30 A.M. of dropsy. He left a wife,
nine children, aged father, three brothers and two sisters.
Funeral Tuesday afternoon.
Card of Thanks.
We wish to extend our earnest and sincere thanks to our
neighbors, and all kind friends for their aid and sympathy in our
great bereavement.
Mrs. C.J. Schultz and Family
Obituary.
Fredie Wendell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Wendell, was born in
Indianapolis, Ind. June 8th, 1880 and died March 31st 1899, aged
18 years 9 months and 23 days. His sickness was of short duration
but attended by severe suffering, having been attacked by that
dread disease, spinal meningitis. By his devotion to home duties
and his ministrations towards the comfort of the same he had
endeared himself to the hearts of the family, who now sorrow over
their sudden and sad loss. He was never known to use an oath and
fits of ill temper were foreign to his nature. While these
excellent traits of character are a source of great comfort to
the family yet at present only intensifies the sense of their
great loss. The hearts of the community feel in sympathy with the
afflicted family and God, who sees it fit to wound, stands ready
to pour in the oil of consolation and apply the balm of healing
to the berieved ones. He was an honored member of the Castalia
lodge of I.O.G.T. by whom he was buried with all the honors of
the fraternity. The funeral occurred from the U.B. church at
Castalia Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock P.M. the pastor
officiating. The I.O.G.T. attended in a body marching over 40
strong to the cemetery. J.Q. Dickensheets.
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At the annual meeting of the Postville Volunteer Fire Department
last Monday evening, the following officers were elected:
Chief, Chas. Sonnkalb
Foreman H. & L. Co., John Fangmeier
Foreman Hose Co., No. 1, Jas. Gregg
Foreman Hose Co., No. 2, J. Thoma
Sec'y & Treas, Art S. Burdick
At the Methodist church Sunday Rev. Barton wil take for his
subject the following: morning, The Perfect Character. evening,
Character vs Reputation.
C.A. Dayton, of Oelwein, who sold us our engine, has been here
all the week, with his family. He had a very sick child a part of
the week with croup. Mr. Dayton is a very pleasant and agreeable
gentleman, and a good man to put up machinery.
My plating establishment is now in working order, at my home,
where I am prepared to do all manner of plating, oxidizing,
gilding, lacquering, etc. Bring in your work for estimate. W.J.
Hanks.
Monday Club
The Monday Club will meet with Mrs. Roberts April 10th, observing
the following Musical program:
Roll Call - Music
Ladies Quartet - Mesdames Coleman, Hart, Durno, Cornell
Wagner and his Operas - Mrs. Leui
Vocal solo, 'Tis Spring Time - Mrs. Hart
The Wagner Festival at Bayrouth - Mrs. Thomas
Piano solo, Spinning Song, Liszt - Mrs. Cornell
Reading, "The Opening of the Piano" Holmes - Mrs. Gray
Piano solo, 'Hark, Hark the Lark' Liszt - Miss Durno
Reading - Mrs. Becker
Regular meeting of Golden Rule Lodge Degree, of Honor, occurs on
Sat. April 15th, at 7:30 P.M. Business of importance, initiation
of candidate etc. pormpt attendance is desired. Refreshments will
be served. Mrs. Chas. Sonnkalb, Rec.
At a meeting of the school board last week Thursday the following
teachers were elected:
Principal, H.L. Coffen
Assistant, Miss Ethel McEwen
Grammar, Miss Mary Mickleson
Intermediate, Miss Sara Prescott
1st primary, Miss Cora Darling
2nd primary, Miss Olive Orr
The pay of the principal was raised $15 per month and
intermediate $5. The assistant principal was reduced $15.
There will be a called meeting of Postville Chapter O.E.S. next
Monday evening. Members having rituals are requested to bring
them and leave them with the secretary. Etta Crosby, Sec'y.
The Easter entertainment at the German Lutheran Church on Sunday
evening was a grand success. The singing and reading and in fact
the entire program was in English, and every part of it was fine.
The spacious church was filled to overflowing, a large proportion
of the auditors being American born. They enjoyed the program as
fully as those who were born beyond the sea. The young people,
under whose auspices the program was rendered, have great credit
for their splendid work. We hope our German friends will give
more of those intertainments in English. We have no doubt but all
the services will bein English in a few years. The younger people
prefer the English to the German language.
The County Clerk issued permits to wed to the following couples
during March 1899:
Lenard L. Miller & Eliza Jenkins
Otto Bunge & Minnie Bisping
William Eberling & Emma Harnack
Hobert M. Matison & Edna Metcalf
Peter F. Larson & Ellen S. Dehli
L.E. Livingood & Mary Livingood
Henry H. Pauch & Martha Stock
Lewis Morris & Minnie Flesh
Henry Beck & Mary Renzenhausen
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Postville Review
Postville, Allamakee co. Iowa
April 14, 1899
[the first few lines of this obit were very difficult to read]
Died at her home in Postville on Wednesday morning, of heart
failure, Mrs. Margaret Murphy, aged 78 years. Margaret Murphy,
wife of Michael Murphy was born in County Kerry, Ireland. Was
married in 1843, and came to America in 1848, and lived in
Massachusetts until 1855. They then moved to Clermont township,
Fayette county Iowa where they resided until 1899 when they moved
to Postville. She was the mother of the following named children:
Mrs. John Houlihan, Clermont, Iowa; Mrs. Jas. W. Sheehy,
Postville, Iowa. John W. Murphy, Carrington, N.D., M. Murphy,
West Superior, Wis., D.A. Murphy, St. Paul, Minn., Jas. A.
Murphy, Jamestown, N.D., Martin C. Murphy, Carrington, N.D. The
funeral will be held on Saturday at 10 o'clock a.m. from the
Catholic church in Postville. Interment at Clermont. While we
were not acquainted with the deceased it has been our pleasure to
know most of the children, and knowing them we know it must have
been a consolation for a mother to have reared such a family, a
credit and an honor to any mother. As we have often stated no
family or families of boys have ever gone out of Postville and
made a better mark in the world than the Murphy families. To all
who mourn the Review extends all the sympathy it is
capable of. May the knowledge that she who is gone before
fulfulled her mission in life nobly and will be a satisfaction to
those who remain inciting them to still higher and holier aims.
May peace come upon you like a benediction from above.
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Additional local.
We believe that all the family of Michael Murphy are here to
attend the funeral of their mother, or will be today.
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Today is the twenty fourth anniversary of our arrival in
Postville, and taking personal charge of the office, April 14th
1875. the paper had been published two years and two weeks before
we came into possession by F.M. McCormick. Our first issue was
Vol. 3, No. 3. We are not going to give the history of the town
for the past twenty-four years. It might be interesting if we had
the time. Suffice it to say that comparatively few business men
are here now that were doing business then. Many have moved away
and some have crossed the river to the great beyond. Roberts
& Skelton and Lethold Bros. conducted the principal dry goods
stores. L. Poesch had a small stock on south Lawler street.
Beucher & Spoo and Prescott & Easton sold hardware and
N.J. Beedy had a grocery store. Of these one of the Lethold Bros.
(Chris), Mr. Poesch, Mr. Spoo, Mr. Easton and N.J. Beedy have
long since passed away from earth. The hotels were cnducted by
Clark Van Hooser and Mr. Ferguson, who are dead. The drug stores
were operated by Bayless, Douglass & Co. and A. Staadt, both
of which stores are still owned and conducted in part by the same
men, the first being now owned by Douglass & Oehring and the
latter by A. Staadt & Son. There are more than double the
buildings hin town than there wree then, but the population has
not correspondingly increased. Every room upstairs and own was
occupied by a family, almost. Numberless families would have been
glad to have made this their home if they could have got in
anywhere until they could have built houses. The high price at
which lots were held also had the effect of driving people away.
There was no call at that time for residence lots being held at
more than $50, but they were held at three times that amount.
With cheaper lots and more houses Postville ought to have been as
large twenty years ago as it is now. And now a few words as to
the Review. It has had its times of [illegible] and its
times of prosperity. While it has most of the time made a living,
it has never made much money. [illegible] in its existence it had
competition which has proved [remainder illegible]
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Postville Review
Postville, Allamakee co. Iowa
April 21, 1899
Died.
LAMBORN. At her home in Postville, April 17th, 1899, aged 76
years, one month and 15 days, Mrs. N. Lamborn. Laura Burnham was
born in Champaign co., Ohio, on the 2nd of March, 1823. Was
married to Nathan Lamborn the 13th of November, 1845. To them two
children were born, Frank B., who died at the age of three years,
and Elba B. who with her and her husband emigrated to Iowa in the
year 1855 and settled in Allamakee Co. Besides the husband and
son there are left behind to mourn, three grand children and one
great grandchild. Their grand daughter, Mrs. Chas. Simonds, and
husband and little daughter arrived Tuesday morning from Momence,
Ill., but not until Mrs. Lamborn had passed away. The funeral was
held from the Congregational church at 11 o'clock, on Wednesday,
interment in Luana cemetery. While Mrs. Lamborn was in poor
health for a good many years, and had been blind for two years,
her final sickness was of twelve weeks duration during which time
she suffered a great deal. She is now at rest, and may peace and
consolation come to the bereaved husband and relatives.
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J.M. Harris is painting his house, and all outbuildings. We went
through that ordeal last year and the year before.
Some kind of spring fever struck our office force this week and
it was hard to get out the paper. Colds and catarrh got hold of
all of us.
Mr. Johnson, of Castalia, buried two children this week with that
dread disease, spinal meningitis. Up that way it is almost as bad
as diphtheria was here twenty-one years ago.
J.H. Priest and wife came up from their farm home near Clermont
last Saturday. Mrs. Priest took the afternoon train for Prairie
Du Chien where she will visit a daughter.
Our old friend John Patterson, writes us from Washta [Cherokee
co.], in sending his subscription, that they have had a very cold
winter and a late spring. This seems to be the general report
from all over the west, and east too, for that matter.
Prof. G.D. Harrington will leave us tomorrow for St. Louis to
join his company for the season, where he has a position in the
band. This is the third season with the same company. We wish him
success and a safe return when the days begin to get cold again.
Field peas at Hoy & Schroeder's.
Pure Bred Patridge Cochin eggs for sale at $1.00 per setting.
Eugene Stockman.
Hon. A.B. Cummins, of Des Moines, candidate for the U.S. senate,
has been secured for the Woodmen picnic, at Decorah, June 6th. We
can safely promise the best speech ever delivered in Decorah.
Eggs. Wayandotts. 50 cts per setting. H.E. Roberts.
Fisk & Weldon's Orchestra and Concert Co. played to a very
light house last night. It was by far the best thing of the kind
ever presented to a Postville audience. If they ever come here
again they will have a full house.
We see that the Elma News-Register has been sold to a
Des Moines man. To all appearance this is the best newspaper
property in this part of the state, and ought to be made a good
paper. We presume Bert Tuttle will remain with the new
management.
I am prepared to do all kinds of sewing machine and organ
repairing on short notice. Will do the work at your home when
desired. Give me a trial. W.J. Hanks.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. H. Simonds came from Momence, Ill., Tuesday to
attend the funeral of Mrs. Lamborn. They did not have notice in
time to get here before her death.
FOR SALE. Lot occupied by Gray's Clothing Store, Lot occupied by
Jewelry Store Bulding, and vacant Lots between the two buildings.
W.S. Roberts, Des Moines, Ia.
F.M. Orr sends us a comparative statement of the Monona State
Bank, showing a good increase of business the past year.
A drunken man drove his family out of doors the other day at
Cresco, and shot at the sheriff at short range. And Cresco nor
Howard county has not had a saloon for years. It seems that up
there prohibition don't prohibit.
The rich man's whiskey is HARPER, because it is supremely
delicious. the poor man's whiskey is HARPER, because such good
whiskey helps him. The family whiskey is HARPER, because it's
pure, pleasant and strengthening. Sold by Henry Poesch,
Postville, Ia.
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Postville Review
Postville, Allamakee co. Iowa
April 28, 1899
Died.
SCHARA. At the residence of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chas.
Schara, four miles northwest of Postville, on Sunday, April 23rd,
Bertha Schara, aged about 16 years, of cerebro spinal meningitis.
Funeral on Wednesday from the Congregational church, Rev. Appel,
of Luana, officiating. Interment in Postville. Miss Schara was
universally respected and loved by all who knew her as was
attested by the very larg funeral this busy time of the year. She
had been afflicted with this dread disease three or four weeks,
and was thought to be recovering up to a few days ago, when
paralysis of the stomach set in and the young life went out. The
sincere sympathy of all is extended to the bereaved parents and
other members of the family.
Death.
The people of Decorah were greatly shocked, last Friday morning,
by the intelligence that Prof. J. Breckenridge suddenly passed
away at his home in that city, the result of heart failure,
without a moment's warning. He was 65 years of age and had been
at the head of his normal school for 25 years. His death is a
great loss not only to the school, but to Decorah as a whole. He
was a good educator and a fine man in every respect.
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Mrs. George Lull has been quite sick this week with an attack of
erysipelas, though not dangerous. Mrs. Chriss and Mrs. Eaton have
been with her.
Chas. C. Weber was up from McGregor on Tuesday. He reports his
business good and the town improving, all of which we are glad to
learn.
We understand that Mrs. J.W. Sheehy and family will go to North
Dakota to reside, nearly all of the family residing there. Her
father, Mr. Murphy, returned with his sons. We regret that this
family is to leave us.
From the West Union Argo we take the following
--Ed. Stone has been taking an enforced vacation since Saturday,
when a bit of acid flew into one of his eyes, rendering him unfit
for duty for several days.
--E.B. Branch has sold his photograph gallery to J.B. Hughes, of
Algona, and the latter is already in charge. Mr. Hughes is said
to be a first class artist and The Argo warmly welcomes
him to West Union.
Are you going to buy a wheel? Go to Hoy & Schroeder's and
look over their line of Crescents.
A year ago now the country was all excitement over the Spanish
war. Now the two countries are on amicable terms, and the whole
trouble is in the Philippines.
Don't fail to hear Miss Jeanette Durno, at the Congregational
church next Tuesday evening, May 2nd. She comes under the
auspices of the Eastern Star. Give them a benefit.
Fremden Blatt, Vienna: It was an American pianists, Miss Durno,
of the Leschetizky school, who charmed the audience with the
difficult variations of Paderewski, which she played in a finely
modeled stye and with great temperament. Miss Durno, who now
returns to America, will certainly be a brilliant advertisement
for her highly esteemed teacher, Leschetizky. At Congregational
church next Tuesday evening, May 2nd.
My plating establishment is now in working order, at my home,
where I am prepared to do all manner of plating, oxidizing,
gilding, lacquering, etc. Bring in your work for estimate. W.J.
Hanks.
Mr. and Mrs. H.S. Luhman have gone to Oconomaowoe with their
crippled child to have an operation performed. They may go to
Chicago if Mr. Luhman's brother, who is a surgeon, does not want
to perform it. They will be absent some time.
The lightning played havoc with two large barns, twenty head of
blooded horses, twenty head of Jersey cows, fat hogs, grain, hay,
carriages, at Independence last week. One of [the] barns and its
contents belonged to Mr. Martindale, owner and manager of the
Frank Howard Concert Co., who was traveling in South Dakota at
the time.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Chriss, of Cedar Rapids, and Mr. and Mrs.
G.E. Eaton, of Monona, spent Sunday at the Lull parental
residence here.
Street Commissioner Schultz is making some fine improvements on
his residence property, enlarging and otherwise improving it.
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