Iowa
Old Press
The Iowa Volksblatt
Postville, Allamakee co. Iowa
December 21, 1900
Buy your Christmas trees from Frank Poesch. Order your cakes and
pies from Mrs. Poesch.
Buy storm windows of Jas. Gregg and save firewood.
For the next two weeks talk to Santa Claus over the telephone at
Douglass & Oehring.
No matter what the market price is for eggs and chilckens, Luhman
& Sanders pay the highest price.
Dr. Levi Fuller died at West Union last Saturday of a heart
stroke.
Mrs. Caroline Schofield of Charles City arrived for a visit with
her mother, Mrs. Fritz Thoma.
The farm belonging to Henry Poesch, deceased, was sold last week
to J. Gass for $71 per acre.
Charley Gordon moved last week from the Hawkins farm onto his own
farm a little farther north.
Emma Meier, the youngest daughter of Ludwig Meier, has been ill
the past eight days from yellow jaundice.
Another corn shredder accident happened six miles south of
Ossian. Wm. Kolley, a farmer, got his leg into the machine and it
had to be amputated at the knee.
We hear that Adolph Thias of Monona has traded business with Joe
Steele. Thias will take charge of the local livery business and
Steele will go into business with Frank Steele of Monona.
F.C. Eberling's team ran away Thursday and collided with a wagon
and team driven by Rudon Harvey, accompanied by his wife, baby
and mother-in-law. An axle was broken but fortunately no one was
hurt.
Thursday morning between two and three o'clock, bank thieves
broke into the bank at Elgin. It appears that they were
frightened away because they did not break the safe open but only
tok $21.00 which was lying loose and $15 worth of revenue stamps.
The thieves must have come from Postville as they stole a horse
and buggy of Oren Gordon with which to drive down there and make
their getaway frm there. The trail was followed to Ossian where
they purchased tickets for Minneapolis. From the descripton given
by the station agent, the Minneapolis police believe one of them
to be the notorious "Sioux City Kid".
[transcribed by S.F., November 2007]