Iowa
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Waukon Standard
Waukon, Allamakee County, Iowa
November 3, 1904
ROSSVILLE
-Miss Dora Beall spent Sunday with home folks.
-The Social Workers meet with Mrs. Olive Klinkel Thursday.
-Rob. Hancock is helping plaster the parsonage at Wexford.
-Mrs. Levi Klinkle and Miss Duffy were guests of Mrs. Forney on
Saturday.
-Koontz Bros. have sold their farm to Simon Becker of Waukon for
$5200 and 160 acres in north west Nebraska.
-Mrs. J. W. Barlow, entertained Rev. holden, wife and mother and
Mrs. Emanuel Woodmansee at dinner on Thursday.
-Dr. S. C. Myers has had a new floor laid in his house and
carpenters are completing the barn begun last spring for J. W.
Barlow.
-Mrs. S. D. Holden entertained on Thursday evening her Sunday
School class and their friends in a most pleasant and enjoyable
way.
-Mrs. J. H. Mitchell entertained a number of ladies at her home
Saturday evening in honor of her sister Mrs. Emmerson of
Burchinal.
MYRON
-Mrs. Bray is on the sick list.
-Mr. Bechtel made a trip to Postville Monday.
-Burdell Adams was a caller at Postville Monday.
-Willard Adams was a caller at Waukon Friday.
-Mrs. Oliver White was visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. White
Sunday.
-Mrs. Herman Denning died on Sunday, Oct. 23, at her home near
this city, having been a patient sufferer from cancer of the
stomach for nearly two years. She leaves a husband, four
children, father and mother, and several sisters to mourn her
loss. The funeral services were held Tuesday, the 25th at the
German Lutheran church at Eitzen, and were largely attended by
relatives and friends. The bereaved relatives have the sympathy
of all in their sorrow.
-Mr. and Mrs. Frank Miller were visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs.
Livingood Sunday.
FRANKVILLE
-Frank Smith is husking corn for Roy Birdsell.
-Paul Topel is making a cistern for Frank Chamberlin.
-Pauline Koehring is staying with Mrs. Edna Bollman
-Mrs. Dave Smith and her Frank were in Decorah Saturday.
-Mrs. Jas. McNair visited her daughter Mrs. Macy Waters last
Tuesday.
-Mr. and Mrs. Gus Renne of Waukon were visiting in town
Wednesday.
-Minnie Depping of Ludlow called on Mabel and Alba Smith Friday
afternoon.
-A little daughter has taken up her abode at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Chamberlin.
-George Sherman, D. W. and Erle Smith, Landon Letchford and Chris
Mizener went fishing Tuesday.
-Frank Peck came up from Waterloo last Monday for a visit with
his mother and brother Fred. He returned Thursday.
-Rev. Neve drove over to Postville Friday to meet Mrs. Neve who
was returning from an extended visit with her mother.
-Mrs. Ruby Kneeskern Flower has gone to Clayton to visit Mr.
Flower's parents before going to Dubuque, her future home.
-Mrs. John Jahnke will sell at public auction on Thursday,
November 10th all the personal property etc. of the late John
Jahnke.
-Bea Chamberlin went to Calmar Tuesday for a visit with her
friend Sarah Miller. Mrs. I. Birdsell accompanied her to Decorah.
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Waukon Standard
Waukon, Allamakee County, Iowa
November 10, 1904
CORRESPONDENCE
MYRON
-Fine weather for corn husking.
-Mr. Livingood made a call in Postville Thursday.
-Willard Adams was a caller at Postville Wednesday.
-Ed. Smith and Lafayette Livingood made a trip to Waukon.
-Mr. and Mrs. Ollie White made a trip to Postville Wednesday.
-Mr. and Mrs. McClintock were callers at Postville Thursday.
-Mr. and Mrs. Ollie White moved into Mr. and Mrs. Livingood's
house.
-Mrs. Willard Adams and Mrs. Ben McClintock made a trip to
Postville Monday.
-Mrs. Ben McClintock was visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. Mason
Saturday and Sunday.
-Earl and Cecil Livingood were visiting at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. S. Livingood Thursday.
ELON
-Mrs. Bernard Roese entertained Sunday.
-Mrs. Charles Ahlstrom called on Elon friends Saturday.
-Mrs. E. Roese spent Monday at the O. N. Amundson home.
-The Misses Hannah and Emma Lieran spent Sunday with Nora
Olander.
-Carl and Elma Solverson assisted A. Amundson with corn husking
the past week.
-Leonard and Emeling Rema spent ..... [my copy cut off here]
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Waukon Standard
Waukon, Allamakee County, Iowa
November 24, 1904
[unknown column]
-Mrs. Hannah L. Williams, widow of the late Judge Elias H.
Williams, died on Thursday noon of last week at her home in Grand
Mound township, four miles south of Postville at the age of 78
years, 11 months. Nearly a hundred teams were on the ground at
the funeral last Saturday. She was a remarkable woman in many
respects, a pioneer when privation was the rule, a tireless
worker, a gifted scholar, of high social qualities, a pattern
wife and mother. She has gone to her reward and her children rise
up and call her blessed. Deceased was an elder sister of Ex-Gov.
Wm. Larrabee of Clermont and Hon. Frank Larrabee of McGregor.
Funeral discourse by Rev. D. W. Blaskeley at the Congregational
church at Postville.
TAYLOR
-James Houlihan is now shredding corn fodder for John and Chris
Olson.
-Nils Lageson is quite sick and as he is about eighty-four years
old recovery is doubtful.
-Jacob Schlamp and Mary Olson, both in the same house, are down
with typhoid fever but through the skillful treatment of Drs.
Vedeler of Waukon and Bassler of New Albin, both are
coneonvalescent (sic).
-About twenty of the farmers in this section were called to
Waukon last week to testify in the M. H. Fitzgerald case. It
seems a great injustice to take a farmer away from his work on
the farm and only pay him $1.25 per day when it take $1.00 and
board to hire a man in his place at home. He must also while
serving as a witness in the city pay 75 cents a day for board,
leaving only 50 cents a day for the farmer. While the ground is
open and there is corn to crib a tiller of the soil is worth two
or three times the pittance given him by the Iowa statute which
should do justice to the farmer as well as to the legislator and
those pursuing other vocations. Such compensation might do for a
day in a justice court near home, but when taken away twenty
miles and several days absence is required, an injustice is
wrought upon the agriculturist. With such renumeration it would
require 100 days service to pay a $50 tax on a farm. We think the
solons (sic) at Des Moines could remedy this matter to the
approbation of their constitueney (sic).
MYRON
-Ollie White was in Waukon Thursday.
-Mr. Koshnan made a trip to Postville Monday.
-Ed. Smith was a caller at Willard Adams' Monday.
-Willard Adams was a caller at Postville Thursday last.
-Clara Mason was a caller at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ollie White
Wednesday.
-Mrs. Ollie White was a visitor at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Willard Adams Thursday.
-Mrs. Benjaman McClintock and her sister Clara were visiting Mr.
and Mrs. Jas. Ewing Thursday.
-Mrs. Jas. Ewing and Mrs. Benjaman McClintock were visiting at
Mr. and Mrs. Ollie White Wednesday.
Highway Notice.
To all Whom it May Concern:
The Commissioner appointed to examine into the expediency of
vacating a portion of Highway No 224 commencing at a point in
Section No. 7, Township 97, Range 2, West, from which the Oil
Spring bears South 52 degrees, West, 2.48 chains, and running
thence South-easterly to the south line of said section No. 7,
thence Southwesterly to a point where said road intersects Road
No. 110 in Section 24, Township 97, North range 3 West in
Allamakee county, Iowa, running thence through or abutting upon
lands owned or occupied by Thomas Gavin, Gideon Martelle, Cyprian
Martelle, Eugene Joyce and Wm. S. Hart be vacated, has reported
in favor of the vacation thereof, and all objections thereto or
claims for damage must be filed in the Auditor's office on or
before noon of the 31st day of December A. D., 1904, or such
highway will be vacated without reference thereto.
J. B. Jones, County Auditor
[transcribed by M.D., May 2009]