Iowa
Old Press
Postville Review
Postville, Allamakee co. Iowa
July 25, 1913
Nellie Hart - Brown arrived in Postville last Friday morning on a
visit to friends, which means everybody, and all are glad to see
her. She reports her pa and ma fine and dandy out at Los Angeles
and her sister Pearl is now there spending her vacation.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Meiske and son Cloy have been enjoying a
vacation this week. They left Saturday night for McGregor, where
on Sunday morning they boarded a steamer for St. Paul and spent
several days visiting and sightseening in the Twin Cities.
We were pleased to meet our old friend, Attorney M.J. Carter of
Ossian last Friday, [illegible words] And we want to tell you we
have a mighty warm spot in our heart for this self-same Carter.
He it was that gave us our first job after we had finished our
year's apprenticeship under W.N. Burdick on this Review.
That was in 1885, when Carter was runing the Ossian Bee,
and we worked for him seven months, living in his home and
sharing all its comforts like one of the family. And we want to
tell you we shall never forget the many kindnesses of Mr. and
Mrs. Carter.
The following friends from away were here yesterday to attend the
funeral of Miss Rive Tuller: Miss Alice Glenn and Will Thiese of
Oelwein, Earl Markley of Waukon, Miss Irene Washburn and Mrs. May
Mullis of McGregor; Guy P. Gregg of Dubuque.
Obituary - Rive Marjory Tuller
Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F.W. Tuller of this city, was born in
Postville, January 24, 1894, and died at the Blessin Hospital in
this city during the early hours of Tuesday morning, July 22,
1913, aged 19 years and six months, death following an operation
for appendicitis submitted to several days previous.
All of her brief life was spent here. She was a graduate of
Postville High School, Class of 1912, and while never affiliating
with any church was a regular attendant at divine services and
her sweet and cultured voice was not infrequently heard singing
the sacred songs of the Savior of Mankind. Her many noble
characteristics of head and heart drew about her an ever
increasing host of friends, and those who knew her closest loved
her the best.
Friends innumerable mourn her passing, but the poigant pangs of
sorrow are most heavy with the father, mother, brother Ralph, and
other relatives, whose heads are bowed with a grief almost too
great to bear. In times like this human sympathy comforts not,
and throught the veil of tears we must look up to the Man of
Galilee for strength and support, for he alone can bring to our
hearts that peace which surpasseth all understanding.
A newspaper obituary must of necessity be very brief. Margerie's
life was short but beautiful. It was a life that comes down to us
intensified by the sweep of the ages. There is something grand
and supremely inspiring in such a life, so unselfish, so devoted
and true to every detail of love and duty. She ever greeted her
friends with a pleasant smile and a cheery word of welcome, and
passed on.
She made a brave fight with her ailment for life, but proved
unequal to the contest. "The good die young," the poet
says, and "we stand bereaved." Alas! we feel it
sharply, but it is the parents and brother and especially the
mother that the crushing weight of grief falls the heaviest on,
the bond of maternal love being so stong in the mother. "But
into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and
dreary." And alas! there comes the vacant chair at the
table, the neatly folded and carefully placed articles of the
wardrobe, and the vanished hand and the voice that is hushed and
still. It is to the parents and brother that our sympathy should
extend, for on them falls the burden of sorrow.
One of the most pitiful things of human life is the "might
have been" of existence. The poet says:
Of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest is this, it might have been.
On reflection we think that if perchance the treatment had been
varied somewhat in trying to save the suffering one, the results
might have been different; but who can tell; perhaps we shall
know more of this in the years to come.
In conclusion, I want to say that whatever nature has in store
for us at dissolution, and heaven be true, I would gladly join
the happy throng to which our loved one has gone and be blessed
for aye. And methings, in imagination I look away to the realms
of bliss and high on the portals of paradise I see the loved ones
waving their hosannas and beckoning our departed one to hail her
welcome home.
Farewell dear soul til death; we cannot call thee back to life,
but we can emulate thy virtures and treasure thy memories, and
hope for the brighter day.
[signed] D.
The funeral was held from the home of John Durno at 2:30 Thursday
afternoon, conducted by Rev. J.F. Childress, pastor of the
Congregational church, and the several hundred people there
assembled and the many beautiful offerings of flowers were more
eloquent tribute to the beauty of the life of the departed than
pen could write or tongue could speak. Interment in Postville
cemetery.
Relatives from abroad present were - Mr. and Mrs. T.J O'Connor
and daughter Isabelle of Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. E.M. Henderson,
Helen and Horace Henderson, Miss Alice Henderson and F.C. Knee of
Waterloo; Hazel Henderson of St.Paul; Leta and Lela Mittlestadt
and E.B. Milne of Oelwein.
The Week in Review
-Miss Myra Angell went to Waukon Tuesday.
-Will Thiese came up from Oelwein yesterday.
-H.S. Luhman was a business visitor in Chester Monday.
-Walter Chriss went to Chicago on business Wednesday.
-Mrs. Paul Ronneberger returned last week from a visit in Denver,
Col.
-Sheriff Larson of Waukon was in town Monday evening on business.
-Henry Range was an over Sunday visitor with friends north of
Luana.
-Mrs. Starr left Saturday for her home in Cora, Colo.
-Mrs. Rex Mullis and baby came up from McGregor Wednesday.
-Josie Nicholay went to Lansing Wednesday for a visit and a
fishing trip.
-Guy Gregg came up from Dubuque yesterday morning for a home
visit.
-Mr. and Mrs. Charles Clark of Minneapolis are guests at the W.S.
Webster home.
-W.J. Clark went to Prairie du Chien Saturday for a little
treatment at the sanitarium.
-Attorney and Mrs. H.E. Taylor and family of Waukon were
Postville visitors Tuesday.
-Father Hogan of Monona was in town Wednesday, the guest of
FAther Clune.
-Guy Carter of Fayette was an over Sunday guest at the home of
W.S. Webster.
-Mr. and Mrs. Fred J. Oehring of McGregor spent Sunday with
Postville relatives.
-"Coon" Thoma of Mason City was in town Tuesday
visiting his mother, Mrs. Wm. Thoma.
-Mr. and Mrs. E.P. Durno visited at the John Lydon home near
Frankville Sunday.
-Milo Meier returned to Rudd Monday after a home visit that began
the evening before circus day.
-Miss Nellie Childress is enjoying a visit from two of her
pupils, Marion and Viola Thompson of Oelwein.
-Mrs. Alonzo Dresser went to Turkey River yesterday to visit her
duaghter, Mrs. C.C. Sprague and family.
-Ralph Davis, carrier on rural route No. 2, is having a ten days
vacation, and Carl Marston is subbing for him.
-Mrs. G.F. Ronneberger and son Otto of Milwaukee are here
visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Ronneberger.
-Miss Melinda Casten of this city and Mort Hastings of Waukon
have been added to the force of clerks at Luhman & Sanders'.
-Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Duwe autoed to Guttenberg Sunday, being
accompanied as far as Garnavillo by Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schutta.
-After a several days visit at the home of his parents, Rev. and
Mrs. W.R. Mellott, in this city, Irving L. Mellott left Monday
for Carroll, Iowa.
-Miss Beryl Burns returned to Lime Springs Monday after a visit
at the home of her sister, Mrs. F.H. Luhman, of this city.
-Mrs. Walter Christopherson went to the Clark hospital at
McGregor Tuesday for an operation, her daughter, Miss Clara,
accompanying her.
-Miss Sturtevant closed her visit in Postville Tuesday and left
for her home in Waukesha, Wis., Dr. Glew accompanying her as far
as North McGregor.
-Charley and Will Larrabee came up from Clermont yesterday
morning to bring their cousin, Dr. Rodger Appelman in to take the
train for Lovina, Montana, where he will locate.
-Attorney and Mrs. Chas. G. Burling and family and Mr. and Mrs.
F.L. Marquis of Waterloo arrived in Postville Tuesday by auto for
a several days visit at the home of Attorney and Mrs. F.S.
Burling.
-Homer Banks had the misfortune to have the end and nail torn off
the first finger of his left hand Monday morning while working
with the hay loader.
-Engineer Will Cooley of Waukon passed through here yesterday
morning enroute to Strawberry Point on the sad mission of burying
his mother, who passed away in Chicago a few days ago in her 76th
year.
- Iowa State News - Events of Recent Occurrence
Throughout the Commonwealth -
Hattie Shepherd, the girl who was so seriously injured in the
harvester accident near Gunder last week, died as a result of her
injuries.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Whiteside stepped into a deep hole while
wading in the Iowa river at Ackley. The son and a nearby farmer
went to their assistance. The farmer saved Mrs. Whiteside after
she had gone under the second time. Mr. Whiteside seized his son,
hampering his movements so that he was exhausted when he managed
to drag his father into shallow water.
J.D. Johnson of Webster City was instantly killed and four others
were seriously injured when a touring car driven by Anna
Harrington of Norway turned turtle four miles southwest of
Fairfax. The car was going fifty miles an hour. Bessie Terhoon
and Archie Pirie of Norway sustanined fractured collar bones and
Anna Harrinton and Mrs. Blanche Paul were badly bruised and cut.
Probably the oldest holder of public office, both in point of
years and in length of service, in Iowa is Lanfear Knapp, justice
of the peace and township clerk at Cedar Falls, who celebrated
his eighty-eighth birthday recently. For the last forty-eight
years he has been justice of the peace and township clerk; and
for forty-two years he was city assessor.
The body of Henry Kohl, 70 years old, with a rope around the
neck, was found between two piles of lumber in a shed at Oyens,
six miles east of Le Mars. Kohl had been missing from the poor
farm for several days. He had been a county charge several years.
He has relatives near Remsen.
Guy Hotz was badly burned as the result of falling from a
scaffolding into an open furnace beside one of the new Quaker
Oats buildings, now being constructed at Cedar Rapids.
Jess Schoonmaker, a farm hand near Decorah came near losing his
life when a team of horses ran away with a mower. He was severely
cut up by the sickle.
Frederick Lantau, 66, wealthy farmer of Bluegrass, was killed
when he was thrown from a load of hay as his horses became
frightened at an interurban car.
Mrs. J.J. Cregeen of Poe township, near Creston, who was thrown
from a buggy striking her head on a hitching post and fracturing
the base of the skull has succumbed to the injuries.
Elizabeth, the 14-year old daughter of Arthur Mitchell, of Boone,
was drowned while in wading near Oak park. Wanita West, a
companion, and the girl stepped off a sandbar into deep water.
The West girl was rescued. The body of the Mitchell girl was
found a mile from the scene of the drowning.
[transcribed by S.F., May 2013]