Iowa
Old Press
Allamakee Journal
Lansing, Allamakee co., Iowa
March 1, 1916
Marriage.
Louis Bucholtz of the Eitzen hotel, and Miss Selma
Wiemerslage were married Feb. 24, with Anna Wiemerslage and Wm.
Bucholtz as attendants.
HARPERS FERRY
- Mike Mullarkey won head prize at Harpers Ferry card
party; Deo Cota, the consolation.
- Mrs. Mary Guider resumed work in Houlihan's store.
- Joe Sullivan moved from Jefferson to the Roche farm in Paint
Rock.
WEXFORD
- Wexford visitors: Tom Burke and wife, Minneapolis;
Mrs. Harry Dasher, Waukon; Francis Whalen, Lansing; also the
Peter Ranchor family; Marguerite Bohrer, Dubuque.
- E.B. Mooney and wife welcome a new boy.
- E.T. Duncan's sale footed up $2500.
CHERRY MOUND
- James Rooney and Maggie McGeough were married at
Cherry Mound, Feb. 15. Clement and Martina McGeough were
attendants.
- Tom Mullaney cried Mrs. Fitzgerald's action, which footed up
over $2000.
- Local callers: Fred Fahey, Huron, S.D.; John McErlane,
Minneapolis; Nellie Houlihan, Paint Rock and Jim Burke and wife,
Brownsville.
ENGLISH BENCH
- Charley Beardmore is home on English Bench after
several months in Grandview hospital.
- Ray Bulman and wife returned home to Leeds, N.D.
- The Willard Cunningham family moved onto the Healy farm.
- Will Sadler retired as cream hauler after 18 years service and
is succeeded by James Sires.
NEW ALBIN
- Noticed in New Albin: Effie Inman, La Crosse;
Katherine Colsch, Waukon; Peter Hosch, Caledonia; Mike Schobert
and wife and Joe Ross and wife, Lansing.
- Marguerite La Tronche, Elizabeth Kerrigan, Anna Hall, Stacia
Dolan, Emma Bock, Mrs. John Benkie, and Lorayne and Evelyn Ayer
took in the declamatory contest at Lansing.
- Julia Colsch of Sand Cove and Joseph Henry, Waukon, were
married Feb. 23.
LANSING
- Rev. F.W. Pease of First Presbyterian church has
resigned.
- Girls were born at the Ed. Tyler, Nels Larson and Forest Wolfe
homes.
- The remains of Geo. Glosser, 56, were brought from Algona to
Lansing for burial.
- Leo Ryan celebrated his 21st birthday March 1st.
- Gretta Guider is ill with tonsillitis.
- Esther Bechtel went to New Hampton; Laura Schisler to Grafton;
Mrs. Jos. Hartley to McGregor; Dr. John Saam to Dubuque; and Mary
Schach and Mrs. L.L. Wittbecker to Chicago.
- Calhoun Creamery Co. voted to renew its charter May 1st, and
elected the following officers: President, H.W. Becker; vice
pres., J.W. Wendel; sec'y, C.J. Riser; treas., Ben Decker;
directors, F.F. Bartheld, George V. Scholtes and C.P. Nierling.
- Lansing visitors: Desmond Piquet family, Manchester; James
Curran Jr., and bride, nee Esther Healy, of Montrose, S.D.;
Lucinda Guider, Laurens, Iowa; James Collins, Waukon land man;
George Rice and Dominic Keffeler, Dubuque; Mrs. Frank Love,
Carlisle, Iowa; Mrs. P.J. Miles, Oelwein; little Misses Katherine
and Elizabeth Powers, Harpers Ferry; Walter Aschom, La Crosse and
Emma Urmersbach, Minneapolis.
WAUKON
- Roland Johnson has joined the Navy.
- Dee Eaton is a patient in Cresco hospital.
- Wayne Beddow is back from Mercy hospital, Dubuque.
- Grant Jacobson and wife have a baby daughter.
- Fire did small damage to Mrs. Hannah Donovan's home.
- Art Cummins will open a restaurant in the Hoag building and
also keep roomers.
- Albert Larson and Dennis Cota killed two foxes.
- Visitors at the county seat: Mrs. John Miller, Millarton, N.D.;
Gus Kerndt, Lansing township; Mrs. W. Merrill, Winthrop, Iowa;
Georgia Mausch, Waterloo; Mayme Donovan, Dubuque; Dr, N.A.
Marshorn, New Hampton; Miss S. McGrath, Minneapolis; Elsa Netz,
Prairie du Chien and Peter Kenney, wife and child, park River,
N.D.
Trial jurors include: Herman Gelo, Henry Bechtel, F. Schneider,
Joe Zoll, James O'Malley, Walter Russell, J.W. Kelly, Wm. Lager,
A.R. Jordan, T.J. McDermott, Joe Sullivan, Roy Lease, Geo.
Decker, Geo. Cavers, John Cassidy, W.M. Fritz, Ike Bechtel, Joe
Ryan, Julius Hanson, Mike Howe, W.B. Clarke, Albert Larson, D.F.
Duggan, John White, Peter Ward, Don Kaesser, H.J. Bentley, Wm.
Rood, J.E. Donahue, Tom Fitzgerald, James O'Neill, S.L. Connor
and John E. Clausen.
[transcribed by E.W., November 2014]