Iowa
Old Press
Waukon Democrat
Waukon, Allamakee County, Iowa
February 7, 1917
LANSING NEWS
- Two new soda fountains were purchased Tuesday by local parties.
- Mr. and Mrs. Robert Steger, on the Hartley place west of town,
are entertaining a baby daughter born Saturday.
- Charley Serene and Roy Roeder will go to Dubuque next week to
take the civil service examination for mail clerk.
- Sam Fulks [Fuiks] is again at his home here after a several
months stay with a sister in Illinois and a brother at Iowa City.
- Clyde Bensch left for Charles City on Wednesday. He will remain
there permanently having secured employment with Hart-Parr
Company.
- E.J. Roggensack has bought another span of mules and went over
to Postville after them Tuesday, driving overland from there next
day.
- Wm. Myers, who spent some time with the soldier boys in
Brownsville, Texas, is spending the winter with his uncle, Will
Sess, in this town. He says the life of a soldier, in this case
at least, was not an unpleasant one and he would do it again.
- John Houlihan of Taylor township, has returned from the
hospital in La Crosse, escorted by his sister Nellie who had been
with him. The case was a most serious one, the appendix being
ruptured upon the patient's arrival.
- News reaches Lansing that Walter Cartright, a former Lansing
boy, was married lately in Milwaukee. His mother was Emma
Kaeppler, a well known Lansing girl, and the father, George
Cartright, was a clerk in Pape's general store here many years
ago.
- The Mirror office enjoyed a pleasant call on Monday from D.D.
Ronan, late member of the board of supervisors of this county,
who was spending the day with his friend and former neighbor,
Jack Zoll. Dennis made a very good member of the county board as
his work amply testifies.
- City election matters are being freely discussed these days.
There are several names mentioned in connection with the
mayoralty, among them R.G. Miller, Martin Kolstad, First Ward
Alderman, W.F. Saam, L.L. Wittbecker, W.H. Richie and possibly
others.
- The high school basket ball team added another victory to their
list last Saturday evening when they met and defeated the Prairie
du Chien team by a score of 22 to 13. This was one of the most
important games of the season as this was the first defeat for
the Prairie boys in three years.
- We have some more specimens of ore from the John Bechtel farm
west of town. It is thought there is zinc to be had on this farm.
We understand there is a plan on foot to make a thorough search
for the ore supposed to be hidden away on this farm, the
outcroppings of which are frequently found.
[transcribed by E.W., November 2007]
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Postville Review
Postville, Allamakee Co., Iowa
Friday, February 9, 1917
SOME BLIZZARD.
A blizzard that raged worse than a mad bull with a red rag tied
to his tail, swooped down from the northwest during the early
hours of Sunday morning and howled and roared all day long. The
thermometer ranged from a dozen to a dozen and a half degrees
below zero and thirty-mile gale picked up the snow and hurled it
into huge drifts that packed so hard they would hold up the
weight of a man. The air was so full of snow that at times one
could not see across the street, its denseness recalling the
frequently mentioned curtain of fire in the European war news.
Strong men-red-blooded men-yea, even black-skinned men, the Sunny
South Co. was here - men who never in all their lives before had
done such a thing, actually spent one Sunday at home and got
acquainted with their wives and families, fearing to start for
church lest they become lost in the blinding storm. The wind
forced frigidity into homes and froze water pipes and garden
stuffs in the cellar, and one man's hot water heating plant froze
and burst two radiators although he was firing it to the limit.
From coal bin to stove it was a continual tramp, all members of
the family joining in the hod-carriers march, and yet one almost
froze, for the varied heating apparatus seemed to work contrary
to the plans for which they had been designed and radiated cold
instead of heat.
OBITUARY.
Julius OLSON was born near Christiana, Norway, Feb. 1, 1838, and
died at his home near Postville, Iowa, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 1917,
aged 79 years and 5 days, pneumonia being the cause of death. He
was united in marriage to Eliza Gilbertson, March 7, 1866. In
1868 he came to Wisconsin, July 2, 1868. In the winter of 1869 he
sent for his wife who joined him in the month of May of that
year. In the fall of 1869 they went to Postville, Iowa, where
with the exception of short time have made their home on a farm
north of here continuously since. His wife died Nov. 21, 1915. He
leaves five children - Ole of home, Martin of the old farm, Mrs.
McMASTER of West Union, Mrs. HUEY of Waukon and Julia at home.
Julius OLSON was an honest, upright and honorable citizen, as
highly respected as he was widely known. He was a genial and
affable fellow, with a cheery word and a ready retort for all. He
never spoke ill of anyone and in the darkest and densest cloud
could see a rift that betokened the coming of a better day. He
was a loving husband, kind father and good neighbor, and numbered
his friends by his acquaintances, all of whom sincerely mourn his
passing and sympathize with those of the family circle who are
left behind.
The funeral services were held from the Methodist church in this
city at two o'clock yesterday afternoon, Rev. P.M. PHILLIPS
officiating. Interment in the Postville cemetery.
[transcribed by S.F., August 2003]