Iowa
Old Press
The Iowa Volksblatt
Postville, Allamakee co. Iowa
Friday, May 18, 1917
Amy Oldag of Luana is the new assistant at the Koevenig Kafe.
Flour jumped to $4.25 per sack and sugar is now $10.50 a hundred
pounds.
The Clermont band will furnish the music for the Memorial Day
exercises in Postville.
Harry Harvey of Castalia and Evelyn Brouillet of Frankville were
married Thursday.
Alma Leer and Irving Crawford of Frankville were married at
Waukon last week Wednesday.
Martha Boeckh has resigned as teacher in the Postville schools
and will teach in Dixon, Ill., next fall.
The sudden heat wave which struck here today has brought out the
town's street sprinkler .... and June bugs aplenty.
Lester Williams arrived home Tuesday from a three months trip
through the western states and has many interesting experiences
to recount.
Otto J. Beucher and Adelaide Harris were married last Tuesday
evening in the parsonage of the Congregational church by the Rev.
J.F. Childress.
Paul Marston, Joe Harris and Barbara Marston will go to Waukon
Saturday to represent Postville high school at the county
declamatory contest.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Suckow are the parents of twins since Sunday.
And on the same day Mr. and Mrs. Louis Schlee became the parents
of a baby daughter.
Ruth Law, the famous aviatrix, has signed a contract to appear at
the Winneshiek county fair in August. It is the first time she
has agreed to fly at one of the smaller fairs.
A secret service agent of the federal government was here
yesterday to check up on a number of reported
"pro-Germans," among these being Paul Ronneburger,
editor of this newspaper. A copy of the German Volksblatt was
sent to Washington for a check-up.
George Huebner, he 6-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Huebner
played with matches too near a straw stack at the home farm
Saturday evening and the stack caught fire. It took neighbors
several hours to keep the fire from spreading to the other
buildings on the place. Damage $15,000, Mr. Huebner reports.
[transcribed by S.F., October 2006]