Iowa
Old Press
Waukon Standard
Waukon, Allamakee co. Iowa
October 5, 1917
WAUKON HISTORY FROM OUR OLD FILES
Record of What People were doing and saying in this vicinity
years ago
Fifteen Years ago from Standard, Oct 9,1902
-C.A. STILLWELL left for Des Moines yesterday for a week's trip.
-Alfred BARTON has accepted a position as clerk in the J. C.
OPFER Drug Store
-An infant son was welcomed in the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. S.
HART last Thursday.
-While Conductor Charles MERWIN takes a short vacation, William
EATON takes his place on the branch.
-Mrs. I. O. BEARCE and Miss Nettie HALL were hostesses to a party
of old neighbors at the home of the former last week Wednesday.
-C. H. EARLE, W. H. HALE, S. H. EDDY, R. A. NICHOLS, and D. E.
HOAG were out for a few days sport at HEYTMAN'S the first of the
week.
-Mr. and Mrs. H. A. HOWE entertained Tuesday evening in the usual
agreeable manner. "Board of Trade" made the hours pass
only too quickly.
-John KAVENY met with a serious accident Tuesday morning which
resulted in a broken leg, causing much pain and which will
necessitate a rest for several months. He was taking a barrell of
Cider down the cellar stairs when it slipped and fell on his leg
in such a way as to cause a compound fracture, beside bruising it
considerably.
--
30 years ago. From The Waukon Standard Oct. 6, 1887
-Joe HEISER left yesterday morning for Minneapolis and St. Paul
to see the sights at the Exposition and visit his sister at St.
Paul.
-The telephone line to Waukon was completed yesterday by putting
in the instruments. The public office is at ROBBIN'S Drug Store.
Now you can talk with Postville, McGregor, West Union and a large
part of the state.
-Mr. and Mrs. A. T. STILLMAN expect to start for Iowa City the
first of the week where he will enter the university dental
college, and Mrs. POTTLE will go to Grundy Center to spend the
winter with her son, Rev. W. A. Pottle.
-On Tuesday, while Fred NAGLE had his team down by the depot they
became somewhat excited by the moving engine. He drove them up
and hitched near J. W. PRATT'S Furniture, and soon one of them
dropped down, and in less than fifteen minutes was dead, supposed
to be frightened to death.
[transcribed by J.H., February 2006]
-----
The Iowa Volksblatt
Postville, Allamakee co. Iowa
Friday, October 5, 1917
Iowa will vote on the prohibition amendment October 15.
Agnes David has accepted a position as nurse at the Postville
hospital.
The first Liberty Loan sales campaign got underway here this
week.
The A.E. Cornell family expect to move soon to California to make
their future home.
M.C. Deering has purchased the 92 acre Pete Livingood farm on
Yellow river for $90 per acre.
Rev. Phillips of the M.E. church has been transferred to
Colesburg and a Rev. Williams will come here.
Lee Bellows has arrived in the parental home frm Dobson, Montana,
where he reports the crops were nil this year because of the long
drought.
A stack of oats and one of timothy were destroyed by fire at the
John C. Schroeder farm on the Clermont road Saturday afternoon
while threshing operations were in progress.
John and Verni Kluss and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Huebner went to
Camp Dodge last week, the Klusses to visit their brother, Joe,
who is in a hospital, and the Huebners to visit his son, Henry.
The airship which was to be flown here Tuesday has been grounded
with motor trouble since it was shipped here by Rock Island train
and no assurance is given if the darn thing will ever fly.
County Auditor Wm. F. Shafer has resigned in order to enlist in
the army. The supervisors have appointed Deputy Theo. Leikvold to
the auditor position and Charles Palmer as the deputy auditor.
[transcribed by S.F., October 2006]
-----
The Iowa Volksblatt
Postville, Allamakee co. Iowa
Friday, October 17, 1917
Arthur Gass and Lee Bowers have gone to Moline, Ill., where they
have accepted employment.
Ed Flage and Lillian Klepper were married yesterday morning in
the home of the bride's parents in Frankville.
The Eldo Kluss family has moved here from Fredericksburg and he
is now working in the H.J. Schuette garage as a mechanic.
Prof. C.W. Phillips of Waukon has been engaged as the director of
the newly organized Postville band and will come here each Monday
night for rehearsals.
F.W. Meyer, Rev. E. Schmidt, Bert Waters, Carl Casten and Edna
Hein are in Camp Dodge this week visiting the boys were were
recently inducted into the army.
Harry Olson of this city has been awarded the contract for the
new bank building in Frankville which is to cost $5,100. The bank
was recently organized with a capital of $15,000.
The prohibition question in Iowa was won by the wets Monday by a
majority of 887 votes as of this writing. Postville voted 248
wet, 151 dry; Allamakee county's vote was 1,093 dry and 2,219
wet; Clayton county voted 1,480 dry, and 3,619 wet.
Housewives are up in arms here over the oiling of the streets and
are severely criticising the town officials for the manner in
which the job was done. The entire width of the streets were
oiled with the result that oil is being tracked into homes,
whereas if only half the street had been oiled and left to soak
in, much of the nuisance could have been avoided.
[transcribed by S.F., October 2006]
-----
The Iowa Volksblatt
Postville, Allamakee co. Iowa
Friday, October 26, 1917
The Bell telephone people are installing a complete new central
office in the J.M. Thoma store.
R.H. Waters brought 76 head of cattle to the local market this
week and drove away with a check for $10,084. Not bad!
Joe Kluss and Bernard Waters arrived home from Camp Dodge
Tuesday, having been discharged as unfil for military service.
B.F. Schultz, buttermaker at the Postville creamery, exhibited
his butter at Milwaukee, Wis., in the National Buttermakers'
convention and recieved a score of 95 for fifth place.
Mrs. W.L. Meyer entertained a group of friends at the Frank
Sebastian home at a shower complimentary to her sister, Caroline
Sebastian, who is to be married soon to Carl Letchford.
G.W. Hunt, our superintendent of schools, went to Des Moines and
Camp Dodge Monday to enlist for military service. Mrs. Hunt has
been chosen to act as superintendent until her husband returns.
Monday morning while Mrs. W.L. Meyer was doing the family
washing, fire broke out in their home a mile and a half north of
town and before help could arrive the house and all its contents
were destroyed.
A.F. Marston, 65, a pioneer settler of this community, passed
away Saturday morning at his home three miles northeast of town.
Born in New York state in 1857, Mr. Marston came here when a year
old. Funeral services were held at the M.E. church Monday with
Rev. Mellott officiating.
[transcribed by S.F., October 2006]