Iowa
Old Press
Postville Herald
Postville, Allamakee co. Iowa
June 28, 1918
Neighborhood News - Items of Interest from Allamakee and
Adjoining Counties
- The whole nation is buying W.S.S. today.
- Petroleum has been found near Maquoketa.
- Berlin, Tama county, has changed its name to Lincoln.
- At a Red Cross dance in Guttenberg last week 160 tickets were
sold.
- The German State Bank at Dyersville is now the United States
Bank.
- New Albin will celebrate the Fourth of July -- proceeds to go
to the Red Cross.
- Button cutters in Guttenberg are on a strike since last
Wednesday, demanding higher wages.
- A carload of hogs donated to the Red Cross by the farmers of
Clarion, brought the sum of $1,668.50
- Ossian held a big patriotic meeting last Saturday, at which
E.G. Dunn delivered the address.
- The Garnavillo Red Cross Chapter will celebrate the Fourth of
July and also hold a sale of quilts.
- North McGregor is booming -- many new additions are being
platted and the lots are selling rapidly.
- Ole Steine, a Decorah soldier boy, who died at Camp McArthur,
Texas, was buried in Decorah Sunday.
- A.S. Houg of Elgin sold eight steers last week for which he
received the neat sum of $1,765.44 or $220.68 apiece.
- Clayton County has started a smokeless day fund which thus far
has netted $225 for the Iowa Soldiers Emergency fund.
- Harold and Horace Clark, twins, of Waukon, have each knitted a
sweater for the Red Cross. ...... and some women will not knit!
- James McGinnis of Waukon lost two middle fingers and half of
the little finger of his right hand when his hand caught in a
pulley while working at
the mines.
- A week ago Sunday, Miss Catherine Keenan of near Waukon died
suddenly. She is the third child in that family taken by death
within the short space of three months.
- Eighteen cases where the owners of land refuse to destroy
barbarry bushes have been submitted to Judge F.F. Platt, judge
advocate of the service [remainder cut off]
[transcribed by S.F., December 2004]