Iowa
Old Press
Waukon Republican
Waukon, Allamakee County
May 14, 1919
NOTICE:
Waukon Flour Mill will pay $2.25 for wheat testing 58 or better;
$2.20 for testing 56 or better; $2.15 for testing 51 or
better. No dockage.
J.C. HAYFORD
ENGLISH BENCH NEWS:
Dan Sires and family were shopping in town Saturday.
Russell Lane was a business caller in Spring Grove Saturday.
Miss Bessie Smyth is working for Mrs. Geo. P. Kumpf this week.
About a dozen Spring Grove visitors motored to Dorchester Sunday.
If you want your car painted, call on Tom Sires, for he is in
that business.
Mr. and Mrs. Earle Beardmore were callers at the Tom Sires home
Sunday.
The dance at Sires' Saturday night was well attended and a good
time reported.
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Thompson spent part of Sunday at the Olai
Langlie home.
Mrs. Will Duffy and her cousin, Miss Mathais spent Friday with
Mrs. Joe Schulte.
Emmet Waters has started work on the road for Jim
Schwartzhoff. Good roads in sight.
Mr. and Mrs. E.J. Sadler motored through Dorchester Sunday
enroute to Mabel, Minn., accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Edd Wild and
family.
This community was shocked at the news of the death of Mrs. H.
Styir, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Burroughs of
Dorchester. Mrs. Styir had been sick but a short while,
making her death so much harder for us to reconcile ourselves
to. She leaves a bereft husband and an infant child, a
mother, father and nine sisters and brothers. She was
interred in Mays Prairie cemetery at ten o'clock Monday forenoon.
Jack Griffin, an old resident of Dorchester, passed away last
Monday night at his home two miles northwest of this city.
Mr. Griffin was a well-known farmer of this community and will be
missed by his many friends and neighbors. He leaves to
mourn his loss his wife, one daughter, Katherine at home, and two
sons, James of Chicago and Johnny at home. The funeral was
held at Dorchester at the St. mary's church and burial took place
at the Catholic cemetery on Dutch Hill. Mr. Griffin had
been ailing for some months past.
The marriage of Theodore Henry and Lillian Waters took place at
St. Mary's church Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock, Rev. Cramer
officiating. The bride was charmingly dresed in steel grey
satin and Georgette with gloves and shoes to match. She was
attended by Miss Kathryn Mathais of Bancroft, Iowa, a cousin of
the groom, and the best man was Mr. Emmet Waters, a cousin of the
bride.
[transcribed by E.W., December 2006]