Iowa
Old Press
Postville Herald
Postville, Allamakee co. Iowa
May 26, 1921
Chips of News Gathered from the Woodpile of Our Neighbors
in This and Other Counties
-Fred Bierman of the Decorah Journal will be Memorial Day orator
at Elma.
-Homer Haxton, residing near Britt, has captured 81 wolves in the
last three years. He sold some of them for pets and the others
were killed that he might collect the $4 per head bounty.
-The Decorah Republican says Frank E. Bloomfield, who
has been a city mail carrier in Decorah for twenty-two years, and
was substitute carrier for six years prior thereto, has been
retired on a pension of $40 per month.
-Riceville Recorder: What was probably the largest load
of honey ever brought to town in one lot was hauled in by George
Nelson last Thursday. Three thousand pounds of it. The honey was
from Mr. Nelson's own apaiary and represented the bulk of his
last year's crop.
Local News
-Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Saundry and daughter Miss Mildred of Oelwein
motored to Postville Sunday to visit their daughter and sister,
Miss Neva Saundry, one of the efficient teachers in our public
schools.
-Miss Myra Angell is expected home Saturday from New Albin where
she has been teaching in the public schools the past year.
-County Superintendent Peck was over yesterday on is last
official visit to the Postville schools.
-Many relatives and friends most pleasantly surprised Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Althouse Sunday to remind them of their twenty-fifth
wedding anniversary, and each brought a well-filled basket with
which all joined in a picnic dinner.
-Otto Sander was awarded the contract last week for the erection
of two single story cottages 20X22 ft. on the Krumm lots
purchased by our new baker, Henry Haagsman. The houses are to be
strictly modern and are to be completed by the first of August.
Mr. Haagsmand and wife and mother will occupy on of them and his
brother-in-law, John Veenstra, and daughter will occupy the
other.
-Kate Kerr closed her year's work at Marion, Alabama last week
and has started on a sightseeing tour that includes Chattanooga,
Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. She will also visit relatives
in New York state and expects to reach Postville the latter part
of June.
-Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ernst and Mr. and Mrs. A.W. Hunt arrived here
Saturday by car from Minneapolis and visited at the Chas. F.
Reincke home until Wednesday when they returned home again. While
here Mr. Ernst looked after the erection of markers in the Luana
cemetery on the graves of his parents.
-Donald McLaughlin, son of Mr. and Mrs. John McLaughlin of
Allamakee county met with a most painful accident while attending
a ball game at Dorchester. During the progress of the game a
batsman made a heavy swing at a ball, breaking the bat and a
portion of it flew into the crowd and struck McLaughlin on the
side of the head, influcting a wound that required several
stitches to close and cutting his head badly.
-20 Years Ago in the Waukon Democrat
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A change has taken place in the hardware firm of Waters
& Nicoay at Postville. John Waters has sold his interests to
a Dubuque gentleman, Mr. Durno by name.
[transcribed by S.F., August 2015]