Iowa
Old Press
Postville Herald
Postville, Allamakee co. Iowa
Thursday, July 20, 1922
Local News
Miss Leila Schmidt was a Clermont visitor Tuesday.
Mrs. Helen Behrens entertains the Croquet Club today.
The drillers at Bakke Lease No. 1 are now down over 2,100 feet,
and as they put it, getting into real stuff. The deeper they go
the better the prospects look, relates the Decorah Public
Opinion. The quality of the soil they are getting into noew
is very encouraging and they expect a good strike most any time.
August Lange and George Cole of this city visited the Decorah oil
well last Friday.
Deputy Sheriff Woodmansee of Waukon was in the city on Monday on
business.
Miss Amy Meier has signed up to teach in Des Moines the coming
school year.
Joe Steele of Monona was a Postville caller on Monday.
Peter Harris sustained a severe jar by falling from a load of
hay.
John A. Olson of Bangor, Wis., attended the Harvey-Olson wedding
here Monday.
J.H. Dannenbrink came up from Independence Wednesday evening for
a short visit with his family.
Miss Lillian Swenson left on the noon train Wednesday for Avoca,
Wis. to visit her sister Amy.
Mrs. C.E. Hinman left Tuesday for Marion for a visit to her
daughter, Mrs. Harold Shekelton, and family.
Mrs. F.J. Thoma and children went to Chester Tuesday afternoon to
visit her brothers, the McWilliams boys.
Harvey Rolfs, son of Louis Rolfs, had the misfortune to break his
right leg above the knee while haying last Thursday.
Mrs. Jane Laughlin of Barberton, Ohio, arrived Monday to visit
her niece, Mrs. Hugh Shepherd, and her many relatives and
friends.
Henry Lukenbill, hired man at the Sam Harris farm, shot two
good-sized rattlesnakes Tuesday with one shot. The snakes were
curled up on a log.
Relatives and friends happily surprised Wm. Schlee Tuesday
evening at his home in this city, the occasion being his
sixty-fifth birthday anniversary.
Mrs. Lillian Booth of Salt Lake City, accompanied by her sister,
Mrs. Ann Spurling of Minneapolis, arrived in Postville Monday
evening on a visit to their mother, Mrs. Geo. Redhead.
Dr. James McNeil of Chicago motored to Postville Tuesday for a
visit to home folks and friends. He is now a practicing physician
in the Windy City, being associated with the noted Dr. Hurley.
Mrs. Parker Bollman and daughter Verena came here Sunday from
Waukon to spend a few weeks at the Mrs. Carrie Bolman home before
going to Lincoln, Neb., where Verena expects to attend school.
Dr. Chester K. Peck, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Peck of Frankville
was one of the 39 students of the college of dentistry of the
University of Iowa, Iowa City, who passed the state board
examinations May 29 to June 1, for the practice of dentistry in
Iowa. Every University of Iowa student passed the examination.
Only one out of 12 students from other universities passed the
tests.
Miss Hannah Lange arrived here Sunday night from Tulsa, Oklahoma,
where she has a fine postion, to spend a two weeks vacation at
the home of her father, August Lange.
Mrs. James Gregg was hostess to the Cozy Club last Thursday at
the Gregg collage at Durno Springs Park.
Mr. and Mrs. Otto C. Schultz of St. Louis arrived in Postville
yesterday for a few days visit to his mother and many friends. He
is looking finer than silk, but says the Postville paved streets
look even better.
Dr. and Mrs. O.A. Kinsel and son Lorin Denis were visitors over
Sunday at Garnavillo. While there the Dr. tested out the
Mississippi river, bringing home a nice string of large bass.
They are biting on crawfish now. The river is fairly low.
After a two weeks visit to relatives and old friends in
Postville, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Phelan and hcildren, and Mrs. John
Phelan, returned Sunday to their home in Mason City, where Jack
has a position as federal meat inspector in the Decker packing
plant.
Carl Nuehring and daughter and Fred Neuhring of Royalton, Minn.,
had a miraculous escape from serious injury or death Monday
morning of last week at Brainerd, Minn., when their car was hit
by a train on a down town crossing, according to the Brainerd
Dispatch. The car was demolished, but the occupants were but
slightly injured. The girl's face was scraped and Fred Nuehring
sustained a bruised ankle.
Harvey - Olson Wedding
At the home of Mrs. A.N. Harvey in this city on Monday,
July 17th, occurred the marriage of her daughter, Lucille Grace,
to Lloyd A. Olson of Bangor, Wis., the Rev. J.A. Saathoff, pastor
of the Postville Community church, performing the ceremony in the
presence of the immediate family. They were attended by Miss
Blanche Harvey, sister of the bride, and Wayne Harvey, a friend
of the groom. After a very pretty wedding dinner the bridal
couple left on the noon Milwaukee train for a short trip through
Wisconsin they will return to Postville to remain until November
first, after which they will be "at home" on the farm
of the groom's father, near Bangor, Wis. The bride is a graduate
of Postville High school and for a number of years has been a
successful teacher, and with many friends the Herald joins in
extending hearty congratulations.
Neighborhood News - Chips of News Gathered from the
Woodpiles of our Neighbors in This and Other Counties
-Attracted by the loud and persistent barking of a dog Sunday in
the yard of Bert Schott, Jack Sass investigated and discovered a
rattlesnake basking in the sun, says a Marquette item in the
McGregor Times. He returned home for a gun and quickly dispatched
it. The snake measured forty inches and had eleven rattles and a
button.
-J.J. Gilels of Riceville was a victim in a painful accident
which will deprive him of the use of his left hand. He was out
with the grader workiing on the highway and in coupling the
tractor and grader his hand was caught under the chain used for a
saupling, drawn over against a running board and the four giners
of the left hand were sheared cleanly off.
-It looks as if Hans Grosh, a farmer living near Mapleton, is
going to have some blind pigs to take to sell. He dipped his hogs
and then placed them in a pen, and when he passed that way a
little later found all the hogs near death from suffocation from
the fumes of the dip. By the quick application of cold water in
large quantities the hogs were revived, but all are left blind.
[transcribed by S.F., September 2015]