Iowa
Old Press
Postville Herald
Postville, Allamakee co. Iowa
Thursday, February 9, 1928
County Items gleaned from the Waukon & Lansing papers
- Carl A. Spinner of Waterville, aged 69, died January 27th.
- John Beck, a resident of Lansing since 1857, passed away
January 23 at the ripe old age of 91 years.
- The Ludlow creamery did a business of $140,796,73 last year,
and manufactured 320,329 pounds of butter.
- James B. Reid of Waukon, a Civil War veteran, died at his home
in that city February 1st, aged eighty-five years.
- The Calhoun creamery at Church turned out 471,223 pounds of
butter during 1927 that sold for a total of $203,336.51.
- The Waukon Farmers creamery last year manufactured 291,378
pounds of butter and the total receipts from all sources were
$126,818.26.
- O.D. Mitchell, a farmer near Rossville, met with a heavy loss
last Monday night when dogs entered his sheepfold and killed 40
head of sheep.
- Mayor Fellows of Lansing has just returned home after spending
eleven weeks in a hospital at Webster City recovering from a very
serious surgical operation.
- Two Waukon Junction young men, aged about 21 years, were
arrested last Sunday for stealing chickens from the farm of
Patrick Needham in Fairview township.
- Wm. Matthew Keenan, a lifelong resident of Jefferson township,
died January 22, aged nearly 71 years. His father, Patrick
Keenan, was the first man of foreign birth naturalized in
Allamakee county.
- George Meskimmons took his father-in-law, J.P. Gilson, to the
Lutheran Hospital, LaCrosse, last week for treatment. We
understand his ailment has been diagnosed as cancer of the
stomach.
- Court Reporter E.F. Dougherty was able to resume work Saturday
in Judge Taylor's court, his first appearance since the injury to
his right eye two weeks ago. the optic now seems to be none the
worse from the accident.
- Julius Boeckh made a shipment of muskrat carcasses to Toledo,
Ohio, last Thursday. They are a fashionable dish in the East now,
known as "marsh hare" and Mr. B. has now more orders
for them than he can fill. Heretofore only Indians could stomach
them.
- The vacant E.B. Stock home in east Waukon's finest residential
section was badly damaged by fire last Wednesday night. Its
timely discovery by Phil Bieber, and hard work by the fire
department, stopped a blaze that would doubtless have wiped out a
number of other elegant homes.
- Rev. R.L. Van Nice officiated at three marriages last week.
Wednesday he married Mr. Vern G. Thornton of Luana and Miss
Blanche E. Rush of Waukon. Thursday he married Mr. Wm. Gordon and
Miss Elaine Sheriff, both of New Albin, and Saturday, Claude L.
Burke of Kansas City and Miss Clarice Richards of Waukon.
-The marriage of Mr. Lloyd Swenson and Miss Cora Leppert was
solemnized by Rev. Van Nice at his home on Wednesday afternoon,
Feb. 1st. The attendants of the couple were Miss Pearl Swenson,
sister of the groom, and Gilbert Leppert, brother of the bride.
Mr. Swenson is an industrious young farmer and member of the well
known Swenson family of the south part of the county, while his
bride is a capable and estimable young lady, the daughter of Mrs.
Andrew Leppert of Mays Prairie. The happy young couple will
settle down to farm life after March 1st on the former Kruse
farm, north of Luana, where their friends wish them a life of
much happiness.
- The W.S. Hart home has borne the aspects of a hospital the past
week. A daughter, Alicia, has been having a siege of pneumonia
and Mr. Hart himself has been kept in bed all the week by orders
of his physician. There is a good deal of sickness prevalent, but
they are having more than their share.
- We had a baseball celebrity with us in the person of Al Ellis,
outfielder in the Louisville club in the American Association,
for a few hours last Wednesday. He is a son-in-law of Ed. Prior
of Postville, where he is spending the winter, and was
transacting some business for that gentleman at the Clerk's
office in the court House. He has been with the Louisville club
for the past five years and has signed with them for next year.
When he joined them he was a pitcher, but they converted him into
a fielder because of his hitting.
[transcribed by S.F., April 2015]