Iowa
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Waukon Replublican Standard
Waukon, Allamakee co. Iowa
June 4, 1930
LAIRDS START ON EUROPEAN TOUR
McGregor Boy Wins Fellowship to Travel in England
Mr. and Mrs. Charlton Laird will sail May 31st on the Minnikahdo
for England where Mr. Laird will begin research connected with a
traveling fellowship which has just been awarded him at Columbia
University, New York. Mrs. Laird, whose maiden home is In Nora
Springs, attended college in Mason City and served her
apprenticeship in the Mason City Public Library in 1925 after she
received her B.A. degree. Mr. Laird, whose interest is in
manuscripts of early ballads, will study in London, Oxford,
Cambridge and in small towns in Yorkshire and Nottingham during
the summer. In the fall his work will take him to the continent
for
research in manuscripts in Brussels and Paris. He is a graduate
of the McGregor high school and his mother is now living at
Waukon Junction. Mr. and Mrs. Laird plan to do some of their
traveling in England on
bicycle. They will visit in the Wordsworth and Hardy districts.
During the winter they plan to be in Italy and southern France.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Laird have their M.A. degrees from the
University of Iowa. Mrs. Laird has taken some reference library
courses at Columbia where Mr. Laird is a student now. She has
been employed the past winter in an art store where she has been
indexing pictures. She is a niece of Mrs. Dan
Claudy.
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Postville Herald
Postville, Allamakee Co. Iowa
June 5, 1930
Deaths.
-Mrs. Fred C. Herman, a well known and highly respected resident
of Waukon, passed away suddenly at her home in that city on
sunday morning, May 25th, aged 63 years.
-John Campbell, Alamakee county farmer, passed away Monday from
the effects of injuries received on Sunday, when he fell through
the hay chute on his farm, falling about eight feet, striking on
his head. He was 60 years old.
-Donald Keefe, five years old, died in the Waukon hospital last
Monday from a compound fracture of the skull sustained the
Saturday evening previous when he was struck by an auto while
crossing the street.
Serious Injury.
-A sad affair occurred Monday at the Elmer Snitker home in Ludlow
township, says the Waukon Democrat, when the little
four-year-old son of the family was struck in the eye with a fork
used by the children in digging angleworms to feed the chickens,
the tines of the fork piercing the eyeball. He was taken to
Rochester, where it was found necessary to remove that member.
-Peter Mahwold of Guttenberg, working with a construction company
on highway No. 55, was seriously injured last Wednesday when the
planking about a treanch in which he was working gave way and
almost buried him alive.
Animal stories.
-Roy G. Miller, of Riverside, Washington county, is authority for
the statement that a mother cat at the Earl Marshal place has
branched out in her services to the animal world and in addition
to nursing four newly born kittens, is now caring for two baby
rabbits in her nest in a manger.
-A strange thing in animal life is reported by Deputy Game Warden
Herman Magnusson, says the Lansing Journal. He has a
turkey at the state house near Big Lake that hatched out seven
yellow ducks in addition to six turkeys, and is now mothering the
brood and having an awful time when the young ducks run to the
water.
-The average colony of bees in Iowa produces only 80 pounds of
honey in a year.
-Man o'War, the famous horse, who at the age of 13 is insured for
$500,000 earned $250,000 in his second and third years alone. He
was entered in twenty-one races and won twenty in those seasons.
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Postville Herald
Postville, Allamakee Co. Iowa
June 12, 1930
Obituary.
Frederick Grotegut was born in Manitowoc, Wis., on April 9, 1859,
and there under parental care he recieved his secular and
spiritual education. At the age of 26 he moved to the state of
Iowa with his parents and settled on a farm in Winneshiek county,
near Frankville, the place being still known as the Grotegut
farm. On March 23, 1887, Mr.Grotegut was united in marriage to
Miss Minnie Stock. This union was blessed with twelve children,
five sons and seven daughters. Being blessed with health and
strength, Mr. and Mrs. Grotegut labored on their farm until 1917
when they moved to Frankville to lve in retirement. Mr. Grotegut
passed away after a year's illness in the early hours of
Thursday, June 5, at his home in Frankville, having attained the
age of 71 years, one month and 27 days. He is survived by his
widow, his son, John, of Frankville township, Simon and Albert of
Ludlow [Allamakee Co.], his daughters, Mrs. Theodore Henning of
Ludlow, Mrs. Elmer Herman of Union Prairie [Allamakee Co.], Mrs.
John Lundt and Mrs. Victor Heins of Post township [Allamakee
Co.], also twenty-one grand-children, two brothers, Simon and
henry of Waukon and six sisters, Mrs. Henry Bieberman of Timothy,
Wis., Mrs. Henry Hager of Frankville, Mrs. Fred Becker, Sr., of
Waukon, mrs. F.W. Bechtel of Frankville, Mrs. W.T. Snitker of
Ludlow, Mrs. Lydia Thoma in the hospital at Oakdale. He is also
survived by a host of other relatives and friends who mourn his
passing. Six granddaughters acted as flower girls at the funeral
services. Mr. Grotegut was a most faithful member of the Salem
congregation since its organization in 1895 and a faithful helper
in the building of the old frame church in said year and again
when the brick structure was erected in 1915. He was a cheerful
giver and helper in all the affairs of the church during all
these years. Funeral services were held on Sunday afternoon at
two o'clock with sermons both in English and German by his
pastor, the Rev. DeBuhr assisted by the Rev. Closterburg of the
Bethlehem congregation and the Rev. Uhden of the Zalmoni church.
Two brothers and four sister-in-law acted a spall bearers.
Interment was in the cemetery close by. The attendance at the
funeral was probably the largest ever held here, all standing
room being taken and it was estimated fully 100 persons were
standing out of doors. The ideal weather brought people from far
and near to pay their last respects to the deceased.
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Postville Herald
Postville, Allamakee Co. Iowa
June 19, 1930
Obituary.
Arthur A. Dresser, a life-long resident of this vicinity, passed
away at five o'clock Monday afternoon at the Postville Hospital
where he had been a patient during the past several weeks seeking
relief. Mr. Dresser was born near Postville on October 6, 1875,
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo H. Dresser. He was educated in the
Postville public schools and had been a prominent farmer and
purebred stock raiser in this community since early manhood. He
was married to Miss Maria Swenson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Evan
Swenson, in the year 1899. the deceased is survived by his wife,
his aged mother and two sisters, Mrs. Nina Sprague of Langdon,
Ia., and Mrs. H.J. McKeon of Galesburg, Illinois. Funeral
services are to be held this afternoon at Postville Community
Presbyterian Church at two o'clock, the Rev. R. Franklin Galloway
officiationg, and interment will be in the Postville cemetery.
New Barn.
About one hundred and sixty neighbors and friends were out at the
Otto Oldag farm Tuesday to assist in raising a new barn which
contractor Ed Oldag and his men are building there. The structure
is 35X76 feet in size and will be equipped with electricity, new
style stanchions, watering troughs and cups and made to save time
and labor. Mrs. Oldag and her lady friends had a big task on
their hands to feed the vast army of workers, but she must have
done a good job of it as after the noon-day meal the men
proceeded to complete all of the rough work on the barn, with the
exception of the shingling.
Farewell to Singer Hall.
Mr. and Mrs. John A. Schroeder of Grand Meadow township
entertained between 150 and 200 people at the old Singer Hall
last Saturday night at a dance and picnic supper. The Schroeders
purchased the hall at a public sale a short time ago and will
raze the sturcture and use the material in the buildig of a new
home for themselves in Postville some time this fall. Mrs. Clara
Gordon's orchestra furnished the music for Saturday night's
affair and a picnic supper brought by the guests was served at
midnight. Singer Hall was built close to sixty years ago by the
Postville Turnverein, which society was organized on August 24,
1873. when the new Turner Hall was built in 1913 their old hall
was sold to the Postville Maennerchor as a meeting place and for
the holding of the latter's social functions. Thus another of the
old landmarks of our community is to disappear, one that provided
much of the entertainment of an earlier day such as community
affairs, donation dinners, private and public dances, political
gatherings, theatrical productions, school activities incident to
graduation and like occasions. It has served its purpose and has
been succeeded by a more modern structure, the new Turner Hall.
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Postville Herald
Postville, Allamakee Co. Iowa
June 26, 1930
Mrs. Wm. J. Broghamer and her sisterinlaw of Prosper, Minn., were
here last week as guests of Michael and Miss Etta B. Clarity.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. F. Meier and daughter of Monona were guests
here last Friday of his brothers C.W. and A.L. Meier, and in the
A.J. Phillips and Mrs. John Meier homes.
Mrs. M.O. Taylor of Chicago Heights, Ill., arrived here last
Saturday morning for a brief visit with her sister, Miss Addie M.
Sanders, returning home Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. E.L. Hathaway and the latter's mother, Mrs.
Elizabeth Hahn of Milwaukee, Wis., who is making her home here
for the summer, were at Elkader last Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry F. Eggert of Postville, Mr. and Mrs. Eldo
Gericke and family and Mr. and Mrs. Louis Schutte and family of
Castalia, were guests Sunday in the Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schutte
home.
Mrs. John Wirth of Salem, Oregon, a sister of Mrs. Chas. H. Hoth,
is visiting relatives here. She was called here by the death of
her brother Fred Klemme, and expects to stay here until October.
Miss Lorna Seaburry is here from Pisgah, Iowa, for a visit to the
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Meyer home. The ladies were schoolmates and
they are enjoying the pleasure they are getting out of their
visit.
Jake Anfinson of Wahpeton, M.D. who is on his annual visit to
relatives at Clermont and West Union, was a Herald caller
Saturday. He ordered the Herald sent to John Thoma who
left here in 1893 and is now living in Wahpeton.
Mr. and Mrs. C.F. Meier left Friday on their return trip to their
home in Miles City, Montana, where Mr. Meier is managing editor
of the Yellowstone Journal.
Miss Florence Sebastian, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank D.
Sebastian, Jr., of route 3, Postville, has secured the position
as teacher of the West Grove school for next fall.
Mrs. Henry Ahrnsbrak & her son Heny, Gus Helming & her
daughter, Verona, of Sheboygan, Wis., and Henry Boedecker of
Sheboygan Falls, Wis., were guests at the Chas. H. Hoth home.
Otto C. Sander was awarded the contract for the erection of the
new home Mr. and Mrs. Harry Reinhardt will build on the lot they
purchased from the Leui sisters in Lull's addition last week.
Mrs. Wm. Leui of the Postville Monday club and Mesdames G.F.
Kelleher, F.H. Luhman, L.O. Beucher and G.C. Hamersly of the
Shakespeare club, were at Lansing last Wednesday to attend the
Allamakee county convention of federated women's clubs.
Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Ellis & children went to Rossville
where their brother-in-law, Henry Lane passed away that day,
leaving his young widow and three children. The funeral was held
Tueday afternoon, following which the Ellis's returned home.
Mrs. Mae Kasht and daughters, Lola and Patsy, of Waterloo came
Thursday for a visit to the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
L.A. Bellows, mr. Louis Kasht came yesterday to take them home
again.
Mr. Albert Mathews and his sister, Miss Carrie Mathews, of Crete,
Neb., were guests at the home of Miss Adelaide Sanders last
Thursday. The father of these people was pastor of the Postville
Congregational church fifty or more years ago.
Among the real estate transfers made recently in Clayton county,
we note the following entries: Wm. Kozelka and wife to A.E.
Schwab, lots, Monona, warranty deed, $4,700. and Julia E. Looney,
et al, to Edw. Looney, 200 acres, Grand Meadow, warranty deed,
$1.00.
George (Scotty) Blanchard, former resident here, but now of
Waseca, Minn., came Tuesday for a visit out at the Fred
Harrington home. His parents years ago occupied the house in
which Dr. Ed. Schroeder is now living. "Scotty" left
here about 18 years ago and this is his first visit back here.
Supt. Robert Noble and his family are now living in McGregor.
They have a cottage on the Heights and expect to summer there.
Mr. Noble will be engaged in school work this summer, as the
board has authorized him to get things lined up in the new school
building for a fall opening.
Miss Esther Clark of Minneapolis was a dinner guest at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Dan McNeil, Sr., the parents of Miss Clark being
old neighbors of the McNeil's when they lived on the farm now
occupied by Leonard Waters.
M.W. Eaton of Waukon, and his son Art of Minneapolis, were
callers on J.M. Harris last Sunday. Mr. Eaton and Mr. Harris were
boyhood chums some sixty odd years ago when their parents
possessed farms near old Bethel church, and last Sunday these two
old friends retold many of the incidents of those by-gone days.
A son of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Halvorson, living on the Schara farm
northwest of Postville was brought to the Kelleher Hospital the
other day where the Doctor had to take four stitches to close a
wound in the lad's leg, caused by a torpedo which he carried in
his pocket and which exploded when he fell and struck some solid
object.
Mr. and Mrs. J.H. Meyer & three children, Gretchen, Max and
Bobby, and Dolly Cooney of Jackson Junction, Joe Collan, Miss
Lavon Collan and Ludy Zack of Minneapolis were guests Sunday of
the T.H. Burns family. All autoed to Pike's Peak, McGregor, in
the afternoon and partook of a picnic supper.
The Hecker families had a reunion Sunday at the home of R.F.
Hecker, the father, Mr. and Mrs. L.H. Moody and daughter of
Excelsior, Minn., Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hecker and Mr. and Mrs. J.E.
Horgan and family as guests.
Alfred C. Meyer, who accompanied Fred C. Ruckdaschel to St. Paul
last week, arrived home Friday with a brand new Ford Pickup Truck
for use in his hatchery and chick feed business. Mr. Meyer tells
us that thus far this spring he has disposed of eight and
one-half carloads of Purina chicken feeds which he advertised
liberally in the columns of the Herald.
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