Iowa
Old Press
Allamakee Journal
Lansing, Allamakee co. Iowa
March 19, 1930
Piling is being driven for a new temporary bridge; a notice to
boat operators says the west trestle extends 25 feet; the east,
460 feet, leaving a 500 foot channel. The dragline building the
causeway removes a yard and a half each dumping.
The school band played on the street near the Opera House to
gather a crowd for Senator Otto Lange, Republican candidate for
governor, who lambasted chain stores and a proposed income tax
law.
- Seniors Curtis Lenz, Harold Fritz, and Willard Fritz played
their last game in Lansing’s sectional loss to Clermont,
21-19.
- Hugo Walters left for Winona for government work on the river.
- Fred Gelo advertises Marquis spring wheat, Swedish seed oats
and winter wheat for sale.
- Interstate linemen are setting posts to light the aerial field
and the beacon south of New Albin.
- French Creek’s basket social brought $28.25; Sylvia Sires
is teacher.
- Fred Weymiller's portable saw began sawing 800 logs for Fred
King’s 80 x 54 ft. barn.
[transcribed by E.W., February 2013]
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Postville Herald
Postville, Allamakee Co. Iowa
March 20, 1930
U.B. Church notes. Rev. E.C. Lepper, minister.
-Castalia - Sunday school at 10 a.m., Martin E. Harris,
superintendent. Morning hour of worship & praise at 11 a.m.
-Postville - Evangelistic services at 7:30
Cornerstone Laying Postponed: Due to delay in work of excavation,
the cornerstone laying will be postponed until Sunday afternoon,
March 30th, at which time Rev. G.W. Emerson, D.D., of Cedar
Rapids will preach. The work is going rapidly forward; good
weather prevailing there will be nothing to hinder the service on
March 30th.
In Memoriam.
In loving remembrance of our infant son, Marvin, who departed
this life one year ago, March 18, 1930.
When evening shades are falling and we are sitting all alone,
In our hearts there comes a feeling if you only could come home.
You shall never be forgotten; never shall your memory fade.
Sweetest thoughts will always linger 'round the grave where you
are laid.
Sadly missed by parents. Mr. and Mrs. Eldo Schutte.
Card of Thanks.
We wish to extend our heartfelt thanks to the Postville fire
department for their prompt and efficient work last Wednesday
night when the building in which wer were doing business was
threatened with destruction by fire, and also do we wish to thank
the public for their assistance in removing our stock from the
building and saving us from suffering a still greater loss. Fred
W. Groth
Want Ads & For Sale.
-For sale -- stove wood, dry or green, by the load. E.H. Brandt,
R. 1 Clermont, Iowa
-For sale -- spotted Arabian mare, weight 1200; broke to all
harness. Dell Harvey & Son, Castalia.
-For sale -- two brood sows; will farrow fore part of April.
Edwin Plaht, R. 1, Postville.
-Wanted -- local and long distance hauling. Phone No. 21-T-6.1.
Delmar A. Reincke, Postville.
-Wanted -- rags, magazines, radiators and all kinds of metal.
Bring it in to J. Silverman, Monona.
-For sale -- a team of sorrel horses, weight about 1600 lbs.
each. Henry Bodensteiner, R. 1, Castalia.
-Farmers Mutual Insurance. Fire, Lighting, High Wind, Tornado and
Cyclones. John Waters, agent.
-Wanted -- early orders for chick. Don't foget, March chicks make
your early layers. Allamakee Hatchery.
-For sale -- 8X12 building on trucks, suitable for brooder house,
priced low. Ernie Ruckdaschel, Postville.
-Wanted -- at once; work on farm by a boy nineteen years of age.
Phone or write L.H. Barnett, West Union, Iowa.
-For sale -- hatching eggs from dark Barred Rocks, $1.25 per 15
or $4.00 per 100. Mrs. F.W. Benjegerdes, R. 1, Castalia.
-For sale -- home grown Early Ohio seed potatoes. Leave orders at
the Postville Meat Market, Frank J. Schmitz, proprietor.
-Notice -- place your chick orders now so we may be able to
supply kind and number just when you want them. Boies Capper.
-For sale -- a used Singer Sewing Machine, one piano. Must be
sold at once. L.E. Palmer, Postville.
-For sale -- home grown sweet clover seed, cleaned and scarified,
ready to sow; $6.50 per cwt; less than 100 lbs. 7 cents per lb.
E.W. Green, Castalia, Iowa.
-For sale -- sorrel gelding with silver mane and tail, coming 3
years old; will make a horse weighing 1700 or 1800 lbs; gentle
and broke to drive. Damond Meyer, Castalia, Iowa.
-Wanted -- only $9.00 for liability and property damage on Fords
and Chevrolets. Why pay more? Insure your truck and be protected.
Lowest cost; best protection. H.J. Schuette, agent for the Home
Mutual Insurance Assn., of Des Moines.
-For sale -- 5 head of work horses; 1 Jersey cow, 6 yrs. old,
milking now; 1 Shorthorn bull coming 2 yrs. old; saddle, light
buggy harness, 2 Shepherd and Collie spayed females, 5 mo. old; 1
spayed Shepherd female, 1 1/2 yrs. old and other articles at
private sale. E.H. Schroeder, Postville; phone No. 18.
Proof of Will.
To All Whom It May Concern:
Notice is hereby given that an Instrument purporting to be the
last Will and Testament of Margaret J. Harris, Deceased, late of
Allamakee County, Iowa, has been opened and read in the office of
the Clerk of the District Court of Iowa, in and for Allamakeee
County, and that April 10, 1930, has been set for hearing the
proof of said Will in said Court. Witness my hand and the seal of
said Court this 8th day (seal) March, 1930. Wm. F. Shafer, Clerk
of District Court.
[transcribed by S.F., August 2004]
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Allamakee Journal
Lansing, Allamakee co. Iowa
March 26, 1930
- Mr. and Mrs. Joe Gavin visited Harpers Ferry relatives.
- Frank Tully‘s barber shop has been redecorated by his
brother Martin.
- The bridge company is building three small barges to haul
cement from the lowa shore to the piers. The dragline expects to
work two 10-hour shifts.
- George Volkert has been redecorating Wolfe’s Model cafe
getting ready for expected tourists.
- Kosbau Hatchery, Waukon, filled an order for 100 White Minorca
hatching eggs for the chief government counselor of Budapest,
Hungary. Parcel post cost $3.16.
Smedsrud and Hanson’s Boston Grocery is selling cabbage from
Holland. It comes in large baskets woven from twigs and retails
for 11 cents a pound. The Texas crop was a failure, so a Waterloo
firm imported two carloads.
- Seven county men are on the federal court jury lists at
Dubuque.
- lna Gantenbein entertained Mae Sires, Gretta Lager, Louisa
Weymiller, and Marcella Steele at a skating party in her
basement.
- Joe Fink, who bought the Erickson store building, and Chas.
Tippery have remodeled it into a story- and-a-half and filled in
the old basement hole.
[transcribed by E.W., February 2013]