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Allamakee Journal
Lansing, Allamakee co. Iowa
April 6, 1932
Harpers Ferry News
- Prof. C.W. Phillips, band instructor, now makes trips here by
train, coming via Lansing.
- M.O. Delphy and sons Art and Ed were Prairie du Chien visitors
last week via the new bridge at Marquette.
- School Notes -- The band was unable to go to the contest at
Oelwein Friday because of the chickenpox epidemic.
- Because of illness, James Frank was unable to go to the
spelling contest at Waukon, Saturday.
Waterville News
- Ruth and Olive Pladsen visited with friends at Waukon Thursday
evening.
- I.O. Halverson blew in Saturday and spent Sunday with his
family here.
- Quite a few from here attended the home talent play at
Rossville Tuesday night and report it very good.
- Coming Friday evening, April 15, the motion picture drama
"Spare Time" and the comedies "The Jungle
Fool" and "Flying Fishes."
Lansing News
- It pays to advertise. Rev. K.W. Schalk, who advertised to give
his lost dollar bill to the finder, got it back from barber Will
Severson, to whom it was handed by a stranger, who picked it up
on the street.
- Major R.G. Miller, Frank Hilkin, John Powers and James Mooney
appeared before the Board of Supervisors Monday, with the large
petition asking that the Village Creek-Thompsons Corner road be
covered with crushed rock. We understand that two members of the
Board gave them a very favorable reception and Lansing people and
everyone in the east part of the county hope this project will
soon be started.
- James Cole was blasting the ice out of the Winneshiek Slough
last week, which was endangering the bridge over the Winneshiek
by piling up against it. The work was successfully carried out
and no damage resulted to the structure.
- Vincent Lemke, The Goodridge Produce Co. agent, has moved from
the rock house on North 2nd Street to the old G.L. Saam flat. The
Longheims also moved out, going into the flat over the bakery.
Dale Burgess and family will move up from South Lansing and
occupy rooms in the rock house, the house he occupied in south
town being sold to Eddie Schweinfurth.
- Norman Martinson, of Gilbertson, Schafer & Co., the local
Ford dealers, made a trip to the Twin Cities last week to have a
look at the new models and get the prices which were announced at
that time, and which will be found in an advertisment in this
paper today. Prices on the 4s are $50 less than the 8s.
- Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hammell, Gene Brennan, wife and two children,
Leonard Kelleher, Frank Murphy and wife and Joe Manning were
recent callers at the Mrs. Katherine Manning home in Lafayette,
visiting her son Will, who got hurt in the woods one day last
week while cutting posts, a falling tree knocking him down. Bill
was badly bruised up but no bones broken and he is gradually
recovering.
Waukon News
- Miss Helen Pohn, stenographer in County Attorney G.B. Richter's
office, won second prize, a $50 credit slip on a Mayflower
Electric Refrigerator, in a contest put on by the company. It
took the Mayflower sixty-seven days and two hours to cross the
ocean and the contest was how many cubes would the Mayflower
Refrigerator freeze in the same length of time.
- M.H. Henderson, Jr., a former State Superintendent of Banking
and afterward a banker at Hawkeye, Fayette county, who was
convicted of fraudulent banking in the February term of court,
was sentenced at West Union Tuesday of last week by Judge
Eichendorf to a term in the penitentiary not to exceed ten years.
- Sunday's train took out four cars of livestock. Waukon Equity
shipped a car of hogs and a mixed car of cattle and hogs. M. W.
Eaton a doubledeck car of hogs and R.C. Sander a mixed car of
cattle and hogs.
- The Fred Hausman family moved last week from the Ole Monson
house in the northwest part of town to the Kosbau house in the
first ward. Mrs. Hausman's mother, Mrs. Rost of Winona, Minn., is
spending the week with them helping them settle in their new
home.
- Miss Alice Grimm has secured Mr. and Mrs. I.E. Woodmansee to
assist her at Landmark. They will close their home in Waukon and
he will look after the store while his wife will help Miss Grimm
with the housework.
New Albin News
- George May who has been assisting his brother with fishing at
Storm Lake, Iowa, returned home Friday of last week.
- Supt. A.M. Willard, accompanied by Miss Minnie Regan, 7th and
8th grade teacher, and Constance Rossiter motored to Waukon last
Saturday to attend the county spelling contest, the latter being
a contestant from our school.
English Bench News
- John Beardmore accompanied a carload of cattle to Chicago last
week.
- Ed Martin sawed a year's supply of wood and John Sadler 300
cedar posts.
- Marion Hartley received a fine full blood registered German
Police puppy from her aunt, Mrs. C.E. MacPherson of Great Falls,
Mont., and Mrs. Jessie Lou Anderson of Alexander, Iowa, also
received one as a gift.
- Jerome Ashbacher purchased a fine work horse from Fred Bulman
recently.
- Orville Sommermeyer met with a very painful accident Saturday,
being thrown off a Shetlan~d pony into a barbwire fence. Luckily
he escaped serious inury.
- Joe Reeder of Waukon purchased a tractor from Wm. Spiegler, he
and son Lloyd hauling it home on a truck one day last week.
Dorchester News
- Mesdames Sheriff, Mohwinkel, Lundering, Burroughs, Artis Lande
and Elenora Burroughs attended the Missionary meeting at the Geo.
F. Wenig home Friday afternoon.
Cherry Mound News
- Albert Benda, with Leslie Hermanson as driver, were business
callers in Prairie du Chien last Wednesday.
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Allamakee Journal
Lansing, Allamakee co. Iowa
April 13, 1932
Harpers Ferry News
- Beginning this evening the T.W. Melaven, E. J. Valley and T.A.
Houlihan stores will be open on Wednesday evenings until further
notice.
- Mary Foley, who attends school at Lansing, came home for the
week-end and to attend the play Sunday night.
- Laurayne Boardman, Helen Shields and Mrs. Will Cota and son Leo
spent Sunday at the Pat Joyce home.
Waterville News
- G.H. Omess of Bagley, Minn., who has been here the past week
visiting relatives, left for Cresco Tuesday, where he expects to
sell a carload of potatoes.
- Albert Jacobson and Clarence Hagen left Monday for West Bend,
Wis., where the former will have some changes made on his feed
mill.
- The InterState Power Co. completed their new power line and are
now installing a new engine preparatory to taking over the
electric light service here when the old poles and wires are
removed. It will make a nice improvement to the little old town.
- Ray Ellefson, one of our young huskies, is helping Albert Hagen
with his spring work. Ray is only 17 but he tips the scales at
250 lbs. and is a good, willing worker.
- Earl Hermanson was a La Crosse visitor Sunday. We presume he
went up to hear the "talkies"?
- Earl Hessell and wife of Garnavillo spent a few days the past
week at the home of his sister, Mrs. Joe Johnson. Earl is the
oldest son of our former townsman and buttermaker, Fred Hessell,
now located at Garnavillo, and reports one of their big banks
going "haywire" the past week.
- The P.T.A. held their regular meeting at the school gym
Thursday evening and we are told had a very interesting program.
Some one made a motion to hold a social card party to help pay
for the SkellGas stove used in the Home Economics Dept., but
our self appointed dictator stepped on it with both feet. By what
stretch of imagination can any one call it a crime for a few
neighbors to gather together in the gymnasium of a school that
they built and spend the evening in a social game of cards? It is
easy to see why some preachers have to talk to empty pews.
Cherry Mound News
- Henry Klees and family moved the past week from this vicinity
to the Welsh farm near Ion.
- Gilbert Eadie and the Robert McGeough folks were entertained at
the Monroe home the past week.
- Leona Gavin is directing a play that will be given Friday
evening, April 15th, in the Rossville hall for the benefit of the
Fairview No. 5 school. A free dance will be given after the play.
- Tom McCormick, Jr., is expected to return home this week from a
three months' trip to Ireland. He is now visiting relatives and
friends in Chicago.
Waukon News
- Last Thursday's train was delayed about three hours by
obstructions on the track between Waterville and Rossville
Station caused by the storm of the night previous.
- John Huffman of Rossville was brought to the Waukon Hospital
Friday suffering from a twisted knee caused by the jumping of a
pony he was riding. He was given temporary relief and returned
again Saturday. when some blood was taken from the injured knee
and he was able to return home.
- James P. Baxter motored to Iowa City last Thursday accompanied
by his sons Merle and Harold. The former, who has been in poor
health for some time, entered the State Hospital for treatment,
hoping for relief soon and the others returned home the same
evening.
Lansing News
- Barber Tade Bechtel missed his car Saturday morning from its
place in his garage, and thought it stolen but later found it on
Diagonal street, some one evidently having taken it to go on a
"joy ride." It was not damaged.
- Otto Heuer, living on the old Gid Quinn farm on Village Creek,
made a business trip to Mason City last week by train. He would
have driven his car, but could not make it to town to get on the
paving.
- Messrs. Matt, John, Henry and Nick Ferring, with Frankie
Spinner as chauffeur, motored to Dubuque Sunday to see their
sister, Mrs. Tom Clancy, who is ill. They returned in the
evening.
- The fish business has been lively the past week, the Lansing
Fish & Fur Market shipping out two live cars besides many
boxes daily. However, the price received in the east is way down,
the market in some cities being glutted.
- The U.S. Wakerobin, the buoy boat and supply ship for the
government light tenders along the river, landed at Lansing
Monday morning and fixed out George Gordan with his season's
supplies.
- Several veteran traveling men got off the train Thursday
evening, the roads being still bad for cars. However, conductor
Charley Merwin bade them all goodbye, saying he would see them
again in the fall when the roads broke up.
- Roy Murphy and Bill Sullivan, of Wexford, and Ray Alexander, of
Lansing, left last week for Manning, Iowa, where they will work
for the James Brennan bridge construction crew. Gene Brennan, the
Strub boys and others of his men, left Monday for Monona, near
where they will establish camp and start work on their
culvertscontract.
- T.H. Bakewell got back last evening from his trip to Churchs
Ferry, N.D., and other points thereabouts, and as usual reports
prospects good for a bumper crop up there.
- A change took place in the Lansing Garage firm yesterday, Joe
Knopf selling out his interests in the garage to his partners,
Cyril Murphy and Frank Ryan, who will run that business in the
future. Joe took over their interest in the new Cities Service
oil station on North Second street, and is already in charge
there. Leo Stirn will be his assistant. Success to all the boys.
- Paul Larson, for several years past in the employ of Aschom
Bros., has severed his connections with that firm for the present
and with his brother Ira will operate his mother's large farm in
Center township the coming summer.
- The Building News -- P.E. Rethwisch, Telephone 86.
Ted Strong gave us the order for a 20 foot boat built of all
White Pine lumber. The lumber was a good grade of stock boards
and cost Ted less than $15 for all the material including
hardware.
Mike Mooney, County Supervisor, ordered the panels for 2 tractor
cabs, which were built and painted in our shop after which they
were taken to Waukon to be placed on the tractors. The comfort
derived from these enclosed cabs more than offsets the small
cost.
New Albin News
- Roads leading into New Albin have been almost impassable the
past week and most of the shoppers coming to town had to fall
back on the horse and buggy, autos being unable to get through.
The writer was informed Wednesday last by Herbert Luettchens of
Wheatland that it took him six hours to drive to town, a distance
of only seven miles.
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Allamakee Journal
Lansing, Allamakee co. Iowa
April 20, 1932
HARPERS FERRY NEWS
- What might have been a more serious accident oceurred one day
last week when Joe Sadler was driving a tractor up a hill it
became unmanageable and went over an embankment. He suffered a
severe cut on the head and an injury to his back. Dr. Thornton of
Lansing was called and he is getting along as well as can be
expected.
- Geo. Meskimens and daughters Geneva and Mrs. Will Valley and
Mrs. Clem Cassidy and daughter Eleanor were Lansing business
visitors on Friday.
WAUKON NEWS
- The roads are too rough for the handling of eggs in trucks as
usual and the Northern Iowa Produce Co., A.R. Anderson, Manager,
shipped a carload by train Sunday.
- Leroy Phipps, agent for the Allis Chalmers power farming
machinery, has his business now located in the building just west
of the P.J. Mahony soft drink establishment.
- Mr. and Mrs. Donald Hageman of this city became the parents of
a baby boy Friday. The little one was born at the Hall Maternity
hospital, where the mother and child are getting along nicely.
Their children now consist of a girl and a boy.
LANSING NEWS
- The Mayo pleasure launch "North Star," the finest on
the upper Mississippi, passed the port of Lansing north bound
last Friday.
- Otto Wurtzel and wife, of Thompson's Comer, took Sisters Anna,
Amabilis and Borromea to Waukon Thursday afternoon, where they
heard Waukon Junior College students practice for their music
contest the next evening, Miss Kathleen Dunlevy, a Lansing girl,
being among the contestants.
- James Powers, who is employed with a railroad bridge
construction crew, under his uncle, Frank Meyers, as foreman,
visited home folks, the John Powers family, a day or two last
week, prior to the crew's moving to South Dakota for some
extensive work there.
- The fish business has still been booming the past week. Lansing
Fish & Fur Market shipped 86 boxes out last Thursday evening
from the local station, 40 from Harpers Ferry and 120 from
Bellevue, a box car being added to transport them. Another night
66 went out, and express man Tade Bechtel provides extra help to
expedite loading.
- River reached a 10.1 ft. stage Sunday morning, the highest in
several years, and has since been slowly receding. The bridge
dyke could have stood a stage six or seven feet higher but was
quite badly washed along the sides by the heavy rain of two weeks
ago.
- Mrs. Leo M. Quillin and two babies, who had been some time with
home folks, the John Glynn family, went to La Crosse Friday to
join her husband, who hopes to secure employment in that city.
- Francis, 18 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. John McKee of this
township, met with a serious injury Sunday afternoon around 4
o'clock. He was paring the hoofs of a horse, when the animal
kicked him on the right leg, breaking both bones below the knee.
He was brought to town and Dr. Fredrickson reduced the fracture
and made him as comfortable as possible but he will likely be
laid up a long time.
- Ducks Here Last Week -- Tens of thousands of ducks were in
the ponds and sloughs of the Mississippi north and south of
Lansing last week. Approach them in a boat as they rest on the
water and they rise in a cloud. Some of the birds still remain
but most of them have moved north. Lansing Bay was at times
almost black with big flocks. The river has reached a ten foot
stage. and many islands are wholly or partly submerged, their
trees standing in water. Mallards are feeding in great numbers in
some of those flooded islands areas. In the open waters one sees
mostly blue bills and black ducks with some canvas backs and red
heads.
With all the talk there has been of the loss of ducks by drouth
last season, it is good to see the great numbers of them this
spring, local hunters are saying. Rivermen in towns north and
south of McGregor are telling the same story about the number of
ducks. M. Delphy, who has lived 60 years by the Mississippi at
Harpers Ferry in Allamakee county, and is credited with knowing
more about ducks than most any other man on the river, declares
there are more ducks this spring than he has seen in 20 years.
A puzzling thing to the river men is the great preponderance of
male ducks. Usually, they say, the males outnumber the females,
but this spring there seem to be five to ten times as many males
as females.
NEW ALBIN NEWS
- Two double deck carloads of hogs, one single deck car of hogs
and a car load of cattle were shipped from this station Saturday
evening. The shipments were accompanied by Edwin Gelo, Chas.
Wilde, Chas. Hartley and Earl Beardmore.
- A birthday party was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Metzdorf in honor of their son Addis, who celebrated his 10th
birthday anniversary. Ten little schoolmates spent the afternoon
with him and at five o'clock a most delicious luncheon was served
by his mother, assisted by Mrs. Peter Metzdorff and daughter
Florence. The afternoon was spent playing games and all the
little guests had a fine time.
ENGLISH BENCH NEWS
- Fred Weymiller will have a carload of lime fertilizer on track
at New Albin the last of this week.
- Jim Wilford of New Albin is planting about 60 acres of
potatoes, renting the land from farmers.
- Earl Beardmore purchased a new 18 ft. disc, which he will pull
with a tractor.
- Allan Hartley had one of his heavy work horses fall into a deep
ditch and it required the work of several neighbors to get the
animal out.
- Spring is here and prosperity "just around the
corner."
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Allamakee Journal
Lansing, Allamakee co. Iowa
April 27, 1932
Harpers Ferry News
- The Misses Mary and Irene Cassidy, Mildred Hogan and Sarah
Whalen took advantage of the rates and went to Chicago Friday
evening for an over Sunday visit with relatives.
- Mr. and Mrs. Leo Hawes are rejoicing over the birth of another
daughter since the first part of last week. They now have three
girls and one boy. Father 0' Sullivan baptized her and gave her
the name Ramona Ellen. Annie Joyce and Martin Manton were the
sponsors.
Waukon News
- When Wm. Leschensky was returning from Dorchester with his mail
Saturday afternoon he ran over a rattlesnake near the New Galena
bridge. The reptile was stretched across the road evidently
sunning itself. It was three and a half feet long and carried
four rattles.
- Otto Nelson who has spent the past winter in Allamakee with his
brother Joe and sisters, Mesdames John Hanson, Bernard Wurtzel
and Con Spinner, returned last week to Lemon, S.D., where he has
farming interests.
Lansing News
- Come to see the first television program which is to be given
by Station WLUS in the Lansing H.S. Gym Thursday evening, April
28, at 8 o'clock. Admission 20 and 30 cents. The reserved seats
are on sale Wednesday morning at the Model Clothing Store.
- Leon Bechtel, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Bechtel of Church, was
down from LaCrosse last Friday, driving a new Plymouth car which
he purchased through Murphy & Ryan, of the Lansing Garage.
- Will Williams, who makes a specialty of gathering herbs for use
in medical houses, made another big shipment last week to a finn
in Virginia.
- McGuire Bros. of Lafayette, owners of the pure bred Percheron
stallion, "Buster," have an advertisement in this paper
to which the attention of horse raisers in this part of the
county is directed.
- The L.T. Hufschmidt and Fred Schafer homes on Front street and
W.H. Guider's on North Second street are among those in the city
whom painters were working on last week. George Volkert and Tade
Beck were at the first named, Gus Schulze at the second and
Alphonse Hess at the third.
- Leo Hurm was a weekend visitor with his brother Will and
family in Dubuque, making the trip with him in his car. Will is
now on the road again for his old company, the Murphy Chair Co.,
of Owensboro, Ky., and makes a large territory, consisting of
several states, and reports business improving in his line.
- The I.C. High School baseball boys met a crushing defeat at
Campion field, Prairie du Chien. Saturday losing 22 to 3. The
boys alibi was that pitcher "Numbs" Spinner was sick
and could work but one inning, catcher. John R. Dunlevy out with
a sprained wrist, and the team shifted around. They hope to make
a better showing when Campion comes to Lansing some time during
May.
- Ranger Len Barthell went to Dubuque Monday to be present at
Federal Court, having some violators of the game laws to have
hearings at this session.
- Dr. J.E. Klingberg, Supt. of the Children's Home at New
Britain, Conn., en route on a trip to California and Pacific
Coast points, was an over night guest at the Richard Ericson home
near Church one night last week, Miss Minnie Ericson being a
teacher in the Dr.'s school during a couple of summer vacations.
- Hess Brothers got the rocking of the south road from the Gee
place to his side of Oak Hill cemetery, Monday, but Lansing
business men who were promised the Columbus road would be
similarly treated from the corporation line to the Lafayette
township line are wondering why that contract was not also let.
- Two Lansing high school students will go to Drake University
Friday to compete in the Iowa State High School Theatre
tournament which will take place on the Drake campus this
week-end. Myrta Wurm and Charles Hayes form the play cast which
will produce "The Snowstorm" by Sidney Bowkett,
according to a letter written by Miss Alice Wachal, Lansing play
director, to James J. Fiderlick, head of the Drake department of
drama. Winners of the contest will receive the $50 award given by
former Governor N .E. Kendall, patron of the contest, and the
Drake-Kendall 1932 drama trophy for permanent possession.
New Albin News
- Herbert Donovan and sister Beatrice, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Meyer
and son, Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Meyer and son of the Iowa River and
Miles Donovan of Caledonia were entertained Sunday at the William
Griffin home.
English Bench News
- Misses Colene and Metha Wendel and gentlemen friends, also
Alfred Wendel and lady friend were pleasant Sunday callers at the
homes of Earl and John Beardmore and Mrs. J.E. Martin.
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