Iowa
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Allamakee Journal
Lansing, Allamakee co. Iowa
May 4, 1932
Harpers Ferry News
- A good roads meeting will be held at Foresters Hall Saturday
evening at 8 o'clock. All parties interested are requested to
attend.
- M.D. Delphy returned home last Saturday from Clear Lake, Iowa,
where he had been engaged in fishing for some time.
- Section Foremen Bernard Valley and Leo Hilkins started to work
full time Monday and each took out two extra men.
- The Harpers and Paint Rock Dramatic Club are all in readiness
to entertain us Thursday, May 5, at Foresters Hall when they
repeat the play "Danny Boy," which went over big a few
weeks ago. Admission 35 and 10 cents. It is well worth seeing.
- The commencement exercises of the Harpers Ferry High School
will be held at the school auditorium on Friday, May 20th.
Following are the members of the senior class:
Harry J. Boardman, Thomas H. Cahalan, Herbert E. Easly, Inez R.
Easly, William E. Frank, Mary A. Guthneck, Theresa M. Livingston,
Marcella M. Schulte and Linus J. Traversey. -Herbert E. Easly has
been selected salutatorian and Theresa M. Livingston
valedictorian. Marcella M. Livingston will give the class poem.
Inez R. Easly the class prophecy, and Harry J. Boardman the class
will.
- Harpers Defeats McGregor 9 to 3 -- In the opening game of the
season last Sunday on the local diamond the Harpers Ferry base
ball club easily defeated McGregor by a score of 9 to 3. Harpers
Ferry lineup: Valley, c; E. Robinson, 2b; Farley, ss; Delphy,
c; Williams, Ib; Calvey, If; H. Robinson, 3b; C. valley, rf; L.
Robinson, p.
Waterville News
-In the spelling contest for the week before last, grade 6
attained the highest score. The pupils who received perfect
scores for the week are: Roy Spinner, Mary J. Ragsdale, Robert
Puls, Mary Molitor, Paschal Slattery, Esther Fredendahl, Francis
Molitor, Carma Ellefson, Norma Gronna, Donald McMillan, Anita
Peters and Clara E. Gronna.
Cherry Mound News
- A surprise party was held in the cheese factory last Thursday
evening on John Heim, the event being his 18th birthday. A
pleasant evening was spent and on leaving John was presented with
a purse in remembrance of the happy occasion.
- A large crowd gathered at the Art Davis home Saturday evening
and had a very enjoyable time dancing and playing cards. The
party lasted until the we'sma hours of the morning so it goes
without saying every one had a good time.
- Cahalan Boys in Car Wreck - Marquette, Iowa -- Four farmer
boys, Cahalan brothers and cousins of Harpers Ferry, were injured
here Sunday night at a railroad crossing when the automobile they
were driving struck a light locomotive which was running ahead of
the west bound Sioux Limited, across the pontoon bridge from
Prairie du Chien to Marquette. Donald, 19, suffered a fractured
arm; Daniel, 18, severely lacerated head; Woodrow, 20, cuts on
face; Wm., 23, scalp wounds. Emmet Cahalan, who was in the car
with them, was unhurt. The injured were taken to the McGregor
hospital where it was said they will recover. "Brakes didn't
hold" is Cahalan's explanation of the accident.
Waukon News
- The First Annual Varsity Ball given by Waukon Junior College
and High School at the Opera House last Friday evening was a
grand success. The big auditorium was crowded by dancers and
spectators and a number of Waukon's best people were in
attendance. Mayor Larson and wife led the grand march which
opened the pleasant affair. The receipts were in the neighborhood
of $200 and the profits will go toward defraying the expense of
school activities.
The big world war cannon which was secured from the government by
the Spanish War Veterans and American Legion some time ago and
which has been standing on
the west side of the City Park was moved to its permanent
position just south of the Soldiers' statute in the park Tuesday
of last week. It is to be cleaned up and painted
which will make it more sightly.
- While working Saturday on the new bridge he is putting in near
Forest Mills over Hickory Creek, contractor John Beede met with a
painful accident. A board he was standing on broke and he fell
some distance to the creek bed, fracturing a bone in one of his
heels. He had his injuries dressed at the Waukon Hospital and
returned to his work on crutches.
Lansing News
- On May first it was fifty-five years since Gus and Chas. Dee
came to Lansing as young men. They started life here penniless
and their accounts of pioneer experiences and struggles are
interesting to the present generation. Through hard work and
diligent perseverance both have been successful farmers and at
present are enjoying the fruits of their toil.
- Little Miss Irene Scholtes was 12 years of age Thursday, April
28, and in honor of the event entertained 12 girl friends for
supper at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G.V. Scholtes, on
Center street. Games were played, the hostess received nice
gifts, and a most enjoyable time had by all present.
- Mesdames L.T. Hufschmidt, Wallace O'Connor, R.A. Dunlevy and
Miss Mazie Dunlevy drove to Waukon Thursday evening of last week
to see and hear the famous Irish tenor, Fisk O'Hara, who was at
the Cota Theatre in person that evening.
- With the opening of spring, complaints have been made of boys
rolling stones down Mount Hosmer. This is dangerous to motorists
on North Second street and those guilty should discontinue it at
once and avoid trouble.
- On Monday, May 2, Section Foremen Gus Murphy and Arne Helle
were restored to full six day a week service and each given a
crew of three men. The track in many places needs attention
badly, and all section crews will be busy all summer with repair
work. The Ry Co. must keep up their track, whether revenue
warrants it or not. On the other hand, trucks are cutting into
the railroad's freight business everywhere, while at the same
time using and wearing out the highways built by the public
through taxation of various kinds. It is a problem that will
require the wisdom of a Solomon to rightly solve.
- George Gordon, the veteran fisherman and hunter's guide, went
to a La Crosse hospital last week, where he was operated on for
gallstones. He has since been getting along as well as can be
expected and many friends hope his recovery may be sure and
speedy. His wife accompanied him and is still at his bedside.
Gene Valley returned last week from an extended visit with
Harpers Ferry relatives. Mr. Valley is still on crutches as a
result of an injury to one of his limbs sustained in a fall last
winter.
- Better Roads for Lansing -- A committee of business men and
others from this city, beaded by F.J. Hilkin, met the Board of
Supervisors Monday, and secured their aid in putting rock on the
river road to Thornton's corner, five miles south of Lansing. The
county will furnish the crusher and an operator, and the farmers
will donate labor of placing the rock on the road. The county is
also to take care of rocking the road across Columbus dyke and to
the Lafayette township line, where the work of the farmers will
commence.
They also have the promise of completion of rocking the Village
Creek-Thompson Corner road, and the south road west of the
cemetery is now being rocked.
Mr. Hilkin deserves great credit for his efforts to secure this
road work, and the following gentlemen were present to aid in his
plea to the Board: John Powers, James Mooney, John Stirn, G.M.
Kerndt, Thos. H. Bakewell and Julius Boeckh.
English Bench News
- The George Dehning family and Herman Dehning of near Dorchester
were Sunday visitors at the Fred Kumphhome. Len Ryan is the first
to finish plowing his large field.
New Albin News
- Mrs. Elmer O. Lenz returned home Wednesday of last week from
Dubuque, where she spent a week visiting at the home of her
sister, Mrs. E.P. Oeth, Mrs. Elizabeth Lenz and other relatives.
She also visited at the home of her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs.
C.A. Strake of Milledgeville, Illinois.
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Allamakee Journal
Lansing, Allamakee co. Iowa
May 11, 1932
1931 Champion Winner Again
Dorothy Greenwald, 13, city champion of Muscatine, Iowa, and last
year's Iowa champion, Saturday afternoon won the 1932 state
spelling championship in the Seventh Annual Iowa State Spelling
bee at Roosevelt High School, Des Moines, under the sponsorship
of The Register and Tribune. Miss Greenwald will be
given a trip to Washington, D.C., accompanied by her teacher, to
enter the national spelling bee June 7. All expenses of the party
will be paid by The Register and Tribune and director of
the Iowa bee. "Opprobrious" was the word on which Miss
Greenwald won her second championship. Donald Seeley, 11, of
Afton, Union county champion, missed the word and fell into
second place. After successfully spelling
"opprobrious," Miss Greenwald was given the word,
"integration," and was declared champion after spelling
it correctly. Third place went to Marie Herrald of Stanhope,
Hamilton county champion; fourth to Katherine Adams of Lake City,
Calhoun county champion; and fifth to Mollie Schatz, Des Moines
city champion.
HARPERS FERRY NEWS
- Pete Heim, who is building a barn for his brother Ed at Cherry
Mound, spent Sunday here.
- Mary Mona O'Neill and Mildred McGovern of Wexford were guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Corcoran while writing the part of the
8th grade examination last week.
- Ben Gavin, Laurayne Boardman, Mrs. Will Cota and son Leo
motored to Monona Sunday to visit Will Cota, who is employed with
Frank Meyer's bridge crew. He accompanied them home and left
Monday evening for Rock River, S.D.
WATERVILLE NEWS
- Bernard Houlihan, Adolph Mathis and Earl Hermanson drove to La
Crosse Sunday for a visit with Dom Brazell, who had been taking
treatment at St. Francis hospital.
- Miss Esther Spinner, accompanied by her aunt Mame and several
of the Tade Spinner family, drove to Prairie du Chien Sunday for
a visit with Miss Doris Spinner.
- Mrs. Anna G. Heffern of Waukon spent a couple of days the past
week visiting relatives and old friends in Waterville and
vicinity.
- Our mail service was somewhat on the bum the past week due to
several washouts on the Milwaukee road. One thing, farmers are
not kicking about dry weather any more.
- Mrs. Mame Hart has had a stone wall built on the upper and
lower side of her new home to prevent the clay from sliding until
the grass gets started. She also had cement steps and walk put
in, all of which adds greatly to the appearance of the place. She
now has one of the nicest little homes in town.
WAUKON NEWS
- Ben Svebakken of Waukon was in Postville a short time Wednesday
morning with a smile and a handshake for his numerous
acquaintances. No, Ben is not running for office, but was
returning from looking after the seeding operations on his North
Dakota farm, and John Waters took him from here to Waukon.
- Just as we expected! Robert Hawkins, Waukon's representative in
the State Schools Musical Contest at Iowa City Thursday afternoon
won first in the tuba solo. His teacher, Prof. Chas. W. Phillips,
who accompaniedhim, says an effort will be made to send him to
the national contest.
- Lawrence and Emmet, sons of Theodore Henry, and James, son of
Leo Troendle, three French Creek township kids, put in a
profitable day hunting a week ago last Sunday. Their dog led them
to a wolf den containing three cubs which they captured and on
which they collected the bounty of $4 a scalp. They think the
mother wolf was moving the cubs from another den and had only got
the three transferred when they happened on the scene.
LANSING NEWS
- The Rippe boys and some friends met with an auto accident
Friday night, on the paving west of town, their car skidding and
turning over, but fortunately no one was hurt.
- Oscar R. Thorsen, Secretary Treasurer of the Iowa-Wisconsin
Bridge Company, was here from Des Moines a couple days last week.
The company has a new grader and truck for use on the dyke road,
and this week a number of men and Leo Hurm's team, are engaged in
plowing up the old Kerndt lot under the bridge, which will in
time be made into a nice little park.
- Next Tuesday, May 17, is Norway's natal day, in olden days
celebrated regularly in this city but now more honored in the
breach than the observance.
- Harvey Feuerhelm, who has been employed at road work near
Freeport, Illinois, was an arrival Thursday to take in Lansing
High School senior class play, his daughter Helen being among
this year's graduates.
- It pays to advertise: Mrs. Alfred Magnusson found the fountain
pen lost by Helen Ferring last week and returned it to this
office.
- A volunteer force of Legion boys, business men and others were
working on the Mt. Hosmer road last week, getting it in shape for
the summer season.
- Sam Marshall went to Detroit last week and drove home for the
Lansing Fish & Fur Market a new Dodge truck, which will be
used to deliver fresh fish to their various customers in many
northeastern Iowa towns. It was purchased thru the Lansing Garage
Co. of this city.
- Miss Katherine Wagner, trained nurse, located in a U.S.
Veterans' Hospital at Whipple, Arizona, was an arrival Saturday
for a visit with home folks, the Mrs. Henry Wagner family. Her
brothers were at the depot to meet her by train that day, but she
surprised them by driving in her own new car, having a tough time
on the bad roads between Waukon and Decorah.
- Henry Frahm, agent for the Webster Lumber Company, was loading
out four cars of ties for Minneapolis, where the company has its
treating plant located. Ties are now all marked with sirons in
the ends to prevent cracking. John Brown, also a tie man, of
Brownsville, who has about four cars ready for shipment from
Waukon, took the train home from Lansing Saturday, rain halting
hauling operations on account of the muddy roads.
- Miss Katharine Guider, of the St. Francis Training School for
nurses, was a week-end visitor with home folks, the Matt Guider
family in Lafayette township.
- The city had one of the big county graders at work on Front
street this week, that thoroughfare having become extremely rough
of late. It is a street that has much traffic and it is hard to
keep it in good shape.
- The seniors of I.C. High School, Lansing, enjoyed their class
day outing at La Crosse yesterday, and Waukon Junior College
students came here for a picnic supper on Mount Hosmer.
- Miss Etta May Wilder, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Flavius Wilder
of Village Creek, who was injured in February by falling off a
sled, was taken by her parents to Lutheran hospital, La Crosse,
yesterday, and today will be operated for the removal of a
kidney.
- Lansing Fire Company purchased several suits of coverall
overalls (out of their own money) last week to be used in
protecting their good clothes when called to a fire. As they
receive no compensation for their services with the exception of
poll tax, we would consider this a mighty commendable act on the
part of the boys.
NEW ALBIN NEWS
- Albert Freuchte visited Sunday at Eitzen with home folks.
- At a business meeting held at the City Hall last Monday
evening, Otto Hurley, due to other business, resigned from the
office of manager of the local baseball team. Albert Kuehn, who
was manager of the team a number of years ago, was elected to
fill the position. Every effort is being made to put a winning
team in the field and local fans are asked to show their
appreciation by attending the games, and to do their bit.
- Fred and Harold Jordan of St. Paul motored here for a visit
with relatives Sunday, and were accompanied home by the former's
wife, who has been here the past week visiting relatives. Miss
Helen Jordan also returned with them for a visit.
ENGLISH BENCH NEWS
- River out of its banks several days last week, which will make
more work before planting can be done.
- Mrs. Fred Weymiller purchased 350 baby chicks Friday from the
Waukon hatchery.
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