Iowa Old Press
Postville Herald
Postville, Allamakee co., Iowa
Thursday, August 16, 1934
COUNTRY CORRESPONDENCE
Ludlow
Milburn Moose of Postville trucked cattle for John Winter on
Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Stock spent one evening last week in the Ed
Nagel home.
Duane Duvel, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Duvel, spent
Friday with his grandmother, Mrs. D.H. Miller.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Klocke and family were Sunday dinner guests
at the home of Mrs. K's sister, Mrs. Martin Stock, and family.
Roy Flage, Simon Grotegut Jr., Leonard Stock and Art Grotegut
went to Chicago with a carload of cattle on Sunday and spent a
few days at the World's Fair.
Delores Soride underwent an operation for appendicitis at the
Waukon hospital Wednesday evening. Her many friends are pleased
to learn that she is recovering nicely.
A large group of relatives with well-filled baskets gathered for
a family reunion at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Jeide on
Sunday. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Casper Jeide and Elmer,
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Snitker and family, Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Seilberg, Mr. and Mrs. Aug. Snitker and family, Mrs. Simon
Becker, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Krumme and family, Mr. and Mrs. John
Seilberg and family, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Snitker and family, Mr.
and Mrs. Ben Winke, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Kugel and family and Miss
Mildred Fogt.
Bethel
Mrs. Arthur Ricker was somewhat under the weather last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lawson visited in the J.W. Harris home Friday.
Cly Schultz assisted H.L. Meyer with haying Thursday afternoon.
Clarence Helgerson spent Sunday in the home of his mother, Mrs.
Melvin Helgerson.
Zana Maie Harris was a caller in the Mr. and Mrs. Eaton Waters
home Monday afternoon.
Ruth, Hazel, Marie, Lulu and Dean Harris visited Thursday at the
home of their sister, Mrs. Louis Hangartner.
Mr. and Mrs. Obert Harris and two children, Milo Harris and Cloy
Lawson visited at the Joe Evans home Thursday.
George and Virgil Harris and Junior Schultz visited in the home
of the formers' sister, Mrs. Vernas Meyer, on Thursday afternoon.
Mrs. Ed Barnes and children of Clermont, Martin Harris and
daughter of Castalia visited in the parental Mr. and Mrs. J.W.
Harris home last Sunday.
Franklin Twp.
Fred Schlitter was a caller Sunday in the A.J. Oelberg home.
Mrs. Sophia Nagel visited her mother, Mrs. Hammon on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Bloxham and family visited Sunday in the
Elmer Decker home.
A.J. Oelberg and Gilbrt Leppert were Sunday callers at the Seward
Swenson home.
Mrs. Alfred Berg and Mrs. Fred Fish helped Mrs. John Berg cook
for threshers last Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Delmar Reincke and daughter of Postville, Mr. and
Mrs. John Berg and children visited Sunday in the Matilda Berg
home.
Mr. and Mrs. Seward Swenson very pleasantly entertained the
following guests at their home Sunday: Mr. and Mrs. Roy Honn and
sons, Mr. and Mrs. Julius Johnson and family, Mr. and Mrs.
Leonard Pearson of near Postville and Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Swenson
and children.
Albert Oelberg has closed the season for threshing in his
neighborhood, having turned out the following sixteen jobs: Ralph
Leppert, Ira Smith, Dell Rose, Rufus Seitz, John Berg, Emery
Roderick, Bert McShane, Jess Fish, Herb McCracken, Irving
McShane, Roy Honn, Wm. Roffman, Fred Fish, George Decker, Ernest
Decker and Henry Hamann. He reports some of the grain of very
fair quality, though all of it had suffered from drought.
Cherry Valley
Mrs. Geo. Leet visited Mrs. Con Hangartner Friday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Downs and Leslie visited Sunday at the Fred
Harris home.
Mr. and Mrs. H.L. Meyer and Victor visited at the Ralph Brainard
home at Harpers Ferry Sunday.
Mrs. Ella Schultz and Ivon, and Mr. and Mrs. Obert Harris
attended the funeral of John Waters Saturday afternoon.
Miss Ann Hangartner came home on Thursday from Darlington, Wis.,
to care for her mother, who is quite sick with the measles.
From the Elgin Echo -
Andrew Nyborg, the Gunder blacksmith, celebrated his eightieth
birthday Saturday, August 4, and he celebrated in an unusual
manner for an eighty-year-old. He walked a mile and a half to his
shop in the morning, worked steadily there all day and again
walked to his home in the evening, the same as he has been doing
every working day throughout the years. Mr. Nyborg's vitality and
pep are remarkable as he carries his eighty years without seeming
effort. In fact he goes about his work like a man half that age
and his neighbors wonder how he can do it. It is sixty-one years
since Mr. Nyborg started working as a blacksmith and wagonmaker
and thrity-five of these years he has spent at Gunder. He came to
this country at the age of nineteen and it may be said that he
saw very few idle days since.
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