Iowa
Old Press
Sumner Gazette
Sumner, Bremer co. Iowa
Thursday, October 9, 1924
Local and Otherwise
-Mr. and Mrs. Henry Barker and Mrs. F.B. Sullivan spent Friday at
Oelwein.
-Mr. and Mrs. Roy Schoonover visited at the Henry Barker home
Monday evening.
-Mrs. Theo. A. Koeberlie's brother, Adolph Schwarz, and wife, of
Wichita, Kansas, arrived Tuesday to visit relatives and friends.
-Martin Krug returned last night to his home in Chicago after
visiting for a month at the home of his daughters, Mrs. M.
Westendorf and Mrs. Ed Barth.
-Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dropps of Sauk Rapids, Minn., and Mrs.
Schell, of Rice, Minn., visited Saturday and Sunday at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Haag.
-Mr. and Mrs. Will Eisner and Mr. and Mrs. Will Zeug, and
daughter, Marie, of Muscatine, visited at the homes of Mr. and
Mrs. H.W. Reeve and Mr. and Mrs. A.W. Creager over Sunday.
-Frank Lang is in the New Hampton [hospital] receiving treatment
for an infected hand.
-Mr. and Mrs. F.B. Sullivan and baby, who have been visiting
relatives and friends here, left Saturday for their home at
Drayton, N.D.
To Whom It May Concern
This is to certify that I have this day given my adopted
daughter, Ella Rohrssen, her time and that I will not be
responsible for any debts contracted by her whether for
necessities or otherwise. Dated at Sumner, Iowa, this 6th day of
October, 1924. Sophia Buhr
Alpha News
-Mrs. Nellie West was an Oelwein caller Friday.
-Mrs. Alice Cummings was a Westgate visitor Sunday.
-Miss Winnie McKray has been seriously ill the past week. Mrs.
McKray was called home from her visit in Wisconsin on account of
Winnie's illness.
-Mr. and Mrs. S.L. Clark are enjoying a visit from their son,
Hiram.
-Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Rason of Fayette visited at the Ray Truesdall
home.
-Mr. Will Lewis was able to be out again and visited frineds in
Alpha Sunday.
-Little Frederick Cummings is much better and will soon be able
to resume his school work.
-Mr. and Mrs. of Wadena visited their daughter, Mrs. Walter
Messerlie, several days last week.
-Mr. and Mrs. A.A. Belknap were business callers in Sumner
Friday. They are sporting a brand new Hudson six coach.
-Mr. and Mrs. George Proctor of Oklahoma are here visiting,
having been called by the illness of George's mother, Mrs.
Charles Proctor.
-Mr. and Mrs. Newhomer celebrated their golden wedding
anniversary Sunday. Their daughter from South Dakota came to be
present at the occasion and to make an indefinite visit.
Bremer County Interesting Events of a General Nature -
taken from the Independent-Republican
and Waverly Democrat
Glenn Woodruff, young goat raiser of Waverly, received a buck
shipped from Marion, S.D. some time ago. The buck is a pure bred
Toggenberg, one of th emost famous breeds in the country. He is
registered. Glenn has a herd of six goats now and within three or
four years this number may be increased.
Among the first sale of purebred swine to be held in Bremer
County during the 1924 season is the one sceduled for Oct. 15 at
the farm of Edward Thurm, just north of Artesian in Warren
township. Mr. Thurm will sell thirty boars and twenty gilts, all
spotted Polands. Mr. Thurm is one of the counstructive breeders
of the county.
E.J. Wylan and son, among the leading dairymen of Bremer County,
won the Silver Trophy offered annually by the Iowa Holstein
Breeders Association to the owner of the heard of ten or ore
cows, having the highest average for a year.
William Warren, living west of Maxwell finished the delivery of
8,654 bushels of corn to the King-Wilder Grain Company last week.
Bremer county's diary club demonstration team composed of Miss
Lenora Kuethe, Waverly High School Senior, and Lorenz Strottman,
Maxfield Township, won the first prize offered by the Iowa
Holstein Breeder's Association demonstration at the dairy cattle
congress.
Ed Guiney, buttermaker of the Potter's Siding creamery, won third
in the butter contest at the Cattle Congress in Waterloo last
week. first place went to H.G Stendel of Northwood, Iowa.
Fayette County Items from the West
Union Argo Gazette and Fayette
County Union
-A Republican Service Mens league has been formed in West Union
with King R. Palmer of that city in charge. The new organization
has no connection with the American Legion, from which partisan
politics is barred.
-Dr. W.L. Alexander has been returned to the Methodist pastorate
in West Union for the third term. Other appointments in Fayette
county were as follows: Fayette, Clyde E. Baker; Hawkeye and
Alpha, G.C. Nothdurft; Lima, M.R Grisby; Randalia and Maynard,
C.A. Hawn and Westgate, John DeLong.
-Mr. and Mrs. Gus Gundacker of Hawkeye who recently returned from
a four months tour of Europe returned recently with much
interesting information in regard to economic conditions in the
foreign countries. Much of the time was spent at the village of
Scmalenberg in Germany, Mr. Gundackers old home. Mr. and Mrs.
Gundacker reported an enjoyable trip although the weather there
was cold and rainy.
-The Argo Gazette contained an item telling about the
fifty years career of E.F. Potratz as a shoemakker, forty of
these having been spent in Sumner. this startling record is even
exceeded by a Cresco cobbler, Mr. M. Barth, who has mended shoes
continuously for the past seventy-three years, of which time
forty seven have been spent in Cresco.
Chickasaw County Items
-From the Nashua Reporter: On a Thursday during the Big
Four Fair, Roy Demro purchased one of the toy gas balloons from a
novelty man at the fair grounds and attached a note to the
balloon and turned it loose. Some time later he received a letter
from a man in Grass Lake, Michigan, stating that his son had
found the balloon in the pasture of their farm, five miles from
Grass Lake. The letter stated that the balloon was found three or
four weeks before, so it must have been found within two or three
days after it was sent up. Grass Lake is in Washenaw county,
about sixty miles west of Detroit, so the ballon traveled between
four or five hundred miles.
-"Lefty" O'Neil and "Rabbitt" Russell, two
well-known former New Hampton baseball stars are going stong in
baseball since leaving that place. The latter successfully
managed the fast Tomahawk, Wis. ball team the past season, and
the former, who had been playing in Professional company, side
tracked his contract with the league and got on the pirching
staff of his old Pal's outfit. As a result of his showing this
summer he is again signed up for Professional company next
season.
-Geo. P. Perkins of Nashua has been a blacksmith for forty-eight
years in this city, and most of the time in the same location He
has many interesting relics of a past age around his shop, one of
the, an ox shoe, was made by hand by his father in the town of
Bradford in the early fifties. The elder Mr. Perkins was a nail
maker when steel nails were unknown. They were made from iron,
sent to the hardware stores in blunt form, and sharpened by the
purchaser.
[transcribed by S.F., May 2014]