Iowa
Old Press
Iowa Recorder
Greene, Butler co. Iowa
April 25, 1917
Pagles-Heldebrand.
Last Thursday evening at the Lutheran church occurred the
marriage of Miss Margaret Pagles, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Theo.
Pagles, to Walter Hildebrand, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed
Hildebrand. Only the immediate relatives were present. For the
present they will make their home with the groom's parents. The Recorder
joins the many friends in extending congratulations.
Boche Bullet Kills Iowan.
Ottawa, Ontario, April 23 -- Private F. Freeman of Gleenwood,
Iowa (? Glenwood), was among the seven Americans killed in the
ranks of the Canadian troops fighting in France. Thirty-one other
Americans were wounded. the casualty list made public Monday
carried 2,000 names, mostly wounded.
Local News.
Geo. Wilson, A.L. Sullivan, Ray McGee and Mr. Doty from
Clarksville left Monday night for Brady, Mont., to look at land.
From there they will make a tour of inspection of the surrounding
county with the view of taking up homesteads.
Mrs. Charles Gates received a card this noon announcing the
marriage of Miss Helen Beryl Ellis and Lloyd H. Vincent in Los
Angeles, Cal., April 21. Mrs. Vincent has a host of frineds here
who will participate with the Recorder in extending
heartiest congratulations.
-Hair switches made by Inez Ellis
-James Hurd sundayed in Clarksville.
-Ella Landers is quite ill with tonsillitis
-Wanted -- Cattle to pasture. G.R. Watterson
-Geo. Wilson was in Clarksville on business Monday.
-A.B. Mahnke was in Waverly on business thursday.
-John Skillen visited in Nora Springs Saturday and Sunday.
-Mrs. VanDyke came over from Charles City Tuesday.
-H.S. Robinson was a business caller in Waterloo Tuesday.
-Roy Stahl of Rockford was calling on friends here Sunday.
-C.H. Bunker and family were visiting in Bristow Sunday.
-Merle Heckman was here from Charles City over Sunday.
-H.W. Mullarky and family were Charles City visitors Thursday.
-Father Hogan returned Saturday from a week's visit in Dubuque.
-Will Meyne is improving his home by putting on a sleeping porch.
-C.H. Kellogg of Charles City was a business caller here Tuesday.
-R.R. Markle and Geo. B. Tracey were Mason City visitors Tuesday.
-Mr. and Mrs. Frank Peddycoart of Marble Rock visited friends
here Sunday.
-J.N. Neal and wife spent Sunday in Bristow with Mr. and Mrs.
W.A. Arnold.
-Wm. Buchols and wife went to Haugan, Wisconsin, Sunday on
business.
-Miss Leah Sullivan went to Shell Rock Tuesday to teach the
Jefferson school.
-Bessie Love and DeWolf Hopper in Triangle pictures at the opera
house tonight.
-Charley Hoeft has had his shoe shop all repapered and fixed up
spick and span.
-Ed Scully, living east of Clarksville, was a business visitor in
Greene yesterday.
-Mrs. Druschell went to Rockford Saturday to care for her
daughter, who is quite ill.
-Miss Josephine Wolf of Mason City is here for an extended visit
with her mother, Mrs. Wolf.
-Miss Harms, stenographer for Gates Lumber Co., spent sunday with
her parents in Oelwein.
Mrs. W.C. Curtis, Miss Emma Miner and Chet Miner went to
Rochester, Minn., last Thursday.
-Mrs. Will Moon went to Rochester, Tuesday, to be with her son,
Will, who is in the hospital there.
Mr. and Mrs. T.T. Shafer went to Marble Rock Saturday for a short
stay with the E. Hoadley family.
-Geo. Watterson and wife are proud possessors of a six cylinder,
seven passenger Studebaker purchased of Frank Cheney.
-H.F. Reinking went to lowden, Friday to attend the funeral of
Henry Diechman, a relative. Mr. Diechman will be remembered by
many as he visited here a couple years ago.
-Henry Murphy was called to Brooklyn, Wisconsin by the death of
mrs. Murphy's mother Wednesday evening. Mrs. Murphy has been at
her mother's bedside for the past four weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Murphy
returned Saturday evening.
-Art Parno, who has lived the past few months in Alcester, South
Dakota, was here visiting his parents Saturday. He went to
Clarksville Saturday afternoon to join his wife for a few days
visit with her people. Monday they left for Eagle Grove, which
will be their future home.
Dumont News.
- Mrs. R.C. Dubrusky and little son came hme from Waverly Friday
evening.
- Donald Becker after taking treatment at the Hampton hospital
for the past five weeks, returned to his home last week and seems
to be quite a little improved in health.
- Monday evening at a six o'clock dinner Mrs. J.B. Metcalf
entertained her husband's Sunday school, the Sunday school
superintendent and the pastor and their wives at supper in honor
of Mr. Metcalf's birthday. Those present were Messrs. John
Becker, T.F. Becker, Frank Kaley, A.W. Wilcox, C.R. Martin, W.
McDowell, Carl Boeckemeier, Rev. H.D. Green and their wives and
Prof. Rex Haight and Hubert Hilliker.
- Park Shreve is home from his railroad duties at Grundy Center
for a few days.
- Mr. Davis, who has been superintendent of the school house job,
moved his family to Cedar Rapids last week where he has work on a
very large job.
- Fred Barr of Clarksvile was here Monday on business. He set a
few markers in the Dumont cemetery.
- Mrs. Johnson still remains very ill with no encouragement for
recovery.
State News in Brief.
- Charles City -- F.T. Vasey has been reelected as superintendent
of schools for another year at an increase of salary. Worcester
Warren of Missouri Valley has been elected principal of the high
school.
- Marshalltown -- Demand for a god quality of milch cows in this
time of high prices for dairy products was evidenced in a sale
near Green Mountain of the D.K. Thomas herd of seventy grade
Holsteins. The cows sold for a total of $6,723, an average of
$140. B.A. Abel, of Grinnell, paid the top prices for two cows,
bidding them in for $420. W.B. King, of Gladbrook, bought another
for $240; J.J. Strowbridge, of Union, paid $312 for two, and A.V.
Stahl, of Beaman, $196 for one.
- Albia -- A Red Cross chapter has been organized in Albia with
mrs. Helen Townsend as president; Mrs. Ed Palmer of Avery as vice
president, Miss Myrta Harlow as recording secretary, Mrs. Roy Ott
as enrolling secretary and Mrs. N.E. Kendall as treasurer. The
enrollment is eighty-nine with more coming.
- Newhall -- Clarence Yoch and John Seilhammer of Newhall left
Sunday for Jefferson Barracks at St. Louis, Missouri, where they
will go into training in the regular army. The Newhall band and a
large crowd of Newhall people were at the depot to give them a
send-off. The band played "Star Spangled Banner",
"Uncle Sammy" and other appropriate selections amid the
cheers of the by-standers.
-Perry -- Mrs. Harve Bndy, wife of a well known farmer living
northeast of this city was fatally injured when she was struck by
a bolt of lightning last Sunday night. She lived for about an
hour but the efforts of physicians were unaviling. She was
assisting her husband with the evening chores when the flash
struck the barn.
-West Union -- No man in Iowa probably takes greater interest in
the fighting in France than George Wander of Clermont. As a boy
Wander was familiar with the ground over which the French and
Germans are contending this week, he having been a native of
Alsace.
-Iowa City -- Mildred E. Ritchey of New London, a sophomore
student in liberal arts at the state university died at the
university hospital. After it was thought that she was on her way
to recovery from tonsilitis she
suddenly took worse and an operation for a ruptured appendix
failed to save the girl's life.
Jailed for Threat on President.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, April 23 -- B.F. King, wealthy land owner of
Millersburg, Iowa, was locked up here this afternoon on a charge
of threatening to commit a public offense against the United
States government. He is charged with having said he would like
to shoot President Wilson. Bond was placed at $10,000, which he
was unable to furnish. King is 61 years old.
[submitted by S.F., Feb. 2004]