Iowa
Old Press
Nashua Reporter
Nashua, Chickasaw co., Iowa
Thursday, March 2, 1905
Obituary
Cora May Strike was born in Walworth county, Wis., Aug. 5, 1869,
and came to Iowa with her parents in 1880. At the age of
twenty-one she united with the Congregational church at
Postville, Iowa, being then a resident of that place. Later she
resided at West Union, until in October 1900, when she went to
Seattle, Wash. In February 1901, she was married to Wm. M.
Colburn, of West Union. Mrs. Colburn died at Tacoma, Wash., Feb.
18, 1905, at the age of 35 years, 6 months and 13 days, her death
being the first in the family. She leaves a husband, mother,
father, four sisters, and three brothers to mourn their loss. The
remains were brought to Nashua where brief funeral services,
conducted by Thomas W. Todd, of Osage, were held at the grave.
Interment at Greenwood cemetery.
Local
Six room house for rent -- S. Tupper.
Con Shields and C.P. Tibbles were Waverly visitors yesterday.
Guy Winklebleck was a Charles City visitor Tuesday.
Mrs. Evelyn Schank, of Osage spent Wednesday in town.
Julius Paschke is confined to his home with rheumatism.
C.F. Jones went to Waterloo yesterday.
C.R. Wallis is transacting business in New Hampton this week.
Honey at Russell's -- 7 cents a pound.
Ed Van Auken and G.M. Taylor came over from Lawler Monday.
Will Greenlees, of Charles City, transacted business in town
yesterday.
Mrs. C.W. Gritzner and Miss Florence Smull, of Plainfield, were
in town yesterday.
Chicago American papers will be found for sale at Gladstone hotel
-- H.T. Bata.
Tony Bucklin, of Waterloo, visited over Sunday at the home of his
uncle, L.A.Bucklin.
Edson Moon came over from New Hampton Sunday.
John Cook is taking Sam McLarnan's place at Beeman &
Bentley's, Sam having quit Saturday.
The family of Dan Bate moved to Charles City yesterday where they
expect to locate permanently.
Mrs. T.J. McCarthy, of Milwaukee, is visiting at the homes of her
brothers, Homer and Andrew Troutner.
H.O. Potter made a business trip to Waverly yesterday. From there
he went to Lake Mills where he will buy some cattle.
Dave Carney, of Greene, was a guest at the home of M.J. Hershberg
Tuesday night. He was on his way home from Charles City where he
had been to attend the funeral of his cousin Dan Korinke.
Miss Ida Strike, of Osage, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Janes, of Charles
City, and F.B. Strike, of New Hampton, arrived on the morning
train Saturday to attend the burial of their sister, Mrs. Cora
Colburn, whose remains arrived from Seattle, Wash., that morning.
Mrs. A.J. Johnson returned to her home in Cedar Falls Thursday
after a few days' visit at the home of her brother, C.F. Jones.
She informs us that her daughter, Anna, came very nearly loosing
the use of her left arm, the result of a fall she received while
living here. At the present time her arm is getting better.
Parlor Concert Tomorrow Evening.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the Congregational church will give a
parlor concert at the home of Dr. and Mrs. L.H. Goodale Friday
evening, March 3. Everybody invited. Admission 15 cents.
Song.... male quartet
Recitation .... Miss Maltby
Solo.... Miss Noble
Piano solo.... Neve Johnson
Recitation.... Marjorie Laird
Song....Ladies quartet
Solo.... Mrs. Johnson
Piano solo....Marie Harker
A Surprise.
Mr. and Mrs. John Thompson, living northwest of town, were the
victims of a happy surprise party Monday forenoon, when about
twenty of their neighbors and friends popped unceremoniously in
upon them about 11 o'clock, just after the family washing was
hung on the line. The fact gradually dawned on them that this was
their 10 wedding anniversary and they right heartily set about to
make their guests welcome and entertain them, though not much
effort was necessary for the latter for everybody felt well
enough at home to enjoy his or herself without help. Plenty of
provisions were brought along and a bounteous dinner was the
crowning feature of the occasion, after which Mrs. B.L. Brown, in
a few fitting words on behalf of those present, presented Mr. and
Mrs. Thompson with a handsome rocker to help them remember the
occasion. The company dispersed about 4 o'clock.
Vision Reveals Money.
The Ladies' Home Journal for March under the caption "Ghosts
and Visions that People Have Seen," gives the following
story that will be of interest to our readers for the scene and
actors are from this vicinity:
A farmer -- Michael Conley -- living near Ionia, Iowa, went to
Dubuque, for medical treatment on Feb. 1, 1891. Two days later
his body was found in an out building of the Jefferson House and
was carried to the morgue, where after an inquest it was prepared
for shipment to his late home. The old clothes which he wore were
thrown outside the morgue, on the ground, and he was prepared for
burial in a new suit of clothes with a white shirt and black
satin slippers of an unusual pattern not in the local market. His
son, Patrick, hastened to Dubuque and returned home with the
remains. When he arrived at the farm house with the coffin, and
told his sister, Lizzie, that her father was dead, she fell into
a swoon in which she remained for several hours. Lizzie Conley
had not seen her father's corpse; yet when she recovered from her
swoon she declared that her father had appeared to her in vision.
she described in detail his burial clothes, even the peculiar
slippers placed upon his feet by the undertaker. Asking where her
father's old clothes had been put, the daughter further recounted
how he, in her vision, had informed her that after leaving for
Dubuque he had sewed a large roll of bills inside his gray
undershirt beneath a piece of red cloth. The entire family
scouted Lizzie's experience as an hallucination, but the
physician attending her advised that the clothes be recovered, if
only to set her mind at rest. Her brother telephoned to the
coroner at Dubuque and asked that his father's clothing be found
and placed in a bundle. The young man arrived at the coroner's
office a few days later, took the gray shirt from the bundle, and
inside found a secret pocket of red material sewed wit large
awkward stitches such as a dim sighted old man would make. Within
the pocket was a roll of bills amounting to thirty-five dollars.
Chickasaw
Will Henry and wife of near Nashua and some of the young people
spent Sunday at the B. Feeney home.
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Nashua Reporter
Nashua, Chickasaw, Iowa
March 30, 1905
Chickasaw
Miss Edith Cummings spent several days last week at the home of
B. Feeney.