Iowa Old Press

ROUND PRAIRIE
- Herman Martin of Mt. Pleasant came Sunday night to begin work at the Chester Elliott home.
- There were no services at the Baptist church Sunday on account of the roads being most impassable.
- Miss Amy Barton went Tuesday to the Glen Weaver home to help with the home work.
- Mrs. Myrtle Shelman went to the Ottumwa hospital Monday where she will remain for a few days for an operation.
- Mr. and Mrs. Tom Litton, E.B. Litton and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Litton was helping butcher at the Gregg Litton home Tuesday.
- Sam Barton is sawing lumber at his saw mill this week.
- Mr. Lloyd Blucher has moved his family and household goods to the Blucher farm in this community. We will be glad to have them in our Sunday School and Church services, as they are so near the church.
- Dr. Bishop was called to the Ralph Crane home Monday morning to visit his father, Charley Crane. After examination he found him to have pneumonia. Mr. Crane has been at the home of his son Ralph since the first of January and has had his usual health for a man of his age. He is up in his eighties. His daughter, Mrs. Nellie Smith of Lockridge, Mrs. Elsie Jackson of Birmingham, Mrs. Harry Kiger and son William of Mt. Pleasant were called to his bedside Monday. At this writing he remains about the same.

NEW SWEDEN
- Bernard Jacobs is spending a few days this week with his grandmother, Clara Jacobs.
- Miss Minnie Smithburg of Chicago is spending a few days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Smithburg.
- Misses Emma and Hulda Samuelson delightfully entertained the New Sweden Ladies Aid Society at their home last Thursday afternoon. A large number were present.

CARD OF THANKS
I wish to thank those who sent me cards, letters and flowers while I was in the hospital at Burlington as I certainly appreciated them more than words can express.
Mrs. Marshall Sharpe.

REMODEL COMMUNITY BUILDING
    Workmen are remodeling the front of the Community building which will improve its usefulness and size.
    The front door and large windows have been taken out, and in their place will be built solid cement block walls, with a door on each side, where the windows formerly were. Also, a door is to be placed in the southwest corner of the building, providing for a side entrance at that point.
    In addition to this change, the walls are to be plastered. All labor is being donated for making these improvements.

     Charles B., son of Agustus and Mary Crane, was born near Marietta, Ohio, March 9th, 1842, and came to Iowa with his parents at the age of eight years where he has since lived.
     He passed away at the home of his son, Ralph, east of Glasgow, March 11th, 1929, at 2:15 p.m. at the age of 87 years and 2 days.
     On November 13, 1886, he was united in marriage to Susan Catcott who passed away in 1910. This union was blessed with eleven children, two having preceded him in death. Maudie dying in infancy and Carrie Barton on March 3, 1923. The remaining are: Irwin of Grand Island, Neb., Alva of Newton, Mrs. Cora Cooper of Salem, Mrs. Nellie Smith of Lockridge, Mrs. Orpha Kiger and William Crane of Mt. Pleasant, Mrs. Elsie Jackson of Douds, Ralph and Walter of this vicinity, also eighteen grand children, nine great grandchildren, and one sister, Lydia Dunn, of Oklahoma.
     He was in usual health for a man of his age until the last week when he contracted pneumonia, which resulted in his death.
     Besides those mentioned he leaves a host of relatives and friends to mourn his departure.
     He was a good citizen, a true neighbor, a faithful husband, and a kind father, and will be greatly missed by those who loved him.
     Six of his grandsons were pall bearers as follows:
     Emery Crane, Everett Crane, Orril Smith, Carrol Crane, Charlie Jackson, Dee Cooper.
     The music was furnished by Mrs. Jay Barton, Mrs. Harry Thompson, Wm. Wilson, and J.C. Frame, accompanied on the piano by Mrs. Wright Church.
     The services were conducted by Rev. J.A. Cochran at the Round Prairie Church and interment in the Glasgow cemetery.

OBITUARY

     Miss Anna Lovisa Regner, who died at her home at Salina March 7 was born at Asby, Sweden, June 19, 1853. She was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran church in Sweden. She came to America in 1886. In 1902, she came from Sioux City to New Sweden neighborhood and in 1921 she joined the Clara Lutheran church of Salina, of which church she was a member at the time of her death.
     Her age was 75 years, 8 months and 18 days.
    Among those who survive are one brother in Sweden, four nephews and three nieces, also in Sweden, and eight nieces in this country, and a number of relatives in the Salina and New Sweden neighborhoods.
    Funeral services were held Sunday, March 10 at 10 a.m. at the New Sweden church. Rev. Anton Linder preached on Hebrews 4:9-11. A ladies quartet composed of Mrs. Carl Quick, Mrs. Ed Quick, Mrs. Fred Odean and Miss Elizabeth Edmund sang a number of songs. The pallbearers were J.A. Hollander, Tilford Johnson, Alfred Larson, Fred Odean, Ernest Aaronson and F.O. Engwall. Interment was in the New Sweden cemetery.

Lockridge Times; Lockridge, Jefferson Co, IA; March 21, 1929

CORRESPONDENCE

ROUND PRAIRIE
- Mrs. George Smith spent the forepart of the week helping care for her mother, Mrs. Jennie Peterson.
- Mrs. Arthur Litton spent last week at the home of her Aunt Limmie.
- Miss Amy Barton returned to her home Saturday where she has been helping with the house work the past two weeks at the Glen Weaver home.
- Mr.and Mrs. Ralph Crane and father, Mr. Hootman, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Crane and son were entertained at the Emery Crane home Sunday.
- Harold Heckenberg was under the doctor's care Sunday evening, but he is able to work again.
- Mrs. Ella Barton and son Dale have opened up their sugar camp and made quite a nice lot of maple syrup.
- Mrs. Myrtle Shelman who has been in the Ottumwa hospital was able to return to her home today.
- Dr. Cavenee of Lockridge was called to the Wright Church home Tuesday morning to doctor a horse that had been kicked by another horse.
- Lou Heckenberg has been helping saw lumber at the F.C. McElwee mill this week.
- Mr. and Mrs. Charley Jackson and son of near Douds returned to their home Monday. They came a week ago to attend the funeral of Mrs. Jackson's father, and the roads got so bad they couldn't get home in their car and they spent the week at the home of their brothers, Ralph and Walter Crane.
- The funeral of Charley Crane who passed away at the home of his son Ralph, Monday afternoon was conducted at the Baptist church Wednesday afternoon by Rev. Cochran, pastor of the church. The body was then laid to rest in the Glasgow cemetery by the side of his wife who preceded him in death several years ago.

PLEASANT HILL
- Mr. Vorhies dehorned cattle for several of the neighbors in the community on Tuesday.
- Miss Ada Anderson is suffering with rheumatism at this time.
- A few of the near neighbors and friends of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Caldwell gathered at their home recently and gave them a farewell surprise, as they are moving from the neighborhood. Pie, coffee and cookies were served at the close of a very pleasant evening. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Frank Murphy, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rivey and family, Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Maxwell and two children, Mrs. Alice Maxwell, Mrs. Clarence Murphy, Ed. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Caldwell and son Wayne, and Mr. and Mrs. Noel McGuire. The family moved Tuesday to the Wm. Rauscher farm east of Lockridge.

PLEASANT HILL MEETING

At the Pleasant Hill meeting which was held Monday, March 12, Arthur Peterson was elected director for the term of three years. On Monday evening, March 18, the board met to qualify the new director and to appoint a treasurer to fill the vacancy made by Mr. Grant Jacobson moving from the district. Clarence Petersen was appointed treasurer and Frank Rivey was elected president.
The school board as it now stands is: President, Frank Rivey, Secretary, C.O. McLain, Treasurer, Clarence Peterson, Directors, Arthur Peterson, Frank Rivey, and Sam Arnold.

SALVATION ARMY WEEK

    This is Salvation Army Week, when that organization puts on its drive in Jefferson county for financial help.
    Workers have been busy in Fairfield all week, and are now getting out to the smaller towns and getting them organized. Lockridge was visited Wednesday evening and Mrs. W.E. Prouty was selected again this year as the Lockridge representative. She will receive any contribution your care to make and will see that it is turned over to county headquarters.
    Last year $12.00 was sent n by Lockridge folks. Jefferson county's quota this year is $1,000.
    Nearly 50,000 people, representing more than 11,000 families, fell back upon the emergency service of the Salvation Army last year to tide them over time of poverty and sickness.
    The total number of people given relief by the Salvation Army for the year closing September 30 was 47,912, including 6,733 transient cases. The total value of articles included in this relief amounted to slightly more than $27,000.