Iowa
Old Press
The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, December 6, 1934
COUNTY NEWS.
UNION CHAPEL:
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Travis spent one day last week at the Elwood
Travis home.
Mr. and Mrs. Perry Jones spent Thanksgiving at the John
Fitzgerald home.
Mr. and Mrs. Walt Barber and daughter spent Thursday at the John
Fitzgerald and George Barber homes.
Mrs. George Haymond came home Sunday after a couple weeks visit
at the Roy and Joe Egy homes near Pitzer.
Mr. and Mrs. Don Travis and daughter spent Thanksgiving at the
Tom Travis home.
Lee Neal, Harold, Clifford Bruett and Willis and Wanda Marie Neal
attended the Thanksgiving program at the Holliwell school
Wednesday night.
Ira Comp left Tuesday for pheasant hunting in the northern part
of the state. He was accompanied by his son, Joe Comp, and Mrs.
Comp.
Mr. and Mrs. Alvis Gentry were callers at the Byron Gentry home
Thursday.
Doris Eyerly, teacher at Harbart school, spent her Thanksgiving
vacation with her parents in Winterset.
Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. Glenn Jones spent Wednesday night and Thursday
at the Ira Comp home.
Wayne Gentry, who has been ill the past, was able to return to
his school duties Monday.
MONROE:
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Slaughter and family were guests at the George
Huston home Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. J.G. Van Rossum and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Dale
Foreman were guests at the Frank Foreman home Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Omer Berry and family called on Francis Winkler, who
is in the Creston hospital, Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Cochran and family, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Hess and
son Dale, and Wilma Foreman spent Sunday evening at the William
Goodman home.
Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Davis and Margaret Laizure were Sunday guests
at the
Charles Berry home.
Wilma Foreman spent a few days last week with Mr. and Mrs. Dale
Foreman.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Livingston and family spent Thursday at the
G.W. Cornelison home.
Roy Huston spent the week end at the Elmer Hiskey home.
Mrs. George Carey is visiting her sister in Prescott.
Bunny Goodman, who works near Orient, is spending a few weeks
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Goodman.
Mrs. Ora Berry, Mrs. Lyle Davis, Clara Peterson and Margaret
Laizure motored to Murray one day last week.
Mrs. G.W. Cornelison has been on the sick list the last few
weeks.
George Carley and daughter, Ethel, spent Thursday at the Ora
Berry home.
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The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, December 13, 1934
OLD TIMER TO HAPPY HUNTING GROUNDS
One of Wintersetıs oldest residents was found dead one morning
recently after a short illness. Polly the parrot, who lived with
Mrs. Ida Guiberson, has passed on to whatever happy hunting
grounds are provided for birds. She was supposed to have been 67
years old. Polly originally belonged to Mrs. Mrs. Shultz and when
Mr. and Mrs. Schultz owned the Arcade Hotel, Polly lived there.
She spent several years with Dr. and Mrs. F.D. Davenport and then
was taken by Mrs. Martha McDonald, who later gave her to Mrs.
Guiberson. Last summer Polly, at her great age, laid an egg. So
far as is known she had never laid before laid an egg. She had a
few friends but was indifferent to most persons. And she was
profane, not somewhat profane, but very much so. The night before
her death Polly was ill. She had not been well for several days
and had sat listlessly with her feathers ruffled and her head
down. Mrs. Guiberson was summoned by her cries of ³Ida Ray, Ida
Ray, Polly wants out!² as she fluttered across the room. It was
a cold rainy night and Polly seldom asked to be let out. It is
supposed that she had a fever and was somewhat delirious. The
following morning Polly was dead.
CALL IT A DAY
'Call It A Day' a benefit play, will be given Friday evening at 8
p.m. at the Fort Frout school.
BOX SUPPER
There will be a pie and box supper Friday evening, December 21,
at 8 p.m., followed by a Christmas program at the Hooten school
house. The public is invited.
MRS. CHARLES DEETS DIES NEAR ANKENY
Services for Mrs. Charles E. Deets, 63, who died December 5, near
Ankeny, were held Friday afternoon at the Scotch Ridge
Presbyterian Church with the Rev. A. R. Weed in charge. Burial
was in the church cemetery. Mrs. Deets had gone to Ankeny several
weeks before to visit her sister-in-law, Mrs. W.O. Sargeant. She
became ill while there and was unable to return home. She was
Laura Love Buchanan, daughter of Alex and Caroline Buchanan, and
was born March 4, 1871, near Peoria, Illinois. When five years
old her parents moved near Carlisle where her marriage took place
February 22, 1893. In 1910 the family moved to a farm near
Earlham and in 1925 to Earlham. She is survived by her husband; a
daughter, Mrs. Bernice Griffith of Winterset; two sons, Homer and
Worth Deets of Earlham; five grandchildren; two brothers, William
and Edward Buchanan of Carlisle; one sister, Mrs. Edith Simons of
Indianola.
EPPERSON RITES MONDAY AFTERNOON
Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at the J. O. Hircock
home for Mrs. Hircockıs sister, Mrs. Bert Epperson, who died
there Friday afternoon. Mrs. Epperson, whose home was in
Stillwell, Oklahoma, had been visiting her sister. Before her
marriage, she was Luella Jackson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson
Jackson. She is survived by Mr. Epperson; two sons, Lloyd
Epperson of Patterson, and Nelson Epperson of St. Charles; two
daughters, Mrs. Vernie Bodwell and Mrs. Goldie Daniels, both of
Winterset.
SERVICES ARE HELD
MRS. CARRIE STILES
Mrs. Carrie Stiles, 69, long time resident of the county and
Patterson postmaster, died Friday at her home. Funeral services
were held Sunday in the Methodist church at Patterson conducted
by the Rev. E. L. Patterson; burial was in Blair Chapel cemetery.
Mrs. Stiles was the daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Clelland and
was born January 10, 1865. Her marriage to William Stiles took
place August 14, 1885. Mr. Stiles and a daughter, Mrs. Thomas
Russell, are deceased. She was a member of the United Brethren
Church at Blair Chapel. Most of her life was spent near Paterson
where her grandson, Robert Russell, made his home with her for
eleven years. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Forest Frye of Des
Moines, two sisters and a brother.
FORMER RESIDENT DIES IN ILLINOIS
Mrs. Homer Hankins, who before her marriage was Miss Carrie
Ludlow, died December 8, at a tuberculosis sanatorium in Ottawa,
Illinois. Burial was made in Ottawa December 11. Mrs. Hankins was
a member of an old time Madison county family, the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Ludlow. She taught for a number of years in
the rural schools of the county and afterward in the city grade
schools. She served several terms as county superintendent. She
is survived by her husband and her brother, Ernest Ludlow, of
Washington D.C.
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