Iowa Old Press
Castana Times
Castana, Monona co., Iowa
May, 1913
Harlow Erskine Dead.
While many people from many parts of the county were in Onawa
yesterday the words, “Harlow Erskine is dead,” passed
from lip to lip. Mr. Erskine was an old settler to the county and
especially to Kennebec township where he had made his home for
many years. The Times has no material on hand which to
gather a complete obituary notice, but such will not be needed to
the large circle of friends and acquaintances who knew him. While
Mr. Erskine always retained his interest in Monona County he was
for a long time in the government employ at Washington D.C. and
his acquaintances and knowledge of public men covered the whole
country. He was a kindly man, well read and advanced in thought.
In an early day he taught school in Monona County and when in a
talk liked to recount some of the pranks the kids of Kennebec
township forty years ago; and the “kids” now grown to
men and women of mature years will look back at the years that
have passed and speak a word of praise, mingled with regret, for
the old schoolmaster of the days that are to be no more. The
Times has no particulars as to the funeral or where the
burial will [be].
[Iowa Old Press note: the date on this paper may be incorrect,
see also August 1913.]
[Transcribed by T.M., November 2007]