Iowa Old Press
The Kalona News
Kalona, Washington co., Iowa
Thursday, September 16, 1915
Still in a Critical Condition
Latest reports from Roy Niffenegger are that he rested
better last night and seemed a little brighter and better this
morning. Roy's condition has been extremely critical all the past
week and at times it seemed he could not recover. His friends are
still hoping for the best and that he may recover. It was found
necessary to operate again, Tuesday, and altogether, his case has
been far more serious than anyone anticipated.
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS
- Mr. and Mrs. I.N. Bowman returned this morning from
their far western trip, including the San Francisco exposition.
- J.J. Fisher was an Iowa City visitor this week.
- Emil Hesselschwerdt was a business visitor in Cedar Rapids
Tuesday.
- E.C. Hasty left Tuesday morning for South Dakota for a week or
ten days.
- Mr. and Mrs. L.E. Edmondson left Wednesday morning for Chicago
to buy goods for the big store
- Joe Eimen, wife and little daughter, returned Saturday morning
from their visit with relatives in Nebraska.
- Frank Marsh left last Friday morning for Marathon, Iowa, where
he has accepted a position in a barber shop.
- Robert F. Hicks and son, Drennan, left Wednesday for Mexico.
Mo. where Drennan will attend the Missouri Military Academy
during the coming year.
- J.K. Mehaffey and family are moving back to town from the S.
Work place south of the river, and will live in the Elijah Bailey
property. Mr. and Mrs. Work will move back to their place,
vacated by Mahaffey's.
- Lou McGuigan is taking his annual vacation from his duties on
Route 4 beginning last Thursday. He is spending the most of it at
home but will go to Burlington the last of this week to visit his
brother Frank. Isaiah Yoder is his substitute.
- Elmer Eglin and Roy Sommers will again attend the state
university this fall. This will be Roy's last year in the
dentistry course, and Elmer's second in mechanical engineering.
- Mr. and Mrs. Chris C. Swartzendruber are the parents of a baby
boy born Monday.
- Fred Niffenegger and son Alva went to Iowa City Friday, to
visit Roy Niffenegger in the university hospital.
- Wm. Plank and Noah Kauffman were passengers for Davenport
Tuesday morning.
- EliasStrickler, Thede Frederick, Chas. Strickler, Ober
Niffenegger and several others, were passengers to Iowa City this
morning.
- Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Bontrager, who have been living in Cedar
Rapids for several months, returned to Kalona Wednesday evening.
They will live in the house north of the old livery barn.
- Ismael Shillig left Wednesday evening for Council Bluffs, Iowa,
where he is attending school. His mother accompanied him to Iowa
City, returning Thursday morning.
- Miss Viola Hochstetler left today for Des Moines where she will
begin her senior year in the Drake University music school. She
has instructed a large music class in Kalona all summer.
- Rev. W.A. Hunt returned Saturday from his trip through the East
and along the Great Lakes last Saturday. Mrs. Hunt and the
children also came in at the same time, after a visit with
relatives in Des Moines.
- Mrs. Lewis, a former chiropractor, located in Kalona, came
Wednesday for a visit at the Hicks home and with other friends
here. She has been an instructor in the Palmer chiropractic
school at Davenport for some time.
- J.D. Patterson is carrying his arm in a sling, the result of a
hard fall last week. He injured his elbow, almost fracturing it.
Jim also had another streak of hard luck last week. He found one
of his best mares dead in the pasture. She had evidently been
seriously injured in some way, and when found was in the creek
that runs through the pasture.
RICHMOND
- Mr. and Mrs. Chittum were at Ves Reiner's Tuesday
helping them thresh.
- Z. Blecha's baby is on the sick list.
- Frank Shebek was a Washington visitor today.
- Pete McIlree and family spent Sunday at the A. Smith home.
- Mrs. Pete Shillig visited at John Winger's.
- Miss Hilda Kos visited at the A. Spevacek home.
- Joe Kos is moving his store goods in his house.
- Matilda Saur is working in the country.
- Milo Vacha was in town Sunday.
BAYERTOWN
- Mrs. Rube Hall and daughter, Mrs. Miller Manasmith,
Mrs. George Burkley, Mrs. Albert Ratzlaff and daughter, Mrs. Will
Schleicter and Mrs. Clair Flynn and son, left Friday for a visit
with relatives at Humboldt, Ia.
- Rob Hirt and family returned Monday from a visit with relatives
at Clearfield, Iowa.
- School Dist. No. 7 began Monday with Violet Campbell as
teacher.
- Mrs. Earl Campbell and daughters left Thursday for a visit with
friends and relatives at Knoxville, Tenn.
- The marriage of Gertrude Ford and Sam Walker, of Douglas,
Wyoming, will occur at the home of the bride's parents Wednesday
evening, Sept. 22 at seven o'clock.
IOWA NEWS BRIEFS
- Milo Bears, of near Cushing, has purchased 4,000 sheep
that cost him over $22,000.
- Oliver C. Winter, aged 87 years, and a pioneer Allamakee county
resident, died at his home in Waukon.
- E.L.Richards of Sheldon, was elected president of the National
Harness Manufacturers association at the convention in Kansas
City.
- H.C. Gruah, an aged resident of Waukon, made a misstep in
alighting from an auto and was painfully injured when he struck
the pavement with his head.
- Elisha W. Bushnell, familiarly known as "Buck"
Bushnell for five years sheriff of Mills county, dropped dead
while inspecting the new county jail at Glenwood.
- W.B. Palmer, candy manufacturer of Sioux City, is named by John
F.D. Aue, editor of the Alton Democrat, as the logical nominee of
the democratic party for governor of Iowa in the 1916 primaries.
- John F. Pitt celebrated his 87th birthday in Waukon, the
members of the G.A.R., his old army comrades, treating him to a
pleasant surprise. Mr. Pitt has resided in Allamakee county 60
years.
- The Rev. William R. Cole, one of the oldest Unitarian ministers
in Iowa and formerly editor-publisher of the Anti-saloon League
organ, Dial of Progress, died at Mount Pleasant. He was 87 years
old.
- B.K Kilbourne, freight agent of the Illinois Central railroad
at Fort Dodge who retires September 4, has been in the employ of
this road thirty-four years. Ill health is the reason.
- The youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. John Gerard Jr., of Oskaloosa,
met with a fatal accident. He had climbed a tree to get a crow's
nest, when he fell from a height of thirty or forty feet and
sustained broken limbs and internal injuries which resulted in
his death an hour and a half later. The child was visiting at his
uncle's when the accident occurred and neither parent was there,
but were summoned at once. He never regained consciousness.
[transcribed by S.F., March 2019]