Iowa
Old Press
Buffalo Center Tribune
Buffalo Center, Winnebago co. Iowa
August 16, 1923
Local and Personal
-Winnebago County Fair at Forest City next week.
-M.V. Secor was here from Clear Lake the first of the week on
business.
-Mrs. Wm. Walton returned yesterday morning from a visit with
relatives at Traer.
-A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Tom Potter, Sunday, August 5th.
-Mrs. M.O. Skutle entertained the Lutheran aid society at her
home yesterday afternoon.
-H.P. Engen and family, Ruth and Ruby Kramer camped at Amber
Lake, Minnesota the week end.
-Mrs. Wm. Stone and Miss Marian Burg of Minneapolis arrived
Saturday for a visit at the Tom Grimsley home.
-Mrs. Theo. Albers is reported to be improving.
-A son was born last week to Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Tollokson
northeast of town.
-Dorothy and Robert Hardin are visiting their father, C.E. Hardin
at Fort Dodge this week.
-Miss Lena TerVeen came up from Des Moines Friday for an over
Sunday visit at her parental home.
-Albert Yahuke was up from Klemme this week helping with the
threshing on his farm.
-The H.G. Wessels family had as their guests over Sunday, the
Rev. and Mrs. D.H. Middents of Waterloo.
-Willis Sims came up from Boone, Iowa, Thursday of last week and
spent a few days here visiting with friends.
-Mrs. H.D. Thorn returned Monday morning to her home in Cedar
Rapids following a ten days stay in the Theo Albers home.
-Sheriff Swenson and County Attorney Osmundson were here from
Forest City the first of the week on legal business.
-Mrs. Jerry Schoon who has been spending several weeks with her
parents at Arnold's Park returned home Tuesday evening.
-Gasoline took a big drop in Buffalo Center the first of the week
and is now selling at 14 1/2 and 16 1/2 cents per gallon.
-Emma and Adeline Gutsch of Viroqua, Wis., will arrive this week
for a visit at the J.W. Frey home. They are nieces of Mrs. Frey.
-Leonard, son of Mr. and Mrs. E.F. Mitterer submitted to an
operation for the removal of tonsils and adenoids the first of
the week.
-Mr. and Mrs. H. Pietzke and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sharp of Clear
Lake were guests Wednesday in the H.E. Hum home. Mrs. Sharp is a
cousin to Mrs. Hum.
-Mr. and Mrs. L. Steiler and daughter Pearl and Mr. and Mrs. Geo.
Faher attended the funeral of Mr. Steiler's aunt which was held
at Belmond Tuesday.
-Jake Hoverstein was overcome by the heat Saturday while
threshing. A doctor was summoned and he was soon brought to
again. We understand Saturday was one of the hottest days of the
summer, the thermometer hovered around the hundred mark in the
shade.
-Mrs. O.L. Price and little daughter started Monday for their
home in Cayuga, N.D., following a ten days visit in Buffalo
Center. Enroute they will visit her sister and brother at Terril
and Superior, Iowa and also with the James Price family at Lake
Park.
-Mrs. H.E. Hum and Mrs. Ed. Smith are enjoying a visit from their
father, O.B. Gillham and cousin, Miss Anna Riggen of Troy, Ill.,
and their uncle, E.M. Case of Buckeye. Mr. Gillham is 81 years
young and Mr. Case is 91 years and made the trip here by motor.
-The boy scouts and their scoutmaster, F.G. Bliss returned
Tuesday from a several days stay at Hand's Park. Mrs. Bliss and
little son were also with them during their outing. Marian Guyer
and F.W. Woodcock motored over to the park Tuesday to drive them
home. The following scouts made the trip: Clare Donnelly, Clare
Fard, Joe Glockner, Wm. Guyer, Hollis Hunter, Lyle Johnson,
Marian Johnson, Orland Sparks, Asa Walton and Arnold Woodcock.
-A motor party consisting of Mr. and Mrs. B.E. Hook, Mr. and Mrs.
Geo. L. Albert, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Lubbin and Miss Rosalie
Winkleman left the first of the week for Elgin, Iowa, to attend
the state Baptist church convention.
-The C.A. Sparks family returned Tuesday from a visit with Mr.
Sparks' brother, A.J. Sparks and family at Lakefield, Minn.
Misses Ruth Sparks and Fleeda Smalley of Lakefield accompanied
them home and are guests in the Sparks home. Mrs. M.A. Sparks,
who had been spending the summer here at the home of her son
remained at Lakefield for a longer visit with her other son.
-Mrs. Harm Dreyer of Aplington is a guest in the H.D. Feldick
home.
-Mr. and Mrs. Loran Cady of Fort Dodge visited here Sunday with
home folks.
-U.H. Winter suffered a fractured arm one day last week caused by
a falling tree which he was cutting down on his farm yard.
-Bernie Steinberg is enjoying a weeks vacation from his work at
Barron's store. He and Sam Schuler left Monday for Clear Lake and
Mason City.
-Miss Gertrude Dreesman, who is at the Oakdale sanitarium for
tubercular treatment is enjoying a six days leave from the
hospital which she is spending here with relatives and friends.
-A wedding of interest to relatives and friends here is that of
Miss Grace Meyer of Titonka and Mr. Fred Ites of Lakota. The
wedding ceremony was read by the Rev. Jasper Schmidt of Blue
Earth on Thursday, Aug. 2nd. The groom is a son of Mrs. Harm
Nordman of this city. The young people will make their home on a
farm near Lakota.
News and Comment About Iowa People and Events
The killing of two alligators in the Boyer river in Crawford
county has created much interest and inquiry in that region. Ed.
Watje shot each of them in shallow water. One was four feet long
and the other about two feet. Considerable speculation is rife as
to the coming of these reptiles so far north. Such a visit would
be possible as the Boyer, in company river, would afford a
continuous water route from the swamps in the southland.
Merle Hay Road, which connects Des Moines with Camp Dodge, is
undergoing repairs. This stretch of paved road was bult six years
ago of brick on concrete base. It has sustained a tremendous
traffic, and even now is in splendid condition, only a few short
sections needing repairs. At the highest point on this highway is
the great boulder that was placed, duly inscribed, in
commemoration of the heroic courage of Iowa's first son to fall
in battle on European soil, Merle Hay, of Glidden. The boulder
weighs 6 tons. Near to it is a steel flag staff 40 feet high
which supports a handsome silk flag, now floating at half mast in
honor of President Harding. At the southern end of Merle Hay Road
is the Swaney aviation field which has within its environs from
twelve to fifteen airplanes of various sizes and types. Some of
them are military and belong to the war department.
It required 2,100 automobiles to carry members of the Ku Klux
Klan to Herrold, at the northwestern terminal of the old Camp
Dodge drill grounds, where 300 new members were initiated. It is
estimated that 8,200 members were present and wives of the
klansmen to the number of 1,700 were permitted to sit in
automobiles parked around the drill ground and watch the
performance. One of the impressive features of the initiation was
the buring of a large cross eight feet high. Fuses giving 200,000
candle power lighted the cross making it a spectacle and lighting
up the field for several hundred yards. It is claimed that Des
Moines and Polk county will have 10,000 Klansmen enrolled by
fall. The initiation fee is said to be $10. Somebody will have
received $100,000 in the solicitation of members. Add to the Polk
county contigent the membership in other counties in Iowa and it
is not hard to discover the cause of the activity among
organizers.
The body of Sahria Mason, an Indian woman, was sent to Chariton,
Lucas county, for interment. She died in Minnesota at the age of
98, and was a daughter of Chief Rhinehart who was buried at
Chariton many years ago. Other members of the family are buried
there. Chief Rhinehart was a member of the Pottawattamie tribe
that roamed the prairies of western Iowa and eastern Nebraska in
the long ago. These Indians trapped along the Chariton river and
became attached to that section so that when Chief Rhinehart died
his remains were brought at his dying request to Chariton for
interment and thus a family burying ground was established and as
the descendents of the noble chief became civilized the family
tradition has been maintained. Several Indians accompanied the
remains of the aged woman to Chariton where a Christian burial
was given. Chief Rhinehart was a contemporary of Johnny Green, a
character well known to early settlers in northern Iowa.
Miss Mable H. Kenen, of Clarinda, relates an interesting incident
concerning a [illegible] at the close of the war with the late
Capt. G.W. Bruns. The negro was selected by Gen. John T. Morgan,
of the Confederate army, to serve as cook for himself and staff.
Six months later the Union forces captured Gen. Morgan's division
and the general was killed. Webb made his way to the union lines
and served Gen. McCook and staff as cook for nearly four years,
but he was never mustered into the services, and therefore has no
claims for either reumeration or pension, although Gen. McCook
promised the colored boy that he would see that he was paid. At
the close of the war Capt. Burns asked the colored cook if he
would not like to accompany him north and the proffer was
accepted. Through the passing years Webb has been cooking in
hotels and restaurants, never lacking a job. When the
Spanish-American war broke out he enlisted and was assigned as
cook for Co. K, of Corning, commanded by Capt. Emerson C. Pearis,
and he was 18 months in the service, a large part of the time in
the Philippine islands. The old man is spending his last days
among friends in Clarinda. He talks intelligently of slavery days
in Tennessee and the life of this old negro spans the years that
have wrought wonders in the civic and commercial life of the
nation and the world.
BASE BALL - Hand's Park
Sunday, August 19th
Donaldson's Original All Nations, of Kansas City vs Lone Rock
Specials, of Lone Rock, Iowa
This will be the best ball game you will see in southern
Minnesota this year, as Donaldson's All Nations are one of the
best ball teams on the road. Lone Rock has one of the best teams
in this country, having won 70 per cent of their games played,
and will have a special team for this day. Both teams have
colored batteries and colored players and will fight till the
last man is out.
DON'T MISS SEEING JOHN DONALDSON PITCH! He is
the greatest pitcher the world has ever known.
Dancing - afternoon and evening. Music by Al. Gabel's eight-piece
orchestra, one of the best orchestras in the U.S. Admission to
ball game, adults 55 cents including war tax, children over 8
years old 25 cents. Grandstand 10 cents to all who occupy seats.
Bleachers free.
[transcribed by S.F., July 2009]