was bought and drapes were made for the windows. Before our dishes were unpacked we had a fire at the hall. We salvaged them intact.
We also sent boxes of cookies to our service boys overseas at holiday time. Our quota of gifts for the "Gift Shop at Soldiers' Home in Marshalltown" was sent each year. A hospital bed was purchased for use in the community and is still available.
For several years we have sent a junior girl to "Girl's State" sponsored by Auxiliary, and from the reports we have had when they have given their reports on returning, it has been a very worthwhile project.
We still have one charter member, and who seldom misses a meeting, Mrs. Anna (Johnson) Marsh.
After the change of the hall to the bowling lanes, and another Legion Hall, for various reasons we have been meeting in the homes of the members. Over the years we have had bake sales, served meals, and employed various other means to raise money. We have kept our dues to a minimum. As the years go by, we hope our membership may increase, and younger members take over what we older ones have been trying to do, for our community, and State. We have about 9 members whose eligibility dates from World War #1.
McCallsburg Doctors
Dr. James William Osborn
McCallsburg's first doctor was Dr. James William Osborn, who practiced here from 1888 through 1891. He was born December 12, 1863, in Ohio. Dr. Osborn graduated from the Drake Eclectic Medical School in 1888. He left McCallsburg in January, 1892, for Dyersville, Iowa, where he practiced until February, 1903. Parts of two years in this period were taken to get a degree in surgery from the Medico Chirurgical College in Philadelphia. After leaving Dyersville, he practiced in Des Moines until his retirement.
During World War I, Dr. Osborn served in the Army where he was in charge of an army hospital. He attained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. At one time, he was chief of the surgical staff of Iowa Methodist Hospital, in Des Moines. He was secretary of the Iowa State Medical Society for several years. Dr. Osborn knew the Mayo brothers very well and spent time each year with them in order to keep up-to-date on advances in medicine.
Mrs. Osborn, the former Anna Kriegh, was born at Keosauqua, Iowa, on December 6, 1863. Before her marriage in October, 1888, Mrs. Osborn taught school near Peoria, southeast of Maxwell. The Milwaukee Railroad was surveyed through the schoolyard during the time she taught there. In 1887 and 1888, she was principal of the Boot Hill School in Dodge City, Kansas.
During her years in Kansas, she proved a claim for a 160 acre homestead.
The Osborns built a home in McCallsburg in 1890, where Mrs. Anna Hanson formerly lived. Two of the Osborn children, William Luther and Boyd V., were born here. Proctor Kriegh was born in Dyersville. The Osborns had three sons, nine grandchildren, and twenty-two great-grandchildren. Dr. Osborn died at LaFeria, Texas, in May of 1937 at the age of 73, and Mrs. Osborn died at Austin, Texas, in February of 1958, at the age of 94. All of the thirty-four direct descendents of Dr. and Mrs. Osborn are still living.
Dr. Daniel G. Mills
Dr. Daniel Guy Mills was born in Ottawa, Ill. His parents were Edward and Leviatia (Guy) Mills. They were natives of New York, and there were eight children in the family. When Dr. Mills was five years old his parents moved to a farm near Maxwell. In 1882, he married Sarah Morrisan. They had four children; Guy W., John C., Altha A., and Edward W.; all of whom are deceased. In 1896 he graduated from the University of Iowa School of Medicine. Shortly after-ward he started practising at McCallsburg where he