Iowa
Old Press
Allamakee Journal
Lansing, Allamakee co. Iowa
January ?, 1906
Senator Allison and Congressman Haugen both write Capt. J.H. Hale
of Waukon that they will oppose all parcel post legislation.
Michael, son of Chris Riser, is home after an absence of 26 years
in the west.
Waukon girls basket ball team beat Lansing 22 to 12.
Lansing clay pigeon shoot scores: Denny Hastings and John Lowe 21
each, Carl Severson and Will Sweeney 18, Peter Hanson 14.
Ed. Boeckh has resumed work as night operator at Gordon’s
Ferry.
Ruth Wheaton, sister of Pearl, murdered by her sweetheart, Matt
Styer, (Styir) of Caledonia, also died, and the sisters were
buried in one grave.
Tom Thompson, former Lansing man, last fall bought a 480 acre
farm near Churchs Ferry, N. D., for the sum of $16,500.
[transcribed by E.W., March 2007]
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Allamakee Journal
Lansing, Allamakee County, Iowa
January 24, 1906
- Several boys were responsible for an incendiary $40,000 fire at
Kramer Bros. in McGregor, Iowa, last week.
- W. H. Young heard Billy Sunday, the noted evangelist, speak at
Rochester, Minnesota, on Sunday.
- Roads badly drifted and little travel.
- New Albin merchants will hereafter close their stores at 7:30
p.m. and all day Sunday.
- Blacksmith, Carl Colbornson, Lansing, put on 200 shoes last
week.
- John J. Johnson sold 115 acres in Lafayette township for $4510.
- John Cota, Harpers Ferry, sold a bunch of clam shells to the
New Jersey Button Works.
-Mrs. Barbara Johnsgard, aged about 70, and a pioneer resident of
Center, died last week and was buried at Old East Paint Creek.
Her husband preceded her in death 20 years ago and several grown
up children are left to mourn.
-Calhoun Creamery Co. officers: President, Frank Thompson;
Vice-Pres., J. P. Becker; Sec’y, P. E. O’Donnell;
Treas., P. N. Smedsrud; Directors, Tom Teeling, T. G. Faegre,
George Rice. The company did a $75,000 business last year.
-Millie and Nora Johnson, Verlie Eldridge and Sadie Hartley of
Waukon spent the week-end with Nellie Bulman at her home on the
Bench.
-Lansing Mirror 60 Years Ago: S. S. Henderson was school
principal and his wife assistant; teachers were Mary Monk, Jennie
Ruth, Eliza Farrell, Jennie McGarrity and Mrs. S. P.
Darling…..Pork $7.50 to $8.00; wheat $1.10 to
$1.22’….Theodore Nachtwey was German apothecary.
-Born to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sunderman, of Church neighborhood, a
boy; and to Stanley Johnson and wife, or Taylor, a girl.
-New Albin basket ball team beat Lansing 31 to 11.
-Mabel Johnson spent the week-end with her friend, Mattie
Bakewell, on Mays Prairie, and Mayme Zerbis at Amanda
Riser’s.
-Mrs. Charles Feurhelm is home from western Iowa, and Walter and
Harvey have returned there.
-Capt. James Hugunin, one of the oldest river pilots, died at his
home in Albany.
-The Iowa Engineers Society is asking that the office of county
surveyor be abolished and a county engineer be substituted.
-Sam Fulks is back from St. Paul; George Kumpf and wife were down
from New Albin; the B. F. Thomas family Sundayed in Waukon at the
Horace Howe home.
-Mrs. Margaret Tully is recovering nicely from her recent
paralytic sroke. Her son M. J. came up from Dubuque.
-Grandma Rowe was at Lawler with her son, Harry Stevens, who was
seriously ill.
-Miss Lora Aird, teacher at Church, entertained a party of young
friends at the Charley Riser home there.
-Tom Bakewell, of western Iowa, who had been at St. Francis
hospital, LaCrosse, visited his brothers Will, Martin and John of
Lansing.
-Editor Gus Dietsch was over from Postville for the week-end,
Charles Lape from Ossian; and Niel Coyle from Waukon.
-At Lycurgus, Tuesday, Father Campbell united in marriage Mr.
Peter Manderscheid and Miss Ann Waldron.
-Miss Lou McGeough of Waukon is visiting her sister, Mrs. F. J.
Spinner.
-Will Hausman returned to Churchs Ferry N. D., with a car of
horses bought by T. Bakewell.
-Evangelist Frank Schroeder is in Lansing for the purpose of
reorganizing the Presbyterian church.
-Landlord L. Torgeson, Herman Boeckh, Harry Zerbis and Frank
Maxwell broke a new safe ice road to DeSota last Friday.
-Louis Ulmer, aged 81, pioneer of Gruber Ridge, died at the home
of a daughter in LaCrosse, Thursday, and the remains were brought
to Lansing for interment in Gethsemane cemetery.
-County Treasurer J. M. Leppert’s annual report showed
footings of $195,000. Taxes were approximately $140,000; other
receipts $35,000; and disbursements $181,000.
[portions transcribed by E.W., March 2008 & bulk added by
A.K.; May 2008]