Iowa
Old Press
The Iowa Volksblatt
Postville, Allamakee co. Iowa
Friday, September 7, 1917
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Peter Service last week.
Wm. Moll has bought the Vic Scofield house north of the Milwaukee
depot.
Melinda Casten started upon her duties as teacher in the McGregor
schools Monday.
Rachel Williams has gone to Aberdeen, So. Dak., where she has
accepted a position as teacher in the public schools.
Rev. J.J. Agena of Ackley has been called to the Ludlow Reformed
Church to secceed Rev. F. Zissler, who leaves soon for Redfield,
So. Dak.
Frank Eaton was the buyer of the Park hotel near the Milwaukee
depot which was sold at public auction Saturday. He paid $3,050
for it.
Ben Huey, a former Postville boy, was among the first Allamakee
county boys to volunteer for army service and left Waukon
yesterday with ten others for Camp Dodge.
The school board has decided to appoint a second teacher for the
first grade to assist Miss Cora Darling, since the enrollment in
this grade wasan unusually heavy one this year.
Henry Kahle brought ten pigs to the local market that weighed a
total of 4,090 pounds and for which he received a check for
$664.62. The local hog market htis week is $16 to $17 per 100.
Dr. O.J. Blessin has been called to military service with the
rank of 1st lieutenant after completing a course of instruction
in the Rochester, Minn., hospital. He is expecting his orders to
report this week.
C.W. Meier was appointed as temporary mayor at a special meeting
held Tuesday night. He will serve until a successor to A.L. Meier
has been named and this is expected to be done at the regular
council meeting tonight. Most likely candidate to be chosen is
Hale Burling, local attorney.
Fred Ruckdaschel was given the contract to build the two school
houses in districts 7 and 8 in Bloomfield township for $3,700.
[transcribed by S.F., Oct. 2006; note: Fred Ruckdaschel was my g-grandfather.]
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The Iowa Volksblatt
Postville, Allamakee co. Iowa
Friday, September 14, 1917
A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. J.E. Welsch Sunday.
Louise Thoma went to Spencer Saturday where she will teach in the
public schools this year.
Henry Blumhagen sold the timothy seed harvested from 40 acres
here on Monday and received $1,027 for it.
The war is making itself felt here; several store buildings are
unoccupied and at least 50 homes are for sale. Unusual for here.
George Thoma has purchased the Frank W. Eaton residence and has
rented it to his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. J.
Klingbell.
Henry Meyer has purchased the 80 acre Geo. Buckman farm near
Castalia this week and his son-in-law, Wm. Timmerman, will
operate it next year.
As was predicted last week, W.H. Burling is Postville's new
mayor, succeeding A.L. Meier who resigned to go to McGregor into
the produce business.
Work on R.M. Hecker's new home is rapidly nearing the point where
they can be thinking of moving into it. Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Wilke
moved into their new home Saturday.
The school board hired two more teachers at their meeting on
Monday night, Edna Stolt of Odebolt as normal training teacher,
and Louise Jones of McGregor as second grade teacher.
Two nights the past week brought hard frosts here. Monday morning
the temperature was 30 degrees and Tuesday it was 32 degrees.
Gardens and fruit were affected by the early freeze.
Among the young people going away to attend college are Paul
Schmidt to Carthage College; Eva Orr to Iowa State Teachers
College, Cedar Falls; Bertha Palmer to the American Conservatory
of Music in Chicago.
A new bank with $10,000 capital was organized in Frankville last
week. T.J. Crawford, J.J. Van Wey, F. Hilmer, David Baldwin,
Robert Water, T.B. Stock and J.P. Bieber are the directors. A lot
has been purchased and a building will soon be erected to house
the bank.
Prof. G.W. Hunt, Henry C. Lehner, John Carter, Gilbert Folsom,
Alfred Webster and Claude Miles of Postville, and Charlie Hart of
Los Angeles, Calif., who registere here, were called to Waukon
for a physical examination yesterday to determine eligible men
for the call for 154 draftees.
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The Iowa Volksblatt
Postville, Allamakee co. Iowa
Friday, September 21, 1917
Charlie Ohloff has gone to Harpers Ferry to assist Rev. Pease
with the honey crop.
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Waters of near Frankville
last week. And to Mr. and Mrs. John Koevenig a daughter was born
Sunday morning.
The Elevator received a carload of four today from the stock on
which the government has fixed the price at $3.00 per sack and it
is being taken from the car "like hotcakes."
Walter Gass has notified his parents that he is now stationed at
Ft. Deming, New Mexico. Roland Gass will go to Elkader Thursday
for army examinations before being sent to a camp.
The heavy frost destroyed much of the corn crorp hereabouts and
farmers are reported to be turning their hogs into the fields
where damage resulted, "hogging down" whatever of the
corn they can.
Occupational deferments were given to the following from here who
had been called for army service: Herman Eiholzer, Ace Bush, J.E.
Welsch, Edward Poesch, LeRoy French, Robt. J. Waters and Karlie
Huebner.
Fred J. Miller, son of Mrs. Charles H. Huebner, and Miss Huldah
Harnack, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Harnack, all of this
community, were married Tuesday morning, September 18, at seven
o'clock in St. Paul's Lutheran church by the Rev. E. Schmidt.
The Red Cross received $10/81 from receipts at the opening of the
new Tourist Colonial Home of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Shepherd Monday
evening. The dance Saturday night at Turner Hall given as a
farewell party for departing soldier boys netted $80.00 which was
also turned over to the Red Cross.
The National Council of Defense has a local chapter which was
organized Monday with the following officers -- President, Mrs.
A.E. Cornell; vice president, Mrs. James W. Howard; secretary,
Mrs. O.J. Blessin; executive committee, Mrs. J.A. Spaugy, Mrs.
F.C. Comstock, Mrs. G. Kohlmann, Mrs. J.A. Palas and Mrs. C.
Harrington.
A Postville Businessmen's Band association was formed here
yesterday at which it was decided to levy an assessment of $1.00
per month on each business place for the support of the band
which is needed right now for the many patriotic rallies held.
J.W. Howard was elected president; A.C. Webster, vice president;
A.S. Burdick, secretary; L.O. Beucher, treasurer.
Allamakee county sent 67 men and Clayton county 83 men yesterday
to Camp Dodge for army induction. From here [Postville] the
following went: Ed. F. Schroeder, Omar Frye, Clayton Standorf,
E.W. Brandt, John A. Palas, John E. French, Fred Everman, Harry
Beucher, Joe Kluss, Paul Schmidt, Henry [? Koepsell], John D.
Lawson and Geo. Belle of Allamakee county. The following local
boys were from Clayton county: Victor and Lorenz Casten, Bernard
Waters, Theo Wettleson, Henry Huebner, Glenn Fonner, Arthur E.
Olson, Harry Koth, Wm. Radloff, Fred Rugland and Carl Johanson.
Many Postville people went to Waukon for the big farewell program
given for the boys Thursday and at ten o'clock the Allamakee and
Clayton county boys arrived here to take the Milwaukee train for
Camp Dodge. In spite of the rain hundreds of people were here
from the two counties to bid the boys god-speed at the depot
where another impromptu send-off was held before they left.
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The Iowa Volksblatt
Postville, Allamakee co. Iowa
Friday, September 28, 1917
Harvey Cornell went to Camp Dodge Tuesday to enter military
service.
Ernest Aumann moved to Milwaukee Monday to make his future home.
Arthur Klingbeil of Chicago has accepted a position at Luhnam
& Sanders store.
The hog price went up to $17.50 again this week; eggs are 35c,
and dairy butter is 40c.
Alice Fisher, daughter of James Fisher of this city, was married
at Des Moines Monday to William Rolly.
The Allamakee county fair, which will be held next week, has
agreed to donate the entire profits to the Red Cross.
George H. Jenkins, 71, passed away Sunday morning after an
illness of several years. The funeral will be held in Monona.
Joe Kluss has been confined to the hospital at Camp Dodge since
his induction and will be sent home as soon as he is able to be
moved.
E.B. Lamborn, a highly respected resident of the Luana community,
passed away Saturday morning and the funeral was held Tuesday.
Have you noticed the brand new flag fluttering from the Liberty
Pole in the Park? It cose $27.50 and was unfurled for the first
time last Friday.
Floyd Putnam, Victor Meyer and Melvin Ewing of Bloomfield
township went to Camp Dodge last week with the Winneshiek county
draftees.
A.A. Wersinger on the Hall Roberts farm threshed 819 bushels of
oats from 11 acres and an additional 768 bushels of wheat and
oats from 13 acres.
A strong man, Oscar Staar of Milwaukee, gave a number of
performances on the local streets Thursday and had large
audiences at each show.
Fred Ruckdaschel on Monday bought the interest of his partner,
Roland Gass, in the garage business and will conduct it under his
own name henceforth.
The receipts at the production of W.B. Patton's "A Wise
Boob," at the Turner Hall Friday night were $129.50 and all
present seemed to enjoy the play immensely.
The Postville businessmen are sponsoring a balloon ascension at
the baseball park next Monday and a large crowd is expected to be
on hand to see the free show.
The new mayor, W.H. Burling, is clamping down on the automobile
speeders in town and says they must stop their unlawful driving
or "the authorities will have to aid you" to do so.
Mamie Warnholz and Martin Halverson were married Thursday morning
at St. Paul's Lutheran church by Rev. Schmidt. At noon yesterday
Rev. Schmidt also officiated at the marriage of Henry Heins and
Amelie Kotzbach.
[transcribed by S.F., October 2006]