Reflections

      The following excerpts are exactly as published in that particular issue of the Lansing papers.
 
January 29, 1930
 
Harpers Ferry
      The ice harvest here is now completed. Boardman Bros. put theirs up Wednesday, John Quillin on Thursday and John Weidner Friday.
 
      While working in the woods last week Will Shields received a painful injury when a tree he was falling struck him, bruising his thigh and breaking some bones in his ankle. Dr. Dillon was called and made him as comfortable as possible. He will be laid up for some time.
 
Waterville
      Ski jumping has again came into its own here. A new course has been laid out on the Martin Frok hill just below town.
 
      O. J. Moe leaves this week for Chicago to attend the Auto show, and on Friday he expects to attend a Chevrolet dealers meeting.
 
      Clarence Hagen and Joe Johnson drove out to Round Prairie Sunday to see how dad and ma Hagen were standing this awful zero weather.
 
      John Gaynor has found the going as a traveling salesman rather rough of late due to the zero weather and has returned home for a few days rest until the weather settles.
 
      Julius Hanson has a new Ford Sedan on display at his oil station these days. He has taken a sub agency for the Minert Garage of Waukon. Look it over boys, you could do worse.
 
      On account of the road being drifted Friday, our basket ball teams took the train to Marquette, where both teams took a good beating. We suppose they got coal dust in their eyes going down.
 
      Miss Ruth Pladsen left Monday to resume her studies at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minn. It may be remembered that a little over a year ago she was obliged to quit school because of the death of her mother.
 
English Bench
      The Fred Weymiller sawmill will begin operations this week.
 
      Frank Buege bought a bunch of fall pigs from Will Bublitz last week.
 
      Spore Bros. began cutting 75 cords of wood for John and Earl Beardmore, Monday.
 
      Joe Schulte sawed up a year's supply of wood for Bert Rossengrant and Frank Dubeck last week.
 
      A.E. Beardmore and daughter Daisy spent Sunday evening at the home of his son Earl and enjoyed a fine radio program.
 
      A horse buyer from Chicago was here last week in search of a few block animals. He also would buy mules under 8 years old.
 
      Several of our radio fans awoke at 5 a.m. Friday and listened to a fine speech by King George of England. It was about 38 below zero at that hour.
 
      A number of our young people spent Sunday evening at the Larry Byrnes home in Hanover. This is one of the best homes that we know for a jolly good time. Fine refreshments were served the guests.
 
      Ed. Thiele and a stock salesman for the new bridge at Lansing were in these parts last week selling stock. They report the bridge in full construction now and one of the piers on the east side of the river being put in.
 
      Hirth & Gang shipped a fine bunch of fat steers to the Chicago market the fore part of the week. They were Black Polls and weighed 1890 pounds each, being the heaviest and finest bunch of cattle to be shipped from here in some time. They were hauled to Waukon by the Feldstein truck.
 
Rapid Progress Being Made On The High Bridge
      This week a day and night crew are working on the Lansing high bridge and making good progress. Since reaching the site of the east pier last Thursday the day crew has been engaged in laying out and framing heavy timbers for the coffer-dam, which is to be 60x30 feet, and Sunday, about 5:10 P M., they began driving the steel sheeting in the river, and at this writing, Tuesday afternoon, have it nearly finished and in another day or two will be ready to start the sand pump going and work on the pier will be on in earnest, the sand pump never stopping until the pier is completed.
      The dinkey engine is on the track and ready to haul materials for the pier on the temporary bridge as soon as required, the track being already laid almost to the site of the pier.
 
      McGregor Times - Indications that the Lansing bridge will soon be well under way are very evident, according to K. D. Bickel, who was in Lansing on business Tuesday. Karl states that the bridge company is sinking temporary piers into the river every fifteen feet, these piers to support the railroad track which is used in carrying material out on the ice. In three days work, the bridge builders have shot the tracks out almost 500 feet. A force of 25 men is on the job, Karl states. The temporary bridge must be removed by spring to permit river traffic, so it is believed the company will finish its work on the ice before that time, so it can proceed with the other work this summer.
 
Lansing
      Frank Kelleher of the Board of Directors of the Winneshiek and Allamakee Mutual informs us that the company does not contemplate an assessment this year. The financial status of the company is such that they expect to carry on without the usual levy unless very heavy losses should occur in the near future. This will be a pleasant surprise to the hundreds of members hereabouts as it means a saving of from five to forty dollars to the individual members.
 
      In the rotogravure section of Sunday's Des Moines Register is a very good picture of the old woolen mill at Village Creek. It is taken looking north and shows, as well as the ruins of the old stone mill, the residence on the hill at the left. The mill was operated by water power and the writer remembers well, about sixty years ago, when it was a flourishing institution, equipped with the latest improved machinery and turning out the finest grades of cloths and blankets.
 
      Several auto loads drove from this city to Westby, Wis., Sunday, to witness the big national ski tournament of the Snow Flake Club there. The leading riders of the country were present and the former world's record of something over 183 feet was twice broken, one man jumping 187 feet, 6 inches and one 187 feet; and in an exhibition jump at the conclusion of the official leaps one of the riders went 191 feet. Several thousand people were said to have been present.
 
Firemen's Dance a Success
      Folks turned out in great shape to attend the firemen's dance at Kelly's Hall Friday evening, Jan 24th, and about $125.00 was cleared for the fund to buy extra fire hose, and to allow for the compensation carried by the fire boys. The extra amount of fire hose to be purchased is badly needed to improve the efficiency of the fire department. The music by Kroack's orchestra was considered very good by the dancers and the old and new time dances provided a good time for young and old, 160 numbers being sold. The fire company wish to thank all those for their kind donations and those that helped make the dance a success; especially do they wish to thank the Ladies Aid Society of the Methodist Church for their contribution to the fire company.
 
      35 Years Ago (1895): Fred Wagner captured a big prairie wolf and two foxes near Will Gaunitz's place in Lafayette, and two wild cats in Center township. W. A. McConnell, the log man at Lansing, has gone busted and his goods sold by constable John Fleming. E. Hirth of Lansing township is hauling home lumber for a new barn. Lawrence Keenan of Lafayette has purchased the Michael Tierney 60 acres joining him on the east for $725.00. Dr. Christiansen of Waukon is looking after about 40 patients at present, many of them pneumonia cases. The jury in the Soll-Bascom case in district court resulted in a verdict of $10 for Soll. The Board of Supervisors has fixed salaries of county officers for 1895 as follows: Auditor, $1200; Treasurer $1500; Clerk, $1300; Sheriff, $360 and fees; deputy auditor, treasurer and clerk, each $600; Steward at the County Home, $900; Matron of Insane, $30 per month.
 
January 31, 1945
 
      Washington, D. C., Jan 25, (AP) - An American troop ship carrying more than 2200 soldiers was sunk recently in European waters as a result of enemy action with the loss of 248 dead and 517 missing. The remainder of the troops aboard, more than 1400, were saved, secretary of War Stimson said today. At the same time Stimson disclosed that army casualties since Pear Harbor have reached 616,951. Coupled with a navy total of 84,999, the aggregate for the armed forces since the beginning of the war now are 701,950.
 
      Gen. MacArthur's Hdq., Luzon, Jan .26, (AP) - American infantrymen have captured huge Clark Field and adjacent Fort Stotsenburg in major triumphs of the Luzon invasion, Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced today. Clark Field is 49 air miles north of Manila. Recapture of this aerial stronghold, within good bombing range of the China coast, came a little over three years after MacArthur's main strength in the Philippines was wiped out aground there in one of America's main setbacks at the start of the war.
 
Fighting Regan Brothers Home
      In Sunday's Dubuque Telegraph-Herald appeared a picture of Lawrence and Raymond Regan, now home for an unexpected reunion. They are sons of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Regan of that city and former residents of Allamakee county where they lived on a farm in Hanover township. Their mother was the former Teresa Griffin of Dorchester. Lawrence is a navy steam fitter 3-c and Raymond, a medical man in the army shot and wounded despite his large Red Cross emblem on his helmet. He was a Nazi prisoner for a day before being sent to England and back to this country. His brother Lawrence was in nine navy battles in the Southwest Pacific.
 
Harpers Ferry
      A husking bee was held at the Will O'Brien home Saturday under the supervision of Mr. R. F. Meehan.
 
      The Jerry Cota family moved on Thursday to the Garin Bros. farm which they will operate.
 
      Marcus Robinson of Clayton, visited several days with relatives here, having been recently honorably discharged from the army. He served with the army in Africa, Sicily and Italy.
 
      Leo Brazell, a prominent farmer of Taylor township, has already contributed two sons to the services of his country, both leaving good positions to do their duty as they see it. Maurice was employed with the Bell Telephone Co. and Harold with the R. E. A.
 
      After the rock slide below the junction several months ago, the railroad has kept a man on duty there 24 hours a day. A man that can put in 14 hours a day draws one hundred and four dollars each week.
 
English Bench
      Delton Mohwinkel had a new milking machine installed the past week.
 
      Billy Sires has been under the doctor's care the past week with a bad case of quinsy, but is improved at this writing.
 
French Creek
      Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bulman entertained the following relatives and friends from French Creek at their home in Center township last Friday evening: Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Ebner and son Gordon, Mrs. Ralph McKee, Leota Ebner, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hartley, Mr. and Mrs. Maynard Leppert, Rueben Leppert, Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Ashbacher and children, Mr. and Mrs. Theo. Welper and family and the George Verthein family.
 
Lansing
      Messrs. Dewey Leppert and Clifford Gruber each shipped a carload of cattle to the Chicago market Tuesday of this week.
 
      Master Bert Bigelow accompanied his aunt, Miss Katherine Guider, R. N. of La Crosse to Harpers Ferry on the afternoon train Saturday for an over Sunday visit with relatives the Clem Brazell family, north of town.
 
      Mrs. Lucille Kolsrud and two sons of Davenport were up a couple of days last week, coming especially to attend the farm sale of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Greiser, held on Thursday. It was one of the largest auctions in this vicinity in recent months with over 250 items being sold and the total receipts from the sale reaching approximately $7,500. Corn reached the ceiling price of $1.02 per bu.; oats also brought the ceiling of 72c; hay sold for $15.75 a ton; a group of ten small heifers brought $400; the top cow price bid was $115; and horses sold for $96. Auctioneer John Becker cried the sale and Messrs. Kerndt and Riser were the busy clerks. Mr. and Mrs. Greiser will remain awhile on the farm and are still undecided as to their future. Mr. and Mr. John Hennessy of New Albin will move onto the farm in the early spring.
 
      A.S. Horace Magnusson arrived home yesterday from Great Lakes Naval Training Station, where he has completed his "Boot" training and is spending a ten days leave with his family and other relatives, his wife and Mr. and Mrs. Ben Sweeney motoring to La Crosse to meet him. Raymond Gantenbein comes home tonight from the same station on his leave.
 
New Albin
      Air Wac Pfc. Rose Mary Smerud, stationed at Drew Field, Tampa, Fla., arrived Saturday for a short visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Smerud. She left Monday for Corpus Christi, Texas, where she will marry Ensign Francis Intlekofer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Intlekofer, of Waukon.
 
Waterville
      Howard Hagen of the Army Specialized Training Reserve Program, came from Laramie, Wyo., Monday to spend a few days with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Hagen. He leaves Thursday to report at the University of Michigan at Lansing, Mich.