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Births Climb in County, Allamakee Journal , Wed. January 11, 1950
According to records in the office of County Clerk Lloyd Kosrud there were 420 babies born in Allamakee county in 1949, compared to 399 in 1948. Marriage licenses issued in 1949 were 185, 40 less than in the previous year. In 1949 deaths numbered 137, an increase of 11 over 1948. There were 15 divorces granted in 1949 and a like number in 1948.
-contributed by Diana Henry Diedrich

Waits Air Corps Orders, Waukon Democrat, April 26, 1951
Ann Taylor, R.N., daughter of Mrs. H.E. Taylor, who since graduating from the University Hospital at Minneapolis, has been employed there, has received the commission of First Lieutenant in the Army Air Corps and is awaiting orders.
-contributed by Errin Wilker

News from the Allamakee Journal, June 13, 1951
-Eaton Cote received his degree from Bradley University at Peoria, Ill., at commencement exercises there Monday.
-Frank Plein had 3 hits and Merle Ryan and Tom O'Neill had 2 each as Lansing defeated Castalia 7-5.
-Romona Hawes and Carl Mullarkey were married June 6 at Wexford.
-Dale Robey and his crew of construction workers began work on the Cote business building next to the Theatre in Waukon.
-David Shogren was honored on this 90th birthday on Sunday at his Center Township home.
-Mrs. Burnice Moore has resigned as the county public health nurse.
-Jake Iseli purchased the Arvin television set from Stirn's Home Appliance and has been getting some nice reception with no special aerial.
-A pre-natal shower was held at the home of Mrs. Arne Helle for her daughter, Mrs. Horace Magnusson.
-The death of Mrs. Francis (Effie) Morrison took place on June 5 at a La Crosse hospital.
-Lorraine Dresselhaus and Robert Bensend were married June 5 at the United Methodist Church in Pigeon Falls, Wis.
-Mr. and Mrs. Versall Pohlman were the honored guests at a party in their honor Sunday. It was their 15th wedding anniversary.
-Martin Conway died at the home of his daughter. Mrs. Ellen Hawes on Thursday.
-The Ed Sawvell family left last week for their home in Wilton Junction following a few days visit with Harpers Ferry relatives.
-A girl was born recently at the Waukon Hospital to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fetketter of Lansing.
-Mr. and Mrs. Leo Mathis were honored Sunday, June 10, at the Rainbow Gardens in Waterville on their 25th wedding anniversary. A picnic dinner was enjoyed by nearly 200 relatives and friends.
-contributed by Errin Wilker

News from the Allamakee Journal, July 11, 1951
-Charles Bischoff, a native of Germany, died at his home near the Lansing park Sunday.
-Margaret McMahon and Kenneth Larson were married at I.C. yesterday.
-The John Feuerhelm family of Hanover, Ill. visited a couple of days last week with home folks, the Harvey Feuerhelms.
-Donald Burke is recovering nicely from injuries he received when he was struck by a train.
-A new Surge milking parlor is in operation at the Peter Conway farm.
-Dr. Otto J. Schott of Gays Mills, Wis. was over on business Friday, also visiting his brother, Dr. Tade Schott and wife.
-Births at the Waukon hospital: a girl on July 9 to Mr. and Mrs. Duane Seneff; a boy to Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Piggott; a boy to Mr. and Mrs. Norman Reeves; and a boy to Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Beardmore.
-Ronald Herman, 26, died of a skull fracture when a car he had jacked up fell on him.
-Recently inducted into the armed forces were Robert Ferring and William Baxter.
-Dorothy Alcott, teacher in Milwaukee, spent the week visiting friends while a guest at the Leonard Molitor home in Hanover.
-Jane Ellen Metzdorf was guest of honor at a birthday party on July 3.
-A pre-nuptial shower Was given by Mrs. John Fink in honor of Helen Solberg, who was married July 6 to Bud Fink.
J-ames Murphy, former Wexford boy, has retired after 45 years service as an engineer with the Chicago & Great Western Railroad.
-Anna Marie Guthneck of Dubuque, accompanied by her gentleman friend, came on Thursday and visited until Sunday at the parental E.A. Guthneck home.
-contributed by Errin Wilker

News from the Allamakee Journal, July 18, 1951
-Bernard A. Halvorson passed away July 9th. He was a former Lansing resident.
-Elizabeth Keppler and George Oelberg were married July 7 in Washington D.C.
-The funeral of 26 year old Ronald Herman was one of the largest to be held at St. John's Lutheran Church in Waukon.
-A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Keenan and a son to Mr. and Mrs. John Smerud of Dorchester.
-Services were held at I.C. Church, Lansing, for John Cassidy who died in Kansas City.
-Miss Mary Ellen Elefson and Herbert Bailey were married recently.
-Miss Rose Garlow and Joseph Boardman of Harpers Ferry were married by Rev. R.L. Palen on July 17.
-Alfred Pederson was installed as Commander of the Ralph D. Walter Amercan Legion post.
-The Al Swarzhoff family returned from a vacation in Chicago.
-A baby girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. Bill Cavers in Dubuque on July 17.
-The Winnebago Indians beat Eitzen 10-6 with Leo Whalen from New Albin as leading hitter.
-contributed by Errin Wilker

99 Years Old, Ida County Pioneer Record January 31, 1952
Mrs. Jake Marti of Waukon has just about finished the first hundred years. She was 99 last week. Mrs. Marti has been a resident of Allamakee county for over 85 years.
-Contributed by Cindy Bray Lovell

Suitor Wanted For Love Rival's Killing Gives Up; from the Sheboygan (Wis.) Press, Oct. 13, 1952
WAUKON, la. — A rejected suitor, wanted in the slaying of his former girl friend's fiance, surrendered to authorities early today to end a three-day manhunt in the rugged wooded terrain of northeast Iowa. George Duffy, 22, and his parents walked into the Allamakee County sheriff's office here. A half hour earlier the young fugitive had slipped out of his hiding place near here and entered the family farm home two miles north of Waukon to talk to his father and mother. Authorities in Wisconsin, Illinois and Minnesota were alerted Saturday. Duffy was sought in connection with the fatal shooting of James Hackrnan, 18, in Cedar Rapids last Thursday night. Hackman's body was found in his parked car. He was the victim of a shotgun blast in his head, police said. Hackman was shot to death two days before his scheduled marriage to Miss Shirley Arnold, 18, of Cedar Rapjds. Miss Arnold told authorities she had planned earlier to marry Duffy on Saturday but decided last Wednesday to break their engagement and marry Hackman instead. Sunday Duffy's parents made their own attempt to get their son to surrender. They toured the roads around Waukon in a car equipped with a loud speaker, broadcasting pleas for him to give up.
-contributed by Cindy Bray Lovell

102 Years Old, Jackson Sentinal, Maquokata, Iowa, July 23, 1954
At Waukon, Mrs. Mary Ann Healy observed her 102nd birthday anniversary on July 1. She's one of Iowa's oldest.
-Contributed by Sharyl Ferrall

New Albin News from the Allamakee Journal, Lansing, October 20, 1954
NOTICE
Free coffee and donuts will be served Saturday afternoon, October 23, 1954, from 2 o'clock to 10 o'clock so as to acquaint the people with the products and goods of my store. I also have a complete line of Zanol Products.
Lulu's Dress and Dry Goods Shop
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to express our sincere thanks to the kind neighbors, friends and relatives for their assistance and expressions of sympathy during our bereavement, the death of our husband and father. We also wish to acknowledge gratefully the floral offerings, memorials and food. We also thank Rev. Cawley and James Sires.
Mrs. Frank Weymiller, Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Weymiller
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Weymiller, Jr.
-contributed by Errin Wilker

Tidbits from the Allamakee Journal, October 26, 1955
-A Norwegian maple tree near the P.J. Houlihan home is covered with yellow leaves on the north side and all green on the south side of the tree.
-There was a great deal mourning by the children of Mr. and Mrs. John Burke Friday night when it was learned that their little dog "Pal" had been run over and killed by an auto on Main St. in the factory district. Funeral services were held early the next day and "Pal" was laid to rest in grandpa Henry Burke's garden with a group of kids taking part in the burial.
-Larry Hammel, of near New Albin, had his car damaged to the extent of a couple of hundred dollars Monday morning when he struck and killed a pig on highway 182 north of Lansing. County Sheriff Wm. Huffman investigated this accident.
-contributed by Errin Wilker

House Was Made From One Tree, Independent Record, Helena, Montana, December 25, 1955
Imagine! One pine tree furnished all the lumber for a whole house! It took Erick Selland three years to build the house. It was in the year 1857. When this rugged pioneer settled in Allamakee county, Iowa, he looked about for suitable material with which to build a home for his little family. One tree on his land stood tall and straight above all the rest. It was a majestic pine tree. "Mother," is is reported Selland said to his wife, "this one tree is all we need to give us shelter." Erick Selland felled that tree. He cut lumber and split logs. Painestakingly he built his house from a single tree. When his task was done, he managed to make a water wheel from the part of the stump that still remained. Erick Selland's spectacular craftsmanship is stil admired by hundreds who visit the Norwegian-American Historical Museum at Decorah, Iowa, where the one-tree house is carefully treasured. -- by Evelyn Witter.
-Contributed by Sharyl Ferrall

News Clippings from the Postville newspaper, August 7, 1957
FIVE NEW ARRIVALS AT HOSPITAL HERE
Five new arrivals, three boys and two girls, were added to the community during the past week at Postville Hospital. Following is a list of the births:
Boy, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Roffman, Postville, July 31
Girl, Mr. and Mrs. John Green, Postville, Aug. 4, 6 lbs., 13 ozs.
Boy, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Henningsgard, Waukon, Aug. 5, 7 lbs., 7 ozs.
Girl, Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Schroeder, Postville, Aug. 6, 6 lbs., 13 ozs.
Boy, Mr. and Mrs. C.W. DeGarmo, Postville, Aug. 7, 7 lbs., 7 ozs.
Medical Cases
Mrs. Marion Lambert, Luana, July 30
Audrey Pulfer, Elgin, July 31
J.F. Sawvelle, Postville, Aug. 1
George Nydigger, Elgin, Aug. 1
Alan Davis, Postville, Aug. 1
Mrs. Wm. Marfilues, Monona, Aug. 1
Mrs. Kenneth Strong, Elgin, Aug. 2
Mrs. Ed Auer, Postville, Aug. 2
Art Sandry, Postville, Aug. 3
Mrs. Hubert Sass, Monona, Aug. 4
-contributed by Errin Wilker

News Bits from the Allamakee Journal, August 20,1958
Veterans Memorial Hospital-Patients Admitted. August 3, John Simmons, Waukon, Surg.; Aug. 4, John Larson, Waukon, Med.; Robert Goeke, Postville, Acci.; Mrs. Merle Stee and baby boy, Castalia, obs.; Mrs. Arthur Marsden, Waukon, Med.; Aug. 5, Miss Lou McGeough, Waukon, Med.; Aug. 6, John Kelly, Lansing, Surg; Albert P. Nolting, Waukon, Med.; Aug. 7, Mrs. Richard Langland, Waukon, Surg.; Mary Kay Hawes, Harpers Ferry, Med.; Nancy L. Tangen, Dorchester, Med.; Thomas F. Murphy Lansing, Med.; Edwin Gelo, Lansing, Acci.; Aug. 8, Mrs. Ralph Sweeney and baby girl, Waukon, obs.; Mrs. Roy Mettille and baby girl, Waterville, Obs.; Floyd Knudtson, Waukon; Med.; Aug. 9, Mrs. Norman Rosendahl and baby boy, Waukon, obs.
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-Mr. and Mrs. Len O’Brien, Mr. and Mrs. Vince Mooney and baby James, Kate Grady and Miss Ella Waters attended a Grady family reunion Sunday held in Monona at the city park Sunday.
-Mr. and Mrs. L. N. Letta and family of Minneapolis were overnight guest Wednesday at the home of her brother and family, Mr. and Mrs. Bob White.
-Contributed by Diana Henry Diedrich

News Clippings from the Postville newspaper, May 13, 1959
THREE NEW ARRIVALS AT HOSPITAL HERE
Three new arrivals, two girls and a boy, were added to the community during the past week at Postville Hospital. Following is a list of the births:
Boy, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brainard, Postville, May 5, 9 lbs., 4ozs.
Girl, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Thayer, Froelich, May 7, 7 lbs., 6 ozs.
Girl, Mr. and Mrs. John Green, Postville, May 10, 6 lbs., 2 ozs.
Medical Cases
Mrs. Louis Fuelling, Farmersburg, May 7
Robert Garrison, Elgin, May 9
Robert Matt, Clermont, May 10
Mrs. Don Overbeck, Monona, May 11
John Thorsen, Postville, May 12
Roger Casper, Elgin, May 12
-contributed by Errin Wilker