The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-11-28
DEFIANCE Man
DIES Aft. RILEY
John NiIges, Of the 354th Regiment Of
Infontry, Co. L, Dies at Fl. Riley,
kans., After Short Illness
LEAVES WIFE; MANY RELATIVES
Body Brought to Defiance and Laid to
Rest in Defiance Cemetery, Rev.
e. 3. Scoggan Officiating


John Nilges was born in Usage coun
ty, Mo-, March II. 1895. and died a
the base hospital, Fl. Riley, Kans., OF
Nov. II, 1917, aged % years, s months
and 16 days. Mr. Nilges worked neal
Defiance the past three years. He wa'
selected in the draft and left Defiance
the 10Th of last September for Linn
Mo-, to join other young men and e
with them to Camp Funston, Kans. HI
was mustered into the 354th regimen
of infantry, Co. l.. The company wa:
about to start for New Mexico or Tex
as when Mr.. Nilges took i'll with spin
al meningitis. He was i'll only three
or four days. Mr.. Nilges was married
to Miss Cynthia Guysinger, of Def
ance, Sept. 10, 1917, at Harlan by J
y. Dunlavy. He leaves his parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe H. Nilges, Of Linn
Mo-; four sisters, six brothers anC
his young wife. The body was brought
to Defiance and laid to rest in the De
f1ance cemetery, the services being
conducted by Rev. E. B. Scoggan ir
the presence of a number of sympa
thizing friends and companions.
The teachers study center was held
in Defiance Saturday. County Super
intendent Mrs. Parker was present and
also Misses Shanewise and Correll. OF
Cedar Falls, who gave interesting lee
lures on reading and mathematics.
The ladies of the Christian church
will serve THANKSGIVING dinner and
supper November goth in the base
ment of the Methodist church. Prices
IS and IS cents.
Mrs. Yackey and daughter. Hattie
left Thursday for Blue Island. ILL.,,
where they will spend Thanksgiving
at the home of Harry Yackey and fam.
lily. Mrs. Yackey will then go to
Washington. D. c., to spend the win
ter with her daughter. Mrs. F. M.
Holmes, and Hattie will go to Wash
burn, N d. where she will assist her
brother, George, in the treasurer's Of
flee until spring.
Miss Alice Ruffcorn returned last
Thursday evening from the Methodist
hospital, Omaha, her health being very
much improved. She left Monday
evening with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. P. H. Ruffcorn, for Sacramento.
Cali, where they will make their fu-
ture home. Mr. and Mrs. Rutfcorn
moved to their farm two miles north
of Defiance in 1888 or soon after the
town was started, and it is needless
to say that they have many friends
who regret their leaving Defiance.
Their son, DIN, and wife will live on
the farm next year.
Nick Fistnr is carrying his right
IN in sling as the result OF too
strenuous work while cranking his
Ford recently. Both bones in the arm
were broken.
Mrs. A. E. White is seriously i'll with
typhoid-pneumOnia and trained nurse
....sss-.ring for her. AZ 49,. il
Charles Legge came up from Oma-
ha Monday to take his children down
to see their mother. who is in the
Methodist hospital. She is recovering
nicely from her recent operation for
goitre. ~
Mr.. and Mrs. Clede Reynolds visit
ed friends in Oakland one day last
week and l.. Peterson who has been
visiting his daughter, Mrs. J. A. Lux
ford, and family, returned to Defiance
with them.
Mrs. Hiram Stevens and family, of
Weir, Kans.. arrived Wednesday for
a visit with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
II. f. Guysinger.
Mrs. Scott and daughter. Mrs. VIM.
Euffcorn were in Omaha Thursday to
consult physician n regard to the
formers health.
Andrew johnson returned last week
from the Edmundson hospital in Coun-
Gil Bluffs, where he had been taking
treatment for several weeks.
John Schnuettgen is able to be up
again after long illness from pneu-
PmOnia. The nurse who was caring for
him returned to Omaha Sunday.
Mrs. Huddleston and children spent
Wednesday and Thursday with rela-
tives in Omaha.
]. w. Mcbride shipped a car load
of hogs to Omaha Friday and received
within cents Of the top price. There
were 50 head and they averaged 210
pounds.
Mrs Ohlinger and baby, of Ports
mouth, were over Sunday visitors at
the home of her sister, Mrs. Phil Nc
Andrews.
Mr.. and Mrs Joe Ray and the lat
ter's mother. Mrs. George Harness,
motored to Council Bluffs the latter
part of the week, having received word
that Mrs. Ed Crist was i'll.
Joe Dotzler has been in the south
ern part of Texas the past week on a
business trip.
The funeral OF little Clara LOehr,
twelve year old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Q. E. Loehr, was held in the Cath
Ole church Thursday morning. The
body was then taken to Westphalia for
interment in the cemetery near that
place.
Mrs. VIM. Young and Miss Fannie
Muller made trip to Harlan Monday
to take the Christmas packages and
the Red Cross knitting that was on
hand.
Lon Knauss and family, of Persia,
were guests Sunday at the John Tere-
williger home.
A. P. Hulsebus and son. Alfred, of
Merrill, were visiting relatives in De-
fiance the latter part Of the week.
The trial in which Mrs. Milt Camp
bell contested the will of her aunt,
Mrs. Pete Peterson, has been decided
in her favor, and she is to receive ev-
erything. The will had given the bulk
Of the estate to the M. E. church.
VIM Lutz. who is picking corn for
Andrew Rasmussen, picked $50 BUSH
els last Saturday on a wager II he