Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-12-11
BURR OAK

Dec. 8, 1918.
Mrs. Merle Smith returned Tuesday
from few days stay at the j. B
Reed home at DEBORAH.
Miss Iona Pierce assisted Miss
Florence Price in the Mercantile last
week as Mr.. and Mrs. B. M. Wicks
new cases of influenza.
Paul and Ezra Reed, Fremont Cox
and Winfield Feltis hauled Bert Nc
Intoshes house hold goods to DEBORAH
Monday.
The l.. A. S. which was to have met
Dec. 9Th at the George Smith home
was postponed on account of so many
new cases of infuenga.
4. M. Reed and E. G.. Reed attended
the sale at Thune's near Deocrah.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Oxley were up
from DEBORAH to attend the funeral of
Harold Shelley on Dec. 5.
to DEBORAH Tuesday and visited until
Thursday at the j. B. Reed home.
Mrs. Nellie Leonhart came last
week for a visit with her mother Mrs.
Alice Pierce.
Will Stoskopf and son Florell are
staying at the F. j. Potter home.
Mrs. Nina Haas came from DEBORAH
Sunday to care for Mr.. and Mrs. B.
M. Wicks.
[ Miss Jennie Sanaker has been sick
since Saturday.
Carl Pierce is helping care for the
George Shelley family.
News came last week from Texas of
the birth of baby girl to Mr.. and
Mrs. Lynn Helas. Mrs. Helas was well
known here as Miss Bernice Telford.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest OXely of De-
corah were callers at the E. M. Reed
home Thursday.
Mrs. Rev. Ulrich and son Daniel
were guests Wednesday at the j. b.
Reed home at DEBORAH.
L. M. Reed, Mrs. Geo. Sullivan and
son Frank, Fred Koenig and daughters
Eda and Ruby, and his son Otto, all
of the McIntire family except MIR.
McIntire, Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Nolte,
Mrs. Josie Cox and Miss Marjorie
Gates, have been sick the past few
days with the "fu".
Ben Shelley returned Saturday from
Princeton, Mimi, to help care for the
George Shelley family.
Mrs. C. A. Reed spent last week at
the home of her son Clifford.
Rev. Curran, of Fayette will speak
in the M. E. church Wednesday morn
ing, Dec. Is, at 1920. After the SER
vice he will hold the 1st quarterly con-
ference and the pastor requests that
every official member be present as
the business to be considered is of
vital Importance. The first quarterly
communion service will be conducted
In the M. e. church Sabbath morning,
Dec. Is. The annual Sunday school
election will be held Dec. 20, 1913,
Please be there.
Harold Shelley, who has been suffer
ing for nearly year with tuberculosis
passed away Tuesday at his home
near Burr Oak. At the time of his
\ death the entire family, his parents,
and three brothers were sick with In
Guenza.
Harold H. Shelley was born April
%, 1888, in Burr Oak township, Iowa,
and passed away Dec. 3 1913, aged 30
years. Death was due to tuberculosis,
which began nearly four years ago,
following an attack of pneumonia, but
after a year his health improved and
he was the first of the young men
of Burr Oak to answer nations call
to the colors. He was sent first to
Camp Dodge, where he remained for
a short time, after he had measles and
never was well again. He was in the
hospital until June when he was con-
sidered able to make the trip home,
where death ended his suffering Dec.
3. He leaves to mourn his loss his
parents and four brothers, Guy, En-
est, (who is in the army and about to
sail for France), and Lester and FL
nner an older brother, Earl, having
passed away a few years ago, and
other relatives and many friends, who
deeply sympathize with the bereaved
family. Funeral services were con-
Quoted from the home by the Nj. p.
pastor and he was laid to rest in the
Burr Oak cemetery.
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