Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-06-07
COUNTY NEWS
LIME SPRINGS.

LIME SPRINGS.
Mrs. Gates spent q few days last
week in Cresco with her sist,r MRS.
. Sherwood. E,t 49, ~.
]. C. Sanborn came down from Min
neapolis Tuesday evening for couple
of days before taking his position as
foreman in q large garage in Detroit,
MINI.
Bessie Lowry spent Decoration Day
with her uncle, A. K. johnson ana
family.
Geo. and Margaret Plummer went to
Spring Valley Wednesday to spend
Decoration day with their aunt, MRS;
Simons. George was taken SICK and
Friday they took him to Cresco to the
hospital where he was imm -dlately
operated on for appendicitis. The last
word received was that he was getting
along finely.
D. w. Davis returned Friday from a
business trip at Monona, MINI.
Esther Smith came home from Fay
cite Friday where she has been at
tending school the past year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Allen Miller came over
from Mason City Tuesday to spend q
few days with Mrs. S. A. Miller.
Ruth Hall came home Tuesday from
Hopkinton where she closed success
full term Of school.
Mr.. and Mrs. Matt Whalen and Bes-
sic Wells spent Thursd y at the W..
Mcmahon home in Leroy.
Don't forget the big dance at the
Opera house, Monday, June 10.
L. F. Doolittle left Wednesday for
his home in Milford after spending
several weeks with H. H. Wells.
Mrs. Howard Lubbers returned home
last week after spending q couple OF
weeks with her husband at Camp
Laurel, Maryland.
Mr.. Warhoe from Adams was the
guest of Grace Jones last Wednesday.
Marvin Marsh came down from AL
bert Lea to spend Sunday with his par
ents.
Chas. Anderson and friend Walter
Tombs, of New Orleans, came up from
Camp Dodge to spend few days.
Mrs. E. E. Griffith spent Sunday in
Cresco with her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Hanson left Saturday
morning for Minneapolis. +.
Eugene Irvine and daughter spent
Sunday at the F. NJ. Stevens home.
G. w. Moar and family autoed to
Leroy SUNDAY to visit Mrs. Moar's
mother, Mrs. Howe.
Eva McClarion went to Minneapolis
to spend the summer vacation.
Mrs. H. G. Jones left the first of the
week for PlankinQton. S, D,
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Stevens received
word from their daughter Rita, who is
a dietitian in the Red Cross, that she
has been ordered to 60 to Porto Rico.
Evan Parry from Camp Dodge was
an over Sunday visitor of Miss Nettie
Smith. vs..
Mrs. Marie Bowers of Harmony
spent several days this week with Mrs.
V. S. Bowers.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. E. Sanborn and
family autoed to Cresco and called at
the L. p. Sanborn home.
Born, Monday, May ~, 1918. to Mr..
and Mrs. Harry Hunter, girl.
Geneva Anderson came home from
Owatonna to spend the summer. she
was accompanied by Ella johnson of
OWatonna. "-e
Margaret Cray and Helen Palm
quist came home from st. Louis where
they have been attending school the
past year. ,@l@.
Miss Atkinson left Saturday for her
home at Sheffield, la.
Floyd Billman and Mr.. Ebeling of
Chicago are here visiting.
Miss McClarian entertained the
Seniors, Juniors and the teachers last
Thursday evening. Friday the Seniors
and Juniors went to Foreston for
picnic. ~ ....
Esther Smith and Phoebe Parry came
home from Fayette Saturday.
Rosie May Jones arrived Monday
night to spend the vacation with home
folks.
Three more boys, Dewey Roberts,
Floyd Dunlap and Ed Young left Wed
nesday evening for Waterloo to enlist.
OBITUARY.
Serena Williams was born March l,
1882. and died in Montevidio, Mimi,
NAV 81, 1918, at the home of her sister
Antonio. She was born and raised at
the old farm home two miles east OF
Lime Springs, II. She was educated
at Lime Springs High School, later
taking a course Of study which includ-
ed shorthand, bookkeeping and type
writing at the U. l. u. at Fayette, Ia,
in the year 1895. She went to Mime
apolis IN the fall of 1906 and secured q
position with the Realty Co and was
= faithful employee to the Co. for IL
years. She was a member OF the
Welsh Presbyterian Church of Mime
apolis. She leaves to mourn her death
her mother, Mrs. w. r. Williams, two
sisters Mrs. Levi Jones Of Bristol. Mrs;
S. G. Eliason of Montevido. Minn:,. and
two brothers, Lewel'yn R. Williams
and Stanley Williams. All were pres
ent ct the funeral. Interment was
made 1T Lime Springs on Monday be-
ing held from the Welsh Church: Here
and her pastor Rev. S. G. Prydderch Of
Minneapolis who was special dele.
gate from the church which had long
special feeling of their deep sorrow and
appreciation of the life and work of