Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-08-02
COUNTY NEWS
/. LIME SPRINGS


Wells for the past six weeks.
Gertrude Bryant, from Wauk on, is q
guest at the F. K. Elwood and }. b.
Cray homes.
DR.. Guth, lie, of Dubuque, was A.pro-
fessional visitor in town Tuesday.
Theodore Thomas had the misfortune
to fall from . horse and break his arm
Lois Elwood, who has been teaching
summer school at Evelyth. MINI. came
home Saturday for few week 3 vaca-
ton.
Mrs. R. Cheney has been seriously i'll
the past week.
About forty friends gathered at the
Ed King home last Wednesday even
ing for q surprise on Harold who left
Friday for Camp Gordon, Ga. A pleas!
emit evening was spent. The ladies
sdrved ice cream and cake to which all
did justice.
Mrs. Anna Lubbers received card
last Monday saying that her husband
was safely over there.
Guy Whitford was . business visitor
at Volgs City several days the past
week.
Mrs. Church of Elma and Mrs. Bar
ney Of Waterloo are the guests OF Mrs.
T. F. Van Leuven.
Mrs. Watson came from Fon du Lac,
Wis, called here by the serious illness
of her uncle, II. H. Wells.
The Presbvterian Ladies Aid enjoyed
a picnic at Old Town last Thursday If.
ternoon.
Matte Bowers, who has been visit
L. ~
Cresco last Wednesday for visit.
w. r. Wells was a Minneapolis call
or last week. . =
Mrs. C. J. Zook frt m near Des-
Moines is here visiting old friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Whitford, son
Gene and daughters Msrjory and tora
and Harold Sanborn autoed up from
Volga City Saturday. They all return
ed Sunday evening but Mrs. Whitford,
who stayed for . longer visit.
Rev. Perry of McGregor was shak-
ing hands with old friends Tuesday. He
came to preach MIR. Wells funeral SER
mon.
Peter J. Anderson returned to his
home at Winnett, Montana, Wednes-
day morning.
Mrs. Lloyd Gardner left Saturday.
She will visit IN aunt of Mr.. ,Gardner's
1T Ames, L.. SO as to be near Camp
Dodge.
Mrs. Edwards, who has been in
Minneapolis returned Saturday.
Little CHARLES Anderson entertained
several little friends July 18th IN honor
of his third birthday.
Margaret Owen returned to her homo
at Winfred, S. D., Monday after few
weeks visit with Mrs. w. o. Thomas.
Miss Agnes Cooper, who las been q
guest 1t the b. Il. Thomas home re-
turnedsto Greeley, 10.
Rev. and Mrs. Leonard o. Jones and
little son and D. II. Thomas motored to
Dies Moines Wednesday morning. Mr..
Thomas will visit the boys at Camp
Dodge. Mr.. Jones and family returned
20 their home At 1mogene, u. -
II. w. Shultz and family of Cedar
Falls motored through from Cedar
Falls for visit with friends here.
Margaret Price, of West Pullman,
H. and Mrs. Elizabeth Farmer Of st.
James, Mimi, are spending their sum-
mer vacation at the John Price home.
Frank Davis of La Crosse was o.
guest of John G. Roberts last week.
Mrs. Rob Davis went to Cresco SIM
day to care for Mrs. G. v. 'Puntney.
News received this morning that Mrs.
Puntney passed away Tuesday even
ing. e.
Sadie Watts of Cresco visited her
brother Aaron Watts and family snd
attended ChsutauQua last week.
~ q ia
visiting at the E. E. Evans home,
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Ssnborn, Art and
Elias Sanborn of Racine were guests 1T
the H. H. Sanborn home Sunday.
Word has been received of the mar
riaRe of Olive Nash, former Lime
Springs girl, to Carl Christisnson who
is in the electrical detachment of U.
S. A.
H. H, Wells was born in Saratoga
county, New York, Sept. l6, 1885. NOV
ing to Fon du Lac, Wis.,. with his par
ents in 1886. After living eight years
in Fon du Lac and Marquette counties,
Wis, he came to Howard county in
Sept. 1854. He and Joseph Knowiton
drove through from Fon du Lac, WIS.,,
bringing some horses and cattle With
them. Reaching here late in the fall,
they put up enough hay to keep their
stock through the winter and spent the
winter of 1886 in q cabin which they
built on the bank of the Iowa river
Just back of the present location OF the
n. E. Ober residence. The following
year his father, John F. Wells and
family came and pre-enpted on TIE
land now known Is the Harvey Wells
farm one mile east of the Old Town of
Lime Springs. His father being too
old to enlist in the regular service in
the civil war, he enlisted in the Iowa
GRAY Boards and died in the service ut
rock Island, NJ, in 1864. He was
married Dec. 18th 1856 to Laura A.
Doolittle at Marquette, Wis.,, and he
with his wife, Laura, returned to Lime
Springs soon after their marriage,
making the journey during the winter
months with one horse hitched to
hand made vehicle called q jumper.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wells lived very happily
together for over 60 years. she having
died July Is, 1917. They occupied the
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