The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1920-06-02
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!. CHARTER OAK ITEMS
(Taken from the Times.)

Will Schneider has been in the hospi
tai in Sioux City almost a week, having
4 gone there for an operation for appen
dicitis. A couple of his best friends
went there this, morning to visit him.
A.. j. Olson has severed his connec
ton with the elevator and is taking the
/ first rest he has had in almost eight
/ years He is resting by working only
as he wants to. There are some things
about his home that he has wanted t.
fix and he is doing this work. He does
mot want another job until he gets this
done, has a few days to visit, with his
brother at Soldier and then few days
to loaf. Then he will get busy again
His place at the elevator is being filled
by c. J. Koftmann.
Mrs. Vena Romans and Mrs. o.: M
Criswcll were among the Denison PEG
ple who attended the funeral of Grand
ma knight here last Thursday.
Gust Anderson came from Aberdeen
! S. d., last Friday night for a visit with
Mr.. and Mrs. ". C.. Thompson. Mr.
Henderson is the father of Mrs Claude
Morgan, and Mrs. Thompson is Mr..
Morgan's mother.
| Miss Leona Glau came from Morning
ingside college to attend the alumni
banquet in Charter Oak Friday night
| She returned Monday morning to re
sumo her studies. The college holds
three weeks more. and then she will re
| turn for the summer vacation.
Mrs Mary E. Christy mother Of Mrs
Sturges, reached the. end of life Tues
day morning and will be laid to rest
tomorrow at Vermillion, S. d., the ole
home, in one of the fprettiest burial
| places in the land. For many years
Mrs. Christy has been an intense suf
| fercr from rheumatism and stomach
troubles, but she held out well anG
braved the troubles Of these maladies
until she reached past the 10Th year oil
| life. She went to sleep and Weakened or
the other side Of the dark river. She
| was born in New York, but spent most
of her life in Iowa and South Dakota
She went to Dubuque when 1t was d
frontier village. Then she settled In
Wright county when it was wild prairie
| She helped raise the money with which
| to build the first Methodist church IN
Boone when she lived there. and then
moved to Missouri Valley and did the
| same thing. there. Her first home In
Sioux City was in what is now the
packing house district, then one of the
better residence sectionssof the town
She reared family of seven children
all but one of whom are living. Mrs
Sturges is the eldest of four daughters
| She was married twice, her husband
having died in only a few years after
they! were married. Her second hus
band IS still living. guide in the gov
eminent santitarium at Hot Springs
S. D., at the age of eighty. The Times
editor is moved to say that she was the
| best mother.in-law any man ever had
| for she believed, and rightly followed
the belief, that her children were en-
titled to settle their own problems with
out her meddfng. She was respected
pp1 ,.ox,oraI in a the homes of her
children. ~.
AT last Thomas Thomson has com
pleted arrangements for his trip to Ger
! many this summer, Since late winter
he has been working at this, expecting
to go by the way of Holland, the trir
| requiring two passports and two ship
ments Of his goods and himself. Tech