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4' WATERLOO IPTOAT COTOtm WATCTLOO IOWA OMBAt ran ix Uhl Osage Hospital Closes Long Service to Me Editor of Manchester Press Tama 4H Clubs Elect Off leers it all and wa hope has been able to contribute something to the beneficial and uplifting changes which have taken place down through the years" fCmutir SpttMBtnttO Toledo Officers elected aft Has Served Paper 65 Years NASHUANS TO ATTEND DAUGHTER'S GRADUATION Manchester la-The Manchester Press celebrated its 78th as usual Thursday with the publication of its usual weekly edition Probably more unusual than that is the connection with the paper of the present editor Howard Rann whose first birthday was one year prior to the establishment of the country! weekly by his father the the Than county 4-H and rally Friday night at Tuna high school were: Girls: Darlene Kellog Montour county president: Thelma Vlatak Clutier vice president: Mary Esther Reigle Traer secretary-treasurer Esther Hayes Toledo: historian Boys Bob Cation Toledo county president: Mervto ManfUU Buckingham vice president Wilbert late Rann who has served the paper continuously for 85 years This term of service is unequalled in this community Commenting upon the paper's birthday Thursday Editor Rewn said: "Seventy-eight years ago today the late father of the rresent editor took from the bed of an old Washington hand press the irst copy of the Manchester Press bora in two rooms on the third floor of what was then the Globe was rcmrter fjccM itrrtcij Nashua la Brady will go to Sioux City Sunday to attend the State Liras club convention On Tuesday he will fly to Chicago tor commencement at tha American Conservatory of Music where his daughter Miss Ruth Anne Brady will receive her master's degree to music Mrs Brady and Robert Lorenzen of Waterloo fiance of Miss Brady wiU go by motor on Sunday to Chicago to be present for the commencement program in Orchestra halL The group will return home by way of Milwaukee Wls where they will visit to the home of Mrs Dahl sister of Mr Brady DostaL Toledo secretary-treasurer Dick Luethje pladbrook historian to keeping with the eost of living With prime beef at 15 cents per pound: butter at 17 to 25 cents a pound eggs at eight cents qtaz-en flour at $1 a sack and potatoes at 30c a bushel the editor managed to feed his family Cord wood taken on subscription kept his house warm in the severest weather while many a reader preferred to pay his subscription in produce such as pumpkins squash honey apples or what have "From Its first issue toe Press was a Republican newspaper Its founder survived the Civil war era and absorbed the radical atmosphere of the war between the states: when northern Democrats were labeled indiscriminately and unjustly as copperheads: Political passions ran high and the editorial vituperation rose to incredible heights Delaware county bad more newspapers than it knew what to do with and one by one they disappeared from the scene under pressure of competition and increasing publication costs "It is a singular fret that the present editor of the Press came to Mg first birthday one year almost to the day prim to toe birth of toe newspaper Jane 7 1870 At the age of 14 years ha entered the office as an apprentice or ai It was long known and tons he has been connected with It In one capacity or another for 65 years He can count on the fingers of one hand toe men who formed a pari of toe life of Manchester when he first learned to set type by hand out of a ease ADVANCEMENT CHAIRMAN Creseo la Ralph Bauercamper has been appointed advancement chairman of the Cres-co boy scouts He succeeds Rev A Stenberg who has jnoved to totel now the Nells hotel Mr lann had been induced to come to Manchester by the business men of the village the principal consideration being the promise of 500 paid-up subscriptions "The equipment of the paper was of the crudest character with a money value probably net exceeding 8X000 Among the printers who assisted him In getting out the that edition were Wood Jewell Frank Gregg and Ed Andrews and their combined salaries did not exeeed $25 a week found a permanent home in its present location: Its founder died in May 1897 since which time the writer has been at its editorial head "The Press has mat with many hardships and vicissitudes during its long career toduding several depressions and three wars That it was able to survive these successive blows overcome the hardest kind of competition serve the community and meet its bills to an example of the vitality inherent to a free press INDEPENDENCE WILL WAGE WAR ON FLIES 87 RELIEF CASES Grundy Center la (SpeciaD county welfare office reports 27 eases on relief eared for by them throughout the county Independence: la (Special) Plans are being laid for a fly control program The business district will be sprayed with a five per cent solution of DDT Everyone is asked to dean up all tha fly breeding places such as flies would collect at Pictured above is the hospital developed from a private residence in 1908 by Drs Sam and Louis Savre The private hospital for 41 years a landmark in Osage la closed list week "It has seen all of the great improvements to newspaper making come into being chid among which are the linotype typeeasting machines and the perfecting press: The Press operated tor many yean without the benefit of electricity the typewriter or telephone All work waa dene laboriously by hand from typesetting to operation of the job and newspaper presses Even toe rollers used on the presses were cast in the office SIE OUR AD SUNDAY ANNOUNCING OPEN HOUSE VISIT THE AMAZING $6550 Home of 2 Bad rooms Complete on Your Lot CALL LEEPER 2-9749 Roprosonting CHAS MAUSER SONS Contractors "The paper has had five homes since its establishment Upon leiv-ng the hotel it was moved into a building on north Franklin street not far from the present Iowa Electric Co office It was then for many years published on the second floor of the Cohger drug store now the home of the Fanners and Merchants Savings bank From there it moved to the first floor of the Thorpe building on the present site of the Van Wechel ga rage and few years later it BUKA JEAJf TESCU Courser Stall Correspondent VINTON YOUTH TO CAMP Vinton la Stewart Hanna son of Mr and Mrs Geo Hanna of Vinton is one of 88 Iowa State college students who will attend an eight-week summer camp in northern Idaho beginning June 20 Located to the Karnksu national forest the camp is part of the regular summer school program of ISC Osage Another chapter in the annals of the history of Osage was completed the last week with the closing of the Savre hospital and the sale of the office of Dr Sam Savre "The town has been transformed from a straggling village into a modem little city Farm life has been utterly changed for the better and merchandising has become both stabilized and progressive The "Advertising rates would be considered ruinous today but they The two brothers Dr Louis and Dr Sam both physicians and surgeons and their sister Mrs Mary Watson have operated the hospital since 1908 friendly and home atmosphere She says that her plans for the future are indefinite and that she too will relax and enjoy life Studied to Berlin Miss Elisabeth SChroeder was graduated from Augusta Victoria hospital Berlin Germany to 1919 and practiced there until 1921 She remembers with distaste the ravages of Would war I and says she will enver return to Germany to see tha once beautiful area In which she was reared now devastated She has sent thousands of pounds of packages to Germany but her loyalty is to her adopted America She came to Osage to 1922 to establish her home with her late unde Frederick Utecht In January 1923 she began bar duties at the hospital and has been subject to 24 hour duty whenever necessary-end that has been often She too will be at her home for the time being for complete rest more and more it's Dr Louis has served northern Jowa since 1901 retiring from his office in 1948 and has since been disponing medicines from his home Dr Sam has served this area since 1908 Ideating first for a year at Lake Mills Their present nurse Miss Elizabeth Schroeder German born and educated has been chief nurse at the hospital lor a 28 year period surgicals in 1914 From 1908 he operated his own hospital here Started In Drug Store Dr Sam too began working in a drug store in Mason City Urged and spurred on by his older brother he too began a course in pharmacy with ultimate graduation from Highland Park Pharmaceutical college Des Moines and receiving his medical degree from Drake university He too took postgraduate work taking Ms work to the field of his obstetrics-in the Chicago Maternity hospital He practiced to Lake Mills for a year joining his brother in Osage to 1908 where he has since practiced Thursday he completed the transaction of the sale of his bride office patient rooms and operating room to his partner since January 1949 Dr Robert Isham and he smilingly says he will now retire to enjpy a full and free life traveling with Ms wife the former Clarice Goplerud and being head "lawn and garden man" at their beautiful home on 511 Mechanic street Mrs Watson who has had her living quarters on the first floor of the hospital has managed the hospital since its beginning in 1908 She chuckles as she remembers how she began her work "Louis lust came to me and needed rooms so badly and said I have just two rooms for my patients'" And thus began from that modest start the hospital noted tor its ILL WITH PNEUMONIA 1 rrr-? America's Money-Saving Range Grundy Center la (Special) Mrs Gottsch hag been seriously ill of virus pneumonia and confined to her bed for seven weeks under the care of her sister Mrs Evelyn Page Waterloo 4 RECOVERS FROM SURGERY Grundy Center la (Special) Joe Mitchell is recovering 1949 40-Inch Elecfric KENMGRI Louis Savre Sam Savre rapidly from an emergency appendectomy at Allen Memorial hospital Waterloo 1 Back Ache in the Morning? Sleep on the Firm Thus an aggregate of 155 years has gone into the Savre hospital life with the fbur above named joint work in addition to extra hours of nursing help All Night Vigils Dr Sam specialist in obstetrics can chalk up nearly enough births to total the entire living population of Osage today Many wen home deliveries in the early days with all night vigils following a battle over snow blocked roads and then delivery under difficult circumstances Dr Sam Savre proudly exhibits the pictures of a multiple delivered near Orchard 18 years ago to the Lera Clark family The closing of the hospital has been a blow to many persons in this area who tor years have been regular Savre patients The dos- ORTHOPEDiC 2000 Dawn Bal Easy Terms Firm-o-Rest Mattress Tested and Approved by a Cool Cooking 17-Inch Oven with Heavy Insulation a Fast Hooting 7-Spood Infrared Top Cook Units Big 6-Qt Deep Well Cooker Does Meal on One Burner a Magic Robotimor Cooks Oven Meals Automatically The JOURNAL of AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION No Other Mattress Like It! 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