Dec. 28, 1882 Bellevue Leader
There have not been any teams crossing the ice in the past week or since the late freeze. Last Saturday, a large crowd enjoyed skating on the smooth, flat ice park in front of the city. The sleighing was made possible by the accumulation of several inches of snow on Saturday and Sunday. It is very pleasant.
One dollar per hour [$29.19 today] This was
The Christmas Day price for Bellevue’s livery rigs.
George Schlatter [a future prominent Bellevue resident], Eli Cole, Jr. [to become a somewhat controversial Bellevue attorney]Walter and Willie Kelso [elder sons of Judge Kelso of Kelso bank] You can return to Iowa from your Iowa state university and spend vacation there.
Dec. 27, 1892 Bellevue Herald
Eighteen of our townpeople were taken to Paradise Potter’s home Saturday night, where they were entertained with dancing and other social games. People were taken out by conveyances of every kind. [to E.G. Potter’s residence and primary farm, founded in 1843, in the valley west of Bellevue, today’s Paradise Valley].
Dec. 30, 1902 Bellevue Herald
The boys have used show shovels and brooms in clearing a space to skate on the river opposite the ferry landing … a rink fully as large as a block square. Now, teams are crossing the river on ice and wood is being brought from the islands.
John McKillip shows off a beautiful new Ford automobile. He anticipates selling a lot of these cars here in the next season.
Dec. 26, 1922 Bellevue Herald
Public notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed and commissioned by the District Court of Jackson County, Iowa, RECEIVER, for the firm of Dorchester & Hughey, said firm comprising H. G. Dorchester and E. K. Hughey…. All Persons having claims … are hereby notified to file … and all persons owing said firm are requested to make payment…. Dated Bellevue (Iowa), this 11th of December, 1922. A. E. Pearson, Receiver.
[This announcement marked the official demise of one of Bellevue’s most prominent and productive businesses. In 1873, Hooker Dorchester, who had followed his brother from New York to Bellevue in 1870, had married Josephine “Josie” Warren, a daughter of William W. Warren who had been sheriff during the Bellevue War, a commended volunteer Civil War quartermaster, long-time justice of the peace, and popular mayor of Bellevue. While raising a family and co-owning Dorchester & Hughey, Hooker Dorchester also would rise to local prominence as a founding Mason; Presbyterian church trustee; school board member; and Bellevue town trustee, clerk, and mayor. The 1922 collapse of Dorchester & Hughey (see caption above) would dramatically change his life.]
Dec 28, 1932 Bellevue Leader
Leo Lampe can’t be convinced that California has anything on Iowa, as on Christmas morning with the thermometer staging a comeback in the 50 degree mark, he dug some wonderful carrots out of his garden….
Dec. 29, 1942 Bellevue Herald
Farm machinery and equipment rationing quotas on 24 items in Jackson County were announced last week…. Heavy demands for steel for direct war use … have left little for manufacturing….
With few exceptions, all canned, frozen, and dried fruits, vegetables, and soups will require ration coupon “points” for civilian purchase starting in February…. More than 200 food types will be restricted and civilians will only have half of what they used in recent years.
It is reported that 1,800 additional workers are to be employed at the Savanna ordinance depot after Jan. 1….
Dec. 25, 1952 Bellevue Leader
… Alex Reed, one of the most prominent and well known farmers in this community … passed away … at his home, six miles south of Bellevue…. Funeral services were held … Dec. 23 at the First Presbyterian church…. Glenn Heckelsmiller and Roland Petesch were pallbearers. Donald Gaylor, A. C. Schneider and Roy Dyas were the mourners. Mr. Reed was born in Washington township on Nov. 7, 1869. He was a son to Wm. Henry and Catherine Lamborn Reed, pioneer residents.…
J. J. Till has purchased a late model Henney Packard funeral coach which will be used at all future funerals conducted by the Kempter–Gallagher Funeral Service. Coupled with the Kempter–Gallagher Packard ambulance, the new funeral coach gives the establishment first-class mobile equipment.
Frank Joseph Goetz, owner of Model Bakery, died Monday night at Memorial Hospital at 9:27 p.m. Mr. Goetz … suffered a stroke Sunday noon while seated at the dinner table with his wife and son, James, who had arrived Saturday from Ft. Monmouth, N.J., for a Christmas furlough.
Mr. Goetz was conceived Oct. 8, 1865.
St. Nazianz, Wis…. Coming to Bellevue in 1914, he opened the Model Bakery … in operation since that time. … his products were of the best. His smile and cheerful manner made him very popular among his many customers.
Students … spending the Christmas holiday … Loyola College of Dentistry, Chicago – Gary Hyler. Loras College, Dubuque – John Paul Jones, Paul Lucke, Robert Budde. Bradley University, Peoria, Ill. – Robert Engelman, Donald Achen. Dental College, University of St. Louis Mo. – Donald Degnan. Wartburg College, Waverly – Lynn Stuart, Wayne Webber. Univ. College of Law of Iowa – Donald Becker. State Teachers College, Cedar Falls – Lou Ann Kelly. Mercy Hospital school of nursing – Margaret Roeder, Lois Koppes. Clarke College, Dubuque – Rita Mootz.
Dorrence Koppes has received his discharge from the Navy…. He was stationed on the USS Sicily. The ship returned from active duty in Korea about two weeks earlier.
Arriving at Long Beach, Calif., aboard the heavy cruiser USS Helena …Donald Medinger, seaman, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Medinger of Route 3. After his tour of Korea, Eisenhower was transferred to Hawaii by the Helena.
Dec. 26, 1962 Bellevue Herald-Leader
The Bellevue Herald-Leader published every Thursday…. Subscription rates in Jackson County: $3.00 per year [$29.57 today], $3.50 [$34.50] elsewhere. Thomas A. Bates Editor and Publisher. Jeanne Bates, Office Manager. Alvin Clasen, Production Supervisor. Sally Callaghan Linotype Operator. Kathy Eggers Linotype Operator. C. J. Roeder, Jr., Printer Assistant.
[Linotype is a now antiquated composing machine that produced lines of words on individual strips of metal, a vast improvement in printing technology for letterpress (the original type of printing press; a flat bed of inked metal on which paper is pressed, one page at a time).
From invention of the first printing press in the West (Gutenberg, ca. 1455, Germany) to the mid-1900s, book and newspaper pages were assembled for printing by“locking up” type (individual letters and punctuation marks) into a frame for the letterpress “bed,” source of the newspaper jargon “putting the paper to bed.”)
[In the late 1900s, Linotype was replaced with offset printing (photographic images “burned” into thin photosensitive metal plates attached to revolving rollers). Since the 1990s, computers have come to dominate printing (programs for type, page design, and even running presses), including today’s Bellevue Herald–Leader. Letterpresses (and a few Linotypes) remain in specialized use.]
Dec. 27, 1982 Bellevue Herald-Leader
“RESOLUTIONS” … New Year’s resolutions made by some of the [Marquette High School] Students and faculty members. Tom Cloos: “ … start growing — by the foot!” (he’s now officially 4 ft. 7 in. tall). Mike Gallagher: “… not fall on the ice!” Gary Deichelbohrer: “Win more ‘B’ team games! Will Lucke: … maybe stop calling Mr. Ludescher ‘JJ’….” Peggy Lampe: “Study harder, talk less!” David Steines:
I’m not making any. I’m already perfect.” Roger Watters: “Stay awake in English
class on Monday mornings!”
