Nabers in Dairyland

 ...Naber and Sons, Muscatine, Iowa

I remember mom mentioning relatives in Muscatine, Iowa, but I doubt we ever went there to visit.  Ida and Walburg probably visited there, and kept mom in the loop with family news about them.  

Larry found this bottle cap for sale on line.  COOL, huh?  Wonder what year it was from.  This sort of cover fit in the tall, slope-sided bottles (from earlier times), not the ones below...but why do I know that?  The squarish bottles were what we bought at the Dairy Bar on 3rd Street in St Cloud, but they had foil caps that fit down over the lip, remember?  The phone number is just four digits--1791--so it was before the national system was fancied-up with letters.

I'm guessing the Naber and Sons Dairy existed in the 1920s to 40s?

We can change this info if we find out different! 

(Next day--Larry found these ads in the Muscatine Journal in the 1940s)

THANKS, LARRY X2 ☺

Visiting Balzfeld in the 1950s

Here's something I've had in "My Pictures" file for about a month, since I met Diana on Facebook.  She lives in Balzfeld/Horrenburg, Germany--the villages that our Jansons left in 1883.  She found "Janson" online then connected on FB--isn't the world amazing these days?  Diana posted about it  on "Heimatdorf BALZFELD"and a friend of hers names Ute posted this stunning photo.  She said too that younger woman in the pic has a daughter, Irene, who still lives in Balzfeld.

Anyway, if the man on the steps was a Janson from America...he might have been one of John's sons, or Stefan's (who settled in Michigan) or Daniel who settled in Rice, Minnesota, because he's not Wendelin,  Sebastian, Eugene or Grandpa Anton.  Still, I'm thrilled someone went back to Balzfeld. 

Do you recognize the gentleman? The woman on the right reminds me of Grandpa Jansons' sisters Rose and Frances (both of whom were born in Minnesota). 

THANK YOU to Diana and Ute!