This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Krecklow, Koop, Brand Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AQB.2ACI/167.3 Message Board Post: Plattsmouth Journal, Monday, August 19, 1918 LOCAL NEWS. >From Friday’s Daily. Mrs. Wm. KRECKLOW departed last evening for Louisville where she is visiting with friends for a short time. Plattsmouth Journal, Monday, December 2, 1918 LOCAL NEWS >From Friday’s Daily. W.F. KRECKLOW and daughter, Mrs. Harold KOOP, of Louisville, were in the city yesterday visiting at the home of Will KRECKLOW and also spending Thanksgiving. W.F. KRECKLOW of Louisville departed last evening for Hot Springs where he goes for a three months stay at the baths there as a treatment for rheumatism. He has been troubled for some time with the complaint, and seeks to be freed from it. >From Wednesday’s Daily. August KRECKLOW, road overseer for Center precinct, was a visitor in the city this morning coming to meet with the board of county commissioners and to look after some other business in the city. Plattsmouth Journal, Monday, December 9, 1918 W.F. KRECKLOW, the old-time blacksmith, has closed his shop and gone out of business on account of rheumatism in his arms caused no doubt by continuous hard work at the anvil. He expects to spend some time at Hot Springs, Arkansas, where he will try the baths with hopes of regaining his health. He has been in the blacksmith business in Louisville for eighteen years. His retirement leaves Louisville with but one blacksmith, Fritz BRAND.