Iowa
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Iowa Recorder
Greene, Butler co., Iowa
September 1, 1909
Dougherty News [Cerro Gordo Co.]
-Tom Conwell has gone to Eakelson, N. Dak. to work during the
fall.
- Phillip Siepel is taking a vacation from his labors in the T.C.
Ryan pharmacy.
- Miss Pearl Lipps has gone to Cedar Falls where she will attend
the State Teachers College.
- J.C. Jordan is putting on all kinds of style with a new Maxwell
automobile he has just purchased.
-Fred Christians, Jim Brady, Pat Moran, Miss Rose Dougherty,
Peter Gorman and others attended the funeral of P.J. Clarke at
Greene last Thursday.
- The Dougherty public school building is being painted inside
and out, preparatory to the opening of school this fall. Miss
Sadie McGee will teach the school.
[transcribed by C.J.L., Nov. 2004]
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Iowa Recorder
Greene, Butler co., Iowa
September 8, 1909
THE HAWKEYE STATE
MARENGO MAYOR FOUND GUILTY
Judge Preston Holds A.M. Henderson Was Intoxicated
Judge B.W. Preston made known in Oskaloosa his decision in the
Marengo case, holding that A.M. Henderson, mayor of that town,
was guilty of drunkenness in office and under the provisions of
the new Cosson law the defendant is removed and the office
declared vacant. The Henderson case has attracted wide attention
in this State as being the first action brought under the Cosson
law, which provides for the removal of any official found guilty
of neglect or evasion of duty. While admitting that he was
addicted to the moderate use of liquor, Mayor Henderson denies
that he was intoxicated and unfit for duty at any time. The
liquor question was an issue at the recent election and he
declares his views were announced publicly and that he was
elected by the citizens of Marengo with a full knowledge of his
attitude. Several witnesses for the State testified that the
mayor was seen in an apparently intoxicated condition on the
streets of Marengo. It is probably that Mayor Henderson will
appeal the case.
OUTING ENDS IN TRAGEDY
Two Children Killed When Hay Rack is Overturned.
Two children were killed and fifteen injured, several of them
seriously at Humboldt, when a hayrack carrying a Methodist Sunday
school picnic was overturned, hurling the children down a
seven-foot embankment. While stopping, at the bottom of a hill
the horses backed up and the rack overturned. William W.Wallace,
who drove the team, is crazed from grief and the whole town is
upset by the tragedy. Almeda Wilder, aged 12 years, daughter of
E.A. Wilder and Fern Beebe, 12 years, daughter of Allie Beebe,
were the children killed. The party was precipitated into a
gully, the horses falling into a mass of forty-five struggling
children. One of the injured, Mrs. Robert Newman, probably will
die.
ARREST OWEN BALL'S BROTHER
Younger Member of Famous Family Wanted for Burglary
If there is anything to the fact as claimed-that there are often
found criminal tendencies in families-scientists might be able to
find ground for study in the Ball family of Marshalltown. Owen
Ball, who is now doing time in Minnesota for the robbery of the
Northern Pacific Express in a Minneapolis suburb, is the oldest
of a family of large children. The other day in Marshalltown, a
younger brother of Ball, Russell, aged 16, was arrested at the
request of the sheriff of Woods County, Okla., who holds a
warrant for the boy, charging burglary. Russell Ball was arrested
in Oklahoma and placed in jail at Alva, from where he escaped on
June 25. Sheriff Martin of Woods County will come for the
prisoner as soon as he can secure requisition papers. Owen Ball
claimed to be the pal of Frank Chercliffe, who is now doing a
long sentence in Colorado on a charge of murder.
FINANCIER ENDS HIS LIFE
Judge A.E. Swisher, a prominent Rock Island Railway attorney and
financier, took his own life by hanging himself in the barn of
his home in Iowa City. Worry over heavy financial losses and
unsuccessful business ventures had wrecked his health. Mr.
Swisher was 54 years of age and up to the time of his illness was
a prominent member of the bar of eastern Iowa and a leading
Democrat of that section of the State. He was at one time
president of the state bar association.
WOMEN GET TAR AND FEATHERS
Mother and Daughter Also Horsewhipped-Set Adrift in Boat.
Mrs. Brown and her daughter, Maggie Brown, driven out of Keokuk
in a recent crusade against the red light district, were tarred
and feathered at Alexandria, Mo., five miles south of here. They
returned to Alexandria Saturday and at midnight forty men went to
their home and gave them a horse whipping, after which they were
escorted to the Mississippi River, placed in a skiff with out
oars, turned adrift and warned not to return under penalty of
death. They landed below Alexandria.
CHILD FATALLY BURNED BY TOY
Belle Plaine Girl Fatally Injured When Stove Fires Clothing.
While playing with a toy stove the 5-year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Corns of Belle Plaine was probably fatally burned.
By the time the accident was discovered by the cries of the
child, her thin, cotton clothing has been almost burned from her
body. Mr. Corns is a machinist in the Chicago & Northwestern
Railway shops.
Missing Man Found Dead.
The body of George Whitmore with a bullet hole in the forehead
was found in the weeds along the right of way near Mt. Ayr by
section men. Whitmore had been missing since May 10. A revolver
identified as belonging to the young man was found under the
body. He was 26 years of age. His father and brother are real
estate men at Mr. Ayr.
Shoots Woman and Himself.
Andrew Madsen shot and fatally injured Mrs. Martha Rasmusson and
then killed himself in a house at 5th and Locust streets, Council
Bluffs. Madsen had been courting the woman, who had been
separated from her husband. Recently she affected a
reconciliation with her husband and was forced to sever her
friendly relations with Madsen. This fact angered Madsen, who was
insanely jealous of the woman's husband.
Has Unusual Accident.
While leaning on a croquet mallet watching a game, Herman
McGowan, 45 years old, of Mason City, had the handle driven into
his body in the region of his floating ribs by striking his heels
against the mallet, which let him fall. He is in a serious
condition.
Boy Slain While Hunting.
An 18-year-old son of Andrew Kincaid, a farmer living near
Donnellson, was instantly killed with a rifle while hunting. In
pulling the rifle through a wife fence it was accidentally
discharged.
Rich, Ends Life Over Bill.
James Lippman, a Charles City farmer, who was worth about
$1,000,000, shot and killed himself following an altercation over
a threshing bill.
Woman is 101 Years Old.
Mrs. Sarah Green of Miles has just celebrated her 101st birthday.
She has been a resident of Iowa since 1839.
ALL OVER THE STATE.
-Twenty 200-candle power gas lights are to be installed on the
street corners at Murray.
-D. Dickman, a wealthy farmer of Charles City, aged 70, shot
himself in his barn. No cause is known.
- An explosion of gasoline at Lake Mills caused the loss of the
residence of Amund Fosness, valued at $3,500. with all the
furniture and $60 in currency.
-While playing circus with a crowd of boys, Glen Newton, the
14-year-old son of E.L. Newton of Anita, fell from a high
trapeze, breaking his arm by the fall.
- Clarence Maurer of Woodward was trampled by an infuriated young
bull and had two ribs fractured besides being badly bruised and
scratched by the beast's hoofs.
- One of the largest tile drains ever put in in Boone county by
private parties is being laid by James Everly and John Bilsland,
on their farm northwest of Madrid. The cost of the drain will
exceed $4,000.
- Because they have been unable to secure enough corn to run
their factory this year, the Western Grocer Company at
Marshalltown will raise its own sweet corn next year. Manager
McCreery has rented a 350-acre farm for the purpose.
[transcribed by C.J.L.; June 2004]
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Iowa Recorder
Greene, Butler co., Iowa
September 22, 1909
Dougherty News from the World [Cerro Gordo Co.]
-Miss Rose Rooney is attending school at the Toland's Business
University in Mason City.
-Thos. Conners went to Wheaton, Minnesota, Tuesday to look after
threshing the crops on his farm near that place.
- Hon. Daniel Dougherty and wife went to Mason City, Wednesday,
for a couple of days visit with their son, Rev. E.J. Dougherty.
-Sister Baptiste of St. Catherine's home in Milwaukee, Wis.,
arrived here Monday for a two or three weeks visit at the home of
her brother, Jas. Rooney.
- John Deardorff went over to Marble Rock the first of the week
and bought the Ramp Bowers bay team that took both first and
second premium at the Nashua fair last week.
-J.V. Kelly, who is now a railroad mail clerk, running between
Cedar Rapids and Carroll, spent the first of the week visiting
here. We miss Johnnie in Dougherty, but are glad to know that he
is pleased with his new position.
- J.M. Brady and wife and little son are home from an outing and
visit at Buffalo, Ia., on the Mississippi river. Jim tells us
that the fishing was good and that their stay on the banks of the
Father of Waters was a very pleasant one.
[transcribed by C.J.L., Nov. 2004]
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Iowa Recorder
Greene, Butler co., Iowa
September 29, 1909
Dougherty News from the World [ Cerro Gordo Co.]
-The news of the death of John McGee is reported from Rockwell.
He was 85 years old.
- Miss Rosa Campbell of Waukon arrived Saturday and will teach in
the Sandridge district.
-Charley Mullen, who has been playing ball with Portland, Oregon,
will arrive home Friday night.
-Claude Martin of Larchwood was a visitor at the home of his
uncle, C.C. Wertz at this place the latter part of last week. On
Sunday he was accompanied to Greene by Miss Maude Wertz, for a
visit with their grandmother.
[transcribed by C.J.L., Nov. 2004]