Iowa Old Press
The Carroll Herald
Carroll, Carroll co. Iowa
January 21, 1885
Brevities
-Thirty degrees below zero Monday morning.
-Mrs. Thos. F. Barbee is visitng at Rock Island, Ill.
-W.L. Culbertson has been confined to his room with a severe cold
for several days.
-O.M. Moore left Tuesday for a short visit to his home in
Indianola. He will be absent a week or so.
-Miss Walker, of Council Bluffs, who has been visiting Mrs.
Finkbine, is convalescent from an attack of pneumonia.
-Miss Cora Shober surprised her many friends here by an
unexpected visit last Monday. She will remain here a week or two.
-Ott Kentner has been suffering from one of Job's comforters
which made its appearance in his nasal organ, giving him, very
unjustly, a decidedly dissipated appearance. A boil in one's nose
is an industrious pain producer.
Wm. Staak, residing some five or six miles west of Carroll, is
quite ill with pneumonia. His wife is suffering from a severe
abcess in the back which may result seriously and one of the
children has also been quite sick. This family is having more
than a fair share of sickness.
Valentine Hinrichs and Frank Brooks were captured in a snow
blockade on the Kingsley branch last week. The train made Sac
City, however, by driving through the drifts before the
passengers ran out of fuel and provisions. They were blockaded
fro about twelve hours.
Mr. O'Neal, aged about sixty years, who resides on the South side
was badly frozen one of the severe nights last week, being
overcome with the cold while on his way home. He will lose nearly
all the fingers upon one hand and one or two fingers on the
other. His injuries, however, are not now considered dangerous,
although they were so reported at first.
Missing
The only child of Herman Okken, of Grant township, left
his home the morning of October 28th, with no apparent reason,
and his parents have since secured no trace of him. The boy is
bright and intelligent, light complexion and speaks both English
and German. At the time of leaving home he wore overalls and an
old coat and cap. Any information leading to the recovery of the
child will be liverally rewarded by his parents. Papers pubished
in adjoining counties are requested to copy this item and assist
the bereaved parents in recovering their child.
Death
Frankie, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. Newton
Carpenter, who reside two miles west of Carroll, died about four
o'clock Sunday afternoon of cerebro spinal meningitis, aged one
year. He was a very bright and lovable little boy, the only son
of his deeply afflicted parents. It has fallen to the lot of Mr.
and Mrs. Carpenter to lose by death five children in all, and
they have but one living now, a little daughter. Sorrow such as
this calls forth the deepest human sympathy, which, though
sincere and tender goes but a little way toward consolation. But
the afflicted parents have this in the fullest degree.
A Card of Thanks
Please allow us to express through the columns of your
paper our heartfelt thanks for the kindness of our neighbors and
friends during the illness and since the death of our little son.
Mr. and Mrs. N. Carpenter.
Notice
I hereby notify all persons that I will not be
responsible for any debts contracted by my brother, James Lovely,
of Wheatland township, Carroll county, Iowa, as said James Lovely
has not now, neigher has he ever had, any right to sign my name
for me or to contract any debts for which I would be responsible.
Peter Lovely.
Neighborhood News - Gathered From Counties in This Part
of Iowa
-Jack Reynolds, the Marshall county burglar, who shot
Sheriff McCord last summer, plead guilty to three indictments and
goes to the penitentiary for twenty years.
-Mrs. McCulley, widow of D. McCulley, who died a few weeks ago at
Jefferson, has received two thousand dollars from the A.O.U.W.,
of which society her husband was a member.
-The Guthrie Center Guthrian gives the following report
of a very fair corn yield: E. Pickett, of Bear Grove, reports
gathering 145 bushels of corn from a piece of ground 10X20 rods.
That was 115.2 bushels to the acre.
Scranton
Two sudden deaths have occurred at Scranton within the
past few days. One of these was Thomas Striebling, clerk in the
Scranton House, who was found dead in his bed Sabbath morning the
11th inst. He had been suffering from pneumonia complicated with
pleurisy.
The other was Mrs. Avis, who had just arrived from Nebraska, who
died Tuesday, the 13th inst. in an epileptic fit. She was 35
years old and leaves a husband and three children.
Arcadia
-Mrs. Minnie Miller, of Sioux Falls, Dak., is here
visiting friends.
-Miss Maggie Mayham, who has been the guest of Mrs. C.A. Daniel
the past month, has returned to her home in New York.
-Dr. Feenstra has recovered from his attack of rheumatism.
-H.J. Gable has been appointed agent of the White Star line of
steamships.
-Arcadia has passed the pop ordinance imposing a fine on any one
who shall sell or offer to sell to minors or habitual drunkards
"any or all drinks not prohibited by the State law."
Arcadia news crowded out last week:
-Miss Louise Stoll and Emma Lahann are visiting friends at
Denison.
-Mrs. Joe Kniest of Carroll was the guest of Mrs. L.S. Stoll,
last week.
-John Neff, of Sterling, Neb., is here visiting the family of
M.B. Miners.
-Henry Pricht left Sunday for Chicago and from there he will go
to Jackson, Minn., his future home.
-George Reif will soon open his meat market in the store formerly
occupied by P.H. Yant. Mr. Yant has sold out his hardware store
to D. Bornholdt.
-Hugh Westerman is working for Frank Weber in place of Peter
Peck, who is going on the farm.
Manning
-Geo. Faust has sold his residence to Mr. H.D. Radefeff
for $850.
-Mrs. Clara Arney is visiting friends in Marshall count.
-Mr. Dave Sims shipped on last Saturday five car loads of cattle
and two of hogs. They were the finest ever shipped from this
place.
-J.S. Wilson shipped three car loads of hogs to Milwaukee last
week.
-Miss Woolman is teaching the Eden school.
-Mr. Sherman has started a dairy wagon for the accommodation of
the town people.
Sheridan
-Born, to Wm. Moore and wife, last week, a son.
-Louis Yander, of Illinois, is visiting his brother, Allis.
-Miss May Hayes, of Moingona, is visiting relatives here for a
few days.
-Mrs. Thos. Rohan spent last week visiting her parents in
Arcadia.
-Gert Fonken, of Webster City, was visiting his brother Minard
recently.
Carrollton
-Jack Mark has again made his appearance in our midst.
-The festival at Carrollton gotten up for the benefit of the
methodist minister, Rev. Stevenson, was a success. They cleared
$40.
-Stephen Sexton, while working at the addition to Mrs.
Armstrong's house, fell when the scaffolding gave way a distance
of twelve feet, shaking him up considerably.
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Why is a drunkard like a foundling? Because he's brought up on a
bottle.
To a convicted felon life is nothing but a little cell.
Light weight - the tonnage of a cargo of kerosene.
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Iowa Items
B.F. Henry, of Oskaloosa, has been sentenced to four years in the
penetentiary for the crime of seduction.
Dying of small pox is expensive in Appanoose county. In one case
parties had the county charged with $50 for hauling the corpse to
the cemetery. Two boys wanted $20 each for lowering the corpse
into the grave; a nurse charged in one case $10 a day for ten
tays work in caring for a pateint, while the physician wanted
from $10 to $25 a day for medical attendance. In a very few cases
the county was charged with about $700 of expenses.
Sunday noon, the 11th inst., James Stack, of Keokuk, aged 16, was
killed while jumping off a train in the yards. The yard master
had driven him from the train several times before the accident
occured, but young Stack kept on. Death was instantaneous. He
head was cut nearly off, simply hanging by a narrow strip of
flesh on one side. The body was terribly mutilated and crushed,
and one lung torn out. The remains were taken to an undertaking
establishment and the coroner summoned.
Hon. Enoch W. Eastman, who died at his home at Eldora on the 9th
inst., was one of the pioneers of Iowa, and his residence in
Iowa, both as state and territory, marks the substantial period
of his growth. Born in New Hampshire, in 1810, he moved to Iowa
in 1844, settling at Burlington. He afterwards moved to Oskaloosa
and thence, in 1858, to Eldora. He was a lawyer by profession,
and at the time of his death was probably without exception the
oldest practicing lawyer in Iowa. He was elected
lieutenant-governor on the same ticket with Gov. Stone in 1863.
He was elected to the state senate in the last legislature, and
was prominent in advocacy of prohibition. His death narrows the
rapidly narrowing circle of the men who belong to the pioneer
epoch of Iowa.
William Lovelace died at Council Bluffs, Friday night, the 9th
inst., of small pox. He was boarding with his sister's family
when taken sick, and when they learned the nature of the disease
they moved out of the house and left him alone. Lovelace laid
there three days without food or fire, when his cries attracted
the attention of the police. An officer looked into the window,
and seeing Lovlace's condition, refused to enter the house. The
sick man begged for food, which the officer brought and left on
the door step. To get it Lovelace was obliged to leave his bed
and crawl to the door. He was too weak to dress himself and
caught a heavy cold from the exposure. Later in the day Green
Meyers, a colored man, was hired to nurse him, but Lovelace was
beyond human help. Just before he died Lovelace said that after
he was dead he would come back after the people who had abandoned
him. Meyers was put into quarantine at the pest house and worried
over Lovlace's words all the time. Monday night he ran excitedly
into the jail, declaring that the dead man had rapped three times
for him. Meyers would not listen to argument and left Wednesday
for St. Joseph, Mo., insisting that the ghost was after him. He
is harmlessly crazy from brooding over the matter.
[transcribed by S.F., September 2014]