Iowa
Old Press
Nashua Reporter
Nashua, Chickasaw, Iowa
Sepember 21, 1899
R.B. Curtis, the much married man, who has been doing a five-year
sentence in the penitentiary at Anamosa, has been given his
liberty, providing he conducts himself properly and does not
subject himself to a breakage of the rules of the prison, he
having served sufficient time to be paroled. Curtis made quite a
record for himself while imprisoned editing the Anamosa
Prison Press, and he was freely scored by the press of the
state. He also wrote and published a book pretending to relate
his career, but it was suppressed by the prison authorities.
Wesley Elkins, the boy murderer from Clayton county, will succeed
him as editor of the Prison Press.
The little four year old son of Mr. and Mrs. H.H. Everitt, of
Five Mile Grove, was playing around a cane mill which was in
operation this week when his hair became entangled in the huge
cane rollers. Before the power could be shut down the little
one's head was horribly mangled. He was at once taken to Atlantic
where the best of medical aid was given him. Althought he is
suffering intense pain it is thought that he will recover. -- Audubon
Advocate.
Dispatch to the Democrat from the Chicago correspondent
of the San Francisco Examiner, states that Miss Lizzie
Prue, supposed to be from Waverly, attempted suicide in the
latter city yesterday, disappointment in love supposing to have
been the cause of her desire to shuffle off this mortal coil. A
Democrat reporter conveyed the news to the relatives of Miss Prue
yesterday afternoon, and it was wholly a surprise to them. Miss
Prue left here August 28th, with no other perpose so far as they
knew but to engage in dress making in San Francisco. she wrote to
them upon her arrival there Sept 3d, in a cheerful vein. Rumor
has it however, that her journey to San Francisco was to meet a
former lover whose bride she expected to become. -- Waverly
Democrat.
A feud existing for some time between Henry Schmedeke and Ed
Piegors came to a head Saturday, especially to Piegors head. The
two were a part of a threshing crew in Freemont township when
they came to blows. Schmedeke struck Piegors with a pitch fork
and made an ugly scalp wound. When he arrived at Dr. Jungblut's
office in Tripoli, Piegors appeared as if some one had poured
several quarts of blood over him. At the same threshing, the same
day, Ed. McCumber had a bone broken in his right leg while
wrestling with one of the boys. There was no bad blood in the
latter case. -- Waverly Independent.
Louis Beckman, a farmer living near Audubon was struck by
lightning while crossing a field recently, and had a miraculous
escape from death. He was struck in the back of the head and it
crossed his shoulders and ran down his body and legs into the
ground, his clothing and shoes were torn into shreds, the hair on
the back of his head was all burned off, and all the way down his
body is a red scar. A purse he carried in his pocket on which
were brass clasps was melted, and shreds of his clothing were
driven in the ground two feet. the injured man managed to crawl
to his house, about 300 yards distance, and is in a fair way to
recovery.
Mr. and Mrs. John O'Brien, old residents of Butler county, were
struck by a run-away team while returning home from Greene Sept.
9, killing Mrs. O'Brien instantly and seriously injuring Mr.
O'Brien.
Ed. Stanley, who has been breaking on the Calmar train for
several weeks past, met with a painful and serious accident
sunday morning. While making a coupling in the yards here, the
draw-bars slipped past each other and catching him between the
cars, crushing him so badly that his collar bone was broken, and
his body bruised. The accident will lay him up for a number of
weeks. -- Decorah Journal.
Mesdames A. Runyan and A. Fox and son, Guy, went to Lawrence,
Kas., Tuesday where they will attend a family reunion of Mrs. R's
brothers and sisters.
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Nashua Reporter
Nashua, Chickasaw, Iowa
Sepember 28, 1899
The Weeks home was a merry one last Saturday, a reunion of the
brothers and sisters of Dr. E.C. Weeks being held at his home.
Carlos Weeks of Spokane Falls, Wash., Irving Weeks, Kimball,
S.D., Hon. S.P. Leland and wife, of Charles City, and Miss Ida
Weeks of this city being present. A splendid dinner prepared by
Mrs. Weeks who knows just how to serve one that will tempt the
appetites of all present, was an important feature of the
occasion, after which the remainder of the day was spent in
social chat. The party which drove down from the City early in
the morning returned home that evening.
[submitted by C.J.L. Sept. 2003]