Iowa
Old Press
Nashua Reporter
Nashua, Chickasaw, Iowa
November 1, 1900
Called Home
After a lingering illness of about five weeks the youngest son of
Mr. and Mrs. August Wedemeyer was called to be with his Lord,
Oct. 25, at 3 o'clock p.m. Justice Herbert was born in Monona,
Clayton county, Iowa, March 21, 1885, and was therefore 15 years,
7 months and 4 days old. When about 10 years of age his parents
moved to Bradford township, where they have since resided. the
boy was one of those exemplary children one delights to know.
when but a mere child he was received into the German Lutheran
church and no one has ever had reason to think him anything but a
Christian boy. The family are stricken with grief as they have
lost two other children in infancy -- a boy and a girl, and two
other children are at this time sick with typhoid fever. The
sympathy of the entire neighborhood goes out to the bereft
family. The funeral was conducted by the pastor of the Baptist
church Saturday at 3 p.m. from the house. A quartet met the
funeral procession at Greenwood and discoursed beautiful music at
the grave. The family find great consolation in the language of
David at the death of his beloved boy -- "He cannot return
to me, but I shall go to him."
Prosper Wedding.
Mr. Frank A. Hauswirth and Miss Emma Hanneman were united in
marriage tuesday evening at the home of the bride's mother. The
bride is a very amiable young woman who has lived in this
vicinity with her mother for several years and numbers many
friends among our people. The groom is an honorable and respected
well-to-do young farmer and will take his bride to a pleasant
farm home abuot two miles north-west of here. We hope the
happiness that now fills their hearts will not be dimmed by the
passing of time, but will strenthen with years and increase with
associations.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Sam Crooks, of Ionia, Oct.
20, 1900, a daughter.
Died, at her home south of Bassett, Thursday,
Oct. 25, 1900, Mrs. Galbraith. She was a very old lady and much
loved and respected by all who knew her, a kind, loving wife and
mother and a true christian woman, and will be greatly missed.
The friends have the sympathy of all in their home of sorrow, and
especially the aged husband who will be left entirely alone.
Yes, dear mother, you have left us.
And your loss we deeply feel.
Yet we know you will be happy.
In the realms of heaven above.
And we shall always feel your watchful love.
For you lived for those that loved you.
And was always kind and true.
And in Heaven you will be a blessing.
As on earth you were always so.
--written by a friend.
[transcribed by S.F., June 2004]
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Nashua Reporter
Nashua, Chickasaw, Iowa
November 22, 1900
ITEMS FROM EXCHANGES
From Neighboring Towns.
-Diphtheria is reported in Charles City. It is said to be in a
mild form, however, and the cases are strictly quarantined. There
has been one death, the 13-year-old son of C. Lang.
-News was received at Ft. Dodge Sunday of the death of Capt.
J.A.O. Yeoman, one of the most prominent attorneys of Northern
Iowa. Capt. Yeoman is prominently mentioned in the United States
government history of the Civil war for conspicuous gallantry on
the field of battle. He was one of the captors of Jefferson
Davis.
-Since the election there have been many comments as to who is
the oldest voter in the United States, but so far as heard from
Iowa takes the lead by eight votes. William Zimmer, the centurian
of Clinton, cast his first vote for James Monroe in 1820. He was
born in 1799. He is hale and hearty and is seen on the streets of
Clinton every fair day. He was born in Schoharie county, N.Y.
-Peter Vogler, a prominent farmer of Henry county, while helping
shred corn fodder got both arms caught in the machine and before
the machine could be shut down the arms were ground to pulp clear
to the shoulder. The man's screams first attracted attention and
his companions to run to shut off the power, but the arms were
slowly drawn into the knives before this could be accomplished.
Both arms were amputated at the shoulders and it is thought he
will live.
-Miss Alma Hearne, of Washington, Iowa, has started on a journey
of 8,000 miles to meet her promised husband, Howard Holland, at
Conception, Chile, South America. Mr. Holland was formerly of
Milton, Iowa, and fell in love with Miss Hearne while they were
attending college together. When Mr. Holland left as a missionary
for South America under the direction of the Methodist church,
Miss Hearne's love went with him with the promise that she, too,
would go to South America to help him work. Miss Hearne has been
a teacher for several years. She will visit in Chicago and New
York before sailing for Chile via Cape Horn. Two of her brothers
are officers in the army of the Phillipines.
-One of the saddest deaths we have ever had the misfortune to
chronicle occurred on the Sand Cove Sunday morning when the
ten-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard O'Donnell choked to
death on a kernel of corn. She was playing with her little
brother near the corn crib and both were eating the yellow
kernels from the cobs. Her father has repeatedly warned her not
to do this but child-like she soon forgot his advice and as a
result met with one of the most horrible deaths human nature can
conceive of. The kernel lodged below the larynx, or trachea, and
in struggling the particle of corn was forced upwards and was
held unresistingly by the walls of the windpipe. Had the
obstruction lodged in one of the bronchial tubes, larynxotomy
might have been applied, but destiny ruled otherwise and a bright
young life paid the penalty. Her death occurred in five minutes.
Medical assistance summoned from New Albin arrived too late to be
of any assistance.-- New Albin Globe.
[submitted by C.J.L., March 2004]