Iowa
Old Press
The Nashua Reporter
Nashua, Chickasaw, Iowa
February 21, 1901
All for a Kiss
Because Miss Grace Gipe was so pretty and vivacious looking and
her lips so temptingly red and ripe, M. N. Harmon, a sturdy son
of the soil living with his mother in Spring Creek township, is
in great trouble. He has been arrested for assault and battery
and all the assualt in evidence is the grasping of Miss Gipe's
plump arm, and the entire existance of battery is of the
osculatory sort when lips to lips are pressed. The only trouble
was that Miss Gipe was not willing to be kissed and the young
farmer was too brash in his effort to sip honey from the lucious
chalice of a maiden's face. She protested against his caresses
and he kissed her anyway, probably replying on the old adage that
"all is fair in love and war." The state, however,
makes a case of it and the result may show an unlucky day for
Harmon when he went into the forcible kissing business. The
affair happened in Spring Creek township, and romantic though it
may seem, the deed was comitted in that part of the township
known as "Buzzards Glory." The young folks had been
attending church,and after church, Harmon, who is about 25 years
of age and old enough to have been married long ago, that his
disposition for kissing might have been fully cured, sidled up to
the young lady of 16 summers and demanded a kiss. She resented
the attack, and Mr. Harmon clasped her in his strong arms and
planted a buss on her kisser that sounded like a mule pulling his
foot out of a mudhole. It is a fact well known in history that
women are made to be kissed, but the variable creatures are
peculiar about desiring to pick the kisser, and it was so in this
case. Much wroth and with blushes in her cheeks, the young woman
hastened homeward and poured the tale into the ears of her
father. He was angry and upon returning from a mandatory visit
away from home, had a warrant sworn out for Harmon. THe case will
be tried before Justice Rolph in Laporte tomorrow afternoon. - Waterloo
Reporter
[transcribed by L.D., August 2004]
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Nashua Reporter
Nashua, Chickasaw, Iowa
February 28, 1901
Brakeman Fred S. Guilbert, of Waterloo, who ran through Nashua on
the Illinois Central, met an awful death at Dyersville last
Thursday night. Guilbert was head brakeman. Shortly after his
train pulled out of Dyersville bound east his body was found
horribly mangled by the crew of another train. No one knows the
exact
manner in which the man met his death, but the presumption is
that he lost his footing and fell on the rail while attempting to
climb on the cars.
[submitter: C.J.L.; Sept. 2003]