Iowa
Old Press
Nashua Reporter
Nashua, Chickasaw, Iowa
March 16, 1916
HAPPENINGS OF THE STATE
Bride Buys a License
Des Moines - Miss Augusta Knies, 25 years old, of Lansing, Mich,
proposed to Harley Deckert, aged 29, of Des Moines. She admitted
it when she applied for a marriage license at the court house.
The sight of a woman applying for a license was so unusual
License Clerk Baldwin asked her if she "popped the
question." She answered, "Yes, and I'm not ashamed of
it either. It's leap year, you know." Deckert is a well to
do young business man. The young couple became acquainted when
Miss Knies came here to visit relatives. She is pretty and does
not in the least look the part of a suffraget or other militant
woman's rights person.
Dies at Age of 103.
Fort Dodge - Grandma Winnifred C. Jenkins, 103 years of age, died
here from grip. She was born in Trenton, N.J. in 1813. Mrs.
Jenkins came here in 1856 after marriage to a railroad contractor
with whom she traveled over what was then a wilderness. Mrs.
Jenkins lived to greet five generations of descendants. Hard work
and cheerfulness were her watchwords. She was progressive to the
end and in full possession of her faculties. She said shortly
before death that she wanted to take an aeroplane ride, as she
had ridden in all other modern vehicles.
Society Woman Asks Divorce
Des Moines - That he complained of household expenses, forced her
to do her own housework, encouraged her to enter society and then
refused to pay for her clothing and continually taunted
"that she was a poor girl when he married her and he had
introduced her into the highest society in Des Moines," were
a part of the complaints made by Mrs. Hazel Entrikin Saturday in
her petition for divorce from Dr. Joseph B. Entrikin, a well
known dentist in Des Moines. She asks for $1,000 temporary and
$10,000 permanent alimony.
90, Looks After Big Farm
Logan- "Uncle Jim" Kennedy is Harrison county's oldest
active farmer. He celebrated his ninetieth birthday anniversary
last week. He owns a stock farm of 320 acres, on which he has
lived since 1856, and he looks after it just as actively and
carefully as he did years ago.
Woman Fatally Burned.
Lake Park - Mrs. William Small, while trying to start a fire in a
heating stove at her home in Lake Park, used gasoline and an
explosion followed. She was so badly burned that she cannot
recover. The house was set on fire, but was saved.
LaPorte City - The "kissing case" came to an abrupt
ending in court here when Mrs. William Bunce withdrew her
complaint charging "assault with intent to kiss and
hug" against J.V. Rhodes, a Waterloo insurance agent. She
had charged that Rhodes attempts to hug and kiss her while at her
home on business.
Commander Soldiers' Home
B.C. Whitehill of Marshall county has been named as new commander
of the soldiers' home at Marshalltown, to take the place recently
vacated by the resignation of Col. Horton. Whitehill is a veteran
of the Spanish-American war.
Drug Act Upheld
Judge Wade of the federal court has upheld the Harrison drug act
and ruled that druggists have no right to sell drugs to dope
fiends under guise of prescribing for medical purposes.
IOWA NEWS NOTES
- Mr. and Mrs. Mathias Gohlman of Sabula have a record reacted by
but few people - that of 61 years of married life.
- Chris Vespested, aged 30, fell from the third story of the new
Northwestern hotel in Des Moines and was instantly killed.
- In the arrest of Mike Pittenicchio, 24 years old, following his
attempt to pass a $50 counterfeit bill at the Boston market in
Des Moines, police believe that they have the man who has been
passing counterfeit and raised bills at a dozen business places
in Des Moines during the past two weeks.
[transcribed by C.J.L., March 2007]