Iowa
Old Press
Nashua Reporter
Nashua, Chickasaw, Iowa
September 30, 1920
**IOWA NEWS - Items of Interest Summarized for Busy
Readers**
Miss Yvonne Manin and Miss Andree Dumont of France ae visiting
with Miss Agnes Wood at Traer.
Nights in August 1920 were cooler than they have been in the past
26 years, according to weather reports.
Sioux City people are paying 6 cents for street car fare. The
raise from 5 cents was granted at a special election a month ago.
J.L. Johnson, 69 [possibly 60], and his wife were burned to death
at their home in Marshalltown when Mrs. Johnson poured gasoline
into a cooking range to hurry the fire.
Prof. C.B. Gose of Simpson college has presented to the college
some mastodon remains which he unearthed while visiting the
Devil's Gulch in northern Nebraska this summer.
Mrs. Charles M. Hodge of Moville was instantly killed three miles
east of Holstein, when the car she was riding in collided with
another. Mr.. Hodge is believed to have been fatally injured.
Charles Dickerson, farm hand, committed suicide on the Ray
Braunson farm near Manson, by placing a shot gun on a table and
forcing the trigger with a poker. His body, when found, was
riddled with shot.
Edgar M. Houstow of Fort Madison has filed suit for the annulment
of his marriage to Mrs. Harold Price, declaring that she had not
obtained a divorce from her former husband when she married him.
Grief over the death of her husband, M.F. Bagley, who died from
pneumonia in France where he served as a soldier, caused Mrs.
Alice Bagley, his widow, to committ suicide at Manchester by
drowning.
Belgian horse breeders throughout the United States and Canada
have their eyes turned toward Waterloo where the second annual
International Belgian Horse Show is to be held September
27-October 9.
George Whale of Sioux City, 23 years old, arrested for
intoxication dropped dead as he entered the police station. An
examination showed his death was caused by wood alcohol. His is
the second death in a week.
Ike Hensley, of Hensley Bros., well known farmers and stockmen of
Audubon county, topped the Chicago livestock market recently with
a carload of choice Angus steers which averaged 762 pounds and
sold for $17.25.
The fine new farm home of Henry Kottman, about seven miles east
of Monona, was burned to the ground with few of the contents
saved. The fire was started by the explosion of a can of floor
varnish which was being heated in the kitchen.
One of the activities of the farm bureau of Clayton county was
the organization of a County Wool Grower's association and
shipping of the wool crop through the Iowa Fleece Growers'
association. Over 41,000 pounds of wool was shipped from four
points, Elkader, Clayton, Osterdock and Turkey River, from more
than 200 farmers.
John McGill, 25, Negro, of Sioux City, was murdered by unknown
persons. His body was found in the rear of a business man's home
when police investigated the source of groans reported by the
owner of the residence. McGill had been literally hacked to
pieces with a knife, many of the wounds being in the back,
indicating he had tried to escape his assailants.
Mrs. Frank McGovern, the wife of a well known Jackson county
farmer, was found dead at the side of the road near her home five
miles south of Bellevue. The driver of an oil wagon seeing her
lying beside the road
investigated and found her dead. From her position she had
evidently started for some nearby plum trees to pick some fruit,
when she was seized with an attack of heart failure.
Thieves, breaking into Protective Cleaners and Dyers shop at Des
Moines, made away with $700 worth of clothing. A. Borman, manager
of the shop, discovered the theft after entering the store
through the front door, and noticing muddy foot marks all over
the place. The thieves broke thru a window in the rear of the
building, according to Borman. One lady's plush coat with a
fur-lined collar, valued at $220, and 20 suits of men's clothing
was taken.
Carl Hutchins, farmer and stockman east of Algona, lost a
valuable bull in a peculiar way. Carl had sold the animal to a
Spencer stockman for $475 and had agreed to load the animal on
board car at Algona. He loaded the bull into his wagon, and
started for town, but when part of the distance had been covered
the youngster started to "mix things" a little, finally
jumping over the side of the wagonbox, with the result that his
neck was broken. The animal was a purebred Shorthorn and was a
fine specimen of the breed.
One of the largest yields of first quality wheat ever threshed on
a Jasper county farm was on the Will Carrier farm recently.
Thirty-two acres yielded 1200 bushels. It tested [?] pounds and
sold for $2.50 a bushel, bringing a little more than $3,000.
Two Des Moines men, Frank Wicklund and Rellis Toulum were arrested with
three others in and near Omaha in connection with what police there regard
as the biggest auto theft ring in this section of the country. The two men
are reported to have worked out of Des Moines, joining their activities with
those of the other three, who made Omaha their headquarters.
As a result of a collision between a truck belonging to the F.C. Kenison
Transfer Company of Cedar Falls and a Ford car belonging to Rev. H. Schaller
of Sumner, Ia., on the Rainbow drive between Cedar Falls and Waterloo, the
Ford was demolished and three children in the car more or less bruised.
Rev. Schaller was also in the car, which was being driven by a son, but
escaped with minor injuries.
Harold R. Williams of Grand View, junior member of the firm of J.J. Williams
& Son, breeders of pedigreed Polled Shorthorn cattle, departed for New York
City from which port he will sail for South America. Mr. Williams goes to
South America in response to repeated invitations from Argentine men t send
a representative to the Palermo show in September and will spend several
months there helping to establish more firmly trade relations.
Glen Lacky of Atlantic, an automobile mechanic, lies in a stupor at his home
here, from the effects of a blow on the head, from a broken telephone pole.
Lackey in order to avoid a collision with another automobile at an
intersection, drove his car into a pile of crushed rock to be used in
paving, at the side of the street. The car ran over the rock pile, crashing
into the telephone pole, which snapped off, and fell through the top of the
machine, onto the head of the driver.
Names of forty-nine Iowa officers who lost their lives in the world war will
be among those to be preserved in the archive of the Army and Navy Club of
America, in a $3,000,000 memorial hall and clubhouse to be erected in New
York City. The club will keep a list of officers who lost their lives in
the war, together with other data about the men. The list of casualties
given out by the war department indicates that forty-nine Iowa officers lost
their lives in the war. Of this number thirty-two were killed in action,
according to the records: nine died of wounds, and eight of disease.
Des Moines is the drug supplying center of the middle western states. This
was the opinion of Inspector Carroll of Minneapolis, who is in Des Moines
investigating illegal opiate traffic out of that city. He was sent there by
the internal revenue department after word was received in Washington of the
seizure of nearly $40,000 worth of drugs there several days ago. James
Andrews, alias "Dopie Jim" was arrested following the raid. He will be
arraigned before United States Commissioner Piper charged with the illegal
possession of narcotics. Inspector Carroll stated that the supply taken was
the largest he had ever seen.
The land boom in the section west of Carroll continues and hardly a week
goes by that some big transfer is not made. Prices that a year ago in June,
when land began to float skyward in price, has sold lately for $100 to $200
an acre more than it brought then. Close on the heels of the deal which
brought George Wieland $500 an acre for his farm northwest of the city,
comes the sale of the old Gilley nursery, a mile west of the Lincoln
highway. Martin McCullough sold the tract of sixty acres to Frank Baumhover
for $500 per acre. Mr. McCullough purchased the land a year ago. The price
he paid then was considered high. After selling it he makes a little over
$200 per acre on the transaction. Holding the land for a year brought him
over $12,000 profit.
Sixty-five Poland China spring pigs, the property of Worth Overton of
Knoxville were sold to Earnest Melberg of Norway recently for $123 a head,
or a total of $8,000. This makes about $14,000 worth of pigs disposed of by
Mr. Overton in 18 months.
Mrs. Florence Coakley, belonging to a prominent family near Otter Creek,
passed away of lockjaw which set in as the result of blood poisoning. Mrs.
Coakley stepped on a rusty nail. In spite of every effort by physicians the
dreaded tetanus seized her and caused her death.
Cold and rain over the state hit the corn crop so hard that only abnormally
warm weather during the next 30 days can save it from severe frost damage
according to the Daily Iowa weather and crop bulletin issued.
[submitted by S.F., Oct. 2003]