Iowa
Old Press
Nashua Reporter
Nashua, Chickasaw, Iowa
March 30, 1922
IOWA NEWS
- F.M. Nebe of Atlantic was elected president of the retail shoe
dealers of Iowa.
- Walter Olin, 45 years old of Muscatine refuses to tell where he
got the hooch which has left him totally and permanently blind.
- Thomas Birtles, 67 years old, of Creeton, was found dead in the
cemetery with a gun shot in his side and a gun at his feet. He
was the sexton.
- Albert Roche, 6 years old, of Mason City, was killed by being
run over by a truck driven by C.F. Beaver. The boy ran in front
of the truck.
- F.G. Rolfe of Burnside, probably owes his life to the courage
of his wife who submitted to blood transfusions in order to save
him from pneumonia.
- Mrs. Caroline Pothast, 86 years old, of Waverly, unable to take
an anaesthetic, recently, watched the doctors operate on her. She
was given local anaesthetia.
- Abe Pierce, pioneer of Winneshiek county, was kicked and
trampled to death by a cow recently. He was alone at the time and
details of the accident are not known.
- O.L. Wickens of Estherville is believed to be the champ wolf
hunter of Iowa. He has killed nearly 100 wolves and foxes since
he has resided on his farm at Gruver.
- James Bloemendaal of Atlon is in a serious condition on account
of swallowing a large quantity of gasoline while trying to siphon
the fluid out of a tank with his mouth.
- Mrs. Catherine Anderson, 28, is in a critical condition at a
Waterloo hospital, following an attempted suicide by drinking
carbolic acid. She assigned domestic troubles as the motive.
- H.F. Frerike, manager of a lumber yard at Hospers was fatally
hurt when a locomotive struck him. He was sitting on the end of a
tie and made no effort to get out of the way.
- J.E. Jones, 10-year-old, is dead in the hospital in Sioux City.
His brother, throwing skates over his shoulder struck the boy in
the temple accidentally, fracturing his skull.
- Officers who killed Joseph McDonald and Ted Steinhagen at
Marshalltown were exonerated by a coroner's jury which found that
the men died while resisting arrest. They were both box car
robbers.
- R.E. Echoff, 76, deaf, a retired farmer, was instantly killed
at Meservey, recently, when he failed to hear the whistle of an
incoming train and was struck. Many witnesses saw the accident.
The engineer was unable to stop.
- A.T. Marshall, Keokuk, attorney, died at his home recently
following an acute attack of illness. He was stricken while
seated in his office. He was a member of the Keokuk Bar
Association and one of the commissioners for the insane for that
county.
- Falling from a court window on the fourth floor of a Cedar
Rapids hotel, William G. Brock, of Matelle, was picked up
unconscious and died an hour later at a hospital without
recovering consciousness. In the fall of 40 feet his skull was
fractured, right shoulder broken a number of ribs crushed in and
he suffered internal injuries.
- Accidental deaths caused from violence and suicides in Iowa in
1921 totaled 1412 according to a report made public by secretary
of the state board of health. One hundred and fifty-four persons
took their own lives by shooting themselves; 102 hung themselves
while 17 others used a knife or other means of committing
suicide. Railroad trains killed 179 during the year and
automobiles proved an almost equal running mate with 176.
- Following an operation performed at a Grinnell hospital, little
Dale Hall, 5 year old boy from Brooklyn, passed away after he
apparently was well on the road to recovery. The little boy
strangled on a grain of corn some time ago and in some manner the
corn became lodged in his lung. Complications developed and he
was taken to the hospital for an operation, which for a time
brought relief. He seemed to be improving until he was suddenly
seized with a violet [sic] paroxysm of choking and inflammation
soon developed resulting in his death.
- Jacob Bossert, one of the earliest settlers of Webster City
passed away following an illness of nearly eight weeks with
pneumonia. He was 78 years old. Mr. Bossert was one of the best
known and most highly respected citizens of that city. He came
there in 1866 and had lived there continuously since that time.
- Mr. and Mrs. Alex Duncan, living two miles northwest of New
Market celebrated the seventy-third anniversary of their wedding
recently. They have never moved, having entered the farm on which
they live in 1849. They had eleven children, ten of whom are
living. Mr. Duncan served in the civil war. He is 96 and Mrs.
Duncan is 91.
- Mrs. Barbara Lance of Mason City, has been given a five year
sentence in the reformatory at Rockwell City. She had stolen
jewelry amounting to $500 from the home of W.J. McCahill. She was
given a like sentence two years ago but it was suspended because
she was about to become a mother. Her husband got a divorce and
took the baby boy because she was a felon.
- Frank Ridgeway, 65, of Swan, a wealthy retired farmer and
president of the Swan Savings Bank was fatally injured recently
when the auto in which he was driving struck a car driven by
Frank Berry of Carlisle. Mr. Ridgeway died after he had been
removed to Carlisle. Frank Oswell, driver of the car in which the
banker was riding, received minor injuries. Oswell's car turned
over and pinned Ridgeway beneath it crushing his chest. Berry,
his wife and another man named Beebe were uninjured.
- With the forty-year sentence on Harry Dean, the Pleasantville
bank robber gang has been cleaned out. Hank Hankins was killed,
Joe Welch is in a Nebraska pen for thirty years and Martin, Dean
and Davis are in Fort Madison for forty years.
[transcribed by C.J.L., March 2007]