Iowa Old Press

Spirit Lake Beacon
Spirit Lake, Dickinson county, Iowa
September 28, 1916

Hunters Still Getting Lined Up For Ducks
Notwithstanding the shooting so far this season has been very light and the ducks very scarce, yet it puts no damper on the enthusiasm for the different gun men, as they live in hopes of splendid shooting a little later. The following have secured licenses in Dickinson county since last report:

B.R. Frick
C.H. Clark
J. Fairbanks
C.J. Gibson
F.M. Shaw
M.J. Alsen
W.H. Webb
S.A. Schakle
Ralph Lyman
C.E. Hartman
Wm. Hinde
W.H. Young
Peter Schlapkohl
Lars Wilkie
Clayton Elston
E. Warner
L.C. Bowman
R.D. Vanderbeck
Guy Hedrick
Harry Sorenson
W.B. Shoemaker
H.L. Leicht
W.E. Clark
C.F. Peterson
S.K. Weaver
C.H. Jordan
Ella Bronson
Spencer Poland
Albert Weinburg
Walter Thompson
W.J. Timpe
Selmer Quee
B.A. Funk
Archie Magnuson
A.D. Gray
Maurice Kizer
J.S. Heighton
J.N. Reagan
Merril Heighton
Fred Frondt
E.C. Webber
W.H. Barger
Cecil Sharp
J.H. Pentz
Leland Kelley

Clarence Croot
F.T. Tompkins
J.P. Mansmith
C.W. Newby
Carl Schlotterback
Bent Lamp
R.F. Forsyth
H.O. Rosenbeck
L.R. Kugkendal
Roy Hafer
H. Gugkendall
C.F. Bisbing
H.C. Tennant
Roy Blakey
Leonard Cother
A.M. Johnson, Jr
C.E. Menor
W.B. Harlan
G.E. Mitchell
T. Bruhn
Glen Hall
F.M. Smith
M.F. Fitzgibbons
Roy Holmes
M.M. Pedersen
N.B. Asher
Walter Phillips
C.B. Blackert
F.A. Noland
Aleif Kelley
Chas. L. Fronk
S.H. Turbeville
Arthur Edwards
Ed Fricke
Calvin Edwards
Chas. Nelson
Jas. A. Hedrick
J.H. Ingals
L. Hinshaw
Clare Shultz
Lyle Post
P.L. Timpe
H.V. Brown
Will Stetzel
Mrs. L.B. Stephenson

Classified Ads

Lost - A Knight Templar charm on Thursday of last week. A reward of $10 will be paid for its return to J.C. Davis, Spirit Lake.

For Sale - A Charter Oak base burner in splendid condition. Inquire of Mrs. Julius Arp, Okoboji, Iowa

For Sale - Cash only, New Round Oak heater, two 30 gallon gasoline tanks and one 50 gallon gasoline tank. John A. Miller

For Sale - Remington automatic shot gun, 12 guage, nearly new. Price $25.00 John Reinhart, RFD Spirit Lake

For Sale - A good surrey in good condition. J.W. Hartman

For Sale - Heating Stove, will burn either hard or soft coal. Inquire of J.F. Dare

For Rent - The 400 acre Inn Farm on West Okoboji lake, highly improved, one of the best farms on the lakes, for rent for two years. H.A. Smith, Okoboji

For Sale - White Star cottage, Lawler's addition, Arnolds Park, four rooms, two porches, all new completely furninshed. Good garage. $1250. Fred Hoffman, Sanborn, Iowa

Lost - White bird dog, left ear black, right part black, other small black spots, left September 5th. Notify H.A. TerVeen, Terril, Iowa and receive reward.

Dickinson County's Consolidated Schools
The members of the school board of Waukee, Dalla county, Iowa, recently traveled over 400 miles inspecting the consolidated schools throughout northern Iowa, and upon their return had the following to say of the schools they visited and one can readily see by the write-up they presented to their people at home how favorably the Consolidated schools in Dickinson county compared with those in other counties.

"Our first stop was in Buena Vista county and at the City of Marathon. This place has been consolidated longer than any in Iowa. The school building is being re-modeled at an expense of $20,000 and will when completed be modern in every respect.

Sioux Rapids, Linn Grove, High View, and Rembrandt all in the same county were visited the following day. To say this county is enthusiastic is putting it mildly. Already two-thirds of the county is consolidated and other districts will soon be moved into a $65,000 building. Linn Grove has a magnificent structure which is the pride of the community. High View was interesting it being a country consolidation. They employ four to five teachers and have eighty-five enrollment. The janitor occupies the upper story and his wife boards the teachers. They have added more territory. Rembrandt has an old building made of cement blocks and has no modern conveniences. There are 26 sections in the district and 215 pupils, seven teachers.

From here we drove into Clay county and passed two poorly equipped consolidations.

At Terril in Dickinson county a town of perhaps 200 population we found a $55,000 building. They have consolidated a whole township, have 300 enrollment, nine bus drivers who are paid from $40 to $60 per month. A number of former Dallas county people are located near Terril. We called on Clarence Dack and Frank Hanlon. We found them highly pleased with the school. Dr. Dack has 160 acres of land worth $150 per acre probably and his taxes on this and all personal property amounted to only $167 this year. Such a building, such equipment, country children enjoying city advantages, we thought, will Waukee do it, can we measure up with the best. Dack says you can, you have much more wealth than we have. But we are first in Dallas county.

At Estherville we saw an up-to-date city school and a $120,000 equipment. At Superior and Arnolds Park we found just what we wanted to see, buildings constructed for conditions similar to our own. These buildings cost around $35,000 but could not be replaced at that figure now as materials are highter. These buildings will accommodate 300 pupils.

Okoboji
-Mr. and Mrs. Gust Mathiesen, of Lake Park visited Sunday at the Will and Herman Wiese homes.
-Chas. Gipner went to Sioux City, the last of the week.
- Mrs. Will Wiese was at Spirit Lake Saturday.
-Mrs. Dimnitt of Des Moines, came Thursday to her cottage on Des Moines beach.
-Fred Roff autoed to Spirit Lake Saturday.
-Miss Kate Smith spent the last of the week at Rolfe.
-Mr. and Mrs. Harry Tennent autoed to Milford Saturday.
-Harry Tennant moved to Tuttle Lake Monday where he will sein until the cold weather.

News Gathered From Our Exchanges
-The Estherville K. of P's have moved in their new hall.
-Pat Howe sold his 114 acre farm near Estherville for $165 an acre.
-E.M. Nelson has sold the Ruthven Appeal to W.J. Lyon, of Linn Grove.
-Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Sharar recently ceelebrated their golden wedding anniversary.
-Mrs. Bertha Lee, of Estherville, will receive a pension under the new pension law.
-Mr. Samurst, of Ruthven, and Miss Helga Erickson, of Terril, were recently married.
-Roy Merriott, of Estherville, left last week by wagon for Oklahoma City to spend the winter.
-B.L. France, of St. Francois county, Missouri, has been chosen county agent for Palo Alto county.
-Mr. and Mrs. A.O. Peterson, of Estherville, are attending the Supreme Lodge, I.O.O.F. at Chattanoaga, Tennessee.
-The Pribyl & Weffler store at Lakefield was burglarized a week ago and looted of $600 worth of silks and about $75 in cash.
-Miss Mildred Isminger, of near Superior, has gone to Whittemore to spend the winter with her sister and her husband.
-A man giving the name of J.W. Wert, at Sibley, was recently killed by falling from a freight train near Harrisville, Missouri.
-The two year old boy of Mr. and Mrs. Rosa, of Emmetsburg was playing beside a motorcycle when it fell on him and killed him.
-John Schuller, of Palo Alto county, has bought the north half of section 29 in Twelve Mile Lake township, Emmet county, for $155 per acre.
-Fire recently destroyed the big Eckerman Bros. garage, and the adjoining buildings occupied by a pool hall and opera house at Early, Iowa.
-Mrs. H.B. Kobernus, of Terril, is making a good recovery from her serious operation she underwent a week ago in the city hospital at Estherville.
-Raymond Bond, son of Mr. and Mrs. S.W. Bond, former residents of Estherville, is now an actor of national prominence, commanding a salary of $300 a week.
-Misses Edith Yahr and Emma Bergman, of Spirit Lake, visited at the Emil Leo home for about a week while attending German school.- Estherville Democrat.
-Ellsworth township, Emmet county has asked the state board to send a representative to that locality to investigate an epidemic of diptheria. Dr. M.H. Boyd, of Iowa City will make the investigation.

Chris Rosenberger of Estherville, has the honor of being appointed district deputy grand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias lodge for the sixth time. The district under his supervision is composed of Emmet, Dickinson, Winnebago, Hancock and Kossuth counties with the exception of the city of Algona.