Iowa
Old Press
Oelwein Register
Oelwein, Fayette co. Iowa
March 31, 1909
Page 2
THE HALEN MURDER CASE NEXT MONTH
Venire Drawn From Whom the Jury - Will be Picked for the
Trial in April Term
It is probably that Mike Halen will be tried in the April term of
the District Court for the murder of George Bennett of this City,
and the venire of forty men from whom the jury will probably be
obtained has been drawn. The April term will open the 19th, and
the trial will be the center of interest, especially in the
southern part of the country where Bennett had been a resident
many years. It is learned that Halen remains as unmoved as when
first landed in the county jail at West Union. Following is the
list of the venire as drawn:
Alfred Bergeson, Auburn
Ole Mosby, Auburn
Jess Fish, Bethel
S. W. Conklin, Bethel
Fred Ginter, Banks
Oren Larson, Clermont
James Sullivan, Clermont
M. V. Dibble, Clermont
J. S. Briggs, Center
Peter Pape, Dover
Knut Kleppe, Jr., Dover
Ed Lockwood, Fayette
William Bunnell, Fayette
Peter Jubb, Fayette
C. F. Allen, Fayette
John Cline, Fairfield
A.A. Humphrey, Fairfield
J. A. Beattie, Harlan
J. A. Robbins, Harlan
P. P. Stewart, Harlan
Fred Wilbur, Illyria
John Manning, Jefferson
J. H. Behrens, Oelwein 1st Ward
William Snavely, Oelwein 2nd ward
Floyd Martin, Oelwein 2nd ward
J. A. Welch, Oelwein 3rd ward
E. O. Pleimling, Oelwein 4th ward
W. G. Barr, Scott
M. J. Leahy, Union
J. R. Jensen, Union
L. D. Shaffer, Westfield
F. M. Poppenhagen, Westfield
W. H. Tiffany, Windsor
Herm Beilfuss, Windsor
R. D. Smith, Windsor
F. M. Limbeck, West Union 1st ward
A. J. Gurney, West Union 1st ward
John Keegan, West Union 2nd ward
J. W. Bopp, West Union 2nd ward
TOOK THE DOG'S MEAT
A man who would rob a dog should be fired out of the city without
benefit of clergy, and still that is what an individual did on an
Oelwein business street Monday. A lady and her dog had just come
from a meat market where she had purchased some bologna for her
canine, and as is the custom the dog was carrying the meat in his
mouth. The lady met a friend and stopped to talk . The dog became
tired of holding the meat and laid it down on the walk. A man
came along, picked up the meat, putting it in his pocket
disappeared up the street. The lady was naturally indignant, and
as she purchased another supply of bologna remarked: "The
horrid man to steal Buster's meat, he out to be thrashed."
Wonder what sort of a meal the dog meat made!"
GAME COCK WON
A certain Hub City tonsorial artist is chuckling at the result of
a few amateur, out of doors cock fights that have occurred
recently in his back alley. Up to a few days ago male fowls of
his neighborhood have been putting it all over his chanticleer,
but now the tables are turned. A friend on leaving the city last
week presented him with a game cock that is a whirl wind in a
scrap. The neighbors roosters strolled over the other morning,
with the purpose of doing up the new fowl as they and the old
one. One at a time they mixed with the game fighter, and one by
one they retired with heads and tails drooping. They were not in
it at any stage of the game. And the new bird crows long and loud
as boss of the back alley.
WAS BEHIND TIMES
It is on a certain Hub City tailor, and is a living illustration
of the need of taking a local daily it you want the times. His
wife is out of town at a health resort, and he ordered the Daily
Register sent to her for company, although he gets his local
news in the weekly Register. Tuesday he received a
letter from his wife in which she commented on a somewhat
startling bit of Oelwein news that she had read in The Daily
Register, and of which he knew nothing. And when he began to
talk about news that was some days old. And that his neighbors
had read about, he was given the merry ha! Ha! And advised to
take a local daily paper and keep up with the procession, and as
he is a good fellow he probably will do so.
SOUND OF THE KNOCKER
The local political game seems to be largely made up of knocking
on the acts of those candidates who have served the city in
various positions and when it comes to knocking it is probable
that the Hub City has it is rumored that the infant progeny of
some of the leaders of the clan reach for a hammer very early in
life. With quite a bunch the song is something like this:
"Knock brothers, knock early and late, but knock in the
absence of the candidate." In the past ten years we do not
recall that the sound of the hammers was heard on the street any
louder than at present.
OELWEIN LIME KILN CLUB
It may not be generally known that Oelwein has a Lime Kiln Club
that was daily and evening sessions, and where checkers
backgammon, political or any other old question is cussed and
discussed to a frazzle, but such is the case. The club room is in
the rear of Gates hardware on East Charles street where Shoemaker
Jones acts as residing officer, and tells the bunch where to head
in at. It is a very democratic aggregation, and when a Register
man dropped in there for five minutes Friday a bank president and
an old vet were trying out a trio of games of checkers. It was
subsequently learned that the vet won two out of three. The
municipal political situation was up for discussion, and the
members of the club were evidently not a unit for either ticket.
One peculiarity noticed was that while the presiding officer is a
tobacco prohibitionist he pegs shoes amidst clouds of smoke
manufactured by the rank and file of the gang.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to express our heartfelt thanks to the kind friends and
neighbors who in any way assisted us during the sickness and
death of our beloved mother, for the beautiful lowers they
bestowed. The kindness will always be remembered by the children
and grandchildren of the late Katherine McHugh.
STATE DOCTOR'S LICENSE.
It is learned that recently the court has decided that the State
Medical Examiners exceeded their authority in refusing to issue a
state itinerant license to Dr. Shallenburger after he had
deposited the required fee, and the license was granted. To a man
up a tree or on an elevated section of land it would seem that
when a traveling physician puts up the money for a license it
should be granted, and not left in the air for six months to the
detriment of the man who puts it up. If the State Board of
Medical Examiners keep up the present gait it will begin to look
as though Charley Miller's "doctor's trust" is not all
in his eye. The people favor a square deal as far as physicians
and those not in the union are concerned.
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Now that Senator Dolliver and Cummins have arrived at an
understanding in regard to distributing pie, et cetera, it is
hoped that peace and harmony will prevail in the Iowa delegation
at Washington, and that in due season the delegation may occupy
as prominent a position down to the Capital at Washington D. C.
as it did a few years ago.
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It begins to look as though tariff revision may not be downward
but that the schedule along several lines may be boosted. It is a
local issue all right, as General Hancock remarked on a certain
occasion, and the representatives of various sections of Uncle
Samuel's domain feel called upon to look out for their
constituents, and incidentally for No. 1.
BELIEVES IT BEST TO MAKE THEM WORK
Instead of Fining Drunks They Should be Made to Saw Wood
Under Marshall.
On Friday morning in the Superior Court there was but one
solitary and went his way drunk. He got $5 and trimmings. -Oelwein
Register.
The chances are that the fine of $5 fell heavier on his than on
anybody else, and that instead of being a punishment to him it
was a punishment to the innocent. If this man had been sentenced
to saw two cords of wood under direction of the city marshall,
the money to be given to his family, the detention would have
deterred him from further drunks and no doubt proved a blessing
to those dependent on him. Not until the law-makers and courts
begin to see that it is work the regenerates the vicious, as well
as protects society, will punishment for crime amount to
anything. - Des Moines Tribune.
Judge Porter, of the Superior Court, was interviewed in regard to
this particular instance, and is authority for the statement that
it is not a matter of court or other record that the party be
sentenced $5 was ever married or has any intentions of becoming a
benedict. On general principles, however, it is probable that the
Tribune is right.
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W.R.C.- G.A.R. Social.
The ladies of the Oelwein W.R.C. and the gentlemen of the G. A.
R. to the number of about two score enjoyed a very pleasant
social eveningat the Wm. Refsnider residence Tuesday evening. It
was a time of the customary sociability, and there was
instrumental and vocal music in plenty. It was interesting to
hear them sing "Marching Through Georgia." And when
ration time came they all fell to and did splendid trencher
service. The "boys" ate as heartily as in the 60's when
they were down among the Johnies, and the "girls" got
up better rations than they could have at that early period in
their lives.
TERSE TOWN TALES = CRISP CURRENT OMMENT = ASSAULTED AT
HIGH TWELVE
It occurred on the stairway of the First and Last Chance Tuesday
at high twelve. H. J. Gardner was going up the stairs and met
Walt Linder who requested him to go back. Some words followed and
Gardner alleged that Linder smote him in the vicinity of his
nose, much to Gardner's discomfort. The assaulted party had the
assaultee arrested and brought before Judge Porter who set the
time for the hearing at 1 p.m. Wednesday. For some unknown reason
Gardner did not appear and the case was accordingly dismissed.
Possibly he concluded after due deliberation that the smash with
the fist was hardly sufficient to make a full fledged case.
OLD AND THE NEW
Saturday, March 20, at 4 p.m. was set the last line in this
office on the adjustable Simplex that for the past five years has
put up the type for The Register. Tuesday morning the
new Model 5 Mergenthaler began doing business, and the linotypes
take the place of the Simplex type. A good operator on the
Simplex will do the work of three men on the Merganthaler will do
the work of at least six in composition. The old machine has
passed out of the office and we hail the new. The Simplex will do
the business for a weekly paper, but it is not fast enough for a
daily, and with the Model 5, which is considerably faster it is
expected that the Oelwein Daily Register will be
considerably improved in amount of news furnished its readers -
after the operators gets the hang of the machine.
[transcribed by C.D., May 2012]