Iowa
Old Press
Webster City Journal
Webster City, Hamilton co. Iowa
Thursday, September 14, 1916
Will Move to this City
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Park, who have been residing in Cedar
Rapids since their marriage, will move to this city at once where
Mr. Park has accepted a position in the Boston Shoe &
Clothing store. They will make their home temporarily with Mrs.
P's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.N. Omstead.
Child Has Infantile Paralysis
The first case of infantile paralysis in this vicinity
was brought to light Sunday, when the seven year old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. S.H. Wilson, who live northeast of this city, was
found to be the victim of the disease. The child had been ill a
week before the nature of her ailment was ascertained. Her lower
libs are paralyzed but otherwise her condition is as good as can
be expected. The Sunnyside school, which the child attended has
been closed for the present.
Petitions in Court
-John Hall, a clothing corporation in Chicago, asks
judgment against W.L.R. Perry for $275, claimed on account.
-John Peterson is suing Dan Marcus for $54.80, claimed for
merchandise.
-W.K. Jackson seeks judgment for $47.45 against Wm. and Percy
Turpin.
-R.W. DeLa sues E.B. Benson for $83.30, claimed to be due on a
note.
-Edson, Keith & Co., of Chicago ask judgment against Mrs.
Grace K. Barnes in the sum of $829.54, claimed to be due for
goods sold.
-C. Williams asks judgment for $94.10 against O.F. Angstrom,
claimed on a note.
Off to College
Many young people left this week for college, the
following having gone to Cedar Falls where they will enter the
State Teachers College: Misses Matred and Ruby Whitham, Mabel
Huddleston, Ruth Mang, Ida Reed, Louise Heinday, Lila Neel, Mary
Bailey, Clarine Mueller, Mary Hathway, Eunice Lee, Bessie
Thompson, Mary Waterman of Kamrar, and Buelah Cheever of Jewell.
Attending the Iowa State College at Ames this year are: Misses
Claire Richardson, Cara Ruppel, Myrtle Arnold and Will Yungelas.
Miss Celia Lachmiller has gone to Ellsworth College, Iowa Falls,
where she will specialize in music. Miss Pearl Blue of Kamrar is
also attending Ellsworth college this year.
The following from here will attend the State University at Iowa
City this year: Misses Elsie Heiden and Louise Swanson and John
Dodge, Howard McKee, Glen Greenwood, Verne Buxton and Glean Smith
of Woolstock.
Cliff Furman has entered Ames for an agricultural course.
Marriage Licenses
Seward Lemley, age 40
Charlotte Pearl Huffman, age 33
Lee Baker, age 18
Elizabeth McCollough, age 19
Buys All Of Charcoal Output
A.C. Hoot of the Webster City Mills has bought the whole
of the charcoal output of the Shawyer kilns south of this city.
The outpur of these kilns will now be sold exclusively from the
mills in Webster City.
Buys Big Farm
John Cartney of Blairsburg bought the big 240 acre
Casper Edvenson farm in Rose Gove township at public auction
Friday at $162.50 per acre, or a total of $39,000. The sale was
cried by Col C.W. Marvel of this city and Col. Gilbert Knudson of
Jewell. The price paid is considered very fair. The Cartney Bros.
are now among the largest land owners in Hamilton county.
Captain Landers Home
Captain F.E. Landers returned home this week from a two
weeks' visit in the east. At Binghamville, N.Y. he attended a
reunion of the 16th New York Battery, with which he served in the
civil war. There were 300 men in this battery when it marched
away and just seven - all the survivors - attended the reunion.
It was Captain Landers first visit at a reunion of the battery.
Captain Landers also visited the old homestead in New York and
other scenes of his childhood and the places where he spent his
younger days. Among the most interesting places he visited was
the home of his great grandfather at Lenox, Mass., which has been
in the family for 150 years.
Petit Jury List for October Term
Trial jurors for October term, to report October 16,
with Judge E.M. McCall, presiding, are as follows:
Webster City - James Johnson, Lee Rollins, Ray Segar, E.G.
Shephard, G.L. Shryock, C.H. Crawford, F.A. Treanor, C.M. Wright,
Wm. Dinsdale, Frank Bossert, Chas. Stromberg, Fred Smith, Carl
Ober, G.O. Hall, George Schropfer, J.H. Lachmiller, J.M.
Richardson, J.W. Mathews, S.B. Hair, W.N. Merrill, H.J. Meyers,
Harry Maxon, J.C. Jenkinson, Clint Snell, Mason Isham and W.B.
Rood.
Stanhope - Frank Erickson, Albert Sorenson, John Olson, O.I.
Brekke, C.A. Steinfet, S.E. Lund, Harry Davis and H.C Larson
Stratford - Walter Ackerson, John Lundgren, A. Thomson, Ed.
Chapman, Otto Westling, W.E. Coulter and Ray Morris.
Jewell - Joseph Fardal, W.S. Hoon, Sven Olson and T. Jacobson
Williams - F.C. Mason, J.M. Duffy, Thomas Cartney and J.G
Aumiller
Radcliffe - Halvor Hindraker, J.O. Langland, Henry H. Twedt and
Oge Berve
Ellsworth - M.W. Mendenhall and H.R. Keesee
Duncombe - John Allen and John Snell
Story City - Brit Grimsley
Blairsburg - J.W. Bell
Kamrar - Ben Van Langen
Painful Injury
While preparing to retire Saturday night, Miss Mable
Huddlestun stepped on a needle, running it into her foot between
two toes, breaking it short off in the foot. The needle was not
extracted that night and the next morning it was found necessary
to take an X-ray picture of the foot and a deep incision had to
be made before the bit of steel could be found.
Largest Alimony in Iowa
What is believed to be the largest alimony reward ever
granted in Iowa was given Mrs. Bridget Callahan in Mason City the
other day. Mrs. Callahan was granted a divorce fro mher husband
Patrick Callahan, a wealthy land owner and was given $60,000;
$34,000 of which was in the form of notes maturing three years
hence and the remainder in a quarter section of Cerro Gordo
county land.
[transcribed by S.F., April 2015]