Iowa Old Press
The Sun Herald
Lime Springs, Howard co. Iowa
June 1, 1916
State Receives Collateral Tax.
Quincy A. Willis, deputy treasurer of state, has collected
$11,891 collateral inheritance tax from thirty-five estates. The
largest sum paid by any estate was $2,828.00 This was a 5 per
cent tax on $55,462 of the estate of Ella M. Holloway of Benton
county, which went to collateral heirs. The estate of John Nikkel
of Benton county was second, paying a tax of $1,420 on $27,650,
which was given to collateral heirs. William A. Vollmer of
Clinton county, in his will, gave $28,136 to indirect heirs. The
estate paid a tax of $1,407. The Lucy Hemsted estate of Johnson
county paid $1,075 tax on $21,562. The only estate of Polk county
was that of Mary E. O'Mara. Of this estate, $7,819 went to
indirect heirs and the state collected $380 tax.
STATE NEWS
Sioux City - The Rev. E.S Johnson of Sioux City, district
superintendent in the Northwest Iowa Methodist conference, was
elected missionary bishop to Africa by the general conference of
the Methodist church in session at Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The
Rev. Mr. Johnson was born in England in 1866. He was educated at
Oxford and did newspaper work in London. He joined the Northwest
Iowa conference in 1889 and became a member of the board of
trustees of Morningside college. The Rev. Mr. Johnson was
formerly grand prelate of the Iowa Knights Templar and chaplain
for the fifty-second infantry United States volunteers in the war
with Spain and holds the rank of major in the fifty-sixth
regiment of the Iowa National guard.
Fort Dodge - The late Senator J.P. Dolliver's gift of eloquent
arguments seems to have descended to his daughter, Margaret, now
16 years old. In a discussion contest held at Fort Dodge Miss
Dulliver won first place for Fort Dodge High school over the
representatives of nine other schools. All the other contestants
were boys. Miss Dolliver is the oldest daughter of the late
senator. She was born in Washington, D.C., Jan 22, 1900 and the
senate took a half holiday in honor of the event. Her birth, as a
result, is a matter of congressional record.
Des Moines - A former Iowa man of prominence, Col William K.
Michael, died at his home in Washington, D.C. Colonel Michael was
a private in the Eleventh Iowa Infantry and was wounded at
Shiloh. Later he entered the navy and was for many years with the
state department. He was at one time editor of the Sioux City
Journal. He was chief clerk of the state department from
1897 to 1912 and later consul general at Calcutta.
Knoxville - Two persons were injured and several houses and barns
were demolished at Pleasantville by a small tornado which hit the
outskirts of the town. Mrs. Robert Hicks was knowcked down and
slightly bruised when she and her daughters attempted to seek
shelter in a storm cellar. Mrs. Bruce Benge also was slightly
injured when her home was twisted off its foundations by the
storm. The residences of Charles Lyon, C. Speed and Leonard
Mohler were damaged.
Mason City - Cecil Lacore, electrician at the People's Gas &
Electric plant sustained the full force of a 2,200-volt current
and lived to tell the story, with no worse injury than a burn
across the back. He was working behing the switchboard and when
he arose, his body came in contact with the wires.
Newton - With a large number of prominent Lutheran pastors and
laymen of the state here, the local memberhsip of that church
will dedicate their magnificent new edifice on Sunday, June 1.
Rev. John Bright is pastor. When completed the church will be one
of the finest Lutheran chuirches in Iowa.
Webster City - After being out four hours the jury in the case
against Dr. A.W. Chamberlain, brought in a verdict of guilty of
maintaining a liquor nuisance. Dr. Chamberlain is an old man and
has been a practicing physician in Stratford for forty years.
During the past two years he has been conducting a drug store in
connection with the practice of his professsion. The maximum
penalty is $1,000 fine.
Knoxville - The report is being circulated around Knoxville that
the inebriate hospital here will be closed some time in the next
few months, and that the institution will be changed into a
hospital for the insane, as the four hospitals in the state now
used for that purpose are very badly overcrowded.
Boone - Mr. and Mrs. Richard Jones, pioneer Iowa residents,
observed the sixty-sixth anniversary of their wedding recently.
No special celebration was held on account of their failing
health. Mrs. Jones, who suffered a stroke of paralysis two yeras
ago, is unable to talk.
Newell - Miss Margaret Kanaly, teacher in the Newell high school
for thirty-three years, will be the guest of honor at a reception
during school commencement week. Miss Kanaly retired this year.
Miss Kanaly was the first and only graduate from the Newell high
school in 1888 [or 1883]. After teaching a short term in the
country she took the primary room which she has held ever since.
She has seen the high school rebuilt three times during her
employment as teachers.
Glidden - When John Anear, farmer, six miles south of Glidden,
left his fields his three-year-old son attached his little wagon
to Anear's manure spreader. The spreader was thrown into gear and
the boy drawn into the machinery. A spike was forced into his
head inflicting injuries from which he died a few hours later.
Des Moines - Judge William S. Ayres sent the first bootlegger to
state's prision from Polk county for violation of the new liquor
laws. He sentenced Bert Doolittle to three months hard labor in
Fort Madison penitentiary for his second violation of a liquor
injunction.
Marshalltown - Dr. W.C. Huntington has been appointed commercial
attache at the United States embassy at Petrograd, Russia. Dr.
Huntington is a former Marshalltown boy, and the son of
Vice-President and General Manager C.W. Huntington of the M.
& St. L.
Clinton - Esther Dunn, 23 years old, a daugher of a farmer living
west of Clinton, was burned to death when a keosene can exploded
in her hands, throwing blazing oil over her entire body. A spark
from the fire fell into the can, causing the explosion.
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The Sun Herald
Lime Springs, Howard co. Iowa
June 8, 1916
STATE NEWS
Davenport - Held pending investigation of his alleged implication
in what the police believe to have been an attempt to swindle a
local firm out of $30,000 on a land deal, M.T. Carpenter of St.
Louis, hanged himself in the city jail here. Policemen discovered
his body when they brought in his breakfast. Carpenter was 35
years old.
Webster City - A jury in the personal injury damage case of Mrs.
Minnie Meyers who sued this city for $20,000 returned a verdict
giving her $200. she fell on a defective sidewalk and claimed
permanent injuries.
Oskaloosa - Ernest A Maurer, 29 years old, was drowned in the
Skunk river four miles north of Oskaloosa. He was a student at
Central Holliness university. His father is George Maurer of
Nebraska City.
Des Moines - A.H. Blank, Des Moines, was elected president of the
Iowa League of Motion Picture exhibitors at the final session of
the fourth annual convention of that league held in this city.
W.D. Ingledue of Marshalltown, first vice-president; H. De Baggio
of Colfax, second vice-president, and J.C. Collins of Des Moines,
secretary-treasurer, were the other officers named.
Hampton - A gift of $1,000 to the fund for superannuated
Methodist ministers in Iowa and a similar amount for blind women
are provided for in the will of the late Josiah Kempthorne,
wealthy Hampton farmer who died May 13. The will was drawn one
day before Mr. Kempthorne died. Des Moines charitable and
benevolent organizations are named as beneficiaries to the extent
of $6,000.
Parole Board to Meet
The state board of parole is preparing a report to Governor
Clarke on the application of ten life prisoners in Iowa
penitentiaries for pardons. It is reported that the board is
favorable to granting a pardon or shortening the sentence of
Charles Thomas to a definite period. Thomas was convicted for the
murder of Mabel Scofield on circumstantial evidence. He has been
in prison since 1905. Henry Furry of Polk county on July 18 will
have served thirty years in the penitentiary for the murder of
his brother-in-law. Owing to his feeble condition, it is reported
the board may recomment that the governor parole Furry so he may
go to the soldier's home at Marshalltown.
Cannot Pay Compensation Claim
Although private J.H. Green, Jr., of Clinton, was killed in the
Iowa National Guard maneuvers at Sparta, Wis., last August, the
state has found no way to pay his mother compensation of $1,500
as ordered by the industrial commission. The state elected to
carry its own industrial insurance and satisfied the industrial
and insurance commissioners that it was able to do so. Now that a
case arises in which payment is required the state has been
unable to meet its obligation.
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The Sun Herald
Lime Springs, Howard co. Iowa
June 15, 1916
Iowa News
Adel- T.R. Wilson of Valley Junction, was drowned in the Racoon
river when a boat in which he was fishing with three others,
capsized. L.B. Holftell, a brother-in-law of Wilson who was also
thrown into the water was resuscitated after several hours'
effort. Effort to resuscitate Wilson were futile. Mr. Wilson was
35 years old and is survived by a widow and one child. He sold a
large stock farm last fall and with his family moved to Valley
Junction.
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