Iowa Old Press
Sun Herald
Lime Springs, Howard co., Iowa
March 29, 1917
HAWKEYE STATE NEWS
The Christener of Clare, Iowa, M.T. Griffin, died in the town in
which he has lived since its organization, at the age of
eighty-four years. Born in County Clare, Ireland, he came to the
United States sixty-five years ago. When he settled in the
country west of Fort Dodge forty-two years ago, he honored his
birthplace in Ireland by naming the town that sprung up on the
Iowa prairies after County Clare.
Gen. J.R. Lincoln, military instructor at Iowa State college at
Ames, believes that the people of the state are more thoroughly
aroused and in sympathy with the government in the present German
situation then they were in 1898. "We have a different
spirit in Iowa than we had in 1898," said General Lincoln.
"The people of this state have had their patriotism aroused,
and the government can call on Iowa for anything it needs, and
the state will supply it. There should be a full regiment of
soldiers at the Rock Island arsenal now. It should be impossible
for any one to get anywhere near the arsenal. I understand that
it is now impossible to get to the island, but Rock Island and
Davenport should also be included in the territory guard."
Capt. E.B. Soper, of Emmetsburg, died at Kansas City recently. He
was president of the First National bank of Emmetsburg and
interested in a number of other banks in Iowa and Dakota and also
a heavy landowner. He was a prominent civil war veteran and
greatly interested in Cornell college of which he was an alumnus
and president of the board of trustees. He had given liberally to
Cornell and other religious and educational institutions. He
represented the Northwest Iowa conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church at several general conferences.
Pneumonia, the result of a two mile race barefooted through snow
in an effort to save her father and her home, has claimed Pearl
Jane Bramble, thirteen years old of near Dubuque. Her father
tried to light the kitchen fire with gasoline. An explosion
followed, burning him fatally and setting fire to the shack.
without stopping to dress the little girl started for aid through
the snow. Through biting cold she ran for two miles. The exposure
gave her a heavy cold which later developed into pneumonia.
Six year old Willard Rohr of Des Moines miraculously escaped
death recently when an automobile knocked him down, one front
wheel passing completely over his neck. He suffered only minor
bruises and a badly cut face.
Mrs. A.E. Faris of Oakville is having a hard time deciding how to
vote at the city election this spring. Her husband is running for
assessor on the people's ticket, and her father is out for the
same job.
Isaac T. Street, naval recruiting officer and postmaster of
Center Point, sent his son, Willard, to Des Moines to join the
navy. The boy is 16 years old. The Center Point father declared
that he had raised his son, expecting him to go into the navy,
and, as 16 is the youngest age at which acceptances can be made,
he sent the boy at the first opportunity.
Margaret Harber, thirteen year old girl of Des Moines, tried to
start a fire with gasoline recently, and the resulting explosion
burned her face, arms and body frightfully.
George L. Hewitt, a Santa Fe fireman at Fort Madison, suffered an
attack of indigestion recently which caused his black hair to
turn almost white in a few hours.
Mr. and Mrs. E.B. Howard of Ames, an aged couple, members of the
Iowa yearly meeting of Friends and supporters of Penn college,
have given 527 acres of rich farm land located in Marshall county
to Penn college at Oskaloosa. The deeds are made to Penn college
in consideration of the annuity allowance during the remainder of
their lives.
Arthur Ruebeam of Washington won the loving cup offered by the
Washington National bank for the best exhibit of Iowa corn at
Ames in January.
The record price for rent perhaps is being paid by J.N.
Montgomery three and a half miles southwest of Clarinda. Mr.
Montgomery comes from near Gravity, taking ten acres of land at a
price of $22.50 per acre cash.
Capt. Will V. Tufford, a veteran of the Fifty-third Iowa
infantry, has opened a class in military instruction in Clinton.
Patriotism is his only motive.
[transcribed by C.J.L., February 2005]