Iowa Old Press
The Sun Herald
Lime Springs, Howard co. Iowa
June 2, 1921
Tornado Hits North Iowa - 3 Killed and 2 Injured by
Twister Near Mason City
Mason City, Iowa - Three are dead and two others seriously
injured as the result of a tornado which swept a strip a quarter
mile wide in northern Iowa. Buildings on half a dozen farms were
blown away by the twister which struck between Plymouth and
Manley. Wires are down and it has been impossible to learn the
full extent of the damage. Frank McCall of Topeka, Kan., was
killed when his automobile was hurled 50 feet. Mrs. Arthur Dobel,
a bride of only two weeks, is not expected to live as a result of
injuries received when her home was picked up by the tornado and
crashed into a grove of trees.
Cattle and Horses Killed
Several farmers of the community report the loss of cattle and
horses by lightning during the electrical storms of the past two
weeks. E. Isaacson lost three head of cattle; Gordon Williams,
two head; Richard Morris, a horse; and Ole Natvig living
southeast of Cresco, lost 25 head of cattle, with no insurance.
Messrs. Lengbeck and Macklenburg of York, each lost a horse
during the storm Monday afternoon.
Lime Springs Locals
-Mr. and Mrs. Green, former residents of Lime Springs, now of
Cedar Rapids, visited at the M.C. Whalen home the last of the
week.
-Mr. and Mrs. Henry Whitford, daughter Majorie and son Ted,
autoed up from Volga to visit their son and brother, Mr. Guy
Whitford and family.
-Mr. and Mrs. W.C. Love departed last Thursday for New York City
where they will embark for Glasgow, Scotland. They expect to be
gone several months.
-Mrs. O.F. Shaw went to Dixon, Ill. Friday evening on accounty of
illness in her sister's family.
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The Sun Herald
Lime Springs, Howard co. Iowa
June 9, 1921
Hawkeye State News - Interesting Items of News Gathered
From all Parts of Iowa
- Harold Kohl, senior in the Cedar Rapids High School, left home
recently for school with his bathing suit, and has not returned.
- Evelyn, 4-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. Toppings of
Clarion is dead from spinal meningitis, following a fall received
recently on an elevator.
- Joseph Ludvicek, 65 years old, living twelve miles south of
Traer, an old settler in Tama county, was instantly killed by
lighting while working in his garden.
- Hon Sam Moore, a leading citizen of Boone county, civil war
veteran, world traveler, and successful business man, died after
several weeks illness. Mr. Moore was 77 years old.
- Grief over sending her son to the penitentiary for killing his
brother, hastened the death of Mrs. Victor Trybom of Stranton,
who had been ill for a long period prior to the tragedy,
according to friends.
- Robert H. Gibbs, of Harlan has been appointed to the naval
academy at Annapolis, Congressman Green having obtained the
appointment. Gibbs' father is a colonel in the regular army,
stationed at Washington, D.C.
-Mrs. Bert Rodwell, living a mile west of Oakland, was stricken
with heart trouble recently while driving in an automobile to
Oakland to attend the commencement exercises and died before she
could reach medical aid.
-Edward Flaherty, 16 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Flaherty of Woodbine, was drowned while swimming with friends in
a sand pit. The waster was fifteen feet deep and cold as ice. His
body was recovered. He was a sophomore in Woodbine High school.
The family lived on a farm.
-Gladys Schmidt, who received servious burns by the explosion of
a fifty gallon tank of gasoline at Lost Nation recently, died
after suffering in agony since the accident. Her sister Myrtelle
is in a serious condition and is expected to die at any moment.
The girls carried a lightened lamp into a garage and it set fire
to the generated gas.
-A letter was received by postoffice officials at Council Bluffs
from Fred A. Poffenberger, Sr., in federal prison at Leavenworth,
asking them to intercede to secure his release. Poffenberger is
one of the gang sent up for the big Burlington mail car robbery
last November. Poffenberger bases his claims for release on the
plea that his family needs him.
-Miss Ida Greick, bookkeeper for the firm of Rostermundt &
Kuhl Hardware firm at Manning, who was burned in the explosion of
gasoline which happened in the store May 24, cannot recover,
according t the report of a specialist, called by one of the
local doctors. The two boys where were in the store at the time,
John Zender and Ralph McGrath, have recovered. The explosion
killed the senior member of the firm.
- The mystery of the missing bridegroom is troubling all Linn
Junction. Frank Wilbur, 37 years old, and engaged to Mrs. Irene
Huktgren of Linn Junction, left Waterloo, where he was working
for the railroad, for Cedar Rapids to pay his income tax. That
was two months ago. He has not been seen since.
Decoration Exercises
Only two Civil War veterans took part in the Decoration Day
exercises in Lime Springs. These were:
Mr. Thomas Hunter
Mr. William Foye
Members of the Lloyd L. Horton Post of the American Legion,
veterans of the World War, who participated were:
H.W. Plummer
Arthur Nagel
Clifford Chick
Herbert Kerry (Navy)
Lester Moar (Navy)
Evan Parry
Chas. Spears
Chas. Anderson
Cassius Croxton
Clarence Strawsen
W.E. Kerr
Floyd Dunlap
Harry Owens
Simon Osenga
Carl Bastian
Eugene Lee
Sever Ivers
Chris Wilken
Arleigh Dunlap
Clarence Hartung
Clarence Targeson
Ryce Jones
Archie Roberts
Ray Burris
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The Sun Herald
Lime Springs, Howard co. Iowa
June 16, 1921
GOP Committee Elects
Washington - Election of John T. Adams of Dubuque, Iowa, as
chairman to succeed Postmaster General Hays, who resignation was
formally announced, and adoption of a new basis of representation
at national conventions resulting in a further cut in the number
of delegates from the South, marked the meeting of the Republican
national committee. Mr. Adams, who was vice chairman, was
succeeded in that office by Ralph E. Williams of Portland, Ore.
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The Sun Herald
Lime Springs, Howard co. Iowa
June 23, 1921
Hawkeye State News - Interesting Items of News Gathered
From all Parts of Iowa
- Mr. Wall, 50, farmer resideing six miles Northwest of Moulton
committed suicide by curring his throat. No reason for the act
can be determined.
- Mrs. Dela Nason Bensccoff [difficult to read the print], 101
years old who was born in Holland and came to the United States
when 15 years old, died at the home of Lincoln Bensccoff of
Hudson. Until recently when she was stricken with paralysis, she
did all the work of the house and was keen mentally.
- A man supposed to be C.J. Mack, 22 years old, of Chicago, a
leaderand organizer in the I.W.W., while trying to board a
freight train in the Northwestern yards at Council Bluffs fell
beneath the cars and was beheaded. Papers in his clothing
indicated he was prominent in the I.W.W. organization.
- A gift of $500 to the Congregational Sunday school of Traer by
the children of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Sherrett, deceased, was
announced in the morning service recently. The gift is a memorial
to Mr. and Mrs. Sherrett, pioneer citizens of Perry township and
long-time members of the Congregational church at Traer.
- Dr. W.F. Knopp of LeMars and Dr. W.E. Simonsen of Cherokee were
called out in the country recently to investigate a report of the
presence of anthrax. They visited two farms and at each place
found cattle affected with antrax. The farms were put under
quarantine to prevent the spread of the disease. Four head of
cattle have died at these two farms.
- E.V. Strait, assisant cashier of the Fremont County Savings
bank, Sidney, died from burns. Memorial day Strait cleaned his
chicken house. He was using disinfectant. While carrying some of
the fluid past a rubbish fire, he fell. The fluid spattered over
his clothing, was set on fire and was extinguished by his rolling
over the ground but not until he was badly burned. Infection from
burns caused his death.
- A divorce and [illegible] alimony was granted to Mrs. Iris
Blackwell in court at Mason City by Judge M.F. Edwards of
Parkersburg. Mrs. Blackwell had asked for a divorce and $150.00
temporary alimony besides $6,000 a year. She charged cruel and
inhuman treatment and that her husband, W.K. Blackwell of the
Citizens State bank in Goldfield, Ia., was keeping a pretty young
stenographer, Miss Hatty Yeck, in their home.
- George Sofka of ten miles northeast of Washington, one of the
prominent farmers of that part of the country, committed suicide
by hanging himself in a corncrib at his home. For the last
several months Mr. Sojka had been brooding over financial
difficulties and his act is attributed to that cause. For may
years Mr. Sojka had been one of the prominent men of his
community, being active in politics and in all public affairs. He
was a large land owner.
- Five girls won their "I" in athletics at Iowa City
this year. They are Ruth P. Zorn of Montezuma, Dorothy O'Donohue
of Storm Lake, Loren Bowen of Iowa City, Julia Darrow of Columbus
Junction and Pauline Spencer of Des Moines.
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The Sun Herald
Lime Springs, Howard co. Iowa
June 30, 1921
Hawkeye State News - Interesting Items of News Gathered
From all Parts of Iowa
- Will D. Knieriem was instantly killed by lightening while
cultivating corn on his father's farm, four miles south of
Humbolt. He leaves a wife and three small children.
- Mary Lowe, 110, is the oldest person ever arraigned in Police
Court at Sioux City on a charge of intoxication. She is an Indian
from the Winnebago, Neb. Reservation.
- Hurled 100 feet and landing in the water of Lime creek twenty
feet below the track when a freight engine struck the automobile,
Newell and Lawrence, sons of Peter Nelson are still alive.
- Sparks from a chimney started a fire which destroyed the home
of Cas Wasmer in Griswold, causing a loss of $17,500. the Wasmer
home was among the finest rural residences in Cass county.
- John Downing, balked in an attempt to commit suicide by hanging
at his home at West Liberty, and taken to a psycopathic hospital
in Iowa City for treatment, both as to his mental condition adn
physicial state, died in that hospital.
- John R. Thomson, living at Earlham, has rented a farm to one
tenant for thirty-one years. Mr. Brown, the renter, is just now
putting in his thirty-first crop. He has made good money, enough
to buy farms for himself and sons, and at the same time has given
Mr. Thomson the best of service.
- Mrs. Charles A. Overfelt of Ainsworth, formerly a prominent
Riverside woman, is dead as the result of a fall at Cedar Falls.
She opened the wrong door, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H.C.
Harmon, with whom she was visiting, and plunged down stairs.
Upwards of 70 years of age, she never recovered consciousness.
- The Davenport socialists hurled bombs into the city camp when
they declared before the city council and Mayor C.L. Berewald
that Davenport was rotten with vice, and that dives were running
wide open. Investigations were made and one or two places raided
but little was found. Mayor Berewald, formerly a socialist
declares they are tying to "frame" on him.
- What is believed to be the richest strike in the history of the
lead-mining days of Dubuque was made by Val Kies in the old Wilde
property in the heart of the city recently when he announced the
opening of a vein of lead forty feet in depth and the sinking of
a 160-foot shaft. On surface the vein is valued from $40,000 to
$50,000. the Wilde mine operators are the first in the city for
many years.
- For the past week or two the Strawberry Point Cooperative
Creamery association has been receiving over 60,000 pounds of
milk daily at its local plant; better than thirty tons each day.
This milk is hauled in by salaried haulers, separated at the
creamery and then the skim milk is hauled back to the farmers.
The amount of milk is handled at the creamery by H.C. Ladage,
head buttermaker, and Otto Weger and Walter Moser, assistants.
- The Henry G. Johnson Piano Manufacturing Company which has been
making pianos at Bellevue, Ia., for the past two years, has just
been incorporated for $1,000,000 and will be one of the most
modern piano factories in America.
- Slipping from the arms of his older brother Clarence, Fred
Donahoe, 21, drowned in the Des Moines river at Ottumwa. The
youth was an experienced swimmer, but it is thought that an
attack of heart trouble caused the drowning. His mother, Mrs. May
Haywood was on the river bank as her son went down.
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