Iowa Old Press
Sun Herald
Lime Springs, Howard co., Iowa
March 17, 1921
HAWKEYE STATE NEWS
- Mrs. Ramsey Hevern whose husband was killed on their farm near
Oxford, is critically ill with pneumonia.
- Twelve cows and 20 tons of hay were burned in a fire which
destroyed the barn of Le? Hemmings near Waukon.
- A telegram from Long Beach Cal. announces the death of S. H.
Thompson pioneer farmer and cattle breeder of Iowa City.
- The body of Dennis Rice, pioneer, arrived at Osage recently
from Texas. He and his two brothers, in 1855, founded Riceville.
- B P Cheney 67 years old employed on a farm near Hamburg, was
killed by a Burlington train. His body mutilated was found the
next day.
- James R Rhodes publisher of the Newton Daily News has been
named vice president of the Inland Press association an
organization covering a number of central states.
- Oscar Rock of Logan, Ia., probably will be the new prohibition
enforcement officer for Iowa, under the Volstead act according to
news dispatches received from Washington, D.C.
- Dragged 260 yards under the wheels of a loaded ice wagon when
his horse ran away John Ramsey of Mason City employed by the N.
Randall & Son Ice Co was fatally injured at Clear Lake.
- Isel Sexton Brennen, wife of Clan [?] Brennen of Iowa City,
waived examination when arraigned in Justice E. A. Crosset's
court at Iowa City on a charge of bigamy. She was released on
$1000 bonds.
- Georges Humphreys, about ?5 years old of North English, Ia.,
was found dead in his barn recently. A revolver was found near by
and there was a bullet wound in the man's head. Suicide is
suspected.
- Mayor J W Dempsey of Lansing, Ia., will be one of the speakers
at the sixth annual convention of the Mississippi River Scenic
Highway Association to be held in the Claridge hotel, St. Louis,
Mo.
- A fourteen hour deliberation in the jury room was the
experience of Miss Bessie Pearson, an attractive Clarinda
business woman who was the first woman juror in Page county. The
lawsuit was one in which Mrs. Hattie McCammond, of Mount Ayr,
Ia., was suing Lute Mace for $7,000 because of an automobile
collision in which the woman's ankle was injured. A verdict was
brought in for Mr. Mace and he will not have to pay damages.
- Henry Springborn, arrested in Clinton with Janet Foster of
Goodground Long Island, N.Y. was taken back east to face the wife
and
children he is alleged to have deserted at Blue Point, Long
Island. Springborn and Miss Foster had been living in Clinton as
man and wife
several weeks. The man is said to have drawn a $900 joint bank
account he had with his wife before he left for Clinton. The
baggage was in Miss Foster's name to Chicago, and in Springborn's
name to Clinton. This furnished the clew.
- Gored to death by a vicious bull, the body of Ramsey Havern,
75, was found near a fence on his farm near Iowa City by his son,
Earl and friends who missed him after church and organized a
searching party. The aged man had evidently run to escape and was
climbing the fence when he was overtaken by the animal.
[transcribed by C.J.L., March 2007]