Iowa Old Press
Lime Springs Sun-Herald
Lime Springs, Howard, Iowa
January 5, 1922
Hawkeye State News
- Fred P. Nelson, 55, a farmer near Clinton, died of injuries
received when he fell under the wheels of his wagon.
- President Harding sent the following postmaster nomination to
Congress and the Senate: Harry M. Haines, Centerville, Ia.
- Judge Coyle sentenced Clive Aldrich of Titonka, who seduced one
girl and then married another, to five years in the penitentiary
after a trial at Algona.
- Henry Melancota, a farmer living near Alden, sold ten turkeys
in the market for $80. One large turkey brought him $12. Farmers
in that region plan to raise more turkeys next year.
- James Gordy, age 10 years, son of Mr. and Mrs. C.W. Gordy, who
fell sixteen feet from a children's slide at the Pierce school at
Council Bluffs died of his injuries in a hospital. His spleen was
bursted in the fall.
- At a meeting of the officers of the Tama county farm bureau,
held in Toledo, J.W. Pendry was retained as county agent for
another year. His salary has been reduced 10 per cent for the
coming year, from $3,000 to $2,700.
- Vincent Cerame Terzo, alleged fire bug and high finance expert
in building operations will have to tell his story to a grand
jury, it was decided when Justice G.S. Lightner bound him over to
that body, after a long perliminary hearing.
- Allison R. McFarland, salesman for the Stoddard Tire and Supply
Co., Mason City, wondered if there was any water in his radiator.
He lit a match to see. There was alcohol in the radiator. Alcohol
is lighter than water. McFarlane [sic?] awoke an hour later in a
hospital.
- A fatal accident happened at Riceville of which Alfred Weber a
14-year-old boy was the victim. He, with two boy companions, was
skating on the ice of a fish pond. They broke through the ice and
although rescued alive the Weber boy soon succumbed from the
chill and shock.
- Mrs .Mary J. Livingstone, 50, of Marshalltown is being sought
by the authorities of Cedar Rapids and the surrounding country.
On the way to the bedside of her aged father at Onslow she
mysteriously dropped out of sight and no further clue to her
whereabouts can be discovered.
- Habel [sic?- Hazel Dollison,32, kidnapped when 3 years old by
her father from her mother's home was found recently by her
uncle, H.C. Purcell of Woodbine. She said she was taken to Sac
City by her father, where she lived for seven years, then to
Mapleton. Later she married and came to Sioux City to live.
- On five of the six counts of sending obscene and threatening
letters through the mails, Fred W. Stover, 19 years old, of
Newton, was convicted in federal court. Stover proved an alibi as
to the sending of the sixth letter, which had been mailed from
Des Moines. C.S. Cooter, Stover's attorney, declared that he
would file a motion for a new trial.
- Okley Foster, 20 years old, of Prescott, was accidentally shot
and killed, just after returning with his two brothers from
hunting near Corning. The three boys were standing in the Cook
yard when the dog, to greet the young man, jumped up, striking
the trigger of the gun which was a hammerless double barreled
shot gun. The charge hit the boy in the liver. He was conscious
long enough to say, "the dog did it," but died soon
after and before the doctors could arrive.
- Paul Vanderberg, a window cleaner, fell to his death from the
tenth story of the Kahl building in Davenport recently while
cleaning windows. He struck the cornice at the third story in his
fall bouncing to the sidewalk and was instantly killed on
striking the pavement. He was 35 years old and leaves a wife and
child.
[transcribed by C.J.L., January 2007]