Iowa
Old Press
The Iowa Citizen
Iowa City, Johnson co. Iowa
Friday, May 15,1891
page 11 of 16, column 2
Felix Plank who was formerly a resident of Oxford, this county,
but since engaged in the Agricultural Implement business at
Williamsburg failed with large liabilities. There will be
considerable legal fighting over the rights of the creditors,
Judge Fairall made an order for the sale of the stock, last
Saturday, and the contest will be now over the proceeds.
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The Iowa Citizen
Iowa City, Johnson co. Iowa
Friday, May 22,1891
page 8, column 1
The Williamsburgh Journal records a sad fatality to Mr.
T. W. Davis, a highly respected citizen of that city. He was
assisting to remove sand from the tubing of a deep well. The
tubing was taken up, and he was holding one end, which was
resting on a fence, and was punching the sand out with a five
eights inch iron rod about thirty feet long. The sand being
packed in hard was difficult to remove but a very hard stroke
being given, it gave way suddenly, and the rod coming through
struck Mr. Davis about the eye and penetrated the brain. he never
recovered consciousness.
[transcribed by S.W., April 2007]