Iowa
Old Press
Iowa City Daily Citizen
Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa
Monday, August 11, 1919
MRS. IDA MAY PRYCE IS DEAD AT CHICAGO
Mrs. Ida May Pryce, formerly of this city, is dead at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. P. Brooks, of Chicago, after an illness of
about two weeks. Death came yesterday, and the meager message
failed to give further information, except of the death. Later a
message was received that burial would be made at Chicago, rather
than in Oakland Cemetery of this city, beside her husband, the
well known physician and educator, Dr. R. W. Pryce, who for years
was demonstrator of anatomy and held other important positions
with the University of Iowa. He died in Denver, Colo., in 1878.
Deceased was formerly of this city and was known far and wide for
her beautiful voice and magnificent vocal accomplishments, during
the period of her younger activities. Following the death of her
husband she went to live with her daughter in Chicago and has
visited in this city practically every year since. She was here
about six weeks ago but at that time was not at all well, but was
not believed to be dangerously ill. Her ailment grew more severe
two weeks ago and the death came early Sunday, at the age of
sixty-three years. Relatives here believe the reason the burial
in Chicago may be found in the difficult and uncertain conditions
of transportation.
Deceased was the youngest daughter of Mrs. Lydia Kimball of this
city, who is now ninety-three years of age and is survived by her
daughter, Mrs. Brooks, of Chicago; two brothers, Horace Kimball
of Chicago and Dr. Chan. H. Kimball of West Liberty, and two
sisters, Mrs. Alta K. Leighton, Akron, O., and Adaline K. Jones
of Bloomington Street, Iowa City. Many will grieve to learn of
the death of this good woman. She was well upon the way to a
great career as a vocalist and was known as one of three great
singers in the country, the other two being Blanch L. Kimball and
Hope Glenn, who were pupils of Professor S. H. Perkins of this
city, whose academy in this city was in the years gone by, quite
famous. One of the three, Hope Glenn, went to London and was a
favorite opera star for a number of years.
HARRY AND FRANK ECKHARDT DROWN IN ENGLISH RIVER
- TWO COUSINS DROWN NEAR WELLMAN YESTERDAY AFTERNOON
WHILE ALONE
That Harry Eckhardt lost his life in the English river Sunday
afternoon while attempting to rescue his cousin, Frank, at a
point near his father’s farm, four miles north of Wellman,
is the belief of friends who removed the bodies of the two young
men from the water late last evening. The two young men went into
the water shortly after noon and their parents noting their
continued absence, began search for them late in the afternoon.
They found their clothing and a rifle which they carried, on the
bank of the river and were convinced that the boys were both
drowned. Search for the bodies revealed the truth of the surmise
and some time later the bodies were both recovered, Indications
were that Frank had been taken suddenly with cramps and the Harry
had attempted to rescue him, with the result that both were
drowned. After two hours’ search J. J. Clark of the Iowa
City fire department was notified and arrived on the scene just
at the time the bodies were found.
Boys Were Cousins
The boys were each sixteen years of age; they were cousins and
fast friends. Harry was the only son of Henry Eckhardt and Frank
was the eldest son of William Eckhardt, and is survived by a
small sister and brother. The older men, Will and Henry are
brothers, living north of Wellman. Henry, near whose place the
tragedy occurred lives four miles north of Wellman and within
one-half mile of the river bend where the boys were drowned.
William lives two miles from his brother.
Twelve Feet of Water
Where the bodies were taken the water is twelve feet deep and not
at all swift, but it is believed the boys drowned further up
stream.
Undertaker H. C. Sample of this city was notified and went to the
scene, preparing one of the bodies. Undertaker Loren Bidwell of
Wellman prepared the other body.
Funerals Later
The funerals of the two boys will probably be held together.
Arrangements at this time are not completed but will not be until
Tuesday or Wednesday.
PROFITEERING? HOW IS THIS?
Mrs. L. W. Miller, eighteen, of Red Oak, had been married to her
husband, fifty-seven, but six weeks when she brought suit for
divorce and $50,000, claiming her man was worth $100.000 and she
should have half of it. The court was liberal in the matter and
gave her $250 attorney’s fees and $50 per month.
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Iowa City Citizen
Iowa City, Johnson co. Iowa
August 30, 1919
And Still They Come, The Highty Hunters
Alas! Alack! What hance has the poor trembling hare, the
crouching fear-stricken squirrel and the brilliant plumed wild
duck! Forty-one eagle-eyed Daniel Boones, Kit Carsons and Teddy
Roosevelts have taken out licenses during the last four days at
the court house to hunt and slay the wild life that is game.
September 1, Monday, woodland and hollow will resound with the
echo of the shot gun, unleashed hounds will scurry in pursuit of
the crippled quarry, for the fall hunting season will be on. A
partial list of the licenses secured to date were printed herein
last evening. The new comers among the nimrods are as follows:
Simon Akers, Earl Gilpin, Floyd Niffenenger, Henry Grothe, B.J.
Houber, George Kaspar, Earnie Schropp, Martin Shebetka, Arthur
Eden, Leonard Brecht, Cyril Katzenmeyer, George Yesinek, John
Ezecheck, Lester Bock, John Shalla, F.J. Strub, John Konvalinka,
R.A. Gardner, Glen Hawthorn, Ray Nunnally, Louis Weno, Bernard
Unrath, R.D. Smith, John Camp, Fred Baily.
Overholt Sells Blooded Hogs
D.M. Overholt has sold two fine young boars from his herd of
Tamworths this week. He shipped them yesterday. One goes to
Brandon, Iowa and the other to Mt. Vernon, Iowa. they are both
spring pigs and fine ones. Mr. Overholt's farm is located near
North Liberty but his address is Iowa City.
The City.
-Mrs. E.A. Rogers is ill at her home on the West Side.
-Miss Prue Heberling is visiting this week in Winterset, Iowa.
-Mr. and Mrs. Ed Jordan and son Wilson are spending a few days in
Davenport
-Miss Marie Roach of Des Moines is visiting Pat and Catheleen
Mulvihill on south Capitol.
-Chris Dondore, Henry Fiske and Paul Mercer have returned from a
week's outing at the lakes.
-The W.J. McChesney family have returned from an extended western
trip to Washington and Alaska.
-Mrs. George Memler has returned to her home 1154 Hotz avenue
from a visit with her son at Sharon.
-Secretary Bruce Mahan of the W.C.C.S. leaves tonight with his
wife for a week's visit in Bedford, Iowa.
-A.V. O'Brien and family of this city are leaving for a two week
visit at Sheboyagan, michigan, with relatives.
-Miss Martha Grant has returned from the east where she has spent
the summer visiting in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and other
points.
-Ben Rarey is back from North Liberty where he has been in the
garage business and will [illegible] up the work here once more.
-P.P. Murphy is leaving for Petersburg, Minnesota, where he will
make his future home. He formerly lived at 413 East Jefferson.
-Mrs. Ayers has arrived in this city from Patterson, N.J. and
will make her home with her relative, W.H. Bliss of Manville
Heights.
-Miss Lillian Pieper of the University editor's office is
expected to return tomorrow from a two weeks' vacaton in Des
Moines and other points.
-Mr. and Mrs. Artemus Brigham and daughter Harriet have retuned
to their home in Des Moines after a two weeks' visit at the E.D.
Brigham home in this city.
-Miss Corinne Hamill of Iowa City, who has been visiting in Des
Moines with her aunt, Mrs. Sellway, leaves today for Coon Rapids,
Iowa, where she will be music supervisor.
-Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Shields will leave the first of next week
for California. they will make the long trip overland and expect
to remain in the Golden state a year.
-The name of Leo Brueckner of Iowa City was erroneously placed in
the wrong roup of candidates in the list printed herein Thursday
of those who were to receive degrees at yesterday's convocation.
He received the degree of doctor of philosophy in education.
-Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Bates returned last evening from a two weeks
vacation spent in St. Paul, Minneapolis, Iowa Falls, and Des
Moines, taking in the state fair at the latter place.
-The local Knights of Columbus have donate a quantity of
cigarettes, chocolate bars, chewing gum, tobacco and candy to the
War Camp Community Service for distribution among the wounded
soldiers who are here for treatment at the University hospital.
-Mrs. Walter Freemen who has been spending the past week here is
leaving Sunday for Omaha where she will make her future home. She
has been here some time visiting friends and looking after
business affairs. she will be accompanied by Miss Mary Bookmeyer
to Omaha.
-Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Anderson celebrated their twenty-fifth wedding
anniversary thursday evening. A number of friends were invited in
to spend the evening at the Anderson home on Burlington street.
Light refreshments were served.
-Miss Blanche Graham is at a local hospital with three safety
pins, one of them open, navigating about in her stomach. She is
seventeen and came here from Kossuth county. It was supposed that
she had swallowed but one pin during an excited moment, but
X-rays show three.
-The party of Iowa City young men consisting of Harold Harmon,
Lyle Brigham, Clifford Hotz and Clyde Smith, returned late
yesterday afternoon from a two weeks camping at Lake Okoboji.
they stopped over in Des Moines one day on the return trip. their
small Ford truck created no little curiosity when it rolled into
Iowa City with its picturesque equipment yesterday, tagged and
pennanted from roof to wheels. The boys say the fishing and
swimming at the lake was "great".
New Postmaster at North Liberty.
L.J. Mehaffy has been appointed postmaster at North Liberty,
according to Washington dispatches. He succeeds Miss M.E.
Hackett, who has served in that office for thirty-three years.
Wills Property to Solon Church for Catholic School
Solon, Aug. 30 -- The will of Mrs. Katherine Lepsi who died in an
Iowa City hospital Aug 18 has been made public. The bulk of her
property was left to St. Mary's church of Solon to be used in
building a suitable Catholic school and to equip and maintain it.
To each of three brothers willed $5 and the same sum was left for
a sister, no provision being made for the children of a deceased
sister for the reason that they are in good circumstances. The
sum of $500 was set apart for the purpose of saying masses for
the dead woman, her husband, father, and mother. Provision was
also made for the paying of debts, including funeral expenses
after which the property is to be distributed as mentioned.
Solon News
Recent land deals here include the selling of 123 acres formerly
owned by mrs. Mary Morton. Mrs. Morton sold a few weeks ago for
$350 per acre but the place has been bought by Joe Wall for $392
per acre. F.A. Jedlicka purchased eighty acres from George Moel
for $250 per acre. A tract of 84 1-2 acres was bought by Thos.
Brogan for $135 per acre and Frank Malatek bought eighty acres
near Newport for $230 per acre.
Frank Kroulik, former head of schools here, spent a recent
furlough from army service with friends in Mount Vernon. He was
then intending to continue his present work in the medical corps
upon receiving his discharge from the army.
Jos. Skarda of Iowa City called on Solon relatives the latter
part of the week. He was a former Solon man, and had just
received a communication from a cousin in Bohemia, Frank Liski,
who also formerly lived here. Mr. Liski remained in this country
for only a short time and not being satisfied with conditions
here, returned to the home land two years before the opening of
the war. He was of course drafted into the Austrian aarmy and saw
service in Serbia. The conditions which he described in the old
country are appalling. Mr. Skarda is sending aid to his people
left htere, which alrady includes clothing, money, eatables. In
telling his relatives here of the contents of the letter, the
first he had received from any of his people since the outbreak
of the war, he said that the only logical thing to do was to send
food and clothing in preference to money, as there is such a
shortage of those things in Bohemia and what is to be had is
extremely high priced.
Items from Unity.
-Mr. Jeff McCracken and wife, of Limestone, Tennessee, and Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Hayes, of Limestone, Tenn., are visiting at the
Joe McCracken home near Unity.
-Mr. and Mrs. Brook Carson, of Telford, Tenn., are visiting their
sons, charles and Campbell Carson, who live near the city.
-Mr. Mac Williams, who has been visiting Bruce Moore in
Tennessee, has returned home.
-Mr. Merrill Myllie autoed to marshalltown and Cedar RApids this
week.
-Several of the Unity farmers attended the state fair this week.
-Bruce Moore, a Unity boy, will be back next week. He is visiting
with his parents in Tennessee.
-Miss Edith Bayless is visiting in Humbolt, Iowa, this week.
-Miss Jennie Larry goes to Cedar Rapids Monday to begin her
school Tuesday.
-Mrs. Henry Bacon entertained a company of thirty-six in honor of
Mr. and Mrs. Brook Carson on Thursday.
Secret Marriage Announced.
The marriage of Miss Ellenor Munkhoff to Mr. Glenn Norton has
been announced. The wedding took place August 31 a year ago, in
maywood, Illinois, when the groom was on a furlough from the
Officers training Camp, Camp Pike, Ark. The event was kept secret
until the bride had completed her course of training at the
Illinois Training school for Nurses in Chicago. The bride is the
daughter of mrs. Louise Munkhoff of this city. she is a graduate
of the Iowa City High school class 1914 and of the Illinois
Training School class 1919. The groom, the son of Mrs. L. Norton
of this city is a graduate of I.C.H.S. class 1915 and a former
student in the L.A. college of S.U.I. After a short visit at the
home of the bride's mother, Mr. and Mrs. Norton will leave for
Lincoln, Nebraska to make their home.
Iowa City Has Two Great War Families
Iowa City boasts two great war families, the Harrison and the
Vogts. Few towns of this size can boast of more than one family
with such war records as these two local families have made. Each
mother gave four sons to the cause of democracy and those eight,
clean limbed Americans have won distinction that would be the
envy of any soldier.
Don, Jack, Jim, and Noel Harrison are the sons of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles W. harrison of this city. Here is their record. Jimmie
was the first of the four to get into the service. He joined the
48th Canadian Highlanders before Americans were fully awake to
the fact that they were at war. All through the long months that
followed, the local soldier, who is known all over this state as
a brilliant athlete, saw the most strenous kind of service; hand
to hand bayonet fights, wild charges over the top, long periods
of service in the front line trenches. Twice he was the victim of
hellish Hun gas and once received a slight wound. He was awarded
the British war medal for valor, was recommended for the Victory
Cross, the most coveted of all war honors, and promoted to the
rank of sergeant. Jimmie is 22 years old.
Don and Jack Harrison, the two older brothers, were both
commissioned lieutenant's in the early months of the war. For a
time they were stationed at Camp Cody and later in camps in New
Jersey. Don went overseas as far as England before the armistice
was signed. He was one of the few Americans to be selected for
scholarships in English Universities and he took a four month's
course in King's College, London. Jack was the only one of the
four brothers who never got across the water. He served patiently
while awaiting the opportunity that never came. Jack is 24 years
old and Don is 26.
Noel, the youngest brother, age 20, enlisted with the Ambulance
unit that left the University here. He saw considerable service
along the fighting front in France and returned wearing the
French croix de guerre, a high tribute to his courage.
In many respects, the record of the Vogt brothers resembles that
of the Harrison boys. Edward, age 27, Harry, age 26, Robert, age
24, and Leo, age 20 are the sons of Mrs. Josephine Vogt of East
Brown street. The three older boys all won the rank of
lieutenant. Harry Vogt, like Jim Harrison saw hard fighting. He
participated in engagements on two important fronts in France and
in the great American fights that will go down in history.
Luckily he escaped without a scratch from the rain of Hun fire.
Leo, the youngest Vogt boy, was a member of Company A, 168th
regiment. He too got into the great fight. Robert left with the
University ambulance unit but was later transferred to the
aviation branch of the service, where he was promoted to a
lieutenancy. Although he did not see any real fighting, he was in
France when the armistice was signed, ready for his first war
flight. Edward, the oldest brother was the only one of the four
who did not get to France. he was in the aviation service and was
so proficient that he was held on this side of the water to be a
flying instructor at Kelly Field, Texas.
This is the record of eight Iowa City youths. It is one surely to
be proud of. Fortunately, each boy was spared to his anxious
mother at home, although one was wounded and gassed. Freely were
they given to their country by these mothers, who, are afterall
the greatest heroines of the story.
Iowa Soldiers Are Decorated At Clarence Homecoming.
Cedar Rapids, Aug 30 -- Clarence Davis and James Walker, A.E.F.
corporals are wearing the croix de guerre and Italian war crosses
today following decorations late yesterday by government
representatives at Clarence in Cedar county. They were decorated
at a homecoming attended by more than 8,000 persons.
[transcribed by S.F., June 2006]