Iowa
Old Press
The Oxford Mirror
Oxford Junction, Jones County, Iowa
January 26, 1922
Iowa News
Gus Evers, 60, Of Cherokee, bachelor, committed suicide for no
reason.
Judge Courtright fined Ernest Johnson $5 and costs for running
dances on Sunday in Waterloo.
Judge Rockafellow of Clarinda has gone east and women get a
chance to act as jurors in spite of his order.
T. E. Case of Mt. Pleasant has been arrested charged with
murderous assault on R. C. Dutton, his landlord.
The town of Lake City was in darkness recently because the
electric company and council cannot agree on terms.
John Tucker and Matthew Miller have been bound over on a charge
of murderous assault on Earl Montz at Gifford.
There is a persistent rumor that the general offices of the
Burlington railroad will be moved to Ottumwa from Burlington.
Defective chimney caused a fire which destroyed one of the stock
barns at Iowa State College recently with a $2200 loss.
Martin Renlinger, Sr., is dead at Zwingle from injuries received
when he was struck by an engine on the narrow gauge line at
Zwingle depot.
Overcome by fumes from their automobile, Thomas Cosgrove and
Charles Borshel, Jr., were found asphyxiated in a garage in Iowa
City.
Carrie V. Burghardt of Cedar Rapids recently won a $1,500
settlement from the Sciota Sign Company of Kenton, O., which she
sued for libel in 1910.
A fund to be loaned to students at Iowa City will be raised by
weekly dances, and prices for dancing will be cut down to 75
cents the evening instead of $1.25.
Crazed from drinking moonshine liquor, Harry Kelly of Davenport,
committed suicide recently. He shot himself through the heart.
Kelly was 35 years old and leaves a wife.
William C. Anderson, 90 years old, a pioneer of Mahaska county
and prominent in district and state democratic pasty circles,
passed away at his home in Oskaloosa recently.
F. R. Davis on trial at Mt. Ayr pleaded guilt to having burglar
tools in his possession and got fifteen years. Two others already
have the same sentence. The fourth of the quartet will stand
trial.
Thomas D. Feyen, 71 years old, was instantly killed in a fall
from a second story window at his home in Dubuque. He died from a
skull facture and without regaining consciousness after the
accident.
Andrew Anderson of Hampton, charged with the theft of a number of
hides and an attempt to dispose of them at Mason City, failed to
appear at the hearing and his cash bond of $350 was declared
forfeited.
Mrs. Laura Adams, formerly Mrs. T. C. Fogarty of Ft. Dodge, is
being held in Bozeman, Mont., charged with the murder of Harry
Walker, a farm hand. Mrs. Adams has been married four times. Her
marriage to T. C. Fogarty was the second time.
Leo Morroway, 17, of Tama, is being held by federal authorities
on a charge of forging a United States pension check. The crime
is alleged to have been committed in Dubuque last spring when the
lad was traveling to California on a run-a-way trip.
A. K. Moore, a partner and manager of the Ogden hotel, at Ogden,
committed suicide by shooting himself through the forehead with a
revolver. No motive is known for the act other than that Moore
has not been in good health for the past few days.
As a result of getting tangled up in the belt which was running a
wood saw, Mr. Jacob Miller of Jefferson, had his right foot torn
off. The accident happened at the home of Roscoe Bennett,
southeast of Jefferson, whom Mr. Miller was assisting in cutting
some logs in the timber.
Although the coroner’s jury said the Julius Johnson, 51,
wealthy farmer who lived near Dysart, had accidentally killed
himself, county officials are still mystified. Johnson went
rabbit hunting and his body was found the next day with a bullet
hole through his head. No reason for suicide is known.
The breaking down of his truck, on which he was taking to Orient,
a load of stolen poultry, led to the arrest of William Mc Donald,
farm worker. It is charged he had stolen the chickens from
farmers in the neighborhood where he worked. McDonald had been
held to the grand jury and is jail in default of bond for $500.
Rushing homeward to show his mother a new pair of overshoes his
teacher had bought for him, Orville Selby, 8 years old of Sioux
City, was caught by a swiftly moving street car he had not
noticed and literally ground to pieces beneath its wheels.
“East Omaha”, a 1500 acre tract of land between Council
Bluffs and Nebraska but which is now separated from the mainland
by a change in current of the Missouri, still belongs to Iowa. At
a meeting of the boundary commissions of Iowa and Nebraska, Iowa
refused to surrender the tract to Nebraska.
Corp. A. B. Southworth of the West Virginia state constabulary,
whose home is in Laurens, Iowa, was fatally shot at Trales,
recently and J. H. Muilett was instantly killed during an
exchange of shots. The cause of the shooting is being
investigated by constabulary officers.
H. C. Ladage, of the Strawberry Point Creamery is Iowa’s
champion butter maker. The 1921 record of Iowa butter
maker’s, just issued shows Mr. Ladage heads the list with a
score of 94.69. Butter from the Strawberry Point Creamery had
always been a great demand because there is none better in the
state.
Cedar Rapids has developed an interesting postmaster contest.
Frank Hahn, a veteran of the world war, backed by the American
Legion, is a candidate. Luther Brewer, publisher of the Cedar
Rapids Republican, also aspires to the place. Much interest is
felt in the appointment, which is controlled by Representative
Cyrenus Cole.
An association for the purpose of buying pure bred dairy sires
has been organized at Emmetsburg by H. P. Searles, dairy expert
at Iowa State College. This association has five blocks of
farmers who have pledged themselves to buy five bulls that come
from dams with an average yearly production of at least 500
pounds of butterfat.
The city council of Boone at its regular meeting recently
authorized the purchase from D. J. Connor of a tract of about
twenty-three acres south of the city on Honey creek for a dumping
grounds and site for a sewage disposal plant. The city is now
having preliminary plans prepared for a sewage disposal plant to
cost about $60,000.
Frank C. Freeman, of Marshalltown, charged with the murder of his
father-in-law, David T. Hayne, formerly of Marshalltown, at Port
Arthur, Tex., is in jail following a hearing on Freeman’s
application for a writ of habeas corpus. The murder took place at
the Hayne home. Freeman gave himself up to the police saying he
shot in self defense.
Tiring of the quality of service rendered by their inadequate
town-owned lighting plant, residents of Wiota will ask the town
council of Atlantic to agree to let Wiota get its current from
the municipal plant of the county seat. Farmers living along the
White Pole route between there and Atlantic will ask for service
in case a transmission line is built.
Dan Kelly, federal probation agent under charge of assault with
intent to commit murder, has tendered his resignation. Kelly was
arrested as the result of the accidental shooting of a young man,
who sustained a bullet wound in his leg when Kelly’s gun was
discharges during a frolic at a Sioux City hotel. The warrant was
demanded by the young man’s father.
A disastrous fire occurred on the W. Garber’s farm near
Vinton recently when the barn burned to the ground with all the
contents. The farm is occupied by John Kanke and his loss
includes six head of horses, ten head of cattle, considerable
hay, two large bins of oats, and all harnesses and other farm
equipment which was in the barn. A large straw stack was also
consumed.
Earl Rawson, 40, Moville farmer, is reported near death at a
hospital as a result of self-inflicted shotgun wounds. Rawson
shot himself after he had twice shot Mrs. C. E. Whitehurst, 23,
his housekeeper. The woman’s left hand was amputated, but
she is recovering from her wounds and will live. Refusal of the
woman to marry him is the cause given for the shooting.
Eleven cows found to be tubercular were shipped from Page County
to St. Joseph in a car of reactors and killed. The cows proved to
be exactly diseased as the veterinarians stated. H. L. Eichling,
county agent, says that numerous tests are being made among dairy
herds on the farms and five tubercular cows were found in a herd
of thirteen and six in another herd of seven.
People of Cedar County are advocating crushed stone roads as far
more practical as gravel. The county has abundance of rock that
can be crushed and hauled from old abandoned stone quarries and
would be far cheaper than gravel. Road men also claim that the
crushed stone packs better and is not affected so much by rain
and travel as gravel. It would also open up a line of work that
would employ a lot of idle men.
Humboldt County farm home was burned to the ground recently. The
fire started in the attic, making it possible to remove all of
the furniture. The building was of wood, and has been built about
eighteen years. There are but three inmates at present. The loss
is estimated at $25,000: insurance was only for $5,000. The snow
was so deep and the building so far from town, no attempt was
made by the fire department to reach the scene of the fire.
The will of the undertaker, W. F. Dickinson of Dubuque who was
murdered recently by his clandestine friend, Miss Anna Giddings,
nurse, who committed suicide, was filed for probate and leaves
his entire estate to his wife.
The Harrison County farm bureau has demanded a bank guarantee
law. Its resolution recites that whereas the present banking laws
are inadequate “we demand of the next legislature, a bank
guarantee law.” The proposition is not elucidated by the
resolutions but is supposed to relate to deposit guarantees.
[transcribed by J.M.P., August 2008]