Iowa Old Press
Algona Upper Des Moines – Republican
Algona, Kossuth co. Iowa
Wednesday, February 22, 1911
MAN FALLS DEAD - D. B. Griffith, of Eagle Grove,
Drops Dead At the Northwestern Depot This Morning.
D. B. Griffith, a retired farmer of Eagle Grove, succumbed to
heart failure this morning at 9 o’clock, falling dead on the
platform of the Northwestern depot while engaged in conversation
with his traveling companion, C. E. Middleton, also of Eagle
Grove. The two men had been at Britt on a land deal and came in
on the Milwaukee and transferred to the Northwestern on their way
home. The dead man was about 50 years of age and in apparent good
health. The Odd Fellows Lodge at Eagle Grove was notified and the
remains will be turned over to them by Coroner Reaser.
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Burt Monitor: Last Friday night while going home from
the dance, D. L. Godden discovered a pile of coal and ashes afire
near one of the creamery buildings. The flames were gradually
working their way towards the building and had it not been for
Mr. Godden our creamery might have gone up in smoke. He hastily
shoveled snow on the fire and called the buttermaker Clemmens and
soon put the fire out.
Lone Rock: Mr. Klaas Zimmerman and Mary Rath were married at the
home of the bride, by Rev. Fuerstenau, last Friday afternoon at 2
o’clock in the presence of a small company of relatives. The
bride is the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Rath and has
lived in this vicinity all her life. She is an industrious girl,
of a happy disposition and is most competent to conduct a home.
They will live with the groom’s parents on the Fred Schultz
farm southwest of Burt.
Fenton Reporter: At about five o’clock Sunday
afternoon while returning from H. Krause’s to J. H. Newel’s,
Miss Elizabeth Kennedy and Miss Nina Laage, two of the local
school teachers, were crossing the ice on the old ball diamond
when they both accidentally slipped, and Miss Kennedy falling in
such a manner as to break her right leg, about six inches above
the ankle. Miss Laage, however, escaped without any injuries.
Miss Matilda Beck of Brownsville, Minnesota, a cousin of the
Newell boys has been engaged to fill the vacancy of Miss Kennedy.
[transcribed by L.Z., May 2017]