Iowa
Old Press
Morning Sun News Herald
Morning Sun, Louisa co., Iowa
July 5, 1917
COUNTY NEWS
~During the electrical storm early Saturday morning, the sleeping
porch at the Mrs. Mary McCurley home in Columbus Jct., was
damaged by fire when lightning struck a tree near by and then
followed a clothes line to the porch, setting the porch on fire.
~Free delivery of mail after September 1, 1917, is promised the
citizens of Columbus Junction, according to word received from
the postoffice department at Washington, D.C., by Postmaster J.
S. Blair. The mail will be delivered once each day, in the
morning. The carrier will receive a salary of $55 per month.
~Walter Hendrix of Pittsburgh, Pa., and his four year old son,
together with Henry Hendrix, residing near Letts, this county,
narrowly escaped death Monday morning when the latter’s
automobile in which the trio was riding was struck by a fast Rock
Island freight train at a crossing. The locomotive and the motor
vehicle met head on, when the brakes of the car refused to work
properly. The Pittsburgh man and his son received many bruises
and minor cuts and their bodies were painfully wrenched, but it
is not expected that their injuries will prove serious. The Letts
man escaped injury. The car was completely demolished by the
force of the impact.
[transcribed by L.Z., May 2017]