Iowa Old Press
Sutherland Courier
Sutherland, O'Brien co., Iowa
March 20, 1903
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Clerk Wood has issued marriage licenses to Carl W. Ktull and Mary
D. Riedeman; Henry Jalas and Anna M. Hennebert.
County Auditor Bossert returned Tuesday from Cedar county, Iowa,
where he was called to attend the funeral of his mother.
p 5 col 1
Primghar Bell -The coroner's jury in the Gust Pinzke
case brought in a verdict this week, stating that the cause of
death was unknown. The state chemist found no evidence of poison
in the stomach.
p 5 col 2
L. T. Gates Dead
Yesterday we received a postal card with the following message:
Chaseburg, Wis., March 18, '03. Mr. Gates passed peacefully from
this world at 6 a.m. today. Particulars later. Yours truly, Mrs.
L. T. Gates
Strange Disappearance
Some time between Saturday evening and Sunday evening Theodore
Jalas, son of Henry Jalas, left home, and no one hereabout can
more than guess why he left nor where he has gone. He had been
"baching" part of the time at his father's farm just
east of town. Saturday evening his father asked him - both being
in town - if he was going out to the home farm. He replied that
he guessed he would stay at the east farm as he could more
conveniently bring his intended wife to the home place from there
Sunday.
The next day he failed to appear at the home farm as had been
planned, and near night his brother Rudolph was sent to find out
why he had not come. On a table at the east farm was found a note
reading as follows: "There will be no wedding. Please do not
Worry about me."
The family feared he had committed suicide as he had taken his
shotgun with him, so a searching party was started out. They
found no trace of him, and the next day a much larger crowd
searched the country for miles around but with no result. A pair
of bloodhounds apparently found his trail but lost it again. It
is rumored that he took a westbound train at Hartley on Monday. A
rumor was out also that he was in Sutherland Thursday, but he has
not been seen at home.
Why he left is in doubt. He was to have been married Wednesday to
Miss Anna Henneberg. They had had no quarrel. A few days before
his father had talked to him pretty severely about some
misconduct, but this matter had then been dropped and Theodore
had not appeared to hold any grudge. He took very little money
with him, possibly almost none, leaving twelve dollars or more in
a trunk, and about $250 in bank. It is hoped by all and believed
by many that he will yet return.
His father requests us to say for him that he deeply appreciates
the aid and earnestly thanks the many who helped in the search
for his son. Many of them were strangers to him and he feels that
he wants them to know that their kindness will not be forgotten.
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Sutherland Courier
Sutherland, O'Brien co., Iowa
March 27, 1903
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A marriage license was issued Monday to Geo. Thiessen and Mary A.
Martin.
Alex McCreath is seriously ill at his home in Grant township and
he is not expected to recover.
Fifteen members of the Masonic order attended the Bidwell funeral
at Sutherland Sunday.
Hattie R. Reavis has commenced action for divorce from her
husband Frank Reavis. Desertion is alleged as grounds.
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Since the cold weather set in the Waterman creek has gone down to
its natural size. The whole community sincerely wish it had been
so last week then the terrible accident that cast a gloom over
our neighborhood would not have happened. [transcriber's note -
this is a reference the death of Mr. Gleason and Mr. Bidwell, see
page 5 of this edition. This article from The Boyden Reporter
20 March 1903, p. 5 col 4, gives the background: Mr. Gleason,
father of Henry Gleason, a farmer who lives northeast of
Sutherland, and Delbert Bidwell, a local auctioneer, were drowned
at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning while attempting to ford the
Waterman creek with a team and carriage on their way to the
Gleason sale. C. P. Jordan and O. S. Bidwell, a brother of
Delbert Bidwell, were in the carriage also, but succeeded in
reaching the shore. Bidwell had reached the shore safely, but
entered the water the second time to try to save the old man,
Gleason. The bodies have not been recovered at this time, but
large parties are at the creek trying to find them.]
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Wednesday George Thiessen and Miss Mary A. Martin wended their
way to the Methodist parsonage, and Rev. Whitfield performed the
ceremony that joined them as man and wife. George is one of our
industrious young farmers and a thorough good fellow. The bride
is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Martin and will make George a
worthy helpmeet. The young people go to housekeeping at once.
Their many friends will wish them prosperity and happiness.
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Resolutions
Whereas - Our Heavenly Father has seen fit in His divine wisdom
to call home on March 19, 1903, the father of our beloved sister,
Mrs. Flora Louthan, be it
Resolved - We in behalf of E. O. C. Ord. W. R. C. No. 105 extend
to her our heartfelt sympathy in her bereavement,
Resolved - That these resolutions be placed on file and a copy
sent to our bereaved sister also a copy handed in for
publication.
Mrs. Augusta Bark, Mrs. Flora Nott, Mrs. Lottie Slick, Com.
Resolutions of Masonic Lodge
Whereas - Our brother Master Mason, Delbert Bidwell, has left out
earthly lodge and gone to that mansion not made by hand, eternal
in the heavens, and
Whereas - We are taught that we should pay to all whatever may be
due,
Resolved - That we fell that to our deceased brother we owe a
tribute of admiration for his kindly, loving character, a tribute
of respect for his high character which impelled us to accept him
as a member of the order, and a tribute of brotherly love for the
many attributes he possessed that caused him to be hailed with
delight as a man and a Mason,
Resolved - Tat we urge his grieving relatives to feel some
consolation, as we do, in the assurance that the Supreme
Architect and Builder cares for the interest of the workmen who
do His will, and to be further consoled in remembering the high
degree of manliness and virtue possessed by our brother who has
gone.
W. H. Bloom, W. P. Davis, T. B. Bark, Committee from Abiff Lodge
No. 347, A. F. & A. M.
Resolutions of Sympathy
Whereas - The sudden and untimely death of Delbert Bidwell,
brother of our sister Olive Hockert, who gave promise of a long
and useful life, is to us all a reminder of the uncertainty of
life and the certainty of death. His cheerful and happy presence
was to us all who knew him a bright gleam of sunshine amid the
varied circumstances of life, and gave evidence of a heart pure
and warm. He is gone from us but the memory of him will linger
her and be to us all a vision as it were of God's richest
blessing on earth, a devoted brother, husband and loyal citizen.
Resolved - That E. O. C. Ord. W. R. C. No. 105 extend our
heartfelt sympathy to our sister in this the hour her sorrow, and
may the same wise providence that has called him away to be to
her a source of comfort and consolation. Be it also
Resolved - That a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the
minutes of this Corps, a copy be sent to our sister and a copy be
sent to our local paper for publication.
Mrs. Louisa Nichols, Mrs. Frances Davis, Mrs. Rosa Fraser, Com.
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Obituary - L.T. Gates
Livingston T. Gates was born in Maine, Broome county, New York,
Sept. 2, 1829, and died in Chaseburg, Wis. March 18, 1903.
He came from the state of New York to O'Brien county, Iowa, in
March 1878, and lived here until last April, since which time he
has been visiting in New York and with his children in Wisconsin.
He and Mrs. Gates were expecting to make their home in Lodi,
Wis., in the near future, near one of their sons. His wife, five
sons, and a daughter survive him, this being the first break in
the family.
He had been afflicted for years with a disease of the heart, and
this, with complications, caused his death. He was buried at
Viroqua, Wis. His fourth oldest sons acted as pall bearers. Mr.
Gates was one of the originators of the O'Brien Co. Mutual
Insurance Association, and for many years was its secretary, a
position which he filled to the satisfaction of the company. In
his long residence in this county he gained a large number of
friends who sorrow with his family at his loss.
Obituary - John Gleason
John Gleason was born in 1825 at Petersham, Worcester county,
Mass. At the age of twenty-five he moved to Illinois, going first
to McLean county, and afterward to Iroquois county, where he
lived until the death of his wife last September. He then came to
Grant township in this county to make a long visit with his son
Henry. He liked this region very much and had nearly decided to
stay here permanently with Henry.
But last week's tragic end of his life came to stop all plans.
His life ended in the water, an element with which he was very
familiar, having been fond, all his life, of fishing, boating and
swimming. It is probable that had he been able to get free from
the carriage before he was strangled that he might have had
enough of his old skill left to save himself, for swimming is an
art once learned never forgotten, and with the shore so near a
few strokes might be enough to get him out of danger.
He had one son, living at the old home in Illinois, in addition
to his son Henry. Mr. Gleason was a quiet, even-tempered man, and
was much loved by the members of his family. He was but little
known here, but the sympathy of the community goes out freely to
the bereaved [paper is cut at this point]
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