Iowa Old Press
Sutherland Courier
Sutherland, O'Brien co., Iowa
October 9, 1903
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Frank Klema went down to Mr. Vernon this week to attend the
wedding of his wife's sister.
Miss Elizabeth Sohm was nominated by the Democrats at Storm Lake
for the office of county superintendent of Buena Vista county.
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Cooper - Hakeman
Thursday afternoon at the Congregational parsonage at Primghar,
Owen Cooper of Grant and Miss Millie Hakeman of Highland were
married. To most of their friends the marriage was a surprise, as
the young people did not tell many of their intention. They are
both fine young people and will have the best wishes of many
friends. The groom is the son of John Cooper and the bride is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Hakeman.
Gray - Warden
Monday afternoon at Albert Lea, Minn., Miss Birdie Warden of this
town was married to W. C. Gray. Everybody here is acquainted with
her, she having lived here for nearly ten years, and for some
months had been operator at the telephone exchange. Mr. Gray is a
traveling man for the Cudahy Packing Co., and has headquarters at
Albert Lea. He has been here several times in the last few years.
Congratulations will be offered by many friends.
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Clark - Louthan
Last Sunday at noon, at the pleasant home of Dr. and Mrs. B. S.
Louthan occurred the marriage of their daughter Ruby to Mr. L. W.
Clark of Highland township. The bride's sister Myrtle was up from
Storm Lake and presided at the piano, playing a beautiful wedding
march. Rev. F. C. Lewis of Gaza performed the marriage ceremony
in the presence of the families of the contacting parties.
Immediately following the marriage a luncheon of several courses
was served.
Mr. Clark is one of the most industrious and highly respected
young men of Highland and is prominent in I. O. G. T. circles.
The bride is one of "modest beauty and of gentle worth"
and will make a capital housewife. She also is very prominent in
the Good Templars order, and last year held the office of Grand
Vice Templar of Iowa. As this young couple enter upon their
married life on the C. S. Clark farm all who know them will unite
in extending to them hearty congratulations and best wishes for
the future.
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Sutherland Courier
Sutherland, O'Brien co., Iowa
October 16, 1903
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Clerk Boyer has been having a busy time with the marriage
licenses the past week. Among those issued this month are the
following: Harry Bjork and Mamie Nelson; L. W. Clark and Ruby
Louthan; Harry Adkins and Kate Hanson; Fred Kluender and Annie
Schuknecht; Fred A. Leeds and Blanche Hodgdon; M. J. Kuhl and
Minnie Tucker; Harry Freland and Lucretia L. Thomas.
R. L. Cook wants a divorce from his wife Bertha on the ground of
cruel and inhuman treatment.
J. S. Brown wants to open up the divorce decree secured against
him by his wife several years ago, so that he can be given the
care of the children. He alleges that they are being led away
from a proper regard for him through the influence of his former
wife and her relatives.
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Ira Squier's mother died at Sanborn Monday night. She has been
ill a long time with cancer, and it had been known a long time
that there was no help for her.
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Mrs. Nancy E. McKean, who formerly lived here, died Monday, Oct.
5th, at Tacoma, Washington. Of her children Ferg. S. who used to
live in this township and Beatrice were best known here. This
daughter and two sons were with her when she died. She was the
widow of a prominent district judge who used to live in the
northeastern part of this state.
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Uncle George Bookman is very low. His right leg is blackened with
gangrene the entire length and the same trouble has begun on the
other leg. He is unconscious and breathing very irregularly. His
death seems likely happen at any moment.
Rice Weal received a letter Wednesday from his son Thomas. It had
been about three years since Tom had been heard from. He is at
Bucoda, Washington, working in a lumber yard. Mr. Weal will start
for Bucoda this afternoon to see his son. Bucoda is on the
Northern Pacific road and is about forty miles southwest of
Tacoma.
Henry Thonssen's sale on Monday was a very successful one. It is
said there was the largest attendance and best prices all round
of any sale ever held in this vicinity. His best fourteen acres
of corn sold at $17 per acre. Henry and his family will start
next Tuesday for southern California, where John and Ernest
Aldinger are living.
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Sutherland Courier
Sutherland, O'Brien co., Iowa
October 30, 1903
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A case that is expected to take some time is that of Asmus vs. C.
M. & St. P. Ry. Co. to be begun next Tuesday. Asmus was
killed at the railroad crossing in Hartley a year ago last
December and his wife being with him at the time is suing for
injuries received by her in the accident. The company denies its
liability, alleging that Asmus drove on to the crossing in a
closed carriage without looking or listening for an approaching
train.
The wills of Chares Gaudian and Ellen McCartney were probated.
Final reports were approved in the following estates: Jennie L.
Johnston, F. A. Squier, Asahel E. Hayes, Aug. F. G. Burmeister,
and Hugh Fahy.
John Breckinridge was granted a divorce from his wife on ground
of desertion.
Tuesday and a large part of Wednesday was consumed by the court
in the trial of the case of Pauline Marie Eastman vs. L. O. and
L. S. Eastman. Plaintiff seeks a divorce on the ground of cruel
and inhuman treatment, alleging in her petition that defendant
refused her the necessities of life and further that she
contracted a loathsome disease from him. She asks for a large
slice of his property as alimony. Defendant denies the charges of
the petition and alleges that she was extravagant and he also
lays the blame for the disease on her. Mrs. Eastman was on the
witness stand practically all day Tuesday and the evidence was
evidently very interesting as the court room was crowded while
she described her troubles. On cross-examination she admitted
that she had been treated in a hospital in Milwaukee and while
there passed under an assumed name "so as not to alarm her
mother" and also admitted that she kept a private post
office box at Sheldon in which to receive mail addressed to her
under the same assumed name. On cross-examination she further
admitted that her husband had never restricted her in her
purchases at the grocery stores, that he had furnished a six-room
house at an expense of about $800 and had bought her a $150 coat
as a Christmas present. The case was not finished and has been
continued till later in the term for a final hearing.
Mrs. Summerbell started Monday for Independence to attend the
wedding of her niece who visited here about two years ago.
Killed By Lightning
LeMars Sentinel: Evelyn Simpson, the fourteen year old
daughter of William D. Simpson, residing at Merrill, was killed
on Saturday morning during the heavy thunderstorm which prevailed
over this part of the county that day. Death was instantaneous,
as the fatal shaft struck her on the left temple, passed through
her body striking the heart and other vital organs.
The family, consisting of Mr. Simpson and his three daughters,
were just about to sit down to the breakfast table. Heavy rain
began to fall and Elsie Simpson, the eldest girl, said "I
must go up and close the window in the bedroom." Her younger
sister Evelyn bounded upstairs to do the errand. A few seconds
later an appalling crash resounded through the house and Elsie
rushed upstairs to find the window curtains on fire and the room
full of smoke. Mr. Simpson ran up immediately after her. A
horrible sight met their gaze. Evelyn was prostrate on the floor,
stone dead. Her clothes and stockings were on fire and the lace
curtains were blazing fiercely.
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Thomas Rehder, one of Calumet's business men, and Miss Louise
Boldenow of Paullina were married Wednesday. They have gone to
Chicago on a wedding trip.
Rice Weal got home from Washington Wednesday evening. His son Tom
came home with him. It has been several years since Tom left home
and he has grown into manhood. He has not changed much in looks
except that he looks older. He is uncertain how long he will
stay.
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Levi J. Smith who has been so ill for along time died this
morning at 7:20. The funeral will be held Sunday afternoon at
half past two from the Methodist church. An obituary will be
given next week. [Note - the next week's edition was not
available on microfilm]
George Reifsteck, the genial banker at Calumet, surprised his
friends by getting married Tuesday. The ceremony was performed at
Dubuque and the happy couple went from there to Chicago from
which city they will leave in a few days for Pittsburg. His bride
is a Sheldon lady. We are not sure what her name was, but believe
it was something like Grace Essenius. But it is Reifsteck now and
she is to be congratulated on the husband she has won. George,
too, is to be congratulated. We hope their married life will be
as happy as they deserve.
Gross - Towberman
Tuesday morning at nine o'clock, at the Catholic church in
Sutherland August G. Gross of Wetaskiwin, Alberta, Canada, and
Miss Edna L. Towberman of Sutherland were married, Rev. Jas. G.
Murtagh performing the ceremony. Only the near relatives of the
bride were invited. High mass was celebrated at the close of the
wedding ceremony. Following the marriage a fine dinner was served
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Tinkham, the latter being a
twin sister of the bride.
The groom is in the lumber business in Canada. He formerly lived
at Hartley and from there went to Des Moines where he studied
pharmacy. But upon joining his parents who had moved to Canada he
became convinced that he could do better in the lumber business.
He was one of the best-liked young men in Hartley, and though he
is not so well known here he is highly respected by those who are
acquainted with him. The bride is known to everyone here and is
liked by all who know her. After leaving the Sutherland schools
she taught one term and afterward learned to set type in the
Courier office. She then worked at this trade for some time in
Hartley and then again in the Courier office, leaving this office
July 1st. It would be useless for the Courier to tell her friends
of her good qualities, though we know better than most others
that she is one of the best young women that ever lived in
Sutherland.
The young couple took the afternoon train Tuesday for Modale
where a sister of the bride, Mrs. Birdie Townsend, lives. Mrs.
Townsend returned home with them. They will make short visits at
Sioux City, LeMars, Alton, Sibley, Lake Park and Hartley, then
return here for a shot time before to their home at Wetaskiwin.
They are beginning their married life under happy prospects and
we trust that their brightest hopes may be realized. In addition
to Mrs. Townsend, another sister, Mrs. J. K. McAndrew of Hartley
and Miss Alta McAndrew attended the wedding.
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Obituary
As Mrs. Squier was for years a resident of Grant township we are
requested to copy her obituary which appeared in the Sanborn
Pioneer of Oct. 15th. The obituary should have appeared in
the Courier last week but we failed to receive the Pioneer
the week before.
Lois Richards Squier was born January 7, 1832, in Warsaw, Wyoming
county, New York, and died at 8:45 p.m., October 12, 1903, at the
age of 71 years, 9 months and five days. She was the daughter of
Paul and Clarissa Richards, her father being the first judge of
Wyoming county, New York. It was through his efforts and advice
that the county was organized and the first officials elected. He
also served on the committee which selected the site for the
first public building of the county. In 1848 he was elected a
member of the state assembly to be held in Albany in which
capacity he served so well that he was again called upon to
represent his district in the state legislature, and today the
name of Hon. Paul Richards ranks as one of the pioneer
legislators of the Empire state.
Deceased was married to Simeon Squier September 27, 1855. Two
children, Ira Squier of Sutherland, Iowa, and Mrs. Henry Magee of
Sanborn, are left to mourn her loss, her husband and son Frank
having preceded her to welcome her coming. She is survived by one
half brother, Frank Salisbury of Napa, California, and many near
and dear friends who will deeply mourn their loss. With her
husband and family she came to Iowa in 1866 and located in
Delaware county, where they remained until 1879, when they moved
to O'Brien county, near Hartley, where they lived until her
husband's death, January 1, 1892, since which time she made her
home with her daughter, Mrs. Henry Magee of Sanborn, Iowa. She
was a loving wife and mother, devoted and sincere Christian,
having united with the Presbyterian church at the age of 18
years, of which church she was a member at the time of her death.
She was the daughter of parents possessed of firm Christian
principles, sterling integrity and hands ever ready and willing
to relieve the distressed. Inheriting such principles and reared
under such precepts the daughter inherited all their virtues and
exemplified all their teachings. Her life has been an honor to
her parents and is a monument of love, purity and kindly deeds.
Mrs. Squier was loved by all who knew her, and her patient
suffering and Christ-like faith will be a sweet memory to all her
mourning friends. Looking back upon a life well spent and
realizing that her mission on earth was ended she gladly went
with her Saviour "Through the Valley of the Shadow of
Death," and none but the redeemed will ever know with what
peace and joy she heard her master say, "Well done."
"Dearest mother, thou hast left us,
And thy loss we deeply feel,
But 'tis God who hath bereft us,
He can all our sorrows heal."
Funeral services were held at the Presbyterian church yesterday afternoon, conducted by Rev. Cummings.
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