Iowa Old Press
Sutherland Courier
Sutherland, O'Brien co., Iowa
March 27, 1904
p 4
Wm. J. Appeldorn and Clara Puhrmann; and [...] and Tena M. Kock
were granted permits to wed by Clerk Boyer Monday.
Mrs. D. C. Chapman who has been ailing some time passed away last
Saturday. She was an old settler and has long been a highly
respected resident of Primghar. The funeral was held Monday.
p 5 col 2
The cards are out announcing that the marriage of W. H.
Kenderdine of this place to Miss Alma Colby will take place at
the home of the bride's mother in Peterson on Wednesday, June
8th.
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John Panther has got to be quite a musician. His favorite
instrument is the accordion. He entertained a large crowd in
Sutherland a week ago last Sunday and last Sunday he played at
Pleasant Hill after Sunday school.
Joseph Brush Killed
Cedar Rapids, Ia., May 25 - Whether or not Joseph Brush, whose
dead body, with a bullet hole through the head, was found in
Riverside park, was a suicide or victim of murder, is a question
which the coroner's jury has been endeavoring thus far
ineffectually to solve. The coroner's jury adjourned late last
night without having arrived at a verdict. The testimony of some
boys who fond a loaded revolver with one chamber empty, near the
body, was not satisfactory to the jury and neither was the
statement of T. L. Miller, a traveling man, whose memorandum book
was found near the body. Miller says that he was in the park
intoxicated, and while there dropped the book. The boys claimed
that they found him in the park at 1 o'clock in the morning. They
said that was he was breathing very heavily, and that they
thought he was drunk. One of them picked up the revolver and
carried it home with him, failing to report the matter to the
police. Mr. Brush was a cousin of Mrs. Frank Klema and visited
here last summer.
[transcribed by A.N., January 2012]