Iowa Old Press
Ruthven Free Press
Ruthven, Palo Alto, Iowa
September 6, 1917
IOWA NEWS
- According to announcements of the war department fifteen
Iowans who attended the first officers' training camp at Ft.
Snelling are to be transferred to the aviation service and will
be sent to the aviation training camp at Princeton. They are:
Hugo W. Bottger, Iowa City; Paul J. Calder, Cedar Rapids; Marcus
G. Dubel, Sioux City; Clifford Ferguson, Victor; Thomas A.
Gardner, Ottumwa; Bernard R. Glatts, Iowa City; Henry K. Huber,
Tipton; George G. Holmes, West Liberty; Allison F. Johnson, Sioux
City; Jack Y. Longstreet, Red Oak; Carl H. Myers, Harlan; Fred H.
Meinzer, Iowa City; Albert Muir, Ames; Leo C. Watson, Des Moines;
Edgar B. Williams, Cedar Rapids; Stephen R. Walker, Sioux City.
- Word has been received at Tipton from Roy S. Potter, a member
of the Lewis Machine Gun company of the Canadian regular army in
France, and a former Tipton boy. Mr. Potter, who was wounded
several months ago while in active service and spent several
weeks in a convalescent hospital at Down, England, is now on a
short furlough and is visiting in Ireland. However, he does not
expect to receive notice to be sent back to the front, but will
probably be ordered to return to Canada and do guard duty there.
- Agents of the federal department of justice have
discovered that a number of books containing treasonable matter
have been secretly placed in many of the school and public
libraries of the state by German agents. One of the books,
written by Fritz von Frantzius, has come into possession of the
federal officer in Des Moines. It is one of the most treasonable
that has ever come within reach of the reading public.
- Five men were dangerously injured when the automobile in which
they were riding overturned after striking a deep rut in the road
near Oskaloosa recently. Francis Simmons, Jr., son of F.W.
Simmons of Ottumwa, lies near death in Abbott's hospital at
Oskaloosa, while his father and two brothers, Lieut. John Simmons
and Kenneth Simmons and Lieut. Paul Sculze of Chicago are
suffering from serious injuries.
- Just because she is ninety-one years old does not deter Mrs.
Elizabeth Dennis of Iowa City from doing her bit for the boys at
the front. Mrs. Dennis spends most of her time knitting and
crocheting for the Red Cross. She was a member of the Ladies' Aid
of civil war fame, which was much the same sort of an
organization as the present day Red Cross.
- The former head of the department of journalism at the state
university, Lieutenant Conger Reynolds, recently commissioned at
Ft. Snelling, has been assigned to the intelligence department of
the army directly under the adjutant general of the United
States. His duties will be to gather information of value to the
armies in France.
- When the automobile in which he and his son were riding was
struck by a fast Milwaukee passenger train near Council Bluffs,
William Vesey was instantly killed and his son who was in the car
with him was so seriously injured that he is not expected to
live.
- Walter Kirchner of Keokuk has the distinction of being the
youngest driver that has ever passed though Yellowstone Park. The
family has just returned from a 4,500 mile trip through the far
western states.
- When the car in which they were driving struck a ditch in a
curve and turned turtle, Mrs. A.J. Stover of Pocahontas was
killed and her husband was painfully injured. Both were pinned
under the car and although the accident occurred on a well
traveled road and early in the evening they were not discovered
until the following morning. Mrs. Stover was dead from
suffocation, as her head had been caught under the back seat of
the car. Mr. Stover's injuries while painful were not serious.
- United States Marshal E. R. Moore and Deputy Marshal Healy
recently visited a number of towns in the northern part of the
state and warned more than 240 Germans whose actions and words
had been indicating disloyalty that if there was not a cessation
they would be locked up until after the war. In Gladbrook,
Garwin, Berlin and Reinbeck, the leading pro-Germans were
assembled in the public square and lectured while the rest of the
townsfolk looked on.
- Mrs. C. Shearer of Cedar Rapids has received word that her
grandson, Fred Spaulding, a former Cedar Rapids boy, has won a
place in the Royal Flying corps of Great Britain and has begun
his course of training. Mrs. Shearer also received word that
Fred's brother, Rev. C.A. Spaulding of Pasadena, Cal., has just
entered the Y.M.C.A. war work there.
- An unidentified man stepped from behind a tree near the fair
grounds at Marion one night recently and shot Miss Esther Trine
five times with a small caliber revolver as she was entering the
grounds with a friend. Two of the bullets struck her in the head
and two in the thigh. She was taken to a hospital in Cedar Rapids
and physicians say that she will recover.
- If the pro-German residents of Hardin county and of Hubbard in
particular do not cease their disloyal utterances and actions
there is a strong possibility of an old fashioned tar and feather
party. The American citizens are getting mighty tired of the
action of the German residents.
- Two men who have been prominently identified with the
"People's Council for Democracy and Peace," which is
backed by pro-Germans, were arrested in Eldora recently. They
were John and Ed Wird and are accused of treasonable conduct.
- The deputy game warden of the state, Norman Muncy, of Iowa
City, has been arrested as a bootlegger, because he was caught by
a deputy United States marshal bringing some of the forbidden
beverage across the line into the state. He will fight the bone
dry law as unconstitutional.
- H.C. Hencke of Keokuk says he has the largest tomatoes in Iowa
this year. He has gathered two that weighed 26 and 27 ounces
respectively.
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- Just as we go to press we learn of the marriage of Mr. Herman
Peterson and Miss Ruth Keefer. Particulars will be given next
week.
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ADDITIONAL LOCALS
- Miss Rhoda Madsen went Tuesday evening to Livermore where
she was called by the illness of her aunt, Mrs. J.W. Estabrooks.
- FOR SALE Quarter block with good six-room house. Now
occupied by N.C. Bale. Inquire of J.E. Schooley, Emmetsburg,
Iowa.
- FOUND- Two electric Flat irons about 1 mile south of the
Thos. Brennan farm. Owner may have same by paying for this
notice. Gus Lundstrom.
- Nels Simonsen and son Norris of Emmetsburg were visitors here
Monday. They were on their way to Ayrshire where Norris will
teach school the coming year.
- Mr. and Mrs. Seth Smith autoed Sunday to Renwick and were
accompanied by her nieces, Misses Iva, Lola and Ruth Peters who
had been spending their vacation here.
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Ruthven Free Press
Ruthven, Palo Alto, Iowa
Thursday, September 17, 1917
PETERSON- KEEFER NUPTIALS
Popular Young Couple Married in Spencer
Mr. Herman F. Peterson and
Miss Ruth Keefer were united in marriage at Spencer on Tuesday,
September 4. Mr. Peterson had been working in Dakota for several
weeks and on his return Miss Keefer met him in Spencer and they
returned to Ruthven a few days later where they will make their
future home. The ceremony was performed by Justice McClain of
Spencer.
The bride is a daughter of Frank Keefer of
Utah. After her graduation from high school she taught school
near Laurens for one year, and for three months previous to her
marriage she was employed in the post office in this city, making
her home with her brother, Claude Keefer. She is a bright and
capable young lady and made many warm friends in the short time
in which she resided here.
The groom is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Ole
Peterson and was born and reared in this community. After
finishing his education he engaged in the carpenter business with
Lewis Peterson, at which occupation he has been engaged for the
past five years. He is an excellent workman and is honest and
sincere in all his dealings. He is a lover of clean sport and is
a baseball pitcher of no mean ability. His success in life is a
forgone conclusion.
The Free Press joins the many well
wishers of Mr. and Mrs. Peterson in wishing them a happy wedded
life.
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