Iowa Old Press

Ruthven Free Press
Ruthven, Palo Alto co. Iowa
Thursday, February 25, 1931

Interesting News in Nearby Towns

Rev. Walter Rothwell of Lake city, has accepted the pastorate of the Presbyterian churches of Plover and Pocohontas.

Clay county has filed action to recover $12,815.86 from a Massachusetts bonding company for moneys which the late county auditor, A.W. chamberlain, had taken from the county funds for his own use.

Arthur Filer and Miss Nellie Brown of Armstrong were arrested last week for forging checks in southern Minnesota. Flier was sentenced to a six-year term in the Minnesota prison and the girl was committed to the reform school.

Three Iowa young men are now facing prison terms for robbing a bank at Steamboat Rock about a week ago. The leader, kenneth Eldred, was captured by two members of a vigilance committee after long automobile chase in which he was wounded twice by gun fire.

Submitted by S.F., Feb. 2007